Scrapbook created by Melvin Van Peebles for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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A scrapbook of clippings and ephemera related to the release film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," personally compiled by Melvin Van Peebles. The scrapbook features a brown, synthetic leather cover with "Melvin Van Peebles" embossed in gold in the bottom right hand corner. The interior pages are filled with press clippings, including advertisements and articles, from print media coverage of the film's release. At the upper left corner of each clipping is a small, white, printed label with the location, date, and title of the publication.

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