Gilbert Attwood manuscript magazine, The Nick-Nack, 1840

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Creator:: Attwood, Gilbert, ca. 1825-
Abstract:: Teenager Gilbert Attwood created this 8-page manuscript magazine titled "The Nick-Nack" (vol. 1) while attending high school in 1840. The magazine features humorous articles and advertisements, comments about Attwood's teachers and classmates, and several small drawings.
Extent:: 8 pages
Language:: English
Authors:: Collection processed and finding aid created by Meg Bossio, August 2022

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Scope and Content:

Teenager Gilbert Attwood created this 8-page magazine titled "The Nick-Nack" (vol. 1) while attending high school in 1840. The magazine features humorous articles and advertisements, comments about Attwood's teachers and classmates, and several small drawings.

The magazine's sections include "Names" (a rumination on the names of other students, as well as objects like streets and chairs), "A Year in the Country" (Attwood's account of his family's move in the spring of 1838), "Parody on the Country Schoolmaster Original" (a take on the poem "The Village Schoolmaster" by Oliver Goldsmith), "Extracts from a Journal," and "A Peep into the Year 2000." The sections are separated by thin black lines. Advertisements include "Printing," "Lectures," "Arostook Whiskers," and "Stop Thief."

Biographical / Historical:

Gilbert Attwood was born around 1825, and as an adult worked as a stockbroker in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He and Lydia B. Bartlett married in May 1867 in Bangor, Maine. They had at least one son together, Francis Gilbert Attwood (1856-1900), an artist and illustrator who contributed to the early Life magazine.

Acquisition Information:

2020. M-7222.2 .

Arrangement:

This collection is a single bound volume.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

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Subjects:: American poetry--19th century.
American wit and humor--19th century.
High school students--United States.
Teenagers--United States.
Eagles.
Faces.
Perfume bottles.
Formats:: Magazines (periodicals)
Drawings (visual works)

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