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This collection is located on-site.
Microfilm: Date of acquisition--04/20/77. Accession number--M-77-04-20.
Type of reproduction--Microfilm; Dates and / or sequential of issues reproduced--20 April 1977.
Gumby collected this material during the first half of the 20th century.
Only 139 of 161 scrapbooks have been microfilmed
Microfilm Entered HR 05/07/92.
A collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents.
Most of the material is mounted in 139 scrapbooks or groups of folio leaves. The clippings are from both general and specialized newspapers and magazines ranging in date from 1850 to 1960, however the majority of the material falls between 1910 and 1950. Whole volumes are devoted to major figures such as Joe Louis, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.