ANTIQUE BOTANICAL 1877 PRESSED FLOWER SCRAP BOOK

ANTIQUE BOTANICAL 1877 PRESSED FLOWER SCRAP BOOK

Hannah S. Lyman

1877

42 pages of pressed floral arrangements

please see link for video of Album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxB3h4pB35g

This is a scrap book created by a woman named Hannah S. Lyman in 1877. She travelled to many European gardens back in then I think to revisit where her late aunt had been.

This album was found in an old book store in Ipswich Massachusetts.

I believe it to have been put together by Hannah W. Lymans niece. Hannah W. Lyman was the Principal Lady @ Vassar College when it was founded.

She herself travelled to these locations and in the book itself it is noted on one of the pressed floral arrangements "My Aunt Hannahs Garden"

I've held onto this for many years and felt before anything happened to it I should document it and try to find a home for it. I feel it as an heirloom of botanical heritage artifacts.

Books with this much personality are not published but pleasant reminders of the past, pressed in the pages of a book then passed on or found.

Antique books like this offer fascinating glimpses of lives that have long since ended, I am impressed with the pressed flowers in this book. Some still hold the color they once had when picked so long ago.

What a treasure this is. I am just the gaurdian for a time and hope to pass it on to someone who will guard and keep it and love it as much as i have over the years.

Some of the gardens these florals came from are the following:

Crystal Palace
The Queens Garden (Dairy)
Holyrood Abby Edinburgh
Laburnum Botanical Garden
Greyfriars Garden
Wick Castle
Dryburgh Abbey
Melrose Abby
Abottsford
Palace Holyrood
Endinburgh Scotland
Laburnum from the Royal Botanical Garden
Chapal Royal
Carlton hill

So many Abbys she went thru and Church yards and burial grounds just a great look back at an old past time hobby.