Scrapbook page about the Wiley College Debate Team: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An original page from Henrietta Bell Wells scrapbook from her time on the Debate team at Wiley College. The original scrapbook page is a piece of paper with photographs adhered to one side and dried flowers on the other side. The photograph side has six photographs, each captioned in black ink handwriting, on the sides or below the image. There are four black-and-white rectangular portrait photographs and two cut sepia photographs. The other side has two dried flowers with captions in black ink handwriting. The page is heavily torn along all of the edges and corners of page.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1929-1930
• Created by: Henrietta Bell Wells, American, 1912 - 2008
• Subject of: Wiley College, American, founded 1873
• Subject of: J Edward Hines, American
• Subject of: Cora Mary Sutton, American
• Subject of: Henry Heights, American
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Type: scrapbooks
• Medium: ink, silver and gelatin on photographic paper and organic material on paper with adhesive
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 6 1/2 in. (27.9 × 16.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Oratory
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Sororities
• Topic: Women's organizations
• Object number: 2015.43.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Edward L. Cox
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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