307 pages : portraits ; 14 cm
1 book, 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches, "Dora Dyrenforth Jan 6 1887-" written in pencil in front of The Illustrated Birthday Book of American Poets, 1880. Personal handwritten inscriptions inside. Found in collection by archivist, 10/04/2010. She found it in the collection with little information on donation.
Dyrenforth Birthday Book was owned by Dora Dyrenforth who lived in Jacksonville in the late 1800's.
Alternate pages blank for recording birthdays. Blank pages for "Index of birthdays" (285-307).
Published in 1880 under title: The birthday book of American poets.
With thirteen portraits of American poets: Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Bret Harte -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- William Dean Howells -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- James Russell Lowell -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Edmund Clarence Stedman -- Richard Henry Stoddard -- Bayard Taylor -- John Greenleaf Whittier.
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Book
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Birthday books., Poets, American. - Portraits., Dyrenforth family - History.
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Hayward, Almira L. (Almira Leach), -1894.
Hayward, Almira L. (Almira L