[Texas]: [Mills, Mildred Vernon]:

[Photographically-Illustrated Scrapbook Compiled by Mildred Mills, a High School Student in Silsbee, Texas During the Roaring Twenties].

Silsbee, Tx. 1926-1927. [42] leaves, illustrated with sixty-one original photographs, from small thumbnails to 7.25 x 9 inches, comprising about twenty-two pages of manuscript entries, along with legions of letters, newspaper clippings, calling cards, ticket stubs, and other assorted ephemera pasted in. Contemporary textured black cloth memory book, formerly string tied but string perished, with leaves now loose between covers. Minor wear and light soiling to boards. Pencil gouges to a few leaves, minor edge wear. Good plus. Item #2714

A charming scrapbook assembled by high school senior Mildred Mills, 1927 graduate of Silsbee High School in Texas. The scrapbook is filled with a combination of original photographs, manuscript well wishes and other entries from fellow students and teachers relating to Mills' high school career, and numerous pages of collage decorated with newspaper clippings, letters, and assorted ephemera from Mills' life at Silsbee High School. Silsbee is a small town in southeastern Texas, about twenty miles north of Beaumont. The photography in Mill's album begins with a large class picture of the senior class of Silsbee High, with Mills' full listing of the students opposite the photograph. The other pictures throughout the album feature her family members, numerous school friends, her teachers, and the Silsbee High basketball team. The ephemera here includes the lyrics to songs, ticket stubs to plays, trains, and other events, playbills for theater productions, one of her senior year report cards, dance cards and other social event ephemera, and even an old cigarette butt. An interesting scrapbook documenting the latter high school life of a young girl in southeastern Texas in the mid-1920s.

Price: $500