#25. Earliest
Earliest what?
I have early letters, from the 1820's, a diary with pictures of the trip to Yellowstone in 1913 and various letters collected over the years by my mother and her great aunt in their pursuit of genealogy.
Scrapbooks! Yes I have scrapbooks created by mother, in elementary school, high school and college and during her married life. She was always cutting up the newspaper for pictures and newsworthy items. She made a scrapbook for her first day of college detailing every day. She made scrapbooks for my sister and I. Through out the years there are various scrapbooks, some have newspaper clippings of obituaries, marriages, births or other newsworthy items of family members.
Helen Lloyd's first scrapbook
She was born in 1924.
I think the scrapbook is probably created about 1930
So I am intrigued by my mother’s scrapbooks. The amount of work that went into them. I only wish I had kept that legacy going. In a way, I have, photo albums and cuttings from newspapers.
This scrapbook begins with the program of a play in 1932
Helen would have been 8.
