Description: Scrapbook and papers of Margaret Alice Delaney (1898-1981), (B.A. Journalism, 1924). Scrapbook is an incredibly detailed record of Margaret Delaney’s experiences during the 1923-1924 school year at the University of Illinois. It includes documents from her quarantine for scarlet fever, documents related to the 1924 commencement, handwritten lists (of her friends, professors, dates, sayings, poems, and favorite memories), invitations, newspaper clippings, playbills and newspaper clippings (advertising the Wesley Players, the Rialto and Virginia Theaters), programs for debates and commencement, the cover for her thesis, and writings (mostly poetry).
Also included are copies of an autobiographical sketch written by Delaney and an article profiling her for a 1949 issue of the South Dakotan.