Isaac Shoemaker scrapbook
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of the single volume scrapbook of Isaac Shoemaker. The volume includes portraits of Shoemaker's family, including Charles Shoemaker, Elizabeth Robeson, Susan Wood, Hannah Taylor, Abraham M. Taylor, George Washington, Daniel Wheeler, and Robert Morton. Also includes sketches of meeting houses, plants found on his travels, and landscapes, including landscapes of South Carolina, Louisiana, western prairies, Spanish Missions in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Yosemite.
Dates
- Creation: 1841-1866
Creator
- Shoemaker, Isaac (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Biographical Note
Isaac Shoemaker (1807-1873) was born in 1807 to Charles and Margaret (Wood) Shoemaker.
Extent
0.25 linear ft. (1 volume, 1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The scrapbook of Isaac Shoemaker includes portraits of Shoemaker's family, including Charles Shoemaker, Elizabeth Robeson, Susan Wood, Hannah Taylor, Abraham M. Taylor, George Washington, Daniel Wheeler, and Robert Morton. Also includes sketches of meeting houses, plants found on his travels, and landscapes, including landscapes of South Carolina, Louisiana, western prairies, Spanish Missions in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Yosemite.
Custodial History
Notes in the inside covers of this volume relate the history of its ownership. It was originally "presented as a memento of the past to my darling Sallie M. Taylor" according to the note on the inside cover, dated 1866, and signed by I. Shoemaker. A second note reads as follows: "Scrapbook of sketches made by Uncle Isaac Shoemaker and Cousin Walter Hinchman. At my death to be given to Lawrence N. Taylor." The scrapbook was then left to Haverford College in Lawrence N. Taylor's will.
Acquisition
The Isaac Shoemaker scrapbook was donated to Special Collections, Haverford College by Lawrence Taylor.
General Physical Description
Oversize.
Processing Information
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed October, 2015.
Subject
- Wheeler, Daniel, 1771-1840 (Person)
- Taylor, Hannah (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Isaac Shoemaker scrapbook, 1841-1866
- Author
- Kara Flynn
- Date
- October, 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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