Nettie Dixon Scrapbook, 1909

Nettie Dixon of Greensboro, North Carolina attended the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1909 with a Bachelor of Pedagogy. This scrapbook, created by Dixon, is titled "The Girl Graduate, Her Own Book." It was designed and illustrated by Louise Perrett and Sarah K. Smith of the Reilly and Britton Company of Chicago, Illinois. The scrapbook contains Dixon’s typed essay on The Public School System of Greensboro. It also contains receipts, autographs from classmates and teachers, drawings, invitations, calling cards, placement cards, Class Day Exercises of 1909, Commencement Exercises of 1909, music programs, report cards and 1909 graduation programs from local schools, including Guilford College, Greensboro College, and Greensboro High School. Other materials include student teacher evaluations from the Training School, a Cornelian Banquet Toast, course grades, and signatures of school servants Zeke and Uncle Henry. Dixon was a delegate for the class of 1909, and the scrapbook contains a delegate packet for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the school, held in 1942.