Historic Augusta Scrapbook

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS-139

Staff Only

Abstract

This Scrapbook was done for a fifth grade class assignment at Houghton Elementary School. It contains newspaper clippings, postcards, and short handwritten descriptions

Dates

Created: 1931

Creator

Reiser. Walter Allen Jr. (Walter Allen Reiser Jr.) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

No current access restrictions on this collection. Collection is open for research. Use of digitized document preferred.

Conditions Governing Use

Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research purposes only. Materials within the collection are subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Augusta University Special Collections & Institutional Archives may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Biographical or Historical Information

Date of acquisition by repository is unknown, Walter Allen Reiser Jr was a member of the Junior College of Augusta, Class of 1941. This may explain why the material may have been included in the repository. This scrapbook was created by Walter Reiser around or after 1931 when Reiser was a fifth grade student at Houghton Elementary School. It is unknown whether the scrapbook was created by Reiser in response to a school assignment or his personal interests. Walter Reiser was the son of the Reverend Walter Reiser, pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection and his wife Cora S. Reiser. Evidence from the 1931 Augusta Chronicle lists young Walter Reiser as a party guest, participator in pageants and dramatics and a piano student. According to the 1941 Rainbow yearbook, he continued these pursuits at the Junior College of Augusta along with basketball and participation in the corps of cadets. In later life, Reiser was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he taught from 1973-1992

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