Susan Bridgman — Girl Guides Scrapbook and Notebook

Shropshire, None, c1950. Cloth. A personal scrapbook recording the history of the Girl Guides, preserving photographs, handwritten notes, ephemera, and institutional history in a uniquely intimate form. In the original green cloth binding, backed with red cloth, featuring a hand-drawn paper Girl Guides emblem to the upper board. A fascinating personal scrapbook chronicling the early history of the Girl Guides, illustrated throughout with mounted photographic reproductions, captions, and handwritten historical notes. With four original photographs. Collated, complete.  A well-loved copy, with just 29 blank leaves to the rear. The volume traces the development of the movement from its foundation in 1910 through the interwar years and beyond, with references to Robert Baden-Powell, the establishment of Brownies and Lone Guides, international camps, Imperial Headquarters in London, and gatherings at Foxlease and Waddow Hall. Several leaves contain detailed contemporary handwritten notes in blue ink.  A pencilled inscription to the front paste down reading, "Susan Bridgman, Leigh Manor, Minsterley, Shropshire." In the original green cloth binding, backed with red cloth, featuring a hand-drawn paper Girl Guides emblem to the upper board. Externally, generally smart. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Faint pen marks to the front board. One or two light handling marks to boards. Slight warping and rubbing to boards. Front hinge strained with webbing partially exposed, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean if slightly age toned with the odd handling mark. One or two creases to fore edge. Slight cockling to leaves. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .