Scrapbook: Stoneleigh College, New Hampshire.
GIRLS’ COLLEGE SCRAPBOOK
[Education] Miller, Francie. [Scrapbook]: Stoneleigh College Scrapbook. New Hampshire,
1939.
Folio measuring 12” x 15”; string-tied black paper-covered boards with “scrapbook” stamped in gilt on the front board; 102 black and white photographs most measuring 8” x 10” with a few smaller, most captioned.
A photo album kept by Francie Miller while attending Stoneleigh College, formerly the Stoneleigh School for Girls, a boarding school for grades 7-12 and postgraduate in New Hampshire in the late 1930s. It appears that Miller was an amateur photographer, capturing well- composed portraits of her fellow classmates around campus and printing them as large 8” x 10” black and white prints, one appears to have been used for a school magazine with a student superimposed over a photo of the school. The women can be seen skiing, posing in their school uniforms, laying in fields, and studying, or falling asleep while doing so. There are a series of close up portraits of thoughtful looking women, one walking through a Portsmouth, New Hampshire cemetery, and one of Francie captioned, “me and my cigarettes.” Francie also took her photography skills around to local events,such as the Army-Navy Lacrosse match and local fisherman on the docks of Gloucester, Massachusetts, fixing nets and working in the harbor. An interesting archive of a young woman’s developing photography skills.
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