Black Cloth Scrapbook
Maker
Diane Ellis
Datecirca 1948
MediumCotton, Paper.
Dimensions12 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1/2 in. (31.8 x 26.7 x 1.3 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2008.66.106
DescriptionThe handmade cloth book has letters glued on and clippings inside. Pages have pinked edges. The pictures show 1948 family life and Christmas. It begins with (occupied) Japanese children and American children with mothers, 2 pages of animals, Miss Ivory 1948, 1948 Frasier car, 2 pages of wild birds, Peter Panda cartoons, Christmas cards and pictures, Rinso Suds Ad, "grandma" baking pie, carving pumpkins and harvesting, fathers with children and religious activities, alphabet with pictures for letters, 4 pages of food, shoes, children, Santa, Nescafe ad, 2 pages of Christmas, and a Goya portrait on back cover.Status
Not on view
December 1986
