The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book {Plus Ephemera}

8vo. 175 pp. Decorated cloth spine, tan boards with gilt titles and decorations. No date (c.1940). Scrapbook for recent graduates with pages for photographs, autographs, programmes, social events, etc. This copy belonged to a student at St. Joseph's Convent School in Toronto. Her name, school and graduation year (1940) are written in ink in the space provided on the front paste-down endpaper. Four pages of social events are recorded, all other pages blank. Laid in are the graduation day programme, her father's business card, two newspaper clippings, and 12 invitations to various teas and luncheons at the Royal York Hotel, The Old Mill, Simpson's Arcadian Court, the Mississauga Golf Club and other places. Edges darkened, front hinge split but binding is firm. Boards show edge wear, scuffing, darkening.