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Lee Anna Embrey student diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0151
Abstract These three diaries were kept between 1927 and 1929 by Central High School (Washington, D.C.) student and aspiring writer Lee Anna Embrey. Embrey described in very detailed, descriptive, and articulate language the events of her life. She wrote about family members, friends, school lessons, thoughts, and aspirations, as well as budding relationships. The diaries focus particularly on high school activities such as clubs and social events, with a special emphasis on the journalism club (Quill...
Dates: 1927-1929
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Compositions of Mary B. Griggs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0577
Abstract

Reflective compositions written by student Mary B. Griggs during 1861-1864, while she attended Rutland Union High School in Vermont.

Dates: 1858-1864
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Edith Gerselda Lynch autograph book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0172
Abstract

This item is a 1935 autograph book that belonged to Edith Gerselda Lynch, a student in the class of 1937 at Howard High School in Wilmington, Delaware. The book contains signatures and messages from Lynch's friends, acquaintances, and family, including a signature from Howard High School teacher and librarian Pauline A. Young. The pages provide a glimpse of student life at a Delaware-based African American high school prior to desegregation.

Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

The Bassoon

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0419
Abstract

The Bassoon, spanning the dates 1889-1892, consists of five volumes of a handwritten serial that was created by members of the Bachelor’s Ten Society, a club of teenage boys who attended Central High School in Philadelphia. The manuscripts include serial stories, cartoons, caricatures, editorials, plays, sporting reports, and poetry.

Dates: 1889-1892
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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