Scrapbook created by Melvin Van Peebles for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: Museum Object and Cultural History
Scrapbook created by Melvin Van Peebles for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: Date: ca. 1971. Created by: Melvin Van Peebles, American, 1932 - 2021. Subject of: Melvin Van Peebles, American, 1932 - 2021.
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1971
- Created by: Melvin Van Peebles, American, 1932 - 2021
- Subject of: Melvin Van Peebles, American, 1932 - 2021
- Type: scrapbooks
- Medium: imitation leather with paper and ink on newsprint
- Dimensions: 25 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. (63.5 x 52.1 x 4.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blaxploitation films
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Independent films
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2012.82.8
- 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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