Item #027797 1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera. Americana - 19th Century - Scrapbook - American Students Abroad - Germany.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.
1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.

1894 - 1895 Scrapbook of Rutgers Graduate Irving Scott Tompkins During His Studies at the University of Halle Germany & Other Ephemera.

U.S.A. Not Published, 1894. Scrapbook. Hard Cover. Good. Item #027797

(30) cardstock pages with items pasted-in. Irving S. Tompkins was a student at Rutgers who after graduation and marriage, traveled with his wife to the University of Halle for a year of Theology & Philosophy. There are newspaper clippings regarding the marriage & travel; a page of canceled European postage stamps; a page of official receipt & a small advertisement for English lessons offered by Tompkins while in Halle. Also commercial images of Halle, a ticket stub for a concert by then-Halle music director Max Friedemann and another ticket-stub; on the same page is a three-column articdle written by Tompkins from Germany to the Editor of Boonton (NJ) Times, describing the differences between American and German university education and also views on women, work and society in general. A postcard of kaiser Wilhelm (postage torn away with letter in German sent to Tompkins in New Jersey; an illustrated 2-sided Schupp's Hotel bill & entries; a few pieces of Rutgers ephemera; and a few later clippings, primarily of various memorials for preachers and local history. Later clippings relate that Tompkins was appointed chair of the department of Ancient and Modern Languages at Taylor University of Upland, Indiana. Papierhandlung Halle A/D. Saale. Approx. 6 3/4" x 11 1/4" size, oblong format; bound in green textured cloth, gilt titled, decoratively panel-stamped; patterned-paper over heavy board endpapers, Some edge, tips wear and fraying to the binding; some leaves loose; generally, contents in good condition.

Price: $95.00