Vintage Scrapbook- Winner of McCall's Contest - Deluxe Trip to New York 1927!

Description

In 1927 Clara Wallace, a saleswoman in a department store which sells McCall patterns, enters and wins a contest earning "A Vacation Trip to New York!"  Clara lives in Riverside, CA so this will be a really big trip, and she does what most right-thinking women would do in 1927: she keeps a scrapbook to document this trip.  The winners' trip is covered by McCall's Magazine and by the local newspapers and so Clara achieves some measure of fame for this.  She keeps letters, a telegram, articles about the trip, theater programs, ticket stubs, and all the sorts of things one would expect for this time.  They had quite the time in NY and even saw Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld Follies!  Since the trip didn't quite fill the book, she also pasted in materials related to her niece's wedding and a few other events at the end of the scrapbook: invitations, announcements, clippings, etc.
Clara used a book that, unfortunately, had pretty poor quality paper that had become very brittle when I got it.  I took all the materials out and put them into a a newer (but still vintage!) scrapbook.  As you'll see in the photos, where the materials were glued down to the original page, I just pasted the old page into the newer book.  Where there were materials pasted on both sides of the old page I hinged it into the new book so you could see both sides.  I figured that the scrapbook probably did mean a lot to Clara, so it was worth preserving.
The book is  12" x 14". As you'll see in the photos, the newspaper clippings and many of the letters, etc. show signs of their age, but most of the other materials look pretty good for being 94 years old.
I think the book is different from many scrapbooks of the time in that it really traces a story from beginning to end: from the point of entering the contest to her return from the trip.  I imagine Clara Wallace had other successes in her life, but I bet this one was memorable for her.
Please do ask any questions that you might have and thanks for looking!