{"value"=>"W.P. Willis & Co: A Century of Progress"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This scrapbook was compiled by Frederick Willis, George's uncle, who became president of W.P. Willis & Co in 1930. It contains printed illustrations of lower Manhattan removed from an unidentified source and pasted into the book, with typed captions that emphasize the different locations that W.P. Willis & Co occupied through that area.</p> <p>The scrapbook also contains photocopies of various Willis ancestor wills, which have George's annotations in the margins, and an incomplete pedigree charts started by Frederick.</p> <p>In the back of the scrapbook are a few photographs of Frederick as a WWi private. There are two photographs of him at camp, one at Plattsburgh, NY in 1917 and one at Camp Joseph E. Johnston in Jacksonville, FL in 1918. There is a picture of him in France in 1918 or 1919, and a shot of him as a civilian, watching the Pershing Parade in New York in September 1919.</p>"}