Girl Reading, Photograph - Pages 51 and 52
Scope and Contents
The May Benson Lyle Scrapbook contains Fifty-six (front and back) unnumbered pages with forty-nine black and white photographs (one each on the front and back covers of the scrapbook) recording May Benson Lyle's time as a student at Sam Houston Normal Institute from 1905-1908.
The images in the scrapbook are of campus buildings such as Austin Hall, Old Main Building, and the Peabody Memorial Library. There are also images of faculty members such as Ida Lawrence, Sue Smither, Professor Coleman, Professor Henry Fishburne Estill, Joseph (Joe) Pritchett, and his brother President Henry Carr Pritchett. Additional images show May Benson Lyle and her friends at the boarding house they lived in while attending Sam Houston Normal Institute.
Dates
- Creation: 1905 - 1908
Extent
1 Photographic Prints : Black and white photograph. Writing in black ink.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
Page 51: Black and white photograph of a girl with a book sitting in a rocking chair on a house porch. Underneath the photograph in stylized writing is ' "An old sweetheart of mine." ' in black ink. The top part of the photograph is warped.
Page 52: Blank
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository