Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Miniature Album of Sprague Family
1875-1900
Maker not marked
USA: Massachusetts
Leather; metal; tintype; board
closed: 7/8"h x 3 3/8"w x 1 7/8"d; open: 1/2"h x 7-1/8"w x 1-3/4"d
Gift of Brita Flemming
2011.039.1

Miniature leather album containing tintype portrait photographs of the Sprague Family. Some of the portraits are identified (handwritten in pencil) and there is one loose portrait of an unidentified woman. A handwritten note with a list of four names is folded inside the album between the front cover and first page. The album has a metal clasp and includes eleven pages of portraits, two portraits per page. Several pages are missing tintypes. The folded note reads "Tintypes / Harriet A. Sprague / Emma L. Sprague / GW W. Sprague / Walt S. Sprague 3." The word "Album" is embossed on the front and back covers and is included on the spine with decorative gold leaf design.