Album page containing an unattributed drawing of a purple lily above a four-line poem about friendship. Lily is depicted with green leaves., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from item., Includes four-line poem: "The crown imperial, lillies of all kinds,/The Flower-de-luce being one. Of these I lack/To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend/To strew thee o'er and o'er., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
1839
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Mary Anne Dickerson album [13860.Q.26]
Album page containing a drawing of a rose bud. The rose bud is depicted on a stem with a number of leaves and thorns., Probably by educator and anti-slavery activist Ada Howell Hinton, daughter of Frederick Augustus Hinton, barber, perfumer, abolitionist, and prominent member of the Philadelphia African American elite community., RVCDC, Description revised in 2022., Access points revised in 2022.
Date
[ca. 1840]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Mary Anne Dickerson album [13860.Q.69]
