Scrapbook

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Description

Title
Scrapbook
Contributor
Boy Scouts of America
Jackson, Curtis Granville
Published / Created
1937-1942
Abstract

Collection consists of a scrapbook and other papers. The scrapbook, "My Scouting History," contains autograph and typescript entries, photographs, merit badges and awards, correspondence, and printed ephemera documenting Jackson's membership in an African-American boy scout troop, Troop 42 of Camden, New Jersey from 1937 to 1943. Other papers include one letter, photographs, scarves, and printed material, dating from 1946 to 1965, relating chiefly to Jackson's involvement in Troop 43 of the Boy Scouts of America.

Folder 1 of 2 completely digitized.

Description
Purchased from Swann Galleries on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
GEN MSS 753
Collection Title
Curtis Granville Jackson scrapbook and papers relating to the Boy Scouts
Collection / Other Creator
Jackson, Curtis Granville
Collection Date
1937-1965
Container / Volume
Box 1 | 1-2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Photographic prints
Sketches
Typescripts
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Camden (N.J.)
Camden County (N.J.)
Subject (Name)
Boy Scouts of America
Jackson, Curtis Granville
Subject (Topic)
African Americans--New Jersey--Camden
Boy Scouts of America--African American membership
Boy Scouts--New Jersey--Camden

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Rights
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Citation
Curtis Granville Jackson Scrapbook and Papers Relating to the Boy Scouts. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9578725
Object ID (OID)
17351471

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