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Title

Rosa Jacobson autograph book

Authors

• Jacobson, Rosa, 1868-1956

Other related names

• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 016.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977523653303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101079023
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nv99h0c

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Chiefly in English with some autographs written in German

Origin

Date

1881-1907

Summary

A red, leather, oblong volume with decorative, stamped covers entitled Autographs. The volume contains autographs of friends and relatives spanning the years from 1881 to 1907. A majority of the signatures range in date from 1881 to 1883. Poetic sentiments, well wishes, and some drawings addressed to Rosa precede each signature. Autographs from the year 1883 were chiefly from her confirmation classmates. One autograph signed by a cousin Constance Jacobson is dated 1907. Some autographs are written in German. A color-printed, decorative title page reads: Paragon autograph album. Spine is lacking, front cover is detached, and some leaves are loose.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2008.08.23.00010).
   

Subjects topical

• Jews--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century--Sources
• Jews
• Autograph albums
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• History
• Jewish families--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century--Sources
• Jewish families
• Autograph albums--19th century--Specimens

Genres

• Sources
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Autograph albums
• Autograph verse
• Autograph verse
• Manuscripts, American
• Specimens

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title page