Scrapbooks, 1905-1975 and undated

This series is composed of scrapbooks kept by James, Ellen Keyser, and Louise Bruce that consist of newspaper clippings, letters, notes, photographs, pieces of fabric, invitations, cards, and numerous other items. One scrapbook of clippings documents the death of Ellen Keyser Bruce's father, Robert Brent Keyser. A photocopy of this scrapbook is located in Series III, Subseries 2. Ellen Keyser Bruce compiled another scrapbook comprised of thank-you letters for James Bruce's Memoirs. During the 1930s and 1940s, Louise Bruce kept two large scrapbooks of items such as greeting cards, invitations, notes, clippings, fabric scraps, and dried flowers. These scrapbooks were in poor condition and received conservation treatment that included placing individual pages in protective sleeves. Louise Bruce compiled another scrapbook for her mother, which consists of copies of letters to Ellen Keyser Bruce from James Bruce; Ellen Bruce's sister, Juliana Keyser Clark, and other relatives; clippings on relatives; and photographs.

Three scrapbooks have been microfilmed for preservation purposes, and these include a scrapbook of James Bruce's columns as editor of Princeton University's undergraduate newspaper, The Daily Princetonian; a scrapbook that Ellen Keyser Bruce kept as a young woman; and a scrapbook that documents James Bruce's tenure in Argentina. The three microfilmed scrapbooks can be found in Series 5, at the end of microfilm Reel 3.