Featured on PDR in the collection The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner (1795-1834)
Only three inches tall and five inches wide, featured here are select pages from a fascinating "friendship book" found in the Carl H. Pforzheimer collection of the New York Public Library. What is a friendship book? As Dr Lynley Anne Herbert relates in her post for us on a seventeenth-century specimen, it is a lot like an early version of social media, a place to record friendships and social connections:
Also appearing in the collection…
Artist
Date
1795-1834
From
The Friendship Book of Anne Wagner
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