Wives or Widows?: Museum Object and Cultural History
Wives or Widows?: Date: 1940s. Published by: American Peace Mobilization, American, founded 1940. Written by: Katherine Beecher, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pamphlet made of black ink on yellowing paper. The front cover features a drawing of a woman and her two children walk through a cemetery littered with grave markers. Text under the drawing reads: [Wives or Widows? / By Katherine Beecher]. The interior consists of thirty-one pages of text and drawings. The back cover features a tear-away sign up for American Peace Mobilization.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1940s
- Published by: American Peace Mobilization, American, founded 1940
- Written by: Katherine Beecher, American
- Subject of: American Peace Mobilization, American, founded 1940
- Type: pamphlets
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19 x 14 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Families
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Women
- Topic: World War II
- Object number: 2010.55.40
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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