Wedding scrapbook compiled by Lollaretta Pemberton: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a "Wedding Memories" scrapbook made by Lollaretta Pemberton for her wedding to Grover Allen on July 10, 1939. The scrapbook has a white leather cover with stylized gold-leaf leaves and the words "Wedding Memories" embossed across the front. Inside Lollaretta included her wedding invitation, a newspaper clipping of her dream wedding dress, and lists of guests and their gifts.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1939
• Manufactured by: C.R. Gibson and Company, American, founded 1870
• Subject of: Lollaretta Pemberton Allen, American, 1895 - 1979
• Subject of: Grover Joseph Allen, American, 1889 - 1984
• Type: scrapbooks
• Medium: leather, ink on paper, newsprint and pressure-sensitive tape
• Dimensions: Closed: 10 3/4 × 8 1/8 × 3/8 in. (27.3 × 20.6 × 1 cm)
• Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Marriage customs and rites
• Object number: 2012.30.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Rita C. Organ and Pemberton Family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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