Mary C. Kelly scrapbook
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Scope and Contents
Originally owned by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, the volume records his patients' treatments and accounts from 1855. In 1866, Mary C. Kelly began using the small volume as a scrapbook, attaching newspaper clippings to the pages and obscuring Betsill's earlier entries; very few pages have complete information. Although a notation in the front of the notebook states that the scrapbook was compiled in 1866, some earlier poems related to James Buchanan's election are also included. Most of the included newspaper clippings are poems, many of which address political themes.
Dates
- Creation: 1855 - 1866
Creator
- Betsill, R. G. (Robert G.) (Author, Person)
- Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)
- Kelly, Mary C. (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Biographical / Historical
R. G. Betsill was a physician in 1855, and was in Kemper County, Mississippi, at the time of the 1860 U.S. Census. No information about Mary C. Kelly is known.
Extent
0.15 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.
Physical Location
The A. S. Williams III Americana Collection, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The University of Alabama
Provenance
Gift of A. S. Williams III, 2010
Physical Description
The scrapbook is fairly fragile and in poor condition. Many of the pages are loose, and the spine is missing.
General
Title on phase box spine: Pike Co., AL. Physician's Journal - 1855
Processed by
Haley Aaron and Martha Bace, 2013
Source
- Williams, A. S., III (Donor, Person)
- Title
- Guide to Mary C. Kelly scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- October 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository