1861-1863 New England Memory Album of Angie Whitcomb from Winchendon, Massachusetts. Several inscriptions from Wesleyan Academy on the Album include a reference to Shaker Village in Athol, Massachusetts Town
Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, n.d.
Leather bound. 12mo. Approximately 7" x 5". Stamped red leather binding with oval shaped gilt stamped decorative, illustrated front cover. Gilt decorations and title on the spine. Contents include engraved frontispiece and title page; 41 leaves (82 pages); and 2 steel engravings in text. Edge wear to the boards and light wear to the head and base of the spine. Front hinge slightly cracked. Foxing to the frontispiece and engraved title page. Interior contents clean. Nearly all paper was used for inscriptions, verse, and a few drawings. The front end sheets, rear paste down, and two sides of paper are unused. Moderate foxing and toning to the frontispiece and illustrated title page. Interior contents clean.
Dates of entries range from January 1, 1861 on the first page to June and one in the fall of 1863. Inscriptions collected from people at the Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. From wikipedia: Wilbraham Wesleyan Academy was one of the oldest educational institutions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was established by Methodist clergy of New England in 1818. Originally located in New Market, New Hampshire,[a] before moving to Wilbraham, Massachusetts, it was intended both for general educational purposes and for young men intending to enter the ordained ministry.[1]
Most of the places signed are from Massachusetts towns and the rest from places in New England and one from Salem Oregon including Winchendon, Dudley, Springfield, Clinton, Dublin New Hampshire, Roxbury, Wilbraham Mass, Rindge New Hampshire, Athol Mass, Stafford Springs Conn, Broadbook Conn, Cromwell Conn, Spencer, Chesterfield, Poquonock CT, Westview, Schwon Lake NY, Milford,Willimansett, South Hadely, Salem Oregon, Chicopee, Enfield Conn, E. Brookfield, Glastonbury Conn, Stafford Spring Conn, Monson, Mason, Copake NY, Wellfleet, Northampton, Saxonville, N. Worcester, Holston, Boston, Holden, Greenville RI, Worcester, Milfor Conn, Stafford Springs Conn, and Rutland. Good. Item #35885
Price: $250.00