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Album_Cover

Album_Cover

November 8, 2003 16:39:29

Ella Brown's album has an embossed leather cover with a gilded flower on the front center. There is also a brass clasp used to hold the album closed.

The front page has the following note:
A Christmas present for Miss Ella Brown (John Beaton's wife) from Monmouth, IL. December 25, 1864.

Ella is identified as "Grandma Beaton" by hand written notes in the ablum by Lola Grace (Beaton) Huwaldt.

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