Margaret Mitchell scrapbooks, 1928-1949.

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Margaret Mitchell scrapbooks, 1928-1949.

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Both Margaret Mitchell scrapbooks contain clippings of articles, photographs, and an assortment of travel ephemera belonging to Margaret Tucker Mitchell. The first volume includes items ranging in date from 1928 to 1933. Primary among these are materials related to the period in 1928 that Mitchell (then Margaret Tucker) spent in Calgary, Alberta, while visiting a friend following her graduation from the University of Washington. Included are clippings of the articles she wrote for the Calgary Herald, as well as photographs of trips with friends to Lake Louise and Banff, ticket stubs for various events around Calgary, and telegrams and letters addressed to her hotel. This scrapbook also contains clippings of articles announcing her marriage to M.B. "Mike" Mitchell in June 1929, as well as wedding announcements for other friends during that year. Finally, there are several postcards, as well as other ephemera representing Margaret and Mike Mitchell's trip to St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois in 1933, where they attended respectively, his Lions Club convention and the World's Fair. The second scrapbook contains photographs and a variety of travel ephemera collected by Margaret Mitchell during the years 1940 to 1949. These include maps, ticket stubs, tourist brochures, menus, cocktail napkins, hotel receipts, and airline luggage tags. Vacations represented include a 1940 road trip to the San Francisco World's Fair with her husband and friends. In 1945, the Mitchells took an Alaskan cruise and there are several photos and maps documenting their journey. Also represented is a 1946 trip to Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. in 1946; she retained brochures for many historical sites, as well as ticket stubs and other items related to her theatergoing. Finally, there is a selection of ephemera from Mitchell's trip to San Francisco and Reno, Nevada in 1949.

2 v. ; 30-37 centimeters.

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