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May 14, 2013 10:30 am

See Ellie Kemper’s Farewell Photo Album From The Office

By Ellie Kemper

Photo: Tyler Golden/NBC

The Office ends its nine-season run this Thursday, and so we enter the third stage of departing-TV-series grief: scrapbooking. We asked Ellie Kemper, who plays ultra-naïve receptionist Erin, to send us some personal pictures from the set that she’d accumulated since she joined the show in 2009. Click on to see her photos of Phyllis’s desk, the Scranton office’s cereal choices, and the world’s creepiest baby (which still gives her nightmares) — complete with her own delightfully goofy annotated explanations.

“This is our Office Board, located right off our set on the way to craft services. It includes some major accomplishments of our cast and crew, such as Steve Carell holding a Rubik's Cube, and Ed Helms drinking some coffee.”

“This is our Office Board, located right off our set on the way to craft services. It includes some major accomplishments of our cast and crew, such as Steve Carell holding a Rubik's Cube, and Ed Helms drinking some coffee.”

“Here is the whiteboard located behind Accounting. I don't know if all of those days are real or not, but I am VERY interested in getting in on Blueberry Cheesecake Day!! Right?”

“Here is the whiteboard located behind Accounting. I don't know if all of those days are real or not, but I am VERY interested in getting in on Blueberry Cheesecake Day!! Right?”

“This is from Phyllis's desk. I first noticed this photo as a fan, watching it on TV. I love how Phyllis and Ryan are friends. Like, what on Earth do Phyllis and Ryan talk about?”

“This is from Phyllis's desk. I first noticed this photo as a fan, watching it on TV. I love how Phyllis and Ryan are friends. Like, what on Earth do Phyllis and Ryan talk about?”

“This brochure is from Toby's desk in the annex. I don't have anything to say about this except it makes me laugh and laugh.”

“This brochure is from Toby's desk in the annex. I don't have anything to say about this except it makes me laugh and laugh.”

“This is also from Toby's desk. Marvel at the sheer amount of literature on Sexual Harrassment! And then go back to laughing about how Toby has a brochure on Truck and Tractor Trailer Accidents on his desk.”

“This is also from Toby's desk. Marvel at the sheer amount of literature on Sexual Harrassment! And then go back to laughing about how Toby has a brochure on Truck and Tractor Trailer Accidents on his desk.”

“Here is the Homer Simpson doll on Phyllis's desk. They used this doll as set dressing in the pilot, and our showrunner Greg Daniels asked Matt Groening if he minded if they continued to use it. Well, he didn't mind! And so Homer stayed there for nine years.”

“Here is the Homer Simpson doll on Phyllis's desk. They used this doll as set dressing in the pilot, and our showrunner Greg Daniels asked Matt Groening if he minded if they continued to use it. Well, he didn't mind! And so Homer stayed there for nine years.”

“No, this isn't a bill sponsored by Barbara Boxer; it's the prop sanitary napkin dispenser in our ladies' restroom set! Choose wisely.”

“No, this isn't a bill sponsored by Barbara Boxer; it's the prop sanitary napkin dispenser in our ladies' restroom set! Choose wisely.”

“Here is some cereal on top of the refrigerator in the kitchen! Wegmans is a wonderful family-owned grocery chain in the Mid-Atlantic region.”

“Here is some cereal on top of the refrigerator in the kitchen! Wegmans is a wonderful family-owned grocery chain in the Mid-Atlantic region.”

“Here is an example of our daily lunch menu. We really slum it.”

“Here is an example of our daily lunch menu. We really slum it.”

“Here is what I ate at Jim and Pam's rehearsal dinner! I sat next to Mindy and we had a wonderful time.”

“Here is what I ate at Jim and Pam's rehearsal dinner! I sat next to Mindy and we had a wonderful time.”

“This is the incredibly cool label-maker that sits on Erin's desk. When I got engaged, Mindy typed out a congratulatory label for me, but accidentally misspelled ‘Ellie.’ Undeterred, she simply congratulated me as Elie Wiesel instead.”

“This is the incredibly cool label-maker that sits on Erin's desk. When I got engaged, Mindy typed out a congratulatory label for me, but accidentally misspelled ‘Ellie.’ Undeterred, she simply congratulated me as Elie Wiesel instead.”

“This is a fake baby. This baby scares the shit out of me. This baby is wax and rubber. This baby was Cece in ‘Andy's Play,’” the season-seven episode in which Erin has to take care of Jim and Pam’s daughter during Andy’s performance of Sweeney Todd, “and it is so close to a real baby, it makes me want to throw up. I don't want to write about this baby anymore.”

“This is a fake baby. This baby scares the shit out of me. This baby is wax and rubber. This baby was Cece in ‘Andy's Play,’” the season-seven episode in which Erin has to take care of Jim and Pam’s daughter during Andy’s performance of Sweeney Todd, “and it is so close to a real baby, it makes me want to throw up. I don't want to write about this baby anymore.”

“Here is the invitation to our wrap party of season five! That's Creed.”

“Here is the invitation to our wrap party of season five! That's Creed.”

“I took this photo of my trailer on my first day on the job!”

“I took this photo of my trailer on my first day on the job!”

“This is my sister, Carrie, a writer on the show, and me in front of the water cooler. See how they changed the label to POCONO Spring, so nobody gets hurt!”

“This is my sister, Carrie, a writer on the show, and me in front of the water cooler. See how they changed the label to POCONO Spring, so nobody gets hurt!”

“If goofing around on set is a crime, we are guilty! This is Carrie, Craig, Jake, and me pretending to act out a scene. Craig is holding this stuffed duck that emits a really loud ‘Quack, quack, quack,’ and ruins a lot of takes. It's always sitting on the file cabinet, and people are always accidentally setting it off.”

“If goofing around on set is a crime, we are guilty! This is Carrie, Craig, Jake, and me pretending to act out a scene. Craig is holding this stuffed duck that emits a really loud ‘Quack, quack, quack,’ and ruins a lot of takes. It's always sitting on the file cabinet, and people are always accidentally setting it off.”

“This was just an impromptu cast photo, taken at the end of a conference room scene. We didn't even get paid to take this photo! We actually just like each other. A lot.”

“This was just an impromptu cast photo, taken at the end of a conference room scene. We didn't even get paid to take this photo! We actually just like each other. A lot.”

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