At the center of this page an unknown artist has painted in watercolor two pink roses growing from a single stem--one almost in full bloom, the other just beginning to bud—and entwined it with a blue and yellow bloom (perhaps a passion flower).

Preserving dried flowers and a scrap of wallpaper, this page is found in the album that was kept over many years by the salonnière and painter Elizabeth (Eliza) Aders. The pasted-in piece of wallpaper seems discolored with age, and has an indistinguishable green and off-white pattern.

Within the elaborate frame printed on one page of the E. Boyes album by the book’s manufacturer, someone has pasted in shiny blue foil so as to form a second frame. This surrounds an arrangement of small paper panels, eight with handwritten labels, and two with watercolor depictions of insects, an arrangement that in its turn frames a watercolor landscape.

 Five wreaths of human hair have been looped through ribbons of various colors, which have in turn been stitched onto a page in a handmade booklet. The booklet, crafted out of sheets of light blue paper which were folded up and stitched together, now contains thirty-eight specimens of hair.

Across the upper half of this album page a map has been created in black ink and brown wash. Identified at the top of the page as a “Map of Matrimony,” it charts the imaginary terrain that must be traversed by the traveler who wishes to enter the married state.