Scrapbook

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Description

Title: Scrapbook
Creator: From the Collection: Evans, Walter O.
Contributor: From the Collection: Douglass family
From the Collection: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
From the Collection: Douglass, Helen Amelia Loguen
From the Collection: Douglass, Lewis Henry, 1840-1908
From the Collection: Douglass, Frederick, Jr., 1841-1892
From the Collection: Douglass, Charles R. (Charles Remond Douglass), 1844-1920
Published / Created: circa 1866-1907, undated
Description: Lewis Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass, compiled this scrapbook. It contains numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, along with a number of pasted-in pieces of correspondence from people including H. H. Garnet, A. J. Ransier, Charles Sumner, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Martin Delany. The scrapbook also includes an introduction in Lewis Douglass's hand and receipt entries for family expenses throughout the book.
Provenance: Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, and the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2020.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 240

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Container / Volume

Box 10

Access: Public
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Citation: Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.