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The Girl Graduate - Her Own Book

1925

Prairie View, Waller County, Texas, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A scrapbook assembled by Marjorie P. Collins. The cover of the scrapbook is red leather and in gold type reads: [The Girl Graduate / Her Own Book]. The scrapbook includes 190 pages of newspaper clippings, photographs, hand-written entries, printed programs, ribbons, and correspondence relating to graduate Marjorie P. Collins. She was elected to become a teacher at the Almeda Road Junior High School on June 4, 1925 by the school board.

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Catalog reference: 2012.94

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