Desk used by Robert Sengstacke

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Desk, designed in the 1920s or 1930s, and used by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder of the first black newspaper, The Chicago Defender. The desk is wooden, with four drawers on either side and one long drawer in the middle.

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