The Empty pages of the Scrapbook
The next few pages start a trend that can be seen throughout the remainder of the first portion of the scrapbook in which many pages are left intentionally blank or with very sparse information. This does change later once the signature pages are reached though.
Page 4 of Elizabeth Byrd Taylor's scrapbook features a border and title "The National Memory and Fellowship Book" dedicated to "Keepers and Keepsakes" which seems to serve as an information card on who published the scrapbook templates. Below a quote is featured as well: "Ah here's where we may tun and go down paths of memory back to the land we used to know -- the land of used-to-be". There is no name attributed to the quote, but below it some information can be seen on where and who published the scrapbook template pages. "Published Exclusively by the College Memory Book Co. Chicago Ill. Copyright 1918"
The most important piece of information on page 4 of the scrapbook however, is the name place which contains an entry from Elizabeth Byrd including her address at the time.
Page 5 of the scrapbook contains no entries and no inserts. All that is featured is what was pre-printed on the scrapbook page templates. It does include a printed quote though: "When the mystic haze of years transmutes the rollicking pleasures of school days into golden memories, every memento connected with that life will become a priceless nugget in the hands of those who prize them."
Page 6 is also free of any entries or inserts, but contains a quote as well: "Build in this book with such an end in view, looking forward to the day, when, with old friends about you, the mantle of time will be cast aside and student life return through the pages of this Memory Book."
It is possible these pages were left blank because Elizabeth Byrd Taylor appreciated the quotes and/or images.
Page 7 is the last empty page before the signature pages begin - which are full of content.
All that is included on this page is one more quote by S. Weir Mitchell who was an American physician and writer in the 1800s. The text can be read in full in the image file, but the sentiment is that of creating a book of friends and memories. It is clear that documentation was important to Elizabeth Byrd Taylor. It is also interesting that these pages follow the initial two. These may have been the first pages originally, but Taylor may have felt the need to move the faculty page up front because that may have been what she valued most.