Gladys E Tull Scrapbook & Photo Album, 1908-1929
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Gladys Elizabeth Tull (July 5, 1905-September 25, 1970), the daughter of Jesse & Alice (Rowlison) Tull, was born in Lodi, CA but raised in Kirksville, MO from early childhood. She graduated from Kirksville High School in 1924 then attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) where she received a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1929.  Miss Tull was employed as a secretary and worked for several firms in the city and for her home church, First Presbyterian, Kirksville.  She was active member of the Kirksville Business and Professional Club and of the women’s organizations of her church.

Miss Tull's scrapbook contains programs, photos and other memorabilia she kept during her high school and college years, along with a few childhood photos.  It is in My Girlhood Memories, a volume published for that purpose by The Reilly & Lee Co of Chicago, 1920. Most photos are labeled, some are not; occasionally handwritten narrative “histories” explain a photo or document. 

Her photo album consists of 100 pages of photographs, most of which seem to be of her extended family.  Only the first 15 pages have captions of any kind and they are written in pencil on black album paper so are difficult, sometimes impossible, to read.   The album pages are in extremely poor condition and break at the touch; they were no longer attached to the cover so have been removed and placed in protective plastic sleeves in a 3-ring binder.

Miss Tull gave these books to the College library before her death.
 

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◙ Gladys with parents on steps of home at 819 EWashington, Kirksville ◙  “my first home in Missouri” (address not provided) ◙ Adair County Courthouse ◙ Program for AT Still Golden Jubilee, May 25-31, 1924 ◙ Front & side views of 819 E Washington

◙ Class Three-B, 1914-15, Washington School, Miss Carter, Teacher ◙ Washington School ◙ Ola May Bartlett ◙ Lucille Santen (Millay)

◙ Photo of 13 young girls seated on steps of Tull home (birthday party) ◙ Loose clipping, “Miss Gladys Tull furnished the music for the Sojourners Club yesterday” [nd]

◙ “Androcles and the Lion”, Thalian Guild [1927]  ◙ “Iphigenia in Tauris”, Dramatic Club, Feb 24, 1927 ◙ “Rollo’s Wild Oat”, Dramatic Club, May 19, 1927 ◙  “The Old Homestead” [sponsored program by a Chicago troupe, nd]

◙ KJHS ▪ “The Bells of Beaujolais”, Music & Drama Dept [nd]  ◙ KHS ▪ “In Old Louisiana”, Chorus, Dec 11, 1925 ◙ KSTC ▪ “The Sorcerer”, Music Department, Feb 19-20, 1926 ▪ “The Doctor of Alcantara”, Music Dept, Mar 16-17, 1927 ▪ “Saint Paul”, Music Dept, May 16, 1927 ▪ Orchestra Concert, Jan 28, 1926 ▪ “National Music Week Concert”, May 5, 1926 ▪ Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, children’s matinee & evening performances, April 25, 1927 ◙ KSTC & Community Lyceum Association ▪ “Sousa and His Band”, Feb 8, 1926

◙ Christmas  Cards ▪ from Kirksville Presbyterian Church ▪ from Harriett E Tull  ◙ Christmas Programs ▪ Special Christmas Services, First Presbyterian, Dec 6 & 13, 1925 ▪ “Messiah”, Combined City Church Choirs, Dec 15, 1929 ◙ Easter Programs ▪  “Messiah” First Presbyterian church, April 7, 1912 ▪ Vesper Service, First Presbyterian, April 20, 1924 ▪ handwritten description of Easter caroling party, 1925 ◙ Miscellaneous unsigned Valentine cards (4) ◙ Invitation to Washington’s Birthday Social, Feb 22 [ny] ◙ Handwritten description of July 4, 1923 activities

◙ KHS Programs ▪ Commencement, May 11, 1924 ▪ Commencement Sermon, May 24, 1925 ▪ Commencement, May 26, 1925 ◙ KHS Invitations with enclosure cards ▪ Gladys Elizabeth Tull, 1924  ▪ Harriet Ellen Tull, 1925 ▪ Henry L Enochs, 1925 ▪ Lorna A Conley, 1918 ▪ Gladys Conley, 1922 [no card, name written on invitation] ◙ Other School Invitations ▪ Mary Emma Rowlinson, Missouri Christian College, 1925 ▪ Russell L Rees, Almira High School, 1921

◙ Maida A Cole Piano Students ▪ Nov 30 1917 ▪ June 1918 ▪ May 29, 1919 ◙ Miss [Lena] Thompson Students ▪ June 22, 1922 ▪ Aug 24, 1923 ◙ KSTC Piano Students Irene Doran Dailey & Eva Englehart, May 12 [ny]  ◙ Presbyterian Church Vesper Service, Jan 25 [ny]

◙ KSTC Baccalaureate, May 16, 1926 ◙ KHS ▪ Graduation, May 20, 1927 ▪ Presbyterian Church Commencement Service, May 15, 1927

◙ KSTC Music Department ▪ “Elijah’ May 19, 1925 ▪ “The Creation” April 12 [ny]  ◙ KJHS ▪ “The Lass of Limerick Town” May 21 [ny] ▪ Music Department, Aug 24, 1923 ◙ Missouri Valley College Girls’ Glee Club concert [nd] ◙ Recitals ▪ Emilie Goetze [nd] ▪ Lena Thompson Students [nd]  ▪ Phradie Wells, Sept 29, 1925 ▪ Ermine Thompson White & Eva Englehart, June 24, 1926 ◙ Loose Newspaper Clippings (w/out paper name or date) ▪ “Schubert Centennial Program on KMOX” ▪ “Tribute Paid to Prof John L Biggerstaff” ▪ “’Messiah’ to be Sung Here Next Sunday”

◙ 1923 Program ▪ Napkin Ring/Place Card ◙ 1924 Program

◙ Program ◙ Lapel Ribbon ◙  Song Sheet

◙ KSTC Programs ▪ Baccalaureate, May 15, 1927 ▪ Convocation, May 20,1927 ◙ Almira HS Invitation, Erma Rees, 1927

◙ Alta Vantora & Karl G Callen, July 22, 1924  ◙ Elsie Griffin & WJ Isaac, June 10, 1913 [handwritten]  ◙ Gladys Marie Conley & Chester Rhymus Williams, June 29, 1924 ◙ Ethel Dawson & Jerrall A Baldwin, Sept 20, 1924 ◙ Lorna Ardell Conley & William Basil Herrick, April 2, 1922

◙ Autographs ◙ Program for Northeast Missouri Teachers Association Meeting, Oct 30, 1925 ◙ Gift Enclosure Cards ▪ from Mrs Anna Clayton Bigsby (HS graduation gift, 1924) ▪ from Eighth Grade Class, 1920 ◙ Season Pass to Elks Charity Circus, June 1-13, 1925 ◙ Certificate of Completion, Red Cross Course in Home Hygiene & Care of the Sick, Dec 16, 1926 ◙ Grandmother’s Garden (clues for flower identification game in poetry form) ◙ Water color drawings (3) of a young girl  

◙ Mary Bentley & Hugh Miller Recital, Nov 29 [ny]

◙ Family of 3 girls & 1 boy ◙ Two boys (2 shots) ▪ w/ a bicycle ▪ w/ a dog (a few years later) ◙ Group of eight adults & children in front of a mill ◙ Teenage girl (2) ◙ Man [possibly Gladys’ father] putting a roof on a new building  ◙ Three teenage girls in a “tableau” on the lawn ◙ Three women on the front walk of the Tull house [focus is blurry; center person may be Gladys] ◙ Dr AT Still [newspaper clipping] ◙ Young man in football uniform ◙ Small child in a rocking chair

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