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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription George Smith has a fine house though built more for show than Mr Keyes The Hall & Stairway is very fine. A very fine house to have company in, designed I guess in reference to when his five daughters go into Society. Seven children; the oldest, your old scholar Hattie is 15, about as large as her mother a pretty & accomplished young lady fine Piano in the Parlor & c.File:Drawing of floor plan: entrance on left, Hall, Bed Room, Parlor, Sitting, then Dining, Kitchen &c. I was amused to see the Daguereotypes of four of the children in one frame, and you could not tell which was oldest or youngest. Aunt Sally, Mrs Root, was there just the same as ever. She and her Ann. I guess are rather looked up to by all here. Ellen Wall, you remember, another

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 182

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1798px × 2825px 29.10 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_182_013_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJV5

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