A Guide to the Alvin S. Dart Papers, ca. 1855-1880s Dart, Alvin S., Papers, 1855-1880s 10802,-a

A Guide to the Alvin S. Dart Papers, ca. 1855-1880s

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Accession Number 10802,-a

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10802,-a

Title

Alvin S. Dart Papers ca. 1855-1880s

Physical Characteristics

This collection contains five items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Papers of Alvin S. Dart, 1855-ca. 1880s, Accession #10802 and #10802-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library by Mrs. Virginia R. Corey of Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 29, 1988.

Scope and Content Information

This collection includes five items, ca. 1855-1880s, containing Americana, apparently belonging to Alvin S. Dart. Included is a scrapbook, 1858-1876, of newspaper clippings of articles pertaining to subjects in the fields of literature, history, science, astronomy, religion, politics, and finance as well as poems and essays by such writers as William Cullen Bryant, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Charles Macready, John G. Saxe, R. H. Stoddard, Mark Twain, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Another scrapbook, post 1881, contains printed advertisement cards for such companies as Boraxine, Pillsbury, Heckers, Broadhead Dress Goods, Wise's Axle Grease, Thompson & Taylor Spice Company, Bixby's Best, and numerous tobacco companies including El Dorado, Tax Payer, and My Taste. Other items include: two letters, December 13, 1855, from George B. Mills to J. Oakley and James H. Irvine, introducing Mr. [Alvin S.] Dart of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, and requesting their assistance in procuring a position for him on line one of their Western Railroads; and, a playbill, ca. 1870, for the production of Shakespeare's Othello performed at Booth's Theatre, New York, starring Edwin Booth as Iago and Othello on alternating days.