Item #2712 [Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]. Texas, Genevieve E. Mull.
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Scrapbook Kept by Movie-Crazed San Antonio Teenager, Genevieve E. Mull]

[San Antonio: 1925-1926]. [32] leaves, illustrated with thirty-five photographs and a healthy amount of assorted ephemera. Oblong folio. Contemporary limp suede covers, title on front cover stamped in gilt, string tied (though string has snapped). Minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light rubbing to front cover, crescent-shaped portion of suede on rear cover perished. Small dampstain to first leaf, otherwise clean internally. Good plus. Item #2712

A charming vernacular photo album and scrapbook assembled by Genevieve E. Mull of San Antonio, Texas in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. Mull was intensely interested in attending movie theaters, and the present album includes a good amount of ephemera related to mid-1920s San Antonio movie theater culture. This includes numerous movie theater ticket stubs from places like the Princess Theatre, the Majestic, the Plaza, the Empire Theatre, and the Texas Theatre preserved on two entire pages of the album. Additional newspaper clippings relating to the Texas and Empire theaters are preserved on three additional pages, focusing on the proprietors and managers of the two theaters. Other ephemera throughout the album includes garment tags from the Landa Park Ball Room and other items from New Braunfels, swatches of lace presumably given to her by various suitors, about a dozen postal cancels cut from envelopes, dance cards, pressed flowers, greeting cards, notes, drink labels, and more.

The great majority of the photographs here picture Mull posing with her friends, all of whom are identified by name. A few of the photographs feature Genevieve and her "gang" standing in front of Mull Drug Company, most likely owned by Genevieve's parents. Records show the pharmacy was short-lived, operating for only three years between 1923 and 1926, just after the present scrapbook album concludes (Mull has dated the first leaf July 5, 1925, likely when she received it or began to use it). A single source online holds a record for Genevieve Mull born in Corsicana in 1911; this would make Mull fourteen or fifteen at the time she compiled the present album.

An interesting and unique snapshot of one San Antonio girl's life over a two year period in the mid 1920s.

Price: $650.00