(RACE RELATIONS) Three Enormous Scrapbooks depicting African

Sale 2137 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 3,120

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

AN EXTRAORDINARY SET OF SCRAPBOOKS (RACE RELATIONS.) Three Enormous Scrapbooks, depicting African American life and culture, with typescripts, clippings, manuscript notations, etc. Hundreds of pages, neatly arranged. Tall folio, original pictorial stiff wrappers. should be seen. Ann Arbor, MI, 1939-1944

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Three scrapbooks assembled by Viehe Rumsey, an African American. The 1939 volume begins on page 767. Since each volume averages 100 pages, we can assume that Mr. Rumsey began keeping these scrap books in 1932. The present volumes cover Negro life in America during the period just prior to WWII. The person responsible for these volumes was obviously well educated. The clippings include various well known black periodicals such as the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender as well as Life Magazine, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Rumsey has typed out the texts from various articles and arranged them with the illustrations. Additionally, he has written his astute and very wry comments alongside the articles. We could find nothing about the author of these scrapbooks.