Mattie Barston scrapbook
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archives Center Scrapbook Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890
container: label: Container
content: Box 33
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The majority consits of colorful trade cards in many sizes featuring attractive or humorous illustrations. A few photographic  postcards are included as well. The scrapbook itself is a ledger dating from the 1850s, apparently from a business dealing in ship's supplies and hardware. A number of its pages have been pasted upon and are readable.