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Great Black Americans : postcards in full color : 24 ready-to-mail postcards, 24 different subjects / [artists, Jesse J. Santos, Lam Triet, Harry Ahn].
LIBRA - Rare E185 .G753 1992 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Melrose Square Black American series special ; v. 1, no. 1.
- Melrose Square Black American series special ; v. 1, no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Pictorial works.
- African Americans.
- Postcards.
- United States.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Postcards--United States--Specimens.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Picture postcards.
- Biographies.
- Specimens.
- Illustrated works.
- 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., ©1992.
- Contents:
- Muhammad Ali
- Scott Joplin
- Richard Wright
- Duke Ellington
- Joe Louis
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Frederick Douglass
- George Washington Carver
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Matthew Henson
- Lena Horne
- Malcolm X
- Louis Armstrong
- Althea Gibson
- Billie Holiday
- Thurgood Marshall
- Nat Turner
- Marcus Garvey
- James Baldwin
- Chester Himes
- Nat King Cole
- Sojourner Truth
- Willie Mays
- Paul Robeson.
- 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 that are featured on the postcards.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0870678450 :
- 9780870678455
- OCLC:
- 429902591
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