The Pollyanna Girls

In September 1919, Evelyn Triebess was living in Chicago when she and some high-school classmates formed a club called the "Pollyanna Girls."



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Images from the Triebess scrapbook, courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

Pollyanna had been published in book form in 1913. I expect Evelyn and her friends had read it when they were about the same age as the title character (11 years old), and were quite sincere in their admiration of an outlook on life that nowadays we tend to think of as unrealistic if not slightly annoying.

"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," from Oh Look! (1918 recording).