Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryTanner Greene
The collection is open for research use.
MSS 16417, Stella Pratt scrapbook, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
Accession Number 2018-0081, Purchased 18 April 2018.
Stella Pratt was an adolescent girl living in Brookline, Massachusetts during the 1880s and 1890s.
Source: Materials within collection.
The Stella Pratt scrapbook (1883-1894; 0.4 cubic feet) contains correspondence, clippings, printed material, invitations, sketches, flowers, ribbons, photos, and a sketch of Stella herself. Pratt is from Longwood, Massachusetts, a neighborhood within Brookline.
Note: materials contain racial imagery typical for the time that contemporary viewers may find offensive.