Neither Absent nor Tardy

Well we know

Cosy Christmas

Dear Santa

Letter to Santa from my daughter Susanna, age 7.

North to Alaska

Check out the ’stache

Please? Um...ok

One of my daughters drew this picture when she was 10, illustrating the time she broke her arm after succumbing to peer pressure. She rode her bike down a steep hill after being told the area was too dangerous.

Now I know, I know that it’s true

1901 birch bark souvenir

Summer of 1901. A souvenir of birch bark from Geo. McLeod of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to his mother Mrs. Mary McLeod, Tilbury, Ontario. Ethel McLeod wrote her name underneath.

When I’m calling you

William E. McLeod’s homemade calling cards circa 1890.

To My Trail-smitten Sister

Just who or what is Miss Sophie going to roll at the Pole? If you can figure it out, please let me know.

Anywhere Day or Night

This 1910 receipt is for a photo negative/print of a house in West Seattle. Note that Frank H. Nowell was the official photographer for Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

Emilienne’s 1916 catechism

Batman on the palace wall

From a young woman's 2004 London travel journal.

Noted

My first day in school

Snow much fun

A new Bone

UNDISCO

Go to the head of the class

On April 23, 1861, Hendrik Stephanus Baarslag received this certificate for diligence and good behavior from his Lutheran school in Amsterdam.

I have witnessed the Minnie

Side note: Ms. Riperton was also the mother of Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph. She passed away in 1979 at age 31 from breast cancer.

All the way with LBJ

I recently sold this 1964 Democratic National Convention book signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on eBay.

Reply hazy, try again

She is 5.

She is Nicole X.

With seventeen cents in our pocket

Susan and Tom were married on Dec. 22, 1963. Along with the usual mementos, their wedding memory book also includes newspaper clippings from the assassination of President Kennedy just a month earlier.

Love Tommy C

What’s Craigslist got to do, got to do with it?

From the back of a Reader's Digest.

Rest in peace

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20 million spent each New
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3 great game creatures in N.A
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Red Jello

I went to old county Buffet
and I got Mac-and cheese
whith Red Jello and
when I was Done I
ate a Cupcake and Ice-
Cream and a brownie. The
funniest that I Did was
when me my Brother and my
cusin I didn't know were
the Bath room was and they
had to go and I didn't
see the girl's Bath rood
and I thot that was the only
Bath room and it was the
man Bath room and I
Didn't Know That was the
Boy Bath room and I walked
in the Boy's Bath room and
I came out and then I
Knew That was The man's
Bath room and my cusin and
my Brother was laghing.

The Story of Paper 1929

Ruth Boyer, a student at Seattle's Seward School, made this charming book as a class assignment in 1929. Typewritten poems about books make up the first half. The second half is the history of paper including little square samples. Miss Boyer deserved better than a C+!

War Chest

Carmen Mattox, a student at Queen Anne High School in Seattle, pledged $4.00 to the War Chest Campaign in 1942. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $52.00 today.

Clayton is no wolf

Clayton Ried
All right when Nancy is along.
I'm flattered but he is a swell guy & no wolf.
He makes a very good chauffeur, how am I as a rider?

Found in an early 1940s scrapbook, three high school girls apparently passed this note around class, writing their impressions of Clayton.

And things that go bump in the night

By Alan Makinen, Oct. 18, 1966.

How to talk to a boy... to a girl

A 1967 Scholastic Book Services paperback.

Don't bother, they’re here

The Mighty Football Team of 1924

From the 1924 Hesperia yearbook from North Bend High School, North Bend, Oregon. Who was "Alabama Mystery" and why did he quit school?

1867 Sep the 10 Dear Sister

And isn't it ironic

Is New Wife the same person as Blurry Name? Or, did New Wife discover the journal and take on the passive-aggressive editor role once she saw Blurry Name mentioned?

Unusual kid

I was my parents first
aneversiry present.
I learned to snap
my fingers by the time
I was one. I am holding
my puppy asleep on my
lap. Our first dog
died right after
having 7 puppies.
We had to bottle
feed the babies so
they would survive.
I saw Europe and was
too young to remember it.
I got in a bike
accident and was knocked
out. It took 2 days before
I recovered. I have talked
to Michel Jordan
and David Robinson.
I almost fell off
a cliff but was saved.
I have once shopped
at Rodeo Drive
so I guess I am
a unusual kid.