1918 CHARMING GEORGETOWN COLLEGE AUTOGRAPH BOOK: HANDWRITTEN SONGS, SAYINGS AND NERVOUS DRAFT AGE BOYS
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On offer is a charming 1918 Georgetown College girl's autograph book. Her name was. Thirty-one entries attest to the popularity of May Heberling by her student body friends. This is a fun, humorous college remembrance book capturing the sayings, songs, actors of the time as well as the fact that World War I was still being fought. Each entry contains at least one full page with handwritten answers to such questions as: Favorite saying: aw shoot! Gee whiz! Well, I'll declare! Dang it! By george! Ye gods and little fishes!!!!!! Happiest moment: When I met B.T! Driving a Buick! Enclosed find check! When i dreamed the Kaiser came to the U.S. Greatest ambition: to get off campus! To realize my ambitions! To be president of the world! To weigh as much as Martha M. Definition of study: depends on what I'm studying! H---on earth! Something I hadn't any use for! Something I'll have to do if I pass the finals! Where do you want to be in four years? In a cottage built for two! On earth if I live! In the senoir class! At Vassar College! Any place but where I am! Out of the army! They also give their favorite songs, actors, what they like and hate most, whether they want to marry, where they'd like to visit. They give a description of themselves and some of the guys state their age as "draft age!" They clearly were worried about having to go to the army. Many of them give a summary of themselves on another page and some included photos of themselves. There are a total of 19 black & white photos, of the students, some showing the houses and cars of the times. Included ephemera: May's proof photos; a group photo taken in the 1940s or 1950s of May and 9 of her former classmates with names and "homecoming" thusly a reunion photo; a 1906 post card from May to her aunt in Danville, Kentucky that identifies that May lived at the Kentucky Female Orphan School in Midway, Kentucky; a class schedule and a composition she wrote for class. The book covers are worn, but the pages and cover are still tightly bound. 9 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 inches. Overall G.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; WORLD WAR I, WWI, WW I, BAPTIST, KENTUCKY, GENDER STUDIES, SOCIAL STUDIES, WOMEN STUDIES, SUFFRAGE, ORPHANS, GEORGETOWN COLLEGE, AMERICANA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito,
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