Scope and Contents New York bride's book, 1909, kept by Caroline Mintern(or Minturn) Hall, granddaughter of Julia Ward Howe, who was married June 9,1909, to Rev. Hugh Birckhead. Book is published in New York, 1902 and called "The Book of the Bride Elect."  Has columns for listing gifts, those who gave them , date of acknowledgment and others. Many of the gifts received were monogramed, some made by Tiffany & Co. and some gifts were exchanged. Includes gifts from Julia Ward Howe, Attorney...

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Photograph of "John's Memorial Choir" Farmville [Virginia] dated 1901 and sent to an unknown person by Walter B. Capers, "friend and former rector." Photograph of a wedding party on the steps of a house or hotel with sign, "Sandybrooke." over the porch, undated. Photographs are glued on crumbling black cardboard, but copies of each are also included. Names of wedding party on back of cardboard, but mostly illegible.