• Title
  Item 05: Box of pressed flowers and locks of hair collected by Ann Flinders
• Call number
  R 48/Item 5
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1800-1830
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  852657
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects
  
• Scope and Content
  Cardboard box, trimmed and decorated in thin pressed metal - 8 x 10 x 8 cm. Box contains pressed flowers and locks of hair collected by Ann Flinders, and wrapped in small paper packets and identified by her. Packets are titled "Mary's Myrtle"; "Anne's at two years & at 3 years"; "Anne's at 3 yrs old"; "A.Flinders"; "Captain Flinders'"; "Bell's [Isabella Tyler] at 15"; "My Mothers"; "My Father's aged 40"; "My Grandfather Chappelles - Aged 73"; "Anne's + her Papa's"; "Plucked from The Grave Octr 24th 1814"; "Plucked from the Grave May 16th + July 27th 1815"; "Plucked frm the Grave Sepr 23 rd 1820"; single pair of cuff links; unidentified tassle; and a verse, written by Ann Flinders, about the collection eg: "... To me these seeming trifles are / Memorials of departed days ..."
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 852682
• Exhibited in
  
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
  Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage - State Library of New South Wales
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE559417

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