[Photo Album]: Women in College
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- Hardcover
- Massachusetts , 1921
Massachusetts, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong small quarto. Measuring 10" x 7". Stapled black cloth over stiff paper boards with "Photographs" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 262 black and white or sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 6" x 8", some with captions. Very good album with some chips and tears on the boards and leaves, with near fine photographs some with fading.
A photo album compiled by a young woman attending college in Massachusetts beginning in 1919. From street signs it appears she went to Fitchburg Normal School, now Fitchburg State University, in North Central Massachusetts. Many of the photos show the women posed around campus with one photo of the four women huddled together smiling which reads, “fresh freshman,” another shows them climbing a sign for Pearl Hill Road. They also visited friends, both men and women, at Harvard. Two photos show members of Fitchburg’s girls’ basketball team with a caption which reads, “Rah, Rah, Rah!” and another which reads “the victorious five 3 cheers!” Many of the photos show the women posing and being silly with such captions as: “naughty, naughty,” “why Vera!,” and “asleep at the switch.” The women are seen in fashionable outfits, school uniforms, and hats throughout the album. One particularly intriguing image shows a woman, her hat in hand, passionately kissing a female schoolmate with a caption that read: “you mouthwatering Sappho.” The women in this set of photos are flirty and smiling and posing on a bridge in a wooded area. After graduating the compiler became a school teacher in 1921 and there are photos of her with her class of younger girls posed in a school yard and during a school play. Other photos include family snapshots and vacation photos featuring one of the women posed in her new car and another of a woman with a baseball bat.
An compelling collection of photos focusing on a woman’s time in college and her relationships with her classmates.
A photo album compiled by a young woman attending college in Massachusetts beginning in 1919. From street signs it appears she went to Fitchburg Normal School, now Fitchburg State University, in North Central Massachusetts. Many of the photos show the women posed around campus with one photo of the four women huddled together smiling which reads, “fresh freshman,” another shows them climbing a sign for Pearl Hill Road. They also visited friends, both men and women, at Harvard. Two photos show members of Fitchburg’s girls’ basketball team with a caption which reads, “Rah, Rah, Rah!” and another which reads “the victorious five 3 cheers!” Many of the photos show the women posing and being silly with such captions as: “naughty, naughty,” “why Vera!,” and “asleep at the switch.” The women are seen in fashionable outfits, school uniforms, and hats throughout the album. One particularly intriguing image shows a woman, her hat in hand, passionately kissing a female schoolmate with a caption that read: “you mouthwatering Sappho.” The women in this set of photos are flirty and smiling and posing on a bridge in a wooded area. After graduating the compiler became a school teacher in 1921 and there are photos of her with her class of younger girls posed in a school yard and during a school play. Other photos include family snapshots and vacation photos featuring one of the women posed in her new car and another of a woman with a baseball bat.
An compelling collection of photos focusing on a woman’s time in college and her relationships with her classmates.