Photo Album and Scrapbook from Woman who Attended 2 Colleges, Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) and Kansas State Teachers College 1921-1943

[Women Education], Photo Album and Scrapbook

Scrapbook Album

[Women Education] Scrapbook from a young woman studying at Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) and Kansas State Teachers College, 1921-1943. Filled with 78 original silver gelatin photos and 43 pieces of ephemera, including numerous certificates, two cloth Varsity letters, report cards. 39 pages. Original cream boards with embossed detail to front cover. 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Photos range in size from 2.5 x 2” to 8 x 10”. Originally belonged to Mary Jane Hinshaw. Scrapbook documents Hinshaw’s life from infancy to adulthood. Hinshaw was an active and popular student. Comes with membership card for Delta Sigma Epsilon Sorority; party invitations and dance cards from Sigma Tau Gamma, Delta Sigma Epsilon, and Alpha Delta. Silver gelatin photos of family, school photos, and a vacation in the western United States with images of sweeping landscapes and dramatic rock formations.

In 1941, Hinshaw graduated from a two-year program at Stephens College and began studying at Kansas State teachers College, with coursework in Library studies. Commencement invitation for Stephens College 1941. Report card from Stephens College 1940-1941 with coursework in Survey of English Literature, Intermediate French, English History, Introduction to Psychology, General Sociology, Appreciation of Music, Physical Education, Educational Psychology, and Elementary French Conversation. Three later report cards from Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia (1941-1943) with marks in Teaching, History of Education, American History 1492-1817, Library Administration, Cataloguing and Classification, Reference, Book Selection, Library word with Children, Literature of H.S. Subjects. Comes with one handwritten postcard from a Stephens College classmate who went on to pursue studies at the University of Wisconsin: “I am having a glorious time—It certainly isn’t like Stephens much much better.”

Album begins with Baptism and Birth announcements, and photographs of her as a small child. Class photos of her in elementary to high school. Cutouts and information on Marysville High School, where Mary Jane Hinshaw’s father served on the Board of Education. Vibrant green cloth “M” varsity letter, felt Bulldog, and Debate letter. Founded in 1833, Stephens College is the second-oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college in the United States. The Kansas State Normal School, Emporia was established in March 1863, and it is the third-oldest public university in the state of Kansas. The first class graduated two women; and the in 1977, the college was renamed Emporia State University. Tear with loss above right portrait adhered to first page. 1 page detached. Front hinge is loose. In good to very good condition.

Item #17109

Price: $450.00