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Guide to the Persis Kingsley Token Album, 1852-1854 DAR.1937.19

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Title
Token album of Persis Kinglsey, 1852-1854, Persis Kingsley token album, 1852-1854, Kingsley token album, 1852-1854
Subject
Kingsley, Persis, Hall, A. H, Women--United States--Social life and customs, Women--United States--History--19th century, United States--Social life and customs, Maine--Social life and customs
Description
This token book consists of a multitude of short letters and poems written to Persis Kingsley by many of her friends and family members. A. H. Hall gave the token album, which was for personal remembrances, to Miss Kingsley before she was married in 1852, and it continued to be used up to a few months before her death in 1854. The token book traveled with Kingsley, allowing each of her friends and family members to write rememberances including the date and place. Most of the entries are uplifting poems or notes about life, love, friendship and happiness. Some friends wrote religious notes, while other wrote of friendship and love, and still others wrote about how quickly life can end. In total, there are fourteen different entries, each being about a page, but no more than two pages long. Also included in the book are pressed leaves and flowers found between the pages., Token album of Persis Kingsley, 1852-1854, dar193719, Darlington Memorial Library, University of Pittsburgh., Gift to the Darlington Memorial Library, 1937., Little is known of Persis Kingsley. She was about 25 at the time the album was written, and was born in the late 1820s to early 1830s. She died on December 30, 1854 in Steuben, Maine. According to death records from Steuben, Maine, and a census taken in 1850 in Cherryfield and in 1860 in Steuben, Persis Kingsley had a daughter, Philena Kingsley, in 1853., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-dar193719
Contributor
Kingsley, Persis., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1852-1854
Type
Collection, Women-Albums., Albums.
Format
0.58 (1
Identifier
oclc:ocm31467703, oclc:31467703, pitt:US-PPiU-dar193719
Language
eng
Relation
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-dar193719
Coverage
United States, United States, United States, Cherryfield (Me.), Harrington (Me.), West Gouldsboro (Me.), Machias (Me.), Maine
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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