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Collection Number: 05644-z

Collection Title: Eliza Reynolds Autograph Album and Photograph, 1837-1842, circa 1861

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Size 2 items
Abstract The Eliza Reynolds Autograph Album is a small volume of poems, drawings, and clippings contributed by female friends, signing from Kittanning, Pa.; Leechburg, Pa.; Doaneville Seminary; and Mignonette Female Seminary. The collection also contains a tintype portrait of two children, one of whom is Woodward Reynolds Patterson, the son of Eliza Reynolds and her husband, David Patterson.
Creator Reynolds, Eliza, 1820-
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Eliza Reynolds Autograph Album and Photograph #05644-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred from the Rare Book Collection in August 2015 (Acc. 102294). Originally received from Isabel P. Eaton in 2004.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2016

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, May 2016

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Eliza Reynolds (b. 1820) was the eighth child of the ten children born to David Reynolds and his first wife. Eliza Reynolds married David Patterson in 1847 and with him had a son, Woodward Reynolds Patterson. Her grandfather, George Reynolds, was believed to have fought at Braddock Field in 1755.

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The Eliza Reynolds Autograph Album is a small volume of poems, drawings, and clippings contributed by female friends, signing from Kittanning, Pa.; Leechburg, Pa.; Doaneville Seminary; and Mignonette Female Seminary. The collection also contains a tintype portrait of two children, one of whom is Woodward Reynolds Patterson, the son of Eliza Reynolds and her husband, David Patterson.

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2 items.

Folder 1

Autograph album, 1837-1842

Special Format Image SF-P-05644/1

Portrait, circa 1861

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