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1878-85 antique SADIE E THOMPSON leavenworth ks ER THOMPSON DRUG STORE scrapbook
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Original Victorian scrapbook and archive (c. 1878–1885) compiled by Sadie E. Thompson of Leavenworth, Kansas, containing maybe 75 or so pages (just a guestimate because all pages are shown in this listing, and the page numbers show pages were previously removed and not included)illustrated broadsides, business ephemera, correspondence, and patriotic imagery. Measures approx. 11¾ × 9¾ in., with alphabet-tabbed sections and original cloth spine; covers lacking but interior leaves well preserved.
Highlights & Contents
Leavenworth & New England connections: Extensive coverage of E. R. Thompson’s Drug Store at 506 Delaware Street (ads, printed handbills, trade card, and 1883 voter registration certificate) plus numerous obituaries and society pieces from Manchester NH, especially the Shepherd family (“Golden Wedding of Mr. & Mrs. William Shepherd, Dec 18 1874,” multi-page).
Poetry & literary clippings: Hundreds of sentimental, moral, and patriotic verses such as Hope On Hope Ever, The Pauper Soldier’s Story, Only a Cup of Water, and The Real Lincoln.
Historic ephemera examples:
1878 cartoon broadside “Fourth of July 1878 – In the Wheat By and By” (Crenn & Bro., Leavenworth booksellers).
Two original handwritten letters (Christmas 1885 and Epsom NH).
Grand Concert program, Gounod Club / Woman’s Relief Corps (Deerfield NH, 1883).
Political broadside Republican Ticket – Ward Five – Manchester NH (early 1880s).
Printed statistical sheets: Kellogg’s List of Cities and St. Louis Globe-Democrat A Study of the Popular Vote (1885).
Philatelic interest: Two pages (71 and 97) mount eight original U.S. postage stamps, incl. 3¢–10¢ issues from the 1870s–1880s (banknote and columbian-era types).
Illustrated art & trade: Chromolithographed E. R. Thompson’s Drug Store card with bird-and-nest motif; engraved portraits from Leavenworth Daily Times; humorous engravings and rural scenes.
Regional and social history: Obituaries of local ministers and merchants, Crystal Wedding of Mr. & Mrs. Kellog (Feb 1881), Old Manchester feature series, Days of Long Ago – When the Indian Crouched Behind the Alders, and frontier reminiscences of Kansas and New Hampshire.
A remarkably complete and interconnected woman’s literary scrapbook, bridging frontier Kansas and New England family culture, with material ranging from civic life to domestic poetry, politics, and advertising.
Condition: pages toned with some brittleness and scattered edge wear; a few detached but generally clean and legible. All illustrations, trade cards, and stamps remain attached.
Provenance
Inscribed to Sadie E. Thompson, Leavenworth, Kansas (May 26 1878). Includes printed matter and ephemera from E. R. Thompson’s Drug Store, Leavenworth (1883), linking Sadie E. as a relation to of the proprietor. Numerous references tie the family to the Shepherds of Manchester NH, showing shared New England roots.
Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.
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