1920s ORIGINAL MEMORY AND SCRAPBOOK WITH DIARY ENTRIES HANDWRITTEN AND COMPILED BY A VERY POPULAR CENTRAL TEXAS GIRL IN THE 1920s

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On offer is a super time capsule and manuscript relic of one young central Texas girl's high school experience in the 1920s. Compiled and handwritten by Marie Hardy and her friends in a very well filled "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" a soft bound leather scrapbook and diary filled with photographs, her personal diary entries and inscriptions from friends, cards, newspaper clippings, pieces of ribbons/material, gum and advertising wrappers, hand drawn illustrations, postcards, jokes and much, much more all in homage of her time at Cooper [Texas] High. The scrapbook is worn and has general aging; the cover originally dark green is quite faded. The binding is loose and the paper shows discoloration from age. The items stored inside are still in good condition and the writing is still legible. Overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF, MARIE HARDY, COOPER TEXAS, ROARING 20S, ROARING TWENTIES, CENTRAL TEXAS, COOPER LAKE STATE PARK, PARIS TEXAS, AMERICANA, TEXAN, POST WORLD WAR I, SUFFRAGE ERA, WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, AUTOGRAPHED, AUTHORS, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito, Papel, Show more