Lui nancy b (1 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Octavo. Measuring 6" x 8". 106pp. Scrapbook from the years 1955-1957 with black cloth boards with "Standard, No. 356 Diary" stamped in gilt on the front cover. Rear board and spine lacking, front board and several pages detached but present, and light tidemarks on the bottom of the pages, good with clear, handwritten text. A scrapbook filled with magazine and newspaper cutouts, photographs, and musings covering part of a young girl's childhood. Nancy B. Lui, a Detroit native, started her scrapbook in 1955 filling it with mostly Disney related ephemera. Cutouts of Mickey Mouse and Goofy fill the first few pages and Lui has a certificate for being in the Mickey Mouse Club. She captions every picture and cutout with a small sentence or two, either saying where the cutout is from or the significance of the item. As the scrapbook goes on, Lui writes about her friends and classes: "Friday in science room we got to touch a snake, Ugh!!" She receives numerous Valentine's Day, Christmas, and Birthday cards from her friends and family which are included here. Part of the scrapbook is devoted to her time at an all-girls summer camp where she made crafts, danced with the ballet class, and went on trips to the beach with her cabin mates. Lui devotes a page to writing where all her friends at camp came from, "Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, Ontario," and Lui writing down "Michigan" for herself. There are several pictures of her at her 12th birthday party dancing and playing with her friends, "This is me doing the âStroll' a fad dance." Some of the other ephemera includes comics clipped from newspapers and pictures of women from magazines. Lui has a couple of pages devoted to the fashions of 1956. With the comics, Lui writes a couple words that show how she felt about them. Often she thinks they are "corny" and comments that a couple characters are "mashugana," a Jewish word for crazy. She has three poems in her scrapbook, one each about autumn, baseball, and Christmas: "Twas the eve before Christmas, and no one was stable, especially Uncle Tom, who was drinking âBlack Label." An appealing collection of whimsical musings from a young girl living in Detroit during 1955-1957.…