Collection Overview
Green, Sybil C.
Sybil Green Scrapbook
1908-1909
MS 630 bd
1 volume
(0.25 linear ft.)
Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In the academic year 1908-1909, Sybil C. Green was a high school senior, boarding at the Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass. Born in Spencer, Mass., on August 22, 1889, to Charles H. and Ella M. Green, Green was enrolled in the college preparatory course at Cushing and apparently entered Smith College in the fall of that year. She died in 1984.
The Green scrapbook is a thick and typically chaotic record of a young woman in her senior year of high school in 1908-1909. The scrapbook consists of a bound volume stuffed (or over-stuffed) with tickets to basketball and baseball games, dance cards, invitations, notes, photographs, miscellaneous mementoes and ephemera, and a few letters from family and friends.
English
Historical Note
Cushing Academy student
In the academic year 1908-1909, Sybil C. Green was a high school senior, boarding at the Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Mass. Born in Spencer, Mass., on August 22, 1889, to Charles H. and Ella M. Green, Green was enrolled in the college preparatory course at Cushing and apparently entered Smith College in the fall of that year. She died in 1984.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Green scrapbook is a thick and typically chaotic record of a young woman in her senior year of high school in 1908-1909. The scrapbook consists of a bound volume stuffed (or over-stuffed) with tickets to basketball and baseball games, dance cards, invitations, notes, miscellaneous mementoes and ephemera, and a few letters from family and friends. Tucked inside one of the envelopes is a small assortment of 19 photographic negatives which, though unidentified, appear to depict the Academy and its students.
The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Sybil Green Scrapbook (MS 630 bd). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from Dan Casavant, 1999.
Processed by Dex Haven, August 2009.
Search Terms
Green, Sybil C.
High school students--Massachusetts.
Young women--Massachusetts.
Cushing Academy--Students.
Ashburnham (Mass.)--History--20th century.
Ephemera.
Scrapbooks.