Published by Privately published by the Seniors of Delta High School, 1907
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong 4to. (9/25 x 7") unpaged [78p.]. Illustrated with numerous black and white captioned photos of faculty members, administration, students, student groups, athletic teams, and the like. Grey wrappers tied with a gold cord with front wrapper bearing an image of flowers surrounding the triangle insignia of Delta High School with '07 inside the triangle. Per the title page, this is Vol. II. Wrappers slightly soiled and chipped. It appears that this was once perfect bound, i.e., like a notepad, but now most of the binding is gone; but the pages are all there and the whole is bound with the gold cord, which may have been the original binding. An unusual piece of ephemera from Delta, Colorado. The Senior Class of 1907 consisted of eleven students. Besides a black and white photo of each, there is a rather long biographical statement. Students pictured and described are as follows: Richard Gell Burson, Mayme Blanche Clarke, Helena Cenung Cook, Mildred Delta Harding, Chester Ernest Harding, Minnie Jeannette Isensee, Irene Elizabeth Kuhnley, Kathleen May Maxfield, Hazel Musser, Carolyn Lucile Obert, and Verna Hazel Waterman.
Published by Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1884. Engravings by Moss Engraving Co, 1884
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Softcover. 8vo (10" x 6.5"), color wrappers, deckle edges. [2] pp. ads, Frontis. portrait with tissue guard, [4], 163 pp., 1 color plate, 4 b&w plates with tissue guards, numerous b&w illus. and ads. Ownership inscription of "John Stuart Barrow '88," on top edge of front wrapper. CONDITION: Fair, clean text block, contents loose. An illustrated annual created by the Bowdoin junior class for its seniors. According to the Salutation, it documents both the "jovial and graver incidents" and the daily life for the Class of 1885, adding for the first time the portrait plate of Gov. James Baldwin and "the societies' steel engravings." Also included is a plate picturing the winning Class of '85 crew team. The volume commences with lists of officers of the college and fraternities, with a color plate of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Crest as well as three b&w engravings of other fraternal crests. Four engravings illustrate each class as ships: '84 and '85 sailing away into the World, '86 encountering rocks, '87 jumping on board, including commentary on each year. Listed are student participants in a variety of clubs, sports (sparring, rugby, lawn tennis), the Y.M.C.A., and the Bowdoin Temperance Association. College songs, poems, humorous facts, quotes, criticisms are included. A "Retrospect" timeline includes the event where "Five '85 men [were] "suspended indefinitely. Reasons absolutely refused. In consequence of the above'85 attends neither prayers nor recitations, but votes to stay out until the President's return from New York." The annual concludes with a business directory, twenty-four pages of ads of "firms, noted for their square and upright dealings, [that] are the only well-known and reliable firms worthy of the students' patronage. All 'worthless imitators' are to be avoided." According to the Guide to the Bugle, 18582012, "The Bugle had gone through many changes since its first publication. During the 1880s photographs were introduced to complement the primarily text-based documentary of the school year." John Stuart Barrows, born 1865 in Fryeburg, Maine, served in the military as aide-to-camp to Gov. Calvin Coolidge, National Guard, and became a Boston journalist and editor. He authored Fryeburg, Maine : an Historical Sketch and articles on military matters. Raymond Fogler Library holds his and his family's papers. REFERENCES: Guide to the Bugle, 18582012.