Lucile Appleby Collection

    The Lucile Appleby collection is comprised of a 190 page scrapbook she compiled during her college years at Silliman College in Clinton, Louisiana, and Louisiana State Normal College in Natchitoches from 1918 through 1922. The scrapbook is title School Girl Days: A Memory Book and was copyrighted in 1910 by the Reilly and Britton Company of Chicago, Illinois. A native of Slaughter, Louisiana, Miss Appleby’s scrapbook includes numerous programs and invitations to recitals, graduations, May Day programs, and so forth.
    She also included several of her grade reports from both colleges. It appears Miss Appleby led an active social life for her scrapbook contains several invitations to parties, descriptions of parties, hand painted napkins as souvenirs of different functions, etc. Several pages of the scrapbook are devoted to photographs of Miss Appleby and friends taken during her years in college. Of particular interest are several pages in the scrapbook filled with postmarks and return addresses which she apparently clipped from mail she received.