Title Info: Muriel Little, Scrapbooks, 1981

This scrapbook was created by Senate Hostess Muriel K. Little during the 1981 legislative session. There are 40 pages in this scrapbook, and 54 loose items. The cover measures 12 x 10 inches, and each page measures 11 x 8.5 inches. It includes various items related to the legislative session including clippings, correspondence, documents, drawings, greeting cards, invitations, maps, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, political cartoons, postcards, programs, and various ephemera. Dominant subjects include the forty-seventh legislature, Governor John D. Spellman, the Iran hostage crisis, Charlie Johnson’s 70th birthday, Senator Peter von Reichbauer, the disappearance of Jean Zimmerman, Labor Rally at the Washington State Capitol, John Hinckley Jr. and the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

The scrapbook can be browsed page by page. Pages are numbered as they fall in the scrapbook (ex: “p003” is page 3 of the scrapbook). Some pages include overlapping or folded items. In these cases, the pages are imaged so that each item can be seen. Items on a page are named a, b, c, and so on (ex: “p003_a” is item a on page 3 of the scrapbook). Some items include multiple pages, such as brochures, booklets, and periodicals. These items are given an item name, followed by a page number (ex: “p003_a_08” is page 8 of item a on page 3 of the scrapbook).