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Page from Gail Anderson's sketchbook

ca. 1976

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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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.

This is a page from Gail Anderson’s childhood sketchbook. It is a single rectangular page torn from a sketchbook. It is filled from margin to margin with black and white hand drawn cartoons, figures and text in a variety of graphics and hand-lettered fonts. The top of the sheet has tabs from where the page was torn out of its notebook. In the bottom right corner is small text that reads “This was / done by / gail.” The name ‘gail’ is done in lowercase but bolded letters. The entire text is double outlined by two thin black lines. The back of the sheet is blank and has several pieces of clear tape adhering to it.

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Catalog reference: 2020.11.16

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