This scrapbook covers Ella C. Lapham's (VC 1876) experiences as a student at Vassar, including traditions like Trig Ceremonies, Tree Ceremonies, Class Day, Founder's Day, Commencement, Professor Maria Mitchell's Dome Party, and Thanksgiving. She also saved programs from concerts and events by the Cecilia Society and the Vassar School of Music, among other groups. Lapham preserved her correspondence with other students and invitations she received. Notably, she included a poem entitled "The Japanese Princesses," which contains racist depictions of the first Japanese Vassar students' English language skills and warns that they are thieves who should not be trusted. The same poem appears in Bertha Keffer's (VC 1876) 1876 diary, available through the Vassar Digital Library at https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/islandora/object/vassar%3A1947. After leaving Vassar, Lapham was active in the Alumnae Association and helped to fundraise for the college. Her scrapbook contains correspondence with alumnae and faculty, Alumnae Association meeting information, and notes on the lives of other members of the class of 1876. In particular, she kept track of classmates' weddings and deaths through the early 1880s.