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Guest register used by Shearer Cottage

ca. 1960

Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, 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.

A hardcover 100-page book with a leatherized black cover. On the front cover, the title is centered and embossed in gold text: GUEST / REGISTER. There is no print on the spine or verso. The book contains handwritten registers of guests who stayed at the Shearer Cottage in Martha's Vineyard from 1963 - 1973.

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Catalog reference: 2013.209.3

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