Little Lester's Autograph Album

Among the Lester Harms collection was a little autograph album, probably given to him as a gift at Christmas 1910. Lester was only six years old, so it's not surprising that all the autographs were supplied by female relatives.

His grandmother, Anna Harms, was the first.


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Images courtesy of Eldon Harms.

Technically, she was his step-grandmother, but somehow I don't think either of them cared about that distinction.


Here is the cover of the album:



(Doesn't that look like a boom box he's carrying?)

Inside the cover, an inscription not made by a six-year-old:



And the title page:



(More to come.)