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Vintage circa late 19th-century/early 20th-century hardcover scrapbook, 8 x 10.5, containing approximately 150 autographs laid in or affixed inside, loosely arranged into sections such as "Music," "Stage," "Methodism," "Politics," "Temperance," "Harvard," and "Literature." Highlights include: Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, Henry M. Stanley, Grover Cleveland, George Dewey, Calvin Coolidge, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Helen Keller, Julia Ward Howe, Booker T. Washington, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, John Philip Sousa, and Nellie Melba.
Other signers of particular note are: Lew Wallace, Jessie Benton Fremont, Henry Cabot Lodge, Dwight L. Moody, John Wanamaker, Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Edward Everett Hale, George Washington Cable, Frances Willard, Mary Livermore, Adolphus Greely, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ida McKinley, Edith K. Roosevelt, Helen H. Taft, Edward W. Bok, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Charles Dana Gibson, Katharine Lee Bates, Édouard de Reszke, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Luther Burbank.
In overall very good to fine condition, with damage to the album's spine and covers, in no way affecting the contents.
A wonderfully wide-ranging autograph album capturing the intellectual, political, literary, reform, scientific, and theatrical life of turn-of-the-century America and Europe. With signatures spanning presidents, inventors, explorers, authors, activists, composers, educators, and performers—from Edison, Twain, Roosevelt, Keller, Booker T. Washington, and Clara Barton to Sousa, Melba, Dunbar, and Frances Willard—the scrapbook offers the feel of a curated cultural time capsule, assembled with an impressive eye for the era’s most consequential names.
