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Julian Black Scrapbooks of Joe Louis, 1935-1944
- Notes
- Joe Louis's manager, Julian Black, assembled these scrapbooks. Louis was heavyweight boxing champion of the world, 1937-1949. John Roxborough had encouraged Louis all along his career and became his manager when Joe turned pro. Roxborough hired Jack Blackburn, a boxer himself, to coach and train the young Louis, and teamed up with Julian Black of Chicago in a business venture which carried over into the management of Joe Louis. In his thirty-sixth professional fight, June 22, 1937, Louis won the heavyweight crown at 23 by defeating James J. Braddock in Chicago in eight rounds. He defended his title twenty times before World War II interrupted his career. He defended his title more times than any man in history
- Summary
- Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings from all over America, 1935-1941, and articles from "Ring" magazine. Collection documents most Joe Louis fights of the period. Clippings identified by source, date, and author, artist, or photographer; include full-length articles and brief sketches, cartoons, photographs, and records and statistics on boxers. While the scrapbooks are about the Louis fights, there is much material on others connected with boxing in this period--including all of Louis's opponents, trainer, managers, promoter, Mike Jacobs; and most of the sports reporters and writers of the time. Many important figures in boxing of this period are represented in these volumes
- Two sets of scrapbooks with different numbering systems: Series 1, Vols. 1-92; and Series 2, Vols. 17-20, 52-58, 61-63, and 71 & 72. Some volumes from the two sets contain the same information. For example, Louis Vol. 17 is similar to Black Vol. 27
- Cite as
- Julian Black Scrapbooks of Joe Louis, 1935-1944. Gift of Mrs. Julian Black
- Date
- 1935
- 1935-1944
- 1930-1950
- 20th century
- collector
- Black, Julian (boxing manager)
- donor
- Black, Julian Mrs
- publisher
- Chadwyck-Healey
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Subject
- Roxborough, John
- Louis, Joe 1914-1981
- Jacobs, Mike
- Local number
- 1980.0683 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Robert L. Shurr Script and Scrapbook for the Motion Picture "George Washington Carver", 1939
- Notes
- The film, "George Washington Carver", was an independent production of Bryant Productions, directed by Ben Parker and written by Robert L. Shurr. Dr. Carver appeared in the film. It was filmed with archaic equipment on a shoestring budget and was released by RKO in 1940. It was greeted with apathy. Copies of it seem to have disappeared
- Summary
- Original screenplay on the early life of George Washington Carver written in 1939 by Robert L. Shurr and Ben Parker, "Devil Cotton, or Dr. George Washington Carver." The rest of the collection is a scrapbook containing press releases, press items, and stills from the film
- Cite as
- Robert L. Shurr Script and Scrapbook for the Motion Picture "George Washington Carver", 1939, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1939
- 1939-1968
- 1930-1940
- 1900-1950
- 1930-1950
- author
- Shurr, Robert L (scriptwriter)
- Parker, Ben (scriptwriter)
- Subject
- Carver, George Washington 1864?-1943
- RKO Pictures
- Tuskegee Institute
- Local number
- 1997.3076 (NMAH Acc. )
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Community Life Afro-American Audio-Visual Collection, 1974-1976
- Summary
- Videotapes of interviews with six Southern Black folk artists (listed below), five filmstrips, and one audiotape. The videotaping project was funded by the South Carolina Commission for the Arts. Some tapes include craft demonstrations (crafts listed below)
- Cite as
- Community Life Afro-American Audio-Visual Collection, 1974-1976, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1974
- 1974-1976
- 1970-1980
- 1970-1990
- funding organization
- South Carolina Commission for the Arts
- collector
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- interviewee
- Simmons, Philip 1912-
- Rowe, Nellie Mae 1900-1982
- Nelson, "Scrape"
- Bennett, Mary Jane
- Moultrie, Alvina
- Smith, Irene
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Famous Amos Collection, 1975-1996
- Notes
- After serving in the Army, Wally Amos went into entertainment management, then created his own business and lost it, then became a motivational speaker
- Summary
- The Famous Amos Collection consists primarily of business records, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting the career of Wally Famous Amos and the Famous Amos chocolate chip cookie. The bulk of the collection consists of newspaper clippings
- Cite as
- Famous Amos Collection, 1975-1996, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1975
- 1975-1996
- 1970-1990
- 1980-2000
- collector
- Amos, Wally
- donor
- Amos, Christine
- creator
- Famous Amos Cookie Company
- Subject
- Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie Company
- Local number
- 2000.8005b (NMAH Acc.)
- 1980.0886 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Emmett McBain Afro-American Advertising Poster Collection, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
- Notes
- McBain has been an art supervisor for J. W. Thompson in Detroit, a creative consultant for Soft Sheen Products, and co-founder of Burrell McBain Advertising in Chicago. He donated these illustrations as examples of his creative work in 1985
- Summary
- Examples of advertisements by McBain for McDonald's, Marlboro, and a Chicago arts festival, "Black Folk Us"
- Cite as
- Emmett McBain Afro-American Advertising Poster Collection, 1973-1976, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1973
- 1973-1976
- 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
- 1970-1980
- 1960-1980
- 1950-2000
- creator
- McBain, Emmett
- Subject
- McDonald's Corporation
- Burrell McBain Advertising (Chicago, Ill.)
- Local number
- 1986.3012 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album, 1935-1940
- Notes
- Album forms a record of vacation travel by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Stauffer, 1935-1940. Their travels were occasioned by Mr. Stauffer's position as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars police post of Detroit, Michigan, and the need to attend V.F.W. meetings around the country. Mrs. Stauffer was president of the V.F.W. auxiliary. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Stern met the Stauffers in Oscoda, Michigan, and both families eventually relocated in Tucson, Arizona
- Summary
- 109 loose pages, bearing 134 black-and-white silver gelatin photoprints, postcards, and a photomechanical reproduction clipped from a publication with a 1939 World's Fair ticket stub. Includes photographs taken in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota with the Mt. Rushmore portraits under construction, Wyoming, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks, etc.; also snapshots of celebrities Bill Robinson and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson at a Los Angeles barbecue
- Cite as
- Clyde W. Stauffer Family Photograph Album, 1935-1940, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1935
- 1935-1940
- 1930-1940
- 20th century
- 1930-1940 photographs
- 1900-1950
- collector
- Stauffer, Clyde Weaver (policeman) 1899-1984
- Stauffer Mrs. Clyde Weaver
- Subject
- Anderson, Eddie "Rochester"
- Robinson, Bill 1878-1949
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
- New York World's Fair (1939-1940)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Scrapbook of Comics, ca. 1889-1900
- Summary
- Scrapbooks of comics depicting practical jokes, accidents, and a number of amusing and sometimes violent real-life situations. Inscription inside the front cover: "To Darling Effie from Does"(?). These comics probably satirize events of the time. The cartoons were produced in publications such as "Fliegende Blatter," "Puck," "Judge," "Life," "Pictorial Weeklies," and the "Sydney Bulletin." Several of the comics refer to Surrey and the "London Express" and appear to be English in origin. A few others have, perhaps, German and French origins
- Cite as
- Scrapbook of Comics, ca. 1889-1900, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C
- Date
- 1889
- 1900
- ca 1889-1900
- 1880-1900
- 1890-1900
- 19th century
- collector
- Graphic Arts, Division of (NMAH, SI)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Sproul Observatory Astronomers Photoprints, 1916-1975
- Notes
- No background information supplied by donor. Apparently these photographs were accumulated in the files of the Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College, over a period of years. They form a visual record of astronomers and attendees at astronomical meetings from 1916 to 1975
- Summary
- 17 photoprints and 1 key drawing identifying figures depicted in 1 group photograph. Most of the pictures are group portraits of participants at American Astronomical Society and I.A.U. [International Astronomical Union?] meetings, although there are also several other group photographs taken at Johns Hopkins University and Swarthmore College, and an autographed photo of "Roy W. Delaplaine at 24-inch refractor [telescope]..."
- Cite as
- Sproul Observatory Astronomers Photoprints, 1917-1975, AC NMAH Collection No. 251
- Date
- 1916
- 1916-1975
- 20th century
- collector
- Swarthmore College Sproul Observatory Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
- Creator
- Gaustad, John E. Director, Sproul Observatory
- collector
- Physical Sciences, Division of (NMAH, Smithsonian Institution)
- Subject
- Delaplaine, Roy W. astronomer
- Columbia University
- subject
- Swarthmore College Sproul Observatory Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1916
- Subject
- American Astronomical Society 1916-1975
- Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire
- Yerkes Observatory Williams Bay, Wisconsin
- Cincinnati Observatory Cincinnati, Ohio
- Northwestern University Dearborn Observatory Evanston, Illinois
- Local number
- 1986.3189 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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Susie Paige Afro-American Greeting Card Collection, 1900-1984
- Notes
- Susie Paige, a Philadelphia bookseller, collected these materials over three decades. She sold them to the National Museum of American History in 1985. The collection is notable for the wide range of African American personalities and events depicted
- Summary
- 31 greeting cards, 76 postcards, and other items, such as political literature, a Martin Luther King greeting card, and a high school diploma. All of the material has images or information concerning African Americans. The bulk of the material was produced after 1960, but some events and personalities portrayed date back to the turn of the century
- Cite as
- Susie Paige Afro-American Greeting Card Collection, 1900-1984, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1960
- 1900-1984
- collector
- Paige, Susie (bookseller)
- Subject
- King, Martin Luther Jr. 1929-1968
- Corey, Russell C
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
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David Hoffman/Boaz Postcard Collection, 1900-1933
- Notes
- David Hoffman, Iris Hoffman, and Joyce Boaz of Maine collected these materials over three decades
- Summary
- 932 postcards with images of Afro-Americans, mostly 1900s-1933. Most manufactured in the United States; others from England, South Africa, and the West Indies. The collection is important because of the significance of postcards as a vehicle of communication during the period collected (1900-1933). Contains a large number of non-stereotyped images of African-American life
- Cite as
- David Hoffman/Boaz Postcard Collection,1900-1933, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1900
- 1900-1933
- 20th century
- 1900-1950
- donor
- Hoffman, David
- collector
- Boaz, Joyce
- donor
- Hoffman, Iris
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH