Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Album, Autograph |
Accession number |
714 |
Catalog Number |
714.1 |
Collection |
Personal Property |
Place of Origin |
Troy, New York |
Description |
Leatherbound autorgraph book belonging to Charles Marshall Austin. Cover is embossed brown leather with gold Old English lettering. in the first pages are patriotic stickers of a Union soldier and the American flag. In 1901 a relative glued a dried flower on a page with the inscription, "Ruth, from your father's grave". Ruth was Charles Marshall Austin's daughter. |
Caption |
Charles Marshall Austin's Autograph book, 1858-1859 |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Credit line |
Gift of Bro. Bruce Cameron and his wife Ruth Austin Cameron (daughter of Charles Marshal Austin |