Autograph album
Autograph album/commonplate book
The autograph album/commonplace book belonged to Rose Hughes, the sister of the contributor's great-grandmother. She worked in service in a large house. The autograph album includes verses, pictures and autographs of many Belgians, apparently refugees or wounded solders. There are brief inscriptions in French or Flemish with dates of birth and the place they were wounded etc.
Autograph
Français
Nederlands
Home Front
English
CONTRIBUTOR
Martin Brewin
DATE
/
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
117
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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