Lost and Found

I love kids’ books–especially old ones–and pick up lots of them at yard sales and thrift stores. Sometimes, there are interesting bits of ephemera tucked into the books. This was the case with a copy of Jane Abbott’s The Barberry Gate that I got from the public library’s book sale. The book itself wasn’t anything terribly special–a romantic young adult mystery from the 1920s, in a library binding–but inside it I found a 4H name tag from 1940. What was written on the back was interesting. I assume, this being 1940 and it being 4H camp, that La Vaughn is a girl, and the reference is simply to she and Anita being cabin- or bunk-mates.

Recto: “Hello! I am Anita Strasburger. Who are you?”

Verso: “1940 club camp at Battle Ground South Bend cottage La Vaughn & I sleep to gether”