Women’s Education and Teacher Training in Mary Jane Hinshaw’s Stephens College Scrapbook, 1921 to 1943

Teacher Photo Album and Scrapbook

Photograph

Hinshaw, Mary Jane scrapbook, 1921 to 1943, documents women’s education, teacher training, library studies, sorority life, and student identity through the life of a Missouri and Kansas student from childhood through college. The album follows Hinshaw from baptism and early school photographs to Stephens College and Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, preserving evidence of how a young woman’s education moved from family and local schooling into collegiate social life, professional preparation, and library-centered coursework during the 1930s and early 1940s.

Hinshaw, Mary Jane. Scrapbook album. Missouri, Kansas, and western United States, 1921 to 1943. Scrapbook with 78 original silver gelatin photographs and 43 pieces of ephemera. Original cream boards with embossed front cover, 39 pages, 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Photographs range from 2.5 x 2 inches to 8 x 10 inches and include family images, childhood portraits, elementary and high school class photographs, school groups, and western United States travel views with expansive landscapes and rock formations. Ephemera includes baptism and birth announcements, Stephens College commencement invitation from 1941, report cards, certificates, two cloth varsity letters, a felt bulldog, debate letter, Delta Sigma Epsilon membership card, party invitations, and dance cards from Sigma Tau Gamma, Delta Sigma Epsilon, and Alpha Delta. Academic records document coursework at Stephens College in English literature, French, English history, psychology, sociology, music appreciation, physical education, and educational psychology, followed by Kansas State Teachers College coursework in teaching, history of education, American history, library administration, cataloguing and classification, reference, book selection, library work with children, and literature of high school subjects. A handwritten postcard from a Stephens classmate at the University of Wisconsin states, “I am having a glorious time—It certainly isn’t like Stephens much much better.”

The scrapbook’s research value lies in its unusually broad view of female education from childhood through professional training, including Hinshaw’s connection to Marysville High School, where her father served on the Board of Education, and her later preparation for teaching and library work. Tear with loss above right portrait adhered to first page; one page detached; front hinge loose, good to very good. A substantial documentary record of women’s higher education, teacher preparation, sorority culture, school achievement, and library training in the Midwest from the interwar period into World War II.

Item #17109

Price: $485.00