Foss (Valeska) High School scrapbook, 1916-1919

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Summary

Title:
Valeska Foss High School scrapbook
Dates:
1916-1919
Creators:
Contreras, Valeska Foss
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.
Containers:
Box: 1
Extent:
1.0 linear ft. 1 box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Valeska Foss High School scrapbook, Collection no. 0396, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Acquisition information:
The scrapbook was donated to USC's Gerontology Center in 1980 by Valeska Foss Contreras.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Jacqueline Morin
Date Prepared:
2012
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-05-09T04:11-0700

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Preferred citation:

Valeska Foss High School scrapbook, Collection no. 0396, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
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