Kathryn Zeigler Jeska papers

The scrapbook, account ledger and photographs comprising the Kathryn Zeigler Jeska Papers document her life while at student at Bowling Green State University between 1936 and 1940.

The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings, music and theater programs, sorority invitations and favors, cards from dances, postcards and letters, and documents from several Home Economics Conferences she attended while in college. The scrapbook provides information on the social life of Kathryn Jeska and the organizations in which she was involved.

The photographs visually document Bowling Green State University and the life of a student during the time period, 1936-1940. Included are scenes of university buildings and grounds, candid shots of her friends and sorority sisters, the inauguration of President Offenhauer, summer vacation to Catawba Island with some sorority sisters and other social functions.

The account ledger provides a monthly records of her expenditures and income while a college student. Also documented are inventories of her canned goods, expenses for the Three Kay Sorority and detailed food accounts.

All together these documents provide a detailed and interesting student view of university life at Bowling Green State University during the last half of the 1930s. The papers would be of interest to those researching student life and higher education and women's history.