1896-1908 California Scrapbook Album with photographs, handwritten quotes, and ephemera

Willows, California, 1900. Album. Good. Oblong 7.5" x 5" album. Approx. [60] leaves with 15 unused sheets. Red, gold, silver and yellow decorated album. Restored. Covers reattached, repaired spine, and both hinges repaired. Interior condition ranges from fair to very good condition. Dates of inscriptions and ephemera range from 1896 to 1908. A few items in the album have been removed. Contents of this album include photographs of the Boyd family; copied handwritten quotes from famous orators; news clippings; religious verse; paper clippings, 6 photographs from the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco; a water color drawing by Maud Moody 1928 Clairmont Los Angles; brief handwritten genealogy dates of the Boyd family and relations or friends?; a color illustrated post card of Belfast Ireland; a clipped article with picture about Hon. H. E. McCune; a pasted down pamphlet titled "Annual of the Baptist Church Willows, Cal. January 1904" and much more. On one page is a cutout greeting, pasted down, that reads "Wishing you many, many happy returns. Judge & Mrs. Frank Moody. Wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year." Below this greeting is an inscription presumably by the maker of this album - "On my "natal" day Jan 1 1903 48 years old Clara Mock Boyd." Her name is written on the next page in the album and on another page. An old news clipping, dated Nov. 13, 1896 from the "Willows Review", concerns Supervisor James Boyd, born near Belfast, Ireland who came to California in 1868. The article states he married C. M. Williams of Dixon, Cal Dec. 20th, 1888. Willows, California is in Glenn County California. The Boyd family is mentioned in the 1918 publication of "History of Colusa and Glenn counties, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties who have been identified with their growth and development from the early days to the present" by Charles McComish and Rebecca Lambert. Frank Moody, mentioned in the album, was a Judge in the Superior Court of California in Glenn County from 1895-1899 (from Glenn.Court.Ca). (Inventory #: 15922)