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Great Black Americans : postcards in full color : 24 ready to mail postcards, 24 different subjects / [artists, Jessie L. Santos, Lam Triet, Roxanne Skene, Harry Ahn, Warren Chang, Triet Nguyen.]
LIBRA - Rare E185 .G7438 1993 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Melrose Square Black American series special ; v. 1, no. 2.
- Melrose Square Black American series special ; v. 1. no. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- Postcards.
- United States.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Postcards--United States--Specimens.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Specimens.
- Illustrated works.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 leaves : color portraits ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Melrose Square Publishing Co., 1993.
- Contents:
- Barbara Jordan
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Booker T. Washington
- Gordon Parks
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Bill Cosby
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Jackie Robinson
- Jessie Owens
- Sidney Poitier
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Katherine Dunham
- Harry Belafonte
- Scott Joplin
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Thurgood Marshall
- Frederick Douglass
- George Washington Carver
- Malcolm X
- James Baldwin
- Chester Himes
- Richard Wright.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Each leaf contains 4 postcards with rouletting between them for easy detachment.
- Pages [2] and [3] of cover feature short biographies of 24 African Americans featured on the postcards.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0870678477 :
- OCLC:
- 1252541294
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