"Stunts" scrapbook by Indiana PA Normal School graduate Marjorie Nix, 1918-1921 ("Love is Love")

Black cloth quarto, 30 leaves. Text block detached and eagerly chipping around the edges; many individual pages also detached at the gutter. Generally unwieldy, but more than compensated for by the triumphant content.  The scrapbook has a bountiful assortment of standard fare--programs, invitations, cutout photos of movie stars, calling cards, napkins, dance card booklets with little pencils attached, hand-drawn invitations to parties and greeting cards, countless little notes from being summoned to superiors' offices, telephone messages, an entire 1919-1920 Hippodrome Souvenir Book and Ziegfield Follies program... Plus a 16-page booklet on color theory with hand-painted color chips and a hand-drawn map from her Normal School studies; folk art drawings, a miniature "Illustrated News" made for or with her sister, Dorothy, poking fun at their dad (among other things). And a few poignant scraps, including a drawing of two women in a lover’s embrace next to two dismayed and shocked onlooke