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Portia Pratt Dahl Papers
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Contents List
SERIES I. PORTIA PRATT DAHL'S PAPERS
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Diary. Scattered entries in English and French related to Dahl's bookbinding studies in Paris. The diary is a leather bound volume,
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1927.
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(21 cm.)
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Box 1: folder 1
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Bills of sale related to bookbinding tools and purchase of books, as well as other miscellaneous materials,
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1914-1955.
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Box 1: folder 2
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Note:
(Removed from the back of the diary)
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Leather samples for bookbinding.
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Box 1: folder 3
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Note:
(Removed from the front of the diary)
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Drawings by Dahl for bookbinding,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 4
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List of books bound,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 5
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Trade card for French bookbinder H. Noulhac with cloth sample,
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n.d.,
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Box 1: folder 6
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Photograph of E. Maylander, Dahl's binding instructor in Paris, France,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 7
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Note:
Autographed by Maylander to Dahl.
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Sketch for residence, Boylston Street and Fisher Avenue, Brookline, Mass. by Angel & Swift, Architects, Providence,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 8
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Note:
(Contains some genealogical information about the Pratts on the verso)
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SERIES II. SETH F. PRATT'S COMMONPLACE BOOK AND PAPERS
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Commonplace book kept by Seth F. Pratt, 1873-1896. It bears the inscription Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill.,
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May 8th, 1873.
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Box 1: folder 9
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Note:
This commonplace book was kept by Pratt and is largely poetry and prose Pratt has copied from other sources or printed materials he pasted into the book.
(The commonplace book is written in a commercial book with the following title-page: Index rerum ; or, index of subjects; intended as a manual to aid the student and professional man in preparing himself for usefulness, with an introduction ..., by John Todd. Northampton, Mass.: Bridgman & Childs)
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Holograph materials copied by Pratt on separate sheets of paper,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 10
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Clippings from printed sources (poetry and prose) kept by Pratt,
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1896, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 11
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Ms. related to financial matters of the Roseville Library Association, Roseville, Illinois, late
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1890s.
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Box 1: folder 12
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Confederate States of America five dollar bill, Richmond,
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Feb. 17th, 1864.
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Box 1: folder 13
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Miscellaneous items, including a business card for the Roseville Union Bank, Roseville, Ill., with Seth F. Pratt listed as cashier, items
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n.d. 3
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Box 1: folder 14
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Correspondence (carbon copies) of business correspondence,
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1901-1902.
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Box 1: folder 15
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Note:
Fourteen letters, most signed by H. H. Jenkins.
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Photograph of Seth F. Pratt, J. G. Lansing and J. H. Mason, Monmouth, Illinois.
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May 1873,
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Box 1: folder 16
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Daguerreotype of Seth F. Pratt,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 17
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Miscellaneous photographs with no identification,
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1893, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 18
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Note:
(Removed from the commonplace book)
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Photograph of Seth F. Pratt(Monmouth, Ill., Root & Son),
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June 1875
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Box 1: folder 19
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Another copy of photograph in folder 16 of Pratt, Lansing and Mason.
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Box 1: folder 20
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Photograph that includes Seth F. Pratt with male classmates,
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1870s.
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Box 1: folder 21
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Photograph of H. Portia Pratt, Roseville, Ill., in childhood.
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n.d.,
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Box 1: folder 22
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Pages from printed sources (high school yearbooks?) that include photographs of Portia Pratt, late
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1900s.
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Box 1: folder 23
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Miscellaneous photographs, unidentified,
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1898-1899.
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Box 1: folder 24
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Commercial photographs from the Southwest and California consisting largely of the California Mission churches and of American natives,
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1900, n.d.
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Box 1: folder 25
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SERIES III. PETER DAHL'S SKETCHBOOK AND RELATED MATERIALS
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Peter Dahl's sketchbook,
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1893-1928.
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Box 2: folder 26
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Dahl was born 1857 in Jutland and died Dec. 1929 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Largely pencil drawings on small pieces of paper and mounted into a bound volume. Includes one drawing by Paula Dahl.
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Letters,Kobenhavn and , Smedegade.
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1884 May 24, 1884 Apr 15
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Box 2: folder 27
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A 1950 Christmas greeting to Portia Dahl from "Sven and Hulda"; postcard addressed to Dr. Ernst O. Dahl dtd .
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1940
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Box 2: folder 28
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Commercial colored prints (2), Bockel Studio,
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 29
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Photographs of an unknown young man,
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 30
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Photograph of two unknown women,
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n.d.
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Box 2: folder 31
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