Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sarah Sharp school exercise book
- Dates:
- 1834
- Creators:
- Sharp, Sarah
- 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.
- Extent:
- 0.1 Linear Feet (1 box)
- Language:
- Collection materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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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.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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Sarah Sharp was a young woman attending school in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1834.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased, 2004.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Zoe MacLeod, 2012.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-07-29 15:53:12 UTC .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
- Preferred citation:
-
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.
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections and ArchivesThe UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557Irvine, CA 92623-9557, US
- Contact:
- (949) 824-3947