Guide to the Sarah Sharp School Exercise Book MS.M.028
Finding aid prepared by Zoe MacLeod
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Title: Sarah Sharp school exercise book
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.028
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.1 linear feet
(1 box)
Date: 1834
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.
Creator:
Sharp, Sarah
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Sarah Sharp School Exercise Book. MS-M028. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Purchased, 2004.
Processed by Zoe MacLeod, 2012.
Sarah Sharp was a young woman attending school in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1834.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sharp, Sarah -- Archives
Exercise books.
General stores.
School notebooks