The scrapbook is bound and contains memorabilia and photographs from Helen E. Heffern’s final year at McKinley High School from 1919 and 1920. Most items are adhered to the scrapbook pages; however, there are a few loose items. The scrapbook was produced commercially as The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book, published by The Reilly & Lee Co. (Chicago). There is a table of contents, which the creator loosely followed, and blank pages are scattered throughout the book. The first pages of the scrapbook are dedicated to senior photos, which appear to have been cut from a yearbook and pasted into the scrapbook. The photos are not identified unless the individual wrote a signed verse in the scrapbook for Helen. There are more verses (without the photos) in the “Miscellaneous” section. Near the end of the scrapbook is a pen on paper caricature of Helen by A. Oppermann, possibly a classmate. Programs, invitations, and one ticket are located in “The Programmes” and “Social Events” sections. One program is from a McKinley High School event, “The Dance Through the Ages” by the McKinley Rhythmic Circle and College Club, performed at the Cleveland High School Auditorium on April 30, 1920. Other events are for performances at the Shubert-Jefferson Theatre and by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. There are several party favors and invitations, including a Leap Year Party in February, which utilized kewpie doll stationary for invitations and a small plastic kewpie favor. Helen’s brother, William Heffern, played right field on the McKinley High School baseball team. She saved newspaper clippings about the team and several photos. However, the group photos are not identified. In “Jokes and Frolics” are photos of a cabin and several photos of individuals and groups of young men and women along a river in the country. None of the photos are identified. The last page in the scrapbook contains a captioned photo of an overturned car surrounded by a group of young people: “Where our machine went over embankment while on our way to a week end party to our cottage on the Meramec River (Fenton, Missouri).” There are four unidentified photos on two pages, two of women and two of military men, in the “Miscellaneous” section, which do not appear to be school-related. Possibly the two photos of a man aboard a ship and a group photo of uniformed men in a camp include Helen's older brother, Frank Heffern, who died in 1919 in France of his injuries on a World War I battlefield.