Custom folio case for Hale Woodruff linocuts

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

A custom designed, dark blue, cloth folio for Hale Woodruff's eight-piece linocut series, Selections from the Atlanta Period, 1931-1946. On the top flap of the front of the square tri-folding hardback is a silver color imprint reading, “HALE / WOODRUFF”, with a thin silver rectangular border. A tiny white label in the top left corner of the folio’s flap has an inscription of the edition number, “78/300”. The interior is white hard paper and there are two narrow inward folding side flaps, and one wide bottom flap with two fitting slots. There are no markings on the reverse of the folio.

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