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Unidentified photographer/creator
CDV album with a music box inside
1852 (after)
Carte de visite album
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/10841
This album's first ten pages held 20 CDVs back to back, and when opened to the middle, the music box played the melody Home Sweet Home written in 1852, a very popular tune in mid-nineteenth century parlors, both in England and America. It is key wound through the back cover.
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