Original 1888 keepsake autograph album presented to Ida Osborne by her father, J. W. Osborn/Osborne. Filled with period handwritten inscriptions, signatures and dates from friends, relatives and associates, many connected to New Jersey families and communities. I including Mom, OCEAN, and Bergen counties.
Towns including Osbornville before it wasn’t anymore, Silverton, long branch, West Long branch, Monmouth Beach, freehold…Period literary and poetic quotations.” Inscriptions with hand-decorated pages, decorative penwork, flourishes, or hand-drawn embellishmentSurnames
Osborn, , Havens, Davisons,Tiltons, Clayton’s, Cobb,Applegate’s, McKelveys, Burrs, coverts, Johnson, Littlefiekdb, Powell, Porters, Robbin’s.., one of the more prominent families would be the Polhemus’s in which ida owner of the autograph book married a Polhemus. Polhemus states back to major John Polhemus, who married Susanna Hart, John Hart, who signed the Declaration of Independence daughter.
Several of the Osborne sons became prominent historically in the military and Coast Guard stations throughout Monmouth, the Ocean County  Please see photos I could not take the entire book. There’s a little lesson 100 I believe inscriptions.
This is a one-of-a-kind historical artifact that would be greatly appreciated by a collector who is all about the history of New Jersey any collector for that matter  there’s two blue pages that are not connected, but the entire rest of the album is.  Album contains many additional signed and inscribed pages not pictured due to listing photo limitations.
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