Black Print Culture collection > Printed ephemera

Series 6
Printed ephemera, 1921-1993

Scope and Content Note

The items in this series include various cards, stamps, postcards, and other printed ephemera from 1921-1993. Calendars relating to African-American history, business, organizations, and the church (1921-1993) comprise the largest part of the series.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type.

Box Folder Content
31 1 Alphabet cards
31 2 Bookmark, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver
31 3 Calling card, Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown (founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute), undated
31 4 Greeting cards
36 41 "Our Baby Book," Wilco Calendar and Advertising Specialty Company, 1964
31 5 Post cards
31 6 Postage stamps featuring Bessie Coleman
OP103 - Poster, on-air reading of The Autobiography of a Slave, Italian radio (Italy), January 1991
31 7 Trading cards, Famous Quotations Series Presents: Malcolm X, Zone Productions (Berlin, New Jersey), 4 cards, 1993
31 8 Window sticker, Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Washington, D.C.), May 17, [1957]
Calendars: African-American history
OP33 The Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1982
OP67 The Art of Jonathan Green, Tide-mark Press, 1993
31 9 Black American Historical Calendar-Diary, 1985
OP104 - Cambridge African American Heritage Trail (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1993
36 52 Freedom Calendar, Museum of Negro History and Art, 1964
36 53 Freedom Calendar, Museum of Negro History and Art, 1966
OP34 Gallery of Greats, Miller Brewing Company, 10th edition, 1993
34 14 "Historic Black Idahoans," Mamie O. Oliver, Ph.D., 1992
OP68 Homecoming: The Paintings of William H. Johnson, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993
36 48 The House of Knowledge pocket calendar, 1957
36 54 The Negro Heritage Library Calendar, 1965
36 55 Negro Historical Calendar, presented by Schlitz Brewing Company, 1971
31 19 Negro History Calendar, Schenley Distributors, 1955
OP35 Twelve American Women, 1942 [artwork by Lois Maillon Jones]
OP36 We are an African People, Drum and Spear Press, 1970
36 51 We are an African People, Drum and Spear Press, 1970
Calendars: Businesses
OP37 Booker T. Washington Laundry (location unknown), 1945
OP38 Burke's Mortuary (Forrest City, Arkansas), 1957
OP39 C. Lee Davis Funeral Home (Anderson, South Carolina), 1949
31 10 Drexel National Bank (Chicago, Illinois), "Heritage of Black America," 1980
OP40 Grissom Funeral Home (Atlanta, Georgia), 1983
OP41 Harlem Night Club (Lovejoy, Illinois), 1955
OP42 Marshall Funeral Home (Bishopville, South Carolina), 1955
OP43 Metropolitan Funeral System Association (Detroit, Michigan) [calendar pages missing, year unknown]
OP44 Robert M. Day Funeral Home (West Chester, Pennsylvania), 1946
OP45 Shaw's Beauty Shop (St. Louis, Missouri), 1945
OP46 Southern Life Insurance Co. (Baltimore, Maryland), 1954
OP47 Sterile's 1 Hour Cleaning Service (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), 1963
Calendars: Organizations
OP48 Boston Negro Artists' Association, 1968
OP49 Kentucky Negro Educational Association, 1922
OP50 Liberation Support Movement (LSM) Press, Africa 1974 Liberation Calendar, 1973
OP51 Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., 1986
36 49 Frederick Douglass Educational Center, 1953
Calendars: Religious
OP52 Ebenezer AME Church (location unknown), 1946
OP53 First Baptist Church (Morganton, North Carolina), Rev. S.E. Duncan, 1946
OP54 Mother Bethel AME Zion Church (New York, New York), 1921
OP55 Rose Chapel Baptist Church (Lynchburg, Virginia, 1925
36 50 Unitarian Universalist calendar advertisement, 1969
Calendar: Samples
OP56 African American children and mother listening to radio, 1926
OP57 Carver, George Washington, 1944
OP58 Washington, Booker T., undated
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