A nice bit of history found in old scrapbook

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I bought several old scrapbooks over the weekend and started going through them today. Here are some photos from the first one. A lot of good stuff if your into this kind of thing. It belonged to a woman named Jeannie Stella Ziemian. She attended The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn N.Y. in 1936. jeannie.jpg
This is her

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and this is her book

NEW HAVEN R.R.1.jpg

Here is a football schedule put out bu the New Haven R.R.

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INSIDE


TICKET STUB.jpg

A ticket stub (note the scores next to the team names.)

political.jpg

a little political stuff

football.jpg

A football schedule, notice the N.Y. Brown Bombers. I believe that was an all black football team.

menu1.jpg

a menu, nice price for a smorgasborg!

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one more


paramount2.jpg

The Paramount theater

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That will make interesting reading, especially when you read the little notes attached.
 

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Afew more pics-


firemans ball.jpg

The Firemans Ball

another one from the Paramount.jpg

another one from the Paramont

souvenir booklet.jpg

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stamps.jpg

sovenir booklet in stamp form

letter.jpg

someones baseball letter

st. barts.jpg
St. Barholomews Church


I'll post a few more pics later.
 

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Kinda makes ya wonder, why someone would sell their relatives scrap book, you would think they would want to keep it to pass down.. sad but what can ya do..glad ya saved it thou.
 

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spartacus53 said:
That will make interesting reading, especially when you read the little notes attached.
Yes it will. The others look like mostly old newspaper clippings glued in them. But it will be interesting to read through them all.

Bootybay said:
Kinda makes ya wonder, why someone would sell their relatives scrap book, you would think they would want to keep it to pass down.. sad but what can ya do..glad ya saved it thou.
The lady I bought them from said they belonged to her aunt who passed recently but it's not her aunts books, she guesses they belonged to a friend of hers.

On a side note- I found this last night while researching. The one in this book is from 1937.
http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/item/79777/
 

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You sure found some interesting loot .Paper ephemera that old and in great shape too you can make a good score if you sell it :icon_thumleft:
 

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acevillav said:
You sure found some interesting loot .Paper ephemera that old and in great shape too you can make a good score if you sell it :icon_thumleft:
I'll hold onto it for now. Maybe I can find a relative of this person. It'd be nice to give it to them. But if that doesn't work out then i'd give it some thought.

Here are a few more photos-

pratt student bulletins.jpg

Pratt student bulletins

brooklyn academy music.jpg

Brooklyn Academy of Music brochure

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apt brochures

hotel brochure.jpg

hotel brochure

masonic.jpg

Order of the Eastern Star Masonic Barn dance pamphlet
 

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That book is chock full of Americana. I would hold on to it for a while, it may have some value.
 

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So many times these things give a bit of a view to some ones life at the time. I do like finding them.
 

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