Signatures and documents inserted into or affixed to pages of a book of blank printed forms: Autograph album (New York: John C. Riker)

Cameo portrait of Geo. L. Jackson, Sr., affixed to cover, p. [2], with signature in pencil beneath; front flyleaf stamped: Geo. L. Jackson, Vandalia, Ill

Leaves numbered in pencil

Signatures, in order of appearance, include those of: H.P.H. Bromwell --P.H. Champlin, July 22, 1860 -- L.O. Knott, St. Louis, Dec. 26, 1857 -- S.D. Hayden, Saint Louis, Dec. 28, 1857 -- John A. Cairns -- Lynde Brickner -- R.C. Lewis -- John Cairns, Jr. -- Jake Fouke, Jr. (Dec. 30, 1858) -- A.J. Gallagher (May 31, 1858) -- Tevis Greathouse -- J.G. Herriman (May 28, 1839) -- C. Floyd Jones (Apr. 23, 1858) -- A.W. Cadman -- William Cook -- Thos. C. Shirley -- J.W. White -- A.H. Brown (Hillsboro, Ill., Aug. 23, 1860) -- John T. McFadden -- S.S. Marshall -- B. Wood -- L.M. Smith (Jan. 1858) -- Sarah I. Jackson (Len's mother) [with portrait] -- S. Goode (May 3, 1859) -- P.B. Fouke -- George O. Harris (Boston, Mass., 18 Dec. 1860) [letter] -- Wm. H. Underwood -- George T. Allen -- T. Greathouse (Feb. 12, 1859) -- B.S. Prettyman (Feb. 12, 1859) --

P.H. Davenport (Sumner, Lawrence Co., Ill.) -- Joel Aldrich Matteson ; Alexander Starne (May 2, 1853) -- Wm H. Bissell -- Andrew McFarland -- J.L. Lyman Trumbull -- Augustus C. French -- Edward Beecher -- John A. Sagan -- Wm. J. Forney -- Henry Ward Beecher -- Dudley S. Ruth -- William Ratcliffe -- Ansel L. Edwards -- C.D. Lynch -- L.O. Knott -- William T. Porter -- Cyrus H. McCormick -- William P. Griffin -- David B. Jackson (Hillsboro, Ill., Mar. 9, 1857) -- William K. Jackson (Hillsboro, Ill., Mar. 9, 1858) -- R.C. Lewis -- Edward Hohenthal (St. Louis, May 25, 1954) -- J.O. Hastings (Rock Island, Ill.) -- C.F. Carr (Alton, Illinois) -- Mary Clampit (Oct. 16, 1858) -- Louise Ruchner (Dec. 16, 1857) -- A. Sumner Haskell (Mar. 10, 1858) -- A.D. Stearns, physician & surgeon, Vandalia -- Mrs. M. Neofe -- R.J. Oglesby (Decatur, Ill.) --

B.F. Hathaway ; [K.P.] Collins ; D.L. Tidball ; [G.] Waterman (Oct. 27, 1859) -- Puritan Club, Vandalia, Ill. H.C. Bradsby -- Jacob Fouke, Jr. ; A.D. Stearns ; C.W. Higginbotam -- G.W. Bassett (Vandalia, 1838) -- M. Louise Love [letter] -- Ann S. Crist -- Sallie Johnson -- B.F. Hathaway (Vandalia, Ill., Nov. 27, 1858) -- L.R. Barnet (Vandalia, May 4, 1854) -- Urial Wright (St. Louis, Dec. 6, 1854) [letter] -- J. McIlwain -- George R. Fitch -- Lyman C. Draper -- Floyd Jones (Feb. 10, 1850) -- William C. Price -- Frances Dana Barker Gage -- E.W. Barry -- Anna E. Myers -- Joshua Hutchinson -- Sarah White -- Anna E. Myers -- Lucy Semple -- Julia Semple -- Mary Mattoon - N. Fitzgerald -- A. Waterman -- A. Fallin -- H.C.W. Jenks (Vandalia, Ill., May 27, 1859) -- Julia Semple -- Sis White -- William Hyslop Sumner [signature on military discharge of David B. Jackson] (May 2, 1820) -- John A. Cairns -- P.R. Taylor

The album contains signatures and some correspondence in longhand (ink or pencil) of friends, relatives, clients, and aquaintances of Dr. George L. Jackson, a Vandalia, Illinois physician, pharmacist and general store owner

In full leather-covered boards, with gold embossed decoration and borders on covers and spine, additional uncolored tooled decoration on rear cover

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