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Title: Valeska Foss High School scrapbook
Collection number: 0396
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Container: 1
Physical Description:
1.0 linear ft.
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1916-1919
Abstract: "The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book" is embossed into the leather cover of this fragile scrapbook. The volume was kept by Valeska
Foss of Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, California, between 1916 and 1919, the year she graduated from high school. The
scrapbook is filled with small photographs, invitations, notes, clippings, programs, illustrations, and handwritten descriptions
and narratives on the pages. The principal of Lincoln High School at the time was Ethel Percy Andrus who, among her many notable
achievements, was the first woman high school principal in California and the founder of AARP (American Association of Retired
Persons). The Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California is named for her and the reason
the donor gifted her scrapbook to USC.
creator:
Contreras, Valeska Foss
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
The scrapbook was donated to USC's Gerontology Center in 1980 by Valeska Foss Contreras.
Valeska Foss High School scrapbook, Collection no. 0396, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, Calif.). -- Alumni and alumnae
Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, Calif.). -- History-Sources
Andrus, Ethel Percy -- Archives
Contreras, Valeska Foss -- Archives
High school students--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
High schools--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Photographs
Scrapbooks