Ellen Amelia Row II
Indiana, PA
1912
Indiana, PA
1912
Hailing from the same hometown as Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Amelia Row graduated from Clearfield High School in 1911 and later attended the four-year course at the Indiana Pennsylvania State Normal School (now Indiana University of Pennsylvania.) Several items in her scrapbook pertain to the Kiskiminetas Springs School (now a boys private, nondenominational secondary school.)
The scrapbook, manufactured by the Samuel Ward Company of Boston, contains 30 heather grey double-sided scrapbook sheets, onto which Row identified items in white ink: dances and football games, drawings and notes from friends, snapshots, theatre programs, pressed flowers, a stick of chewing gum and two flattened cigarettes: under one, dated 1914, is written “Mick” Shirey. In 1918, Row married Clearfield native Earl Shirey: online computer census information for 1930 indicates that Earl was a manager of a wholesale lumber company in Clearfield and the couple had two children.
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The scrapbook, manufactured by the Samuel Ward Company of Boston, contains 30 heather grey double-sided scrapbook sheets, onto which Row identified items in white ink: dances and football games, drawings and notes from friends, snapshots, theatre programs, pressed flowers, a stick of chewing gum and two flattened cigarettes: under one, dated 1914, is written “Mick” Shirey. In 1918, Row married Clearfield native Earl Shirey: online computer census information for 1930 indicates that Earl was a manager of a wholesale lumber company in Clearfield and the couple had two children.
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Oh, this one is a chalkboard beauty! I am pouring over the book and a friend directed me to come lap up the blog as well. Thanks for all this beauty and history, Jessica. I'll be back.
Congratulations to Jessica and SCRAPBOOKS~ Winner of the Connecticut Book Award for design, 2009.
Congratulations to Jessica and SCRAPBOOKS~ Winner of the Connecticut Book Award for design, 2009.
posted on 09.21.09 by
Leslie Connor
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In this Op-Ed page SUMMERSCAPES, Jessica Helfand reflects on the fascinating "Stunt" Book kept by a young California debutante in the summer of 1920.
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