L. S. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, 1800-1981

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Series III: Scrapbooks

Almost all of these scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.


Numbered Scrapbooks

Almost all of these scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.



Cmi Box 31 Scrapbook 1: Adventures, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 32 Scrapbook 2: Amalgamation of races: part I, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 33 Scrapbook 3: Amalgamation of races: part II, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 34 Scrapbook 4: Art, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 35 Scrapbook 5: Art, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 36 Scrapbook 6: Art, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]



Cmi Box 37 Scrapbook 7: Art, Negro, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]



Cmi Box 38 Scrapbook 8: Baker, Josephine, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.



Cmi Box 39 Scrapbook 9: Basketball, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]



Cmi Box 40 Scrapbook 10: Book reviews. Part I, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]



Cmi Box 41 Scrapbook 11: Book reviews. Part II, 1 volume

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]



Cmi Box 42 Scrapbook 12: Breaking the bonds of slavery

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2 & 3.]



Cmi Box 43 Scrapbook 13: Breaking the bonds of slavery

[Available on Microfilm Reel 2 & 3.]



Cmi Box 44 Scrapbook 14: Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]



Cmi Box 45 Scrapbook 15: Dr. George Washington Carver, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]



Cmi Box 46 Scrapbook 16: Catholics, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]



Cmi Box 47 Scrapbook 17: Classic art, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]



Cmi Box 48 Scrapbook 18: Ezzard Charles and Joe Woolcott, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]



Cmi Box 49 Scrapbook 19: Cole & Johnson and Will Marion Cook, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]



Cmi Box 50 Scrapbook 20: Columbia University, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]



Cmi Box 51 Scrapbook 21: Poet Countee Cullen, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]



Cmi Box 52 Scrapbook 22: Dancers Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]



Cmi Box 53 Scrapbook 23: Dancers Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]



Cmi Box 54 Scrapbook 24: Frederick Douglass, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]



Cmi Box 55 Scrapbook 25: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]



Cmi Box 56 Scrapbook 26: Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 6.]



Cmi Box 57 Scrapbook 27: Education North and South, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 6.]



Cmi Box 58 Scrapbook 28: Ethiopia Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reels 6 and 7.]



Cmi Box 59 Scrapbook 29: Ethiopian and Italian War Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reels 6 and 7.]



Cmi Box 60 Scrapbook 30: Father Divine, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 7.]



Cmi Box 61 Scrapbook 31: Football, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]



Cmi Box 62 Scrapbook 32: Marcus Garvy, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]



Cmi Box 63 Scrapbook 33: Green Pastures, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]



Cmi Box 64 Scrapbook 34: Greenwich Village, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]



Cmi Box 65 Scrapbook 35: Gumby's Scrapbook vol. 100. The Gumby Studio No. 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]



Cmi Box 66 Scrapbook 36: Gumby's Scrapbook vol. 101. The Gumby Studio No. 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]



Box 15 Folder 37 Gumby Book Studio: Quarterly, 1 volume, Galley Proofs,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]


Box 15 Folder 38 Gumby Book Studio: Guest Book, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]



Cmi Box 67 Scrapbook 39: Haiti, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]



Cmi Box 68 Scrapbook 40: Harlem - Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 10.]



Cmi Box 69 Scrapbook 41: Harlem - Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 10.]



Cmi Box 70 Scrapbook 42: Roland Hayes and Marion Anderson, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 71 Scrapbook 43: Langston Hughes: Poet, author and paly-writer, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 72 Scrapbook 44: Morris [Maurioce] the artists' model, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 73 Scrapbook 45: Inter-marriage of negros and whites, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 74 Scrapbook 46: Inter-marriage white & black, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 75 Scrapbook 47: Jazz. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 76 Scrapbook 48: Jazz. Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]



Cmi Box 77 Scrapbook 49: Jewish-Prophet-Others, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 78 Scrapbook 50: Johnson, Jack, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 79 Scrapbook 51: Lafayette Theatre, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 80 Scrapbook 52: Libraries, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 81 Scrapbook 53: Little Theaters. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 82 Scrapbook 54: Little Theaters. Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]



Cmi Box 83 Scrapbook 55: Joe Louis 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 84 Scrapbook 56: Joe Louis 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 85 Scrapbook 57: Joe Louis 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 86 Scrapbook 58: Joe Louis 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 87 Scrapbook 59: Joe Louis 5, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 88 Scrapbook 60: Joe Louis 6, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 89 Scrapbook 61: Joe Louis 7, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 90 Scrapbook 62: Joe Louis 8, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 91 Scrapbook 63: Joe Louis 9, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]



Cmi Box 92 Scrapbook 64: Lynchings and Race Riots. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]



Cmi Box 93 Scrapbook 65: Lynchings and Race Riots. Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]



Cmi Box 94 Scrapbook 66: Florence Mills, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]



Cmi Box 95 Scrapbook 67: Moving Pictures I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]



Cmi Box 96 Scrapbook 68: Moving Pictures I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]



Cmi Box 97 Scrapbook 69: Music, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]



Cmi Box 98 Scrapbook 70a: Music, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]



Cmi Box 99 Scrapbook 70: Music Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]



Cmi Box 100 Scrapbook 71: NAACP Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]



Cmi Box 101 Scrapbook 72: NAACP Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]



Cmi Box 102 Scrapbook 73: Negro and Communism, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]



Cmi Box 103 Scrapbook 74: Negro as a Soldier No. 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]



Cmi Box 104 Scrapbook 75: Negro as a Soldier No. 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]



Cmi Box 105 Scrapbook 76: Negro as a Soldier No. 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]



Cmi Box 106 Scrapbook 77: Negro as a Soldier No. 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]



Cmi Box 107 Scrapbook 78: Negro Business, Labor, and Newspapers, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 108 Scrapbook 79: Negro Columnists. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 109 Scrapbook 80: Negro Columnists. Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 110 Scrapbook 81: Negro Entertainers, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 111 Scrapbook 82: Great Negro Fighters 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 112 Scrapbook 83: Great Negro Fighters 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 113 Scrapbook 84: Great Negro Fighters 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 114 Scrapbook 85: Great Negro Fighters 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]



Cmi Box 115 Scrapbook 86: The Negro in Africa. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]



Cmi Box 116 Scrapbook 87: The Negro in Africa. Part II, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]



Cmi Box 117 Scrapbook 88: Negro in Baseball, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]



Cmi Box 118 Scrapbook 89: Negro in Bondage, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]



Cmi Box 119 Scrapbook 90: Negro in Congress, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]



Cmi Box 120 Scrapbook 91: Negro in Drama. Part 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]



Cmi Box 121 Scrapbook 92: Negro in Drama. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]



Cmi Box 122 Scrapbook 93: Negro in Drama. Part 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]



Cmi Box 123 Scrapbook 94: Negro in Drama. Part 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]



Cmi Box 124 Scrapbook 95: Negro in Politics, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 125 Scrapbook 96: Negro in Politics, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 126 Scrapbook 97: Negro in Stamps, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 127 Scrapbook 98: Negro Musicals on Broadway, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 128 Scrapbook 99: Negro Musicals on Broadway, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 129 Scrapbook 100: Eminent Negro Poets, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 130 Scrapbook 101: Negro Poets. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]



Cmi Box 131 Scrapbook 102: Negro Religions, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 132 Scrapbook 103: Negro Schools, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 133 Scrapbook 104: Negro Schools. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 134 Scrapbook 105: Negro Sports, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 135 Scrapbook 106: Olympic Games, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 136 Scrapbook 107: Opera, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 137 Scrapbook 108: Pickens, William, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 138 Scrapbook 109: Porgy, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]



Cmi Box 139 Scrapbook 110: Protestantantism, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 140 Scrapbook 111: Radio and Television, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 141 Scrapbook 112: Paul Robeson, 2 volumes in 1,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 143 Scrapbook 114: Jackie Robinson, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 144 Scrapbook 115: Sugar Ray Robinson, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 145 Scrapbook 116: Rogers, J. A., 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 146 Scrapbook 117: William Shakespeare, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]



Cmi Box 147 Scrapbook 118: Social Equality. Part I, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]



Cmi Box 148 Scrapbook 119: Social Equality. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]



Cmi Box 149 Scrapbook 120: Social Equality. Part 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]



Cmi Box 150 Scrapbook 121: Social Equality. Part 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]



Cmi Box 151 Scrapbook 122: The South. Part 1, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 152 Scrapbook 123: The South. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 153 Scrapbook 124: The South. Part 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 154 Scrapbook 125: South Schools, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 155 Scrapbook 126: Supreme Court and the Negro, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 156 Scrapbook 127: They Broke Through Discrimination, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 157 Scrapbook 128: Thurman, Wallace, Jean Toomer and Claude McKay, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 158 Scrapbook 129: Urban League, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]



Cmi Box 159 Scrapbook 130: Booker T. Washington, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 160 Scrapbook 131: Booker T. Washington. Part 2, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 161 Scrapbook 132: Booker T. Washington. Part 3, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 162 Scrapbook 133: Ethel Waters, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 163 Mapcase 15-L-1 Scrapbook 134: Wipper, Leigh, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Folded poster separated to Mapcase 15-L-1



Cmi Box 164 Scrapbook 135: White Fighters, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 165 Scrapbook 136: Williams and Walker, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]



Cmi Box 166 Scrapbook 137: Johnson, James W., 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]



Cmi Box 167 Scrapbook 138: Mencken, Henry L., 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]



Cmi Box 168 Scrapbook 139: Miscellaneous, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]



Box 16 Folder 140 & 141 Greeting and Christmas Cards, 2 volumes,



Box 17 Folder 142 Stamp Scrapbook, 1 volume,



Box 18 Folder 143 Tony P. [Gumby's cat], 1 volume,



Cmi Box 169 Scrapbook 144: Poetry, 1 volume,



Cmi Box 170 Scrapbook 145: Odd, Strange and Curious, 1 volume,



Cmi Box 171 Scrapbook 146: Art, 1 volume,



Cmi Box 172 Scrapbook 147: Literature, 1 volume,



Box 18 & 19 Folder 148 & 149 Stewart, James, 2 volumes,



Box 20 Folder 150 Sinatra, Frank, 1 volume,


Box 20 Folder 151 Movie Stars, 1 volume,


Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks

These scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.



Cmi Box 26 Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 1 & 2 in one volume

They were microfilmed and are on microfilm 96-2042.



Box 21 Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 3, 1 Volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 95-2042. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 2"]



Box 22 Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 4, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2042. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 3"]



Box 23 Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 5, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2043. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 4"]



Box 24 Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 6, 1 volume,

[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2043. [The target on the microfilm label this as "volume 5"]