I could imagine Anne sticking in that photograph herself - that same fun, expressive face, now famous - then carefully writing her words into her friend’s book. ![]() Remember every cloud has a silver lining. On the third page of the book, Anne glued a photograph of herself, then inscribed each corner of the page with “For-get-me-not.” On page four, she wrote her short poem: In The Secret Museum ( public library) - which also gave us Van Gogh’s never-before-seen sketchbooks and the surprisingly dark story of how the Nobel Prize was born - Molly Oldfield unearths a friendship book entry by none other than Anne Frank, who penned a short verse in her friend Juultje Ketellapper’s poetry album in June of 1939, a couple of weeks after Anne’s tenth birthday.Īnne Frank's entry in Juultje Ketellapper's friendship book ![]() In the Netherlands, these booklets were known as pöesiealbums and were especially popular among schoolgirls. ![]() This shared journal was a kind of primitive cross between Tumblr and Facebook - yet another example of vintage versions of modern social media. Long before Facebook, young people exchanged musings on life in friendship books (abbreviated, amusingly enough, as FBs) - small booklets or hand-bound pamphlets, also known as poetry albums, which a person would pass around for friends and penpals to fill with verses and inspirational quotes.
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