53.98.2

Album, Autograph

1886

Material: paper. Size: 3 3/4" W. x 6" L. Description: maroon cover - gold embossed pattern and lettering: "Autographs" on front - contents: 74 white pages with silvered edges - handwritten on title page: "Emma Earl, Alton. Minn." followed by poems, personal messages, cut outs from greeting cards, all handwritten, dated 1886; on one of the last pages is a note about the death of Emma Earl's husband, James Orcutt.

Belonged to Emma Earl Orcutt, grandmother of donor. Information on death of James Orcutt, Emma's husband, is in back. He died in Fredric, WI, at age 63. He was the father of Devere & Luverne Orcutt.