Scrapbook compiled by Louise Alexander Gunn: Museum Object and Cultural History
Scrapbook compiled by Louise Alexander Gunn: Date: 1920s - 1950s. Created by: Louise Alexander Gunn, American. Subject of: Valaida Snow, American, 1904 - 1956.
The object in the museum catalogue
Scrapbook loosely bound and held together by tape with a small color postcard of a young girl wearing a pink ruffled dress and holding two sunflowers with the words "I is just your little blackbird" adhered to the front. The scrapbook created by Louise Jackson Gunn contains newspaper clippings, small black-and-white photographs and other ephemera. The scrapbook primarily documents the career and social life of Gunn, a beauty queen, fashion model, actress and chorus girl. Gunn was active in multiple community organizations, women's clubs, and church groups. Many photographs document her family life, including her son "Billy" (actor and playwright Bill Gunn). Also included are photographs and clippings about fellow vaudeville performers, including Valaida Snow, Texas Guinan, and Wealthy Davis.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1920s - 1950s
- Created by: Louise Alexander Gunn, American
- Subject of: Valaida Snow, American, 1904 - 1956
- Subject of: Texas Guinan, American, 1884 - 1933
- Subject of: Wealthy Davis, American
- Subject of: Marian Anderson, American, 1897 - 1993
- Type: scrapbooks
- Medium: newsprint, ink on photographic paper, cardboard, metal
- Dimensions: 12 x 8 1/2 x 1 in. (30.5 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm)
- Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Amusements
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Beauty culture
- Topic: Christianity
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Entertainers
- Object number: 2012.46.65.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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