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Have you ever loved a book so much that you would pass it on to someone else? In this book there are two inscriptions, the first reads "Addie Howe from her friend A. M. Deay November 1877." The following inscription then follows with "Edward Winslow…

This book was a treasure trove of paratextual elements! The owner used it as a safe place to stick little pieces of paper that meant a lot to her, including a valentine of a rabbit that reads "Honey Bunny" on the other side, a list of vocabulary…

These images depict how a book was bound with a floral fabric, perhaps to prevent damage, as well as the inside of the back cover where a picture of a bride was pasted in, perhaps the owner of this book was a young girl who hoped to one day be a…

A photograph of two women was found within the pages of a book.

This image features a patriotic poem titled "Red, White, and Blue" that someone wrote into the book pages. It is a simple poem that the writer obviously took their time to write, drawing lines on the page so their writing would be straight and…

Books are often more than just things to be read, they can also be vessels for creative outlet, like this book was for whoever pasted in and wrote stanzas of poetry into the back page and back inside cover. The handwriting is difficult to make out in…

Drawings and doodles in books are always fascinating for what they can tell us about the child artist. In these images there are two illustrations of navy vessels, one more complete than the other. They are incredibly detailed, as far as book doodles…