Lot of four Fayette County, Illinois school papers issued to Chester (Dale) Sanders, 1931-1936, led by his 1936 eighth-grade diploma in its red folder (about 4.5 x 9 in. closed). All four are used, with folds, light toning and some staining, noted piece by piece below.

• 1936 Fayette County Public Schools diploma, given at Vandalia, Illinois, June 22, 1936, with gold seal, signed Kenneth Greer, County Superintendent; red Illinois Public Schools / Fayette County folder; Hammond & Stephens Co., Fremont, Nebr. imprint. Fold lines, light spots on folder.
• 1931 Illinois Pupils' Reading Circle Diploma, chromolitho floral border, Springfield, Illinois, April 30, 1931, signed L. Rex Murray, S. B. Vance, U. J. Hoffman and D. F. Nickols; B. C. Kassell Co., Chicago. Seal spaces empty; quarter folds, toning, stains on back.
• Certificate of Award in red embossed folder, S. B. Vance, County Superintendent, for 90 percent in Writing, Vandalia, Illinois, April 30, 1931, cardinal vignette; Metropolitan Supply Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Center fold, gilt wear on cover.
• Fayette County Schools Certificate of Credit, seventh grade, Mt. Zion School, District No. 142, May 2, 1935, teacher Kenneth Halford. Clipped corner, folds.

A small Depression-era archive of one rural Illinois pupil's grade-school years, for Fayette County and Vandalia history, genealogy and school ephemera collectors.