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The Prat Sisters: Free Spirits of the 1890s

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Poster for Frank Lesley's Popular Monthly, March edition

Date: ca. 1900

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 415


Poster for Frank Lesley's Popular Monthly, July edition

Date: ca. 1900

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 417


Book bound by Minnie S. Prat : W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds (New York and London, 1899)

Date: Bound between 1899 and 1901

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives  MG 1 vol. 886 no. 3


Book bound by Minnie S. Prat : William Bradley, The Book of Ruth and The Book of Esther (New York, 1897)

Date: Bound by Minnie S. Prat in September 1899

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives  MG 1 vol. 886 no. 1


"Book-binding as a Fine Art" : article by Alice M. Kellogg, published in Harper's Bazaar (vol. xxxiii)

Date: 1900

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives  MG 1 vol. 2625 no. 217a


May Rosina Prat (second from left) in a group of fashionably dressed bridesmaids at the wedding of her brother, Rupert, to Lillian Harris of Annapolis Royal

Date: 10 October 1900

Format: Photograph in album

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 86, photo no. 15



Letter from Bliss Carman to Minnie Prat: excerpt, congratulating her on her "success with [her] books"

Date: 12 October 1900

Credit: University of King's College Archives

Reference: University of King's College Archives William Inglis Morse Collection




Gilded leather panel with apple theme

Date: between 1898 and 1903

Artist:: May Rosina Prat

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 522


Gilded leather panel, inscribed with excerpt from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "A Book of verses underneath the Bough"

Date: Between 1898 and 1903

Artist: May Rosina Prat

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 520


Book bound at the Prat sisters' bindery, New York City : Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, vol. II (Boston, 1850)

Date: Bound between 1898 and 1903

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives  MG 1 vol. 2629 no. 27


Postcard advertising the Pan-American Exposition, 1901, Buffalo, New York

Date: 1899

Credit: Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University

Reference: Esther Clark Wright Archives, Acadia University  Harry Starr accession no. 1990-006


Poster advertising the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, May 1-November 1, 1901

Date: 1901

Reference: Prat, Starr family Nova Scotia Archives 1985-524 no. 524


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