Scrapbook

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Walter O. Evans collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family papers (JWJ MSS 240) > Series III: Scrapbooks > Scrapbook


17295864

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 1861-1907, undated
Description
Lewis Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass, compiled this scrapbook. It contains numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence, and ephemera including the a U. S. Senate ticket for the Andrew Johnson impeachment and an autographed letter from Frederick Douglass to Lewis Douglass, dated July 21, 1869. The scrapbook also includes two inscriptions from Lewis Douglass: one reading "To be Given to my nephew Haley G. Douglass" and another reading, "It contains the history of my working in the GPO and several other matters. This book will be given on my death to Haley G. Douglass" dated August 2, 1907, Washington, D.C." The scrapbook is fashioned from an expense ledger for the Central Overland California and Pikes Expense Company, circa 1861.
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

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
JWJ MSS 240
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Container / Volume
Box 9

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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.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
15383862
Object ID (OID)
17295864

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