Address book made from a deck of cards by Herman Wallace while incarcerated: Museum Object and Cultural History
Address book made from a deck of cards by Herman Wallace while incarcerated: Date: after 1972. Created by: Herman Wallace, American, 1941 - 2013. Subject of: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835.
The object in the museum catalogue
A deck of red paper playing cards repurposed into an address book by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The cards have been cut in half and housed in a cream-colored hand-stitched paper pouch. Each card has handwritten information for one of Wallace's contacts. The outermost card on one side has an inscription “Fam” in blue ink.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: after 1972
- Created by: Herman Wallace, American, 1941 - 2013
- Subject of: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835
- Type: playing cards
- Type: address books
- Type: make-dos
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product) and plastic
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 11/16 × 1 15/16 × 5/8 in. (6.8 × 5 × 1.6 cm)
- Place used: Angola, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Communication
- Topic: Communities
- Topic: Men
- Topic: Prisons
- Object number: A2018.36.1.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maria Hinds
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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