Envelope addressed to Mr. William H. Smiley, East Side High School, ("Nineteenth and Stout" crossed out) 1545 Detroit Street, Denver, Colorado. Envelope contains three post cards (items 2026.003.002-4). Envelope is torn on three sides.
Black wooden shield-shaped back with metal plaque with text and leaf carvings, broken metal chain at the top. Some pencil signatures and a sticker reading "133" on the back.
Photograph of Ralph Emerson Gibbs as a cadet at Denver High School (Old East), shown in uniform with a sword. Gibbs was a graduate of Old East in the class of 1900.