Valeska Foss High School scrapbook 0396

Finding aid prepared by Jacqueline Morin

USC Libraries Special Collections

Doheny Memorial Library 206

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189

213-740-5900

specol@usc.edu

2012

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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Conditions Governing Use

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.

Acquisition

The scrapbook was donated to USC's Gerontology Center in 1980 by Valeska Foss Contreras.

Preferred Citation

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