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This oversized scrapbook consists of sections of Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson circus advertising posters. The imagery includes circus tents, musical wagons (including the "Silver-Tubed Caliope" and "Sacred Chimes"), camels and horses, animal trainers, artillerymen seemingly of Middle Eastern descent (possibly part of the "Bedouin Arab" performers), acrobats, minstrel performers, African American musicians, and portraits of P. T. Barnum, J. A. Bailey, and J. L. Hutchinson.

This oversized scrapbook consists of sections of printed Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson circus advertising posters. The imagery includes circus tents, musical wagons (including the "Silver-Tubed Caliope" and "Sacred Chimes"), camels and horses, animal trainers, artillerymen seemingly of Middle Eastern descent (possibly part of the "Bedouin Arab" performers), acrobats, minstrel performers, African American musicians, and portraits of P. T. Barnum, J. A. Bailey, and J. L. Hutchinson. The back cover bears the print "Toilers of the Sea - Trawling on t[he Dogger Bank]," showing fishermen at sea.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, etc." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, &c." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, etc." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.

An undated petition from eighteen men requesting admittance to the first parish in Plympton, Massachusetts, appears on the first page of an otherwise empty nineteenth-century blank book produced by Tappan & Whittemore of Boston, "Wholesale dealers in School Books, School Stationery, Drawing, Letter, Writing and Fancy Paper, Envelopes of every description, Slates, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, Quills, Wafers, &c." It has printed covers with illustrations of Boys and girls fishing, boating, and flying kites on a riverbank, and "Lessons In Drawing" with sixteen various images of fruit, animals, body parts, and a house and boat.