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Set of three large scrapbooks with boards covers, each volume 3.5 inches thick, in which Cronin mounted part of his extensive collection of matchbook covers, approximately 3,000 covers. Volume 1 is devoted to “Naval and Service” covers, with 6 to 10 covers per page, many with large “feature” covers about 4.75 x 3 in. This “Service” volume has covers from air fields and bases around the country, as well as patrol squadrons, torpedo stations, even Civilian Conservation Corp camps, various units covers, officers clubs, and covers from different naval vessels, US and British. The other two books are mostly devoted to covers from various bars, cafes, restaurants, and hotels throughout California, with some ancillary product covers such as alcohol, toothpaste, insurance, banks, razors, and chewing gum. This assembled collection provides a good representative sampling of the graphics and text used in these little pocket-sized advertisements, manufactured by a variety of firms, including Diamond, Federal, Lion, Ohio, Universal Match, and more.

Scrapbook includes sports scores; photographs of campus scenes, bonfire, rugby, athletics, and Lake Lagunita; clippings; student ephemera; and postcards from Autrium's later travels.

Scrapbook assembled by Irene Irby centered around her and her husband Bill's time living in the Philippines whill Bill did mine surveying. The album consists of captioned photographs, clippings, letters, and other matter, documenting the life of the California couple in the Philippines. Includes 160 original photographs, most with a typed description mounted on the leaf, as well as eight typed letters and notes, and 35 other items such as hand-drawn maps, newspaper clippings that mention Irby and his work, and other ehpemera. Features views of the mining properties located in the jungles as well as views of street life and friends in Manila. Irene was interested in documenting the natives they met, the landscape encountered, and the life of American employees overseas just before the start of the War. Housed in a typical silk-covered “Oriental” style (string tie) album, some wear of cloth on the corners.

Oblong folio scrapbook/photograph album with 101 original snapshot photographs, 64 postcards (of which 40 are real-photo cards, 24 commercial cards) + 54 clippings from newspapers and pamphlets. Includes photographs of the family, the places traveled, and several of the farm in Fairview. In an envelope at the rear is a 1042 Official Road Map by the Alberta Motor Association of the Peace River Highway as well as an 8pp pamphlet on “The Alaska Highway—Canadian Section.” Images and items are dated, and frequently have detailed, clearly written captions as to subject/topic/action.

Primarily greeting cards and newsclippings. Also includes a birth certificate.

Contents include colored engravings of animals, historical battle scenes, parades of royalty in London, humorous scenes, fancy clothing, etc., with some captions in French.

A collection of engravings, drawings, and watercolors. Major subjects include noteworthy personalities, public buildings in London, fashion examples, etc. One date from volume is 1843.

Victorian scrapbook with images, many in brilliant color, including insects and animals; plants, portraits of royalty; costumes and fashion; silhouettes; storybook illustrations; flags; lithographs of famous battle scenes; Victorian genre scenes; hunting scenes; exotic landscapes; cartoons on social and political commentary; and designs for alphabets.

Programs, clippings of articles and illustrations, and a few photographs pertaining to Stanford University's football, baseball, basketball, and track teams, 1924-1925, with a few clippings about Stanford regaining the Axe from UC Berkeley's possession, 1930.

Collection consists of a printed scrapbook (College Girls’ Record by Virginia Woodson Frame) in which Faris added brief entries. Items added to the volume include a valentine; photographs of coeds and of students ready for a golf game; and a clipping of a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Clippings and programs pertaining to Dean's track career at Burlingame High School, San Mateo Junior College, Stanford University, and the Olympic Club in San Francisco; also includes programs from the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles and the track and field championship between the British empire and the United States in San Francisco, Aug. 14, 1932.

Scrapbook documents her student life at Stanford and includes student forms, notes, calling cards, dance cards, programs, postcards, photographs, and a 1905 Stanford songbook. Many pages are annotated; of note are items pertaining to the 1906 earthquake, including the student relief pass card of Preston Brady Delano.

Scrapbook contains programs and clippings largely of theater performances and concerts, 1915-1933; and photographs of Stanford buildings and other students, as well as family photographs. Two items of note pertaining to his Stanford days are an issue of "Thumbs Up," Oct. 27, 1915, pertaining to the demise of the Plug Ugly event on campus; and an undated issue of "The Appeal to Reason," probably a student humor publication.

Scrapbooks contain clippings and programs, with some calendars, articles, and other printed matter. The primary subject is theatrical presentations at Stanford and in Palo Alto, with lesser coverage of other cultural events (concerts, lectures, debates, etc.)

This scrapbook was kept by Audrey Tompkins during her high school and college years. It contains programs, dance cards, menus, tickets, notices, and other memorabilia, largely documenting her social life, with a few items pertinent to her academic life at Stanford. There are also a few objects such as a spoon, a spent flash bulb, and hair clippings.

Oblong folio with leather front cover, later[?] cloth back cover, tape repair. The album contains postcards, clippings, and original photographs, documenting Joseph McCourt’s two-years travels around the United States, stopping in various places where he would work for a while as a bookbinder — in Paris (Texas), Denver, and San Francisco (Union No. 31)— as evidenced by his union cards and dues cards from each of these cities mounted herein. McCourt arranged the material in this the album by type: (1) Opening section of 56 commercial postcards, arranged geographic to his trip (Niagara Falls, the Midwest, Colorado, California, through the Southwest to Texas and Louisiana, though the southeast, then taking a steamer from Savannah back to New York; (2) With 213 clippings from various pamphlets and brochures, maps, etc., and with two complete issues of the Moffit News (Pikes Peak, CO); (3) Final and largest section, devoted to a photographic record of the trip, with 226 original photos (snapshots), each with white-ink captions, includes 59 real-photo postcards, and over 100 photos covering his stay in San Francisco and California, with a series of the inuaugual parade held for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1911), and eight photos of the 1911 Labor Day parade. Tipped-in at the beginning of the album is a linen-backed map of the US (Union Pacific), with McCourt’s journey lined in black. [Descriptive information provided by dealer // JAD2016/4/29]

Scrapbook documents student life at Stanford and includes programs, ticket stubs, invitations, dance cards, and a parody newspaper titled "You Cannot Fool the Horsefly," December 7, 1922, which pokes fun at a variety of student organizations.

Scrapbook largely pertains to his two years at Stanford and includes postcards (some depicting Stanford in 1905), photographs, programs, tickets, and issues of the Daily Palo Alto, 1913-1915; there are also postcards of San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Yosemite. Loose items from the scrapbook include assorted items from his student life at Cornell; additional Stanford postcards; and a letter from Pete Allen (Stanford News Service), 1958, thanking him for the gift of the scrapbook, which was sent to the University Archives.