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Description
Object title
Traveling
Secretary
Physical object type
portable
writing
desk
Time period
19th
century
Description
This
portable
writing
desk
belonged
to a
New
York
City
and
Long
Island
school
teacher
and
Quaker
named
George
Farnham
Wickes
(1832-1896)
. The
document
compartment
contained
a
small
family
archive
that
includes
documents
relating
to
Quaker
poet
John
Greenleaf
Whittier
, and
some
Native
American
beadwork
.
Geographic region
United
States
Dimensions
8
'
(l)
x
1.5
'
(w)
x.5
'
(h)
Medium
wood
Type
physical
object
Format
jp2 derivative of tiff image
Provenance
Roose
,
Diana
(donor)
in
2006
.
Information provider
Vermue
,
Ed
(2010)
Rights
Educational use only. Contact Oberlin College Library Special Collections ( http://oberlin.edu/library ) for further information
Digital creation date
2009-09-04
Repository
Oberlin College Library. Special Collections
Digitization specifications
300 ppi RGB tiff captured with Nikon D300 SLR digital camera
Digital master file name
Traveling_Secretary.tif
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