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Sharp (Sarah) School Exercise Book
MS.M.028
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Sarah Sharp school exercise book
Creator:
Sharp, Sarah
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.028
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1834
Abstract: This collection comprises a school
exercise book (titled "Day Book"), dated September 22, 1834, and authored by Sarah Sharp of
West Chester, Pennsylvania. The entries in the exercise book are purportedly based on names,
addresses, and transactions used in a general store day book. The book has illustrated paper
covers and 34 pages of handwritten material.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in
English.
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or
to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Sarah Sharp School Exercise Book. MS-M028. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Purchased, 2004.
Processed by Zoe MacLeod, 2012.
Sarah Sharp was a young woman attending school in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1834.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises a school exercise book (titled "Day Book"), dated September 22,
1834, and authored by Sarah Sharp of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The entries in the exercise
book are purportedly based on names, addresses, and transactions used in a general store day
book. The book has illustrated paper covers and 34 pages of handwritten material.
The front cover has a vignette of a young woman in a woodland glade holding a lyre, below
this is Congreve's "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast..." all within a border of
gothic ornaments. The back cover shows two horsemen within a decorative ruled border
galloping beside a stream with the front figure firing a flintlock pistol.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
General stores -- 19th century.
School notebooks -- 19th century
Exercise books -- 19th century.
Sharp, Sarah -- Archives
Chester (Pa.)