Title: The Girl Graduate

Dimensions: 15cm x 23.5cm (5.9in x 9.25in)
Pages: 186
Printed: Chicago

Description:
The high school scrap book belonging to Edith Earle, Joe Wright High, class of 1921. Dates of writing/materials in the book range throughout the '20s.

The Earle family was among the first to settle in the Jacksonville area. Edith Earle's great-grandfather, Elijah Earle, moved from Alabama to Gum Creek, the site of Old Jacksonville, in 1846.

Edith's father met an early death in 1913, while repairing electric wires in City Park.

View the pages of the scrapbook

The Jacksonville centennial book tells the story of Edith's grandfather (James C. Earle) and great-gradfather (Elijah Earle).