Excerpt from "The Old Folks at Home"
(Way Down Upon the Swanee River) inscribed into the album
Mary Pruden's poem to her daughter
The Fading Flower
Poem by R.A. Maxon to Harriet
The original album and its contemporary
Here is Elvira P. Crippen and her husband, Prince Smith Baker.
Joan Shearer, Elvira's great-great granddaughter, was kind enough to send it in. Elvira contributed the poem, "To Harriet" to the album.
Meet Jonathan Perkins Weethee, a reverend and president of three different colleges as well as contributor to Harriet's album. Mr. Weethee contributed the poem "Cling Not to Earth" to the album, as well as quoting Wilbye's, "There is a Jewel" and Dodsly's, "Beauty".
Here is Ohio Governor John Brough, who wrote in Harriet's album as a young man. He contributed the poem, "To My Sister" to the album.
