[Scrapbook]: "Freshman Regional Study Tour"

ROWLEY, Jean

Published by Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York, 1947

About this Item

Folio measuring 14" x 12". String-tied maroon leatherette over stiff boards. Contains letters, postcards, commercial photographs, and other ephemera. Good only album with detached but present pages, chips, and short tears with near fine contents. A scrapbook kept by a young Connecticut woman, Jean Rowley, on a freshman trip in 1947. She titled the album "Freshman Regional Study Tour" and includes ephemera and retained letters she wrote home about each stop on the bus trip. Stops on the trip included various town in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and ending in New York. Illustrating each stop are postcards, commercial photographs, and ephemera and keepsakes picked up along the trip. Rowley also writes her parents and updates them on her travels and goings-on which she requests they save so she can use the letters as a diary of her trip when she returns. In one of the letters she says the only thing she wants for her birthday is a "big, large, enormous, expensive scrapbook" to house the souvenirs from her trip. The group visited coalmines, historical sites, farmland, horse farms, and other high points of the cities and towns they passed through. Rowley collects pamphlets, broadsides, and local newspapers during her travels. One of these explains "mining and preparation of anthracite," another from Tennessee is entitled "Negro Farm Families Move Ahead." Some of the postcards from the more Southern states show African-American field workers with captions such as "a busy day in the cotton field;" "sitting soft in Dixieland;" and "give us de rine?" "Ain t goin be no rine" over an illustration of African-American boys eating watermelon. Oher postcards feature Cherokee Indians in North Carolina including Chief Standing Deer. The final leg of their trip was to New York before heading back to Connecticut. Rowley graduated from Williams Memorial Institute (WMI) and Eastern Connecticut State College in the early 1950s. She then spent the next few decades teaching 3rd grade before retiring in 1988. An expansive scrapbook detailing a young woman s college trip to numerous states in the late 1940s.

Seller Inventory # 436988

Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Scrapbook]: "Freshman Regional Study Tour"
• Publisher: Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York
• Publication Date: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good