Taylor Sadee (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small quarto measuring 6.5" x 10". Blue cloth over stiff paper boards with "The Girl Graduate Record Book" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 71 sepia-toned or black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 3" x 5" with captions. Additional ephemera including letters, magazine and newspaper clippings, programs, and invitations featured throughout. Very good album with bowed boards and edgewear with very good or better contents. A scrapbook kept by a young California woman, Sadee Taylor, while attending Claremont High School in the early 1920s. Taylor features school records including lists of class officers, school yells, portraits, signatures, addresses, poems, and other notes from classmates. She includes snapshots of friends, outings, and a large number of programs for Claremont High School and Pomona College plays, concerts, and recitals. Also featured here are invitations and paper ephemera such as napkins from parties, weddings, holidays. Taylor was also a member of the Camp Fire Girls and photographs and clippings from her time with the group can be seen here. One of the news stories discusses the girls getting stranded in a snow storm on Mt. Baldy. Other pieces include men's humorous calling cards, clippings on high school sports victories, social events, and local notes. The book concludes with a typed letter to Taylor confirming her admission to Pomona College. A great illustration of life as a teenager in California in the 1920s.