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Law &#8211; Dawes undertook an arduous course of archival  research aimed at uncovering the identity and biographical details of  everyone who signed the album.The result is this book, in which each  page of Annie McFarlane&#8217;s autograph album is reproduced in facsimile,  along with the biography of the person who signed it. Together these  brief yet telling portraits reveal the texture of life in Boston circa  1890, as well as in Vanceboro, Maine, where the McFarlanes had a summer  home.<\/p>\n<p>United in the leaves of Annie&#8217;s album are the McFarlanes  themselves, a family of Irish and Scottish extraction who achieved a  modest prosperity in the linen trade; the Rothenbergs, owners of the  legendary Boston department store of that name; the Kellys, stolid Maine  farmers; and many others from every walk of life. Particularly striking  are the voices of those too frequently omitted from our historical  narratives: servants, labourers, and, of course, children. <em><strong>Autograph Album<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n is a landmark in the social history of New England. 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