As a high school student at Caledonia High School in Michigan in the 1920s, my grandmother, Lucille Edna Mulder, was a good student. As I have written about before, she was Class Historian at graduation–and kept a beautiful graduation scrapbook.
She also kept a meticulous notebook for botany class. Here is a slideshow of the entire book. I will post a few still images below the slideshow.
Did you ever record precise information like this for a homework assignment? If so, do you think you learned from it?
These dried flowers look like nature prints! I wish I had been required or encouraged to keep a notebook like this.
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Thankfully, if I ever had to do something like this in school, I have repressed the memory! Such amazing tedious work!
I wonder what your grandmother was thinking about when she worked on this…what a great collection, Luanne! Thanks for always having the best history lessons.
LOL, I can’t imagine what she was thinking about! Maybe she and her sister did the project together since they went to school together. That might have made it more fun. It’s such a beautiful book!
Reblogged this on Janet’s thread.
Thank you for the re-blog, Janet!
Luanne—all I see is a black rectangle above the pressed flowers. Am I missing something? Is it me or is it WordPress?
I see it requires Javascript. Maybe I don’t have that? Or maybe it’s just not working. 😦
Aw, yes, I think it rquires Javascript. It’s so beautiful that I hope most people have javascript!
Maybe you just need to upgrade your Javascript.
Yes, I need to check. If I can figure out how! Thanks!
How terrific that you still have that. It’s beautiful.
Thank you so much–I think so, too!!!
Wow, Luanne! What a great keepsake!
That’s what I thought, too, Linda!
I remember finding the graduate school work of a person I was researching. I was in awe because she took creative writing courses even though she was majored in psychology and group dynamics. She wrote many short stories about her family.
That’s a very cool find, Christina! It feels so personal to look at someone else’s grades, too!
Yes! I am just happy it was in her personal archives as oppose to a university’s. FERPA has prevented me from looking at anyone’s school courses from even 1916.
Oh wow. What a shame that all that information is locked up!
Truly hands on and prepared with great care!
My grandmother was a wonderful person, great fun, and we I had a lot of freedom for creativity when I was with her, but I never pictured her as a “detail” person!
Fun to find new ways of knowing her. I’m glad she was a positive influence and your memories are warm ones. Grandparents are very special.
My grandmother also made a book like yours–she was born in 1885, and hers was done in 1903 in Minnesota. She labeled her samples with their names and where she collected them. When I went to Minnesota to research and visit where she had lived, I was able to locate a few of those places. I treasure this book, as I know you do yours.
Oh, that’s wonderful that you were able to do that! What a wonderful treasure!
I had to go look at my grandmother’s book after seeing your slide show. Her book is very similar to the one that your grandmother did. I was off a couple of years–my grandmother did hers in May of 1901. She did not fill in the detail as your grandmother did. It’s amazing to think of these surviving this long!
1901. Goodness, that is so long ago. I can’t imagine how it’s been able to survive!
Cool! What a treasure! Yes, I had to submit a leaf project — collect leaves, make rubbings, press them and write their scientific information. I also had to do a wildflower collection like this one and press them, draw them (I think) and write the scientific information. I think they may still be at my mother’s house. This was 7th grade science class and I am 38 now. I may have learned some things but I would probably have to look up certain leaves and flowers today. Thanks for showing us!
That is quite the project for 7th grade!!! You must have gone to a school with a very rigorous science program!!! I didn’t know they made students do things like this in the past several decades or longer!
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