Interchange Book Club (West Newton, Mass.) receipts, 1887-1898

Summary

Creator:

Interchange Book Club (West Newton, Mass.)

Abstract:

This collection is made up of 113 receipts for book and magazine purchases by the women's Interchange Book Club of West Newton, Massachusetts, between 1887-1898. Many of the receipts are lists of a dozen or more newly published works of literature, popular novels, travels and tales of foreign lands, a few children's titles, biographies, and more. Examples of magazine titles include Good Housekeeping, Scribner's Magazine, Popular Science, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, St. Nicholas, and many others. They purchased most often from Little, Brown and Company. Some receipts are for purchases of book and magazine lists, and orders from printers for hundreds of member lists and labels.

Extent:

113 items

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Cheney J. Schopieray, September 2022

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection is made up of 113 receipts for book and magazine purchases by the women's Interchange Book Club of West Newton, Massachusetts, between 1887-1898. Many of the receipts are lists of a dozen or more newly published works of literature, popular novels, travels and tales of foreign lands, a few children's titles, biographies, and more. Examples of magazine titles include Good Housekeeping, Scribner's Magazine, Popular Science, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, St. Nicholas, and many others. They purchased most often from Little, Brown and Company. Some receipts are for purchases of book and magazine lists, and orders from printers for hundreds of member lists and labels.

A small selection of titles represented on the receipts include:

• The Land Beyond the Forest (1888) by Emily Girard.
• The Owl's Nest (1888) by E. Marlett.
• Robert Elsmere (1888) by Mary Ward.
• A translation of Erlach Court (1889) by Ossip Schubin.
• The Master of the Magicians (1890) by Elizabeth Phelps.
• A Waif of the Plains (1890) by Bret Harte.
• An Utter Failure (1891) by Miriam Coles Harris.
• A Capillary Crime and Other Stories (1892) by Francis David Millet.
• A Girl in the Karpathians (1892) by Ménie Muriel Dowie.
• Condemned as a Nihilist (1892) by G. A. Henty.
• Don Orsino (1892) by F. Marian Crawford.
• Gossip in a Library (1892) by Edmund Gosse.
• Green Fairy Book (1892) by Andrew Lang.
• In Arctic Seas. The Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition... (1892)
• Men Must Work (1892) by Mrs. Romney.
• Ten Centuries of Toilet (1892) by Albert Robida.
• Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892) by Joel Chandler Harris.
• Drolls from Shadowland (1893) by J. H. Pearce.
• The Watchmaker's Wife (1893) by Frank Stockton.
• Some Old Puritan Love Letters (1894)
• Water Ghost and Others (1894) by John Kendrick Bangs.
• The Amateur Emigrant (1895) by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Chinese Characteristics (1895) by Arthur Smith.
• The Land of Tawny Beasts (1895) by Pierre Maël.
• A Sawdust Doll (1895) by Anna de Koven.

The receipts also include publications by or about prominent writers or individuals Jane Austin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Hardy, Sir Walter Scott, Dante, Sonya Kovalevsky, Victor Hugo, St. Augustine, Honoré de Balzac, and many others.

Biographical / Historical:

The Interchange Book Club of West Newton, Massachusetts, was organized in December 1886, and by 1911 had at least 27 members. The club appears to have operated as a women's library, in which the group collected funds, acquired new or recently published books and periodicals, affixed membership lists and labels, and lent them to members.

Acquisition Information:

2022. M-7587 .

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged chronologically.

Rules or Conventions:

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

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Bibliography

American Homes and Gardens, vol. VII, no. 12 (December 1910): endpapers on the University of Michigan copy of this volume.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Books.
Libraries--Book lists.
Libraries--Periodicals.
Subscription libraries--Massachusetts--West Newton.
Women's libraries.
Printing presses.
Storefronts.

Formats:

Receipts (financial records)

Names:

Cupples, Upham & Co.
Damrell & Upham.
A. H. Roffe & Co.
Fanning Printing Co.
G. E. Baird.
Little, Brown and Company.
Walker, Young & Co.
William H. Gould & Co.