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When Malindy Sings

1903

Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

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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 second edition, hardcover, octavo book of When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar with black and white photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. The book is covered in brown cloth binding with gilt title on front and spine. The front cover has a decorative design of gold trellis with green vines and red flowers in an art nouveau style design. Light green decorative floral borders by Margaret Armstrong surround the photographs and text on each interior page of the book. There are 144 pages.

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Catalog reference: 2014.37.54.1

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