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Sketchbooks, circa 1873-1876

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the creative life of Massachusetts schoolboy Austin W. White roughly between the ages of nine and sixteen. Materials include small handmade books of fables detailing the adventures of American boys, several school compositions, sketchbooks, and a two-year run of a weekly handwritten satirical newspaper, "The Sober Giggler." The three volumes of White's sketchbooks contain captioned pencil drawings, and subjects include landscapes, dramatic events, personages, and...
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Collection is open for research; a portion is also availalbe digitally.

Dates: circa 1873-1876

"The Sober Giggler" newspaper, 1873 - 1875

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS2016_026_54531
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the creative life of Massachusetts schoolboy Austin W. White roughly between the ages of nine and sixteen. Materials include small handmade books of fables detailing the adventures of American boys, several school compositions, sketchbooks, and a two-year run of a weekly handwritten satirical newspaper, "The Sober Giggler." The three volumes of White's sketchbooks contain captioned pencil drawings, and subjects include landscapes, dramatic events, personages, and...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research; a portion is also availalbe digitally.

Dates: 1873 - 1875