Donnybrook Fair 1927
Baltimore, MD: Goucher College, 1927. First Edition. 4to. 290, xxi pp. Color frontispiece by P. Peverell. Numerous plates, with tissue guards. Illustrations and photo-reproductions throughout; business advertisements at rear. Brown embossed cloth. The name of the book's owner gilt stamped on lower front cover and written on printed bookplate on ffep. Item #22677
The Donnybrook Fair 1927 yearbook from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, is a historical snapshot of student life, faculty, and campus culture at the then-Woman’s College of Baltimore and reflecting the graduating class of 1927. Named after the lively Irish fair, Donnybrook Fair was Goucher’s annual yearbook, capturing the college’s traditions, organizations, and academic environment at its downtown Baltimore campus, where it operated from 1885 until its relocation to Towson in 1953. The 1927 edition includes photographs, senior class profiles, club activities, and literary content typical of the era’s college yearbooks, it documents a period when Goucher was a women’s college emphasizing liberal arts, with notable alumni like Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (class of 1908) tied to its legacy.
Price: $75.00