CCA is happy to contribute our item “Crimean Flowers” to #archivesuniqueitems! Created by Fred W. Parker for his mother, Mrs. Neville Parker in St. Andrews, the album contains forty-one pressed flowers gathered in Crimea in the first spring after the Crimean war, in 1856. #acahashtagparty
![Pressed flower, inscribed "From the North Side near the [indecipherable] Chapel"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdq6c3a53qxak6majhubfoli/bafkreiccdxfasdzo5cfq2padt2aeiqkfsugmyv567t3z44mhou63ikwvly@jpeg)
![Pressed flower, inscribed "From the Woronzoff [indecipherable]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hdq6c3a53qxak6majhubfoli/bafkreihkvjxmpdjctc4uyziq33d7cb2schdv6czirzhdaivknulenmtmuu@jpeg)