Name/Title
Scrapbook about PTA Council Christmas Seals Mailings, 1939-1948Entry/Object ID
2021.16.4Scope and Content
Acc. No. 21.16.4
Subject Category: Alameda Schools, PTA
Date or Period: 1939-1948
Object: Scrapbook
Description: A composition notebook with clippings of newspapers and of typed information, and handwritten explanations. Front cover is of grey-green mottled card stock, with dark blue and white decorations, in white labeled 'Premier Composition Book'. Spine is a strip of tan buckram. At the top 5 stamp-like Christmas-themed pictures, bearing the symbol of the American Lung Association, are pasted, 2 from 1939, 2 from 1941, and one from 1940.
Size: L 8 1/2 x w 7”
History of Object:
1939-1948 Record of the PTA Council-organized volunteer efforts to deliver Christmas Seals. Christmas Seals were stamp-like pictures that could be stuck to the back closure of the envelopes of Christmas cards, and which were sold at a low cost - the sale of these seals supported the Tuberculosis Association (predecessor of the American Lung Association). A few of each year's seals are glued to the appropriate pages.
Acquired from: PTA Council or AUSD
Donated: prior to 2018
Catalog Date: 2/9/2021
