L. S. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, 1800-1981

L. S. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana, 1800-1981

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#0527
Bib ID:
4078845 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
90 linear feet (Boxes A-B; Boxes 1-177 (includes CMI Boxes numbered consecutively), Flat box 189, one oversized folder in a mapcase (15-L-1))
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

This collection is located on-site.

Description

Summary

A collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents.

Most of the material is mounted in 161 scrapbooks or groups of folio leaves. The clippings are from both general and specialized newspapers and magazines ranging in date from 1850 to 1960, however the majority of the material falls between 1910 and 1950. Whole volumes are devoted to major figures such as Joe Louis, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker. Four scrapbooks contain signatures, signed photographs, and letters from a great variety of individuals. Among the unnumbered volumes of personal scrapbooks there are six volumes labeled "Gumby's Autobiography" containing personal letters, calling cards, photographs, post cards, and other printed material relating to Gumby's life.

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. by subject or category.

Unmounted clippings are arranged: by subject in 14 file boxes.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection has no restrictions.

This collection is located on-site.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); L. S. Alexander Gumby collection of Negroiana; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Online exhibit

"The Unwritten History": Alexander Gumby's African America. Columbia University Libraries.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Alternate Form Available

Microfilm available for Part I: Letters, manuscripts, documents (2 boxes); scrapbooks 1-139; Autobiography In Scrapbooks Vols 1-6. Specific microfilm reels are noted in the container list.

Microfilm was digitized in 2021 and posted to the Digital Libraries Collection (DLC) website on 2024. Access onsite or via UNI login. Invididual links are found in the container list. All digitized microfilm can be found in the DLC: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog and searching for the string "Scrapbook compiled by Alexander Gumby." Each digitized microfilm also has a corresponding CLIO record.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gumby collected this material during the first half of the 20th century. He referred to the collection as Negroiana, and the title is maintained here.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gumby, L. S. Alexander. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1951. Accession number--M-51.

Scott Joplin items: Source of acquisition--Solomon, Joseph. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1982. Accession number--M-1982.

Gift of L.S.A. Gumby, 1951-1960.

Gift of Joseph Solomon, 1982.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/1989.

Scott Joplin items Processed BRC 02/--/1982.

Materials from accession 435 (2002) processed into CMI boxes 173-176, and manuscript box 177. kws 2024-04-19

Revision Description

2010-02-10 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2024-04-19 Materials from accession 2011-2012-M051 added to series I and III. kws

Biographical Note

Born Feb. 1, 1885, in Maryland, Gumby was the son of Evangelist Levi Thomas and Louisa Morris Gumby. In 1901, he and his sister were sent to live with their grandparents and there the young man who loved reading made his first scrapbook at the age of 16 with some old wallpaper and a paste of flour and water. Gumby's first clippings were of President McKinley's assassination in Sept. 1901.

He spent the next year at Dover State College in Delaware studying law to fulfill his grandmother's dream for him. But he became impatient and felt his skills were inadequate. He packed his scrapbooks and eventually headed to New York City, where he immediately fell in love with the place that would be his home until his death almost 60 years later.

"At once I became a New Yorker in spirit and principle for I found here more freedom of action than I had ever known before," Gumby wrote in his 1951 essay, "The Adventures of My Scrapbook," for the Columbia Library World. Gumby became an enthusiastic fan of theatre and art and "formed the habit" of collecting all the playbills, pictures, and clippings he could find of his favorites.

During those early years in New York, Gumby wrote that it seemed "a willingness to change jobs was a mark of a youth's ambition." A friend told him of a job as a waiter at Columbia and there he began his relationships with a number of professors and students. He also clipped "everything I could find" about popular professors and President Nicholas Murry Butler.

By 1910, he organized his clippings and began to take his role more seriously. Gumby studied other collections in libraries across the U.S. and Canada, and also began collecting rare book editions and manuscripts with the help of his wealthy friend who was a partner in a Wall Street firm. And he met with other collectors like Arturo Schomburg.

At the same time, Gumby took a variety of other jobs to help sustain his passion. He became, for instance, the personal butler of a wealthy banker in the same area now known as Riverdale's Wave Hill. Gumby also was a founding member of the Southern Utopia Fraternity, a group organized for "young men from the South who came to New York seeking a larger experience."

Soon he became better known more for his collection of rare editions than for his scrapbooks and he opened the Gumby Book Studio at 2144 Fifth Avenue between 131st and 132nd Streets in Harlem. The historian lined his studio with books and continued clipping and pasting historic documents in his scrapbooks. Gumby's Studio grew so popular that it became a gathering place for many artists, actors, musicians, intellectuals, gays and lesbians of the Harlem Renaissance. Gumby called it the first "unpremeditated interracial movement in Harlem."

Meanwhile, Gumby's reputation as "The Count" and "Mr. Scrapbook" also continued to grow and he was asked to exhibit his collections in cities along the East Coast, earning him a listing in the 1922 edition of the Private Book Collectors' Who's Who. But by the Crash of 1929, Gumby's wealthy friend lost millions and the Studio lost support of its regulars. The collapse took such a toll on Gumby that he was forced to give up the Studio, sell many of his editions, and store his scrapbooks in the cellar of an acquaintance's house.

"The loss of my studio and fatigue from overwork," he wrote, sent Gumby first to Riverside Hospital in the Bronx and then to Randall's Island Hospital where he spent the next four years. In both hospitals, though, he continued collecting newspaper articles (some about his own hospitalization), photographs of visiting friends, and get well cards, all of which are included in his six autobiographical scrapbooks.

When he was released in 1934, Gumby set about retrieving his collections and restoring their condition, all the time adding more and more clippings, autographs and other documents. By 1950 he gave his collection to Columbia and in 1951, the University hired him for eight months to organize the materials.

Alexander Gumby considered his "History of the Negro in Scrapbook" more than a hobby. He wrote that, "The collection could well be called 'The Unwritten History.'" Gumby concentrated on African American history primarily because, "There are so many surprising and startling historical events pertaining to, or relating to the American Negro that are not recorded in the Standard Histories, dictionaries and school text-books, or if so, they are shaded so that they sound like a Ripley's 'Believe It or Not.' "

From "Black History Remains Alive in Alexander Gumby's Popular Scrapbooks" By Jo Kadlecek. Columbia News. Published: Feb 18, 2002.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Autographs (manuscripts)
Bibliographies
Brochures
Galley proofs
Greeting cards
Notebooks
Photographs
Poems
Postcards
Programs (documents)
Releases
Scores (documents for music)
Sound recordings
Visiting cards
Name
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
Pickens, William, 1881-1954
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Smith, Albert A. (Albert Alexander), 1896-1940
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Place
United States -- History
United States -- Social conditions
United States -- Social life and customs
Subject
African American athletes
African American scientists
African American teachers
African American women
African Americans
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Social conditions
African Americans in the performing arts
Scrapbooks
Slavery -- United States

Series I: Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Art

Subseries I.1: Letters, Manuscripts, and Documents

Box A

Cataloged letters and manuscripts: Slavery documents -- Miscellaneous uncalaloged letters -- Holograph drafts and final typescripts of Gumby's own letters, 2 boxes,


[Available on microfilm # 96-2040 and 96-2041]

Box B

Cataloged letters and manuscripts: Slavery documents -- Miscellaneous uncalaloged letters -- Holograph drafts and final typescripts of Gumby's own letters, 2 boxes,


[Available on microfilm # 96-2040 and 96-2041]

Cmi Box 173

Scrapbook: Letters, 1909-1941

Material from accession 435 (2002)

Cmi Box 174

Scrapbook: Letters, 1941-1959

Material from accession 435 (2002)

Box 177 Folder 1

Sonnets

Material from accession 435 (2002)

Box 177 Folder 2

Gumby to Nugent

Material from accession 435 (2002)

Box 177 Folder 3

Letters to Gumby

Material from accession 435 (2002)

Subseries I.2: Art

Flatbox 189

Argudin, P. Portrait of Alexander Gumby, [New York], 1934, 22 x 19 inches Pastel, 1 folder,

Box 19

Artist's Pallette, signed by numerous friends, 1934-1938

Series II: Autographs and Photographs

Cmi Box 27

Scrapbook: Autographs, Letters, Manuscripts: Volume 1

Cmi Box 28

Scrapbook: Autographs, Letters, Manuscripts: Volume 2

[Not on Microfilm.]

Cmi Box 29

Scrapbook: Autographs, Letters, Manuscripts: Volume 3

[Not on Microfilm.]

Cmi Box 30

Scrapbook: Autographs, Letters, Manuscripts: Volume 4

[Not on Microfilm.]

Series III: Scrapbooks

Almost all of these scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.

Numbered Scrapbooks

Almost all of these scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.

Cmi Box 31

Scrapbook 1: Adventures, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 32

Scrapbook 2: Amalgamation of races: part I, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 33

Scrapbook 3: Amalgamation of races: part II, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 34

Scrapbook 4: Art, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 35

Scrapbook 5: Art, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 36

Scrapbook 6: Art, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 1.]

Cmi Box 37

Scrapbook 7: Art, Negro, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]

Cmi Box 38

Scrapbook 8: Baker, Josephine, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.

Cmi Box 39

Scrapbook 9: Basketball, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]

Cmi Box 40

Scrapbook 10: Book reviews. Part I, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]

Cmi Box 41

Scrapbook 11: Book reviews. Part II, 1 volume


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2.]

Cmi Box 42

Scrapbook 12: Breaking the bonds of slavery


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2 & 3.]

Cmi Box 43

Scrapbook 13: Breaking the bonds of slavery


[Available on Microfilm Reel 2 & 3.]

Cmi Box 44

Scrapbook 14: Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]

Cmi Box 45

Scrapbook 15: Dr. George Washington Carver, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]

Cmi Box 46

Scrapbook 16: Catholics, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]

Cmi Box 47

Scrapbook 17: Classic art, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 3.]

Cmi Box 48

Scrapbook 18: Ezzard Charles and Joe Woolcott, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]

Cmi Box 49

Scrapbook 19: Cole & Johnson and Will Marion Cook, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]

Cmi Box 50

Scrapbook 20: Columbia University, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]

Cmi Box 51

Scrapbook 21: Poet Countee Cullen, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 4.]

Cmi Box 52

Scrapbook 22: Dancers Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]

Cmi Box 53

Scrapbook 23: Dancers Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]

Cmi Box 54

Scrapbook 24: Frederick Douglass, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]

Cmi Box 55

Scrapbook 25: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 5.]

Cmi Box 56

Scrapbook 26: Paul Laurence Dunbar Poet, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 6.]

Cmi Box 57

Scrapbook 27: Education North and South, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 6.]

Cmi Box 58

Scrapbook 28: Ethiopia Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reels 6 and 7.]

Cmi Box 59

Scrapbook 29: Ethiopian and Italian War Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reels 6 and 7.]

Cmi Box 60

Scrapbook 30: Father Divine, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 7.]

Cmi Box 61

Scrapbook 31: Football, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]

Cmi Box 62

Scrapbook 32: Marcus Garvy, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]

Cmi Box 63

Scrapbook 33: Green Pastures, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]

Cmi Box 64

Scrapbook 34: Greenwich Village, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 8.]

Cmi Box 65

Scrapbook 35: Gumby's Scrapbook vol. 100. The Gumby Studio No. 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]

Cmi Box 66

Scrapbook 36: Gumby's Scrapbook vol. 101. The Gumby Studio No. 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]

Box 15 Folder 37

Gumby Book Studio: Quarterly, 1 volume, Galley Proofs,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]

Box 15 Folder 38

Gumby Book Studio: Guest Book, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]

Cmi Box 67

Scrapbook 39: Haiti, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 9]

Cmi Box 68

Scrapbook 40: Harlem - Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 10.]

Cmi Box 69

Scrapbook 41: Harlem - Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 10.]

Cmi Box 70

Scrapbook 42: Roland Hayes and Marion Anderson, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 71

Scrapbook 43: Langston Hughes: Poet, author and paly-writer, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 72

Scrapbook 44: Morris [Maurioce] the artists' model, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 73

Scrapbook 45: Inter-marriage of negros and whites, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 74

Scrapbook 46: Inter-marriage white & black, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 75

Scrapbook 47: Jazz. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 76

Scrapbook 48: Jazz. Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 11.]

Cmi Box 77

Scrapbook 49: Jewish-Prophet-Others, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 78

Scrapbook 50: Johnson, Jack, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 79

Scrapbook 51: Lafayette Theatre, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 80

Scrapbook 52: Libraries, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 81

Scrapbook 53: Little Theaters. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 82

Scrapbook 54: Little Theaters. Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12.]

Cmi Box 83

Scrapbook 55: Joe Louis 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 84

Scrapbook 56: Joe Louis 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 85

Scrapbook 57: Joe Louis 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 86

Scrapbook 58: Joe Louis 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 87

Scrapbook 59: Joe Louis 5, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 88

Scrapbook 60: Joe Louis 6, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 89

Scrapbook 61: Joe Louis 7, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 90

Scrapbook 62: Joe Louis 8, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 91

Scrapbook 63: Joe Louis 9, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 12 & 13.]

Cmi Box 92

Scrapbook 64: Lynchings and Race Riots. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]

Cmi Box 93

Scrapbook 65: Lynchings and Race Riots. Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]

Cmi Box 94

Scrapbook 66: Florence Mills, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]

Cmi Box 95

Scrapbook 67: Moving Pictures I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]

Cmi Box 96

Scrapbook 68: Moving Pictures I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13.]

Cmi Box 97

Scrapbook 69: Music, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]

Cmi Box 98

Scrapbook 70a: Music, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]

Cmi Box 99

Scrapbook 70: Music Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 13 & 14.]

Cmi Box 100

Scrapbook 71: NAACP Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]

Cmi Box 101

Scrapbook 72: NAACP Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]

Cmi Box 102

Scrapbook 73: Negro and Communism, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14.]

Cmi Box 103

Scrapbook 74: Negro as a Soldier No. 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]

Cmi Box 104

Scrapbook 75: Negro as a Soldier No. 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]

Cmi Box 105

Scrapbook 76: Negro as a Soldier No. 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]

Cmi Box 106

Scrapbook 77: Negro as a Soldier No. 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 14 & 15.]

Cmi Box 107

Scrapbook 78: Negro Business, Labor, and Newspapers, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 108

Scrapbook 79: Negro Columnists. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 109

Scrapbook 80: Negro Columnists. Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 110

Scrapbook 81: Negro Entertainers, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 111

Scrapbook 82: Great Negro Fighters 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 112

Scrapbook 83: Great Negro Fighters 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 113

Scrapbook 84: Great Negro Fighters 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 114

Scrapbook 85: Great Negro Fighters 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 15.]

Cmi Box 115

Scrapbook 86: The Negro in Africa. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]

Cmi Box 116

Scrapbook 87: The Negro in Africa. Part II, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]

Cmi Box 117

Scrapbook 88: Negro in Baseball, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]

Cmi Box 118

Scrapbook 89: Negro in Bondage, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]

Cmi Box 119

Scrapbook 90: Negro in Congress, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16.]

Cmi Box 120

Scrapbook 91: Negro in Drama. Part 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]

Cmi Box 121

Scrapbook 92: Negro in Drama. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]

Cmi Box 122

Scrapbook 93: Negro in Drama. Part 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]

Cmi Box 123

Scrapbook 94: Negro in Drama. Part 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 16 & 17.]

Cmi Box 124

Scrapbook 95: Negro in Politics, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 125

Scrapbook 96: Negro in Politics, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 126

Scrapbook 97: Negro in Stamps, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 127

Scrapbook 98: Negro Musicals on Broadway, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 128

Scrapbook 99: Negro Musicals on Broadway, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 129

Scrapbook 100: Eminent Negro Poets, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 130

Scrapbook 101: Negro Poets. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 17.]

Cmi Box 131

Scrapbook 102: Negro Religions, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 132

Scrapbook 103: Negro Schools, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 133

Scrapbook 104: Negro Schools. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 134

Scrapbook 105: Negro Sports, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 135

Scrapbook 106: Olympic Games, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 136

Scrapbook 107: Opera, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 137

Scrapbook 108: Pickens, William, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 138

Scrapbook 109: Porgy, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 18.]

Cmi Box 139

Scrapbook 110: Protestantantism, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 140

Scrapbook 111: Radio and Television, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 141

Scrapbook 112: Paul Robeson, 2 volumes in 1,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 143

Scrapbook 114: Jackie Robinson, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 144

Scrapbook 115: Sugar Ray Robinson, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 145

Scrapbook 116: Rogers, J. A., 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 146

Scrapbook 117: William Shakespeare, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19.]

Cmi Box 147

Scrapbook 118: Social Equality. Part I, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]

Cmi Box 148

Scrapbook 119: Social Equality. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]

Cmi Box 149

Scrapbook 120: Social Equality. Part 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]

Cmi Box 150

Scrapbook 121: Social Equality. Part 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 19 & 20.]

Cmi Box 151

Scrapbook 122: The South. Part 1, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 152

Scrapbook 123: The South. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 153

Scrapbook 124: The South. Part 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 154

Scrapbook 125: South Schools, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 155

Scrapbook 126: Supreme Court and the Negro, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 156

Scrapbook 127: They Broke Through Discrimination, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 157

Scrapbook 128: Thurman, Wallace, Jean Toomer and Claude McKay, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 158

Scrapbook 129: Urban League, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 20.]

Cmi Box 159

Scrapbook 130: Booker T. Washington, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 160

Scrapbook 131: Booker T. Washington. Part 2, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 161

Scrapbook 132: Booker T. Washington. Part 3, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 162

Scrapbook 133: Ethel Waters, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 163 Mapcase 15-L-1

Scrapbook 134: Wipper, Leigh, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Folded poster separated to Mapcase 15-L-1

Cmi Box 164

Scrapbook 135: White Fighters, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 165

Scrapbook 136: Williams and Walker, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 21.]

Cmi Box 166

Scrapbook 137: Johnson, James W., 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]

Cmi Box 167

Scrapbook 138: Mencken, Henry L., 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]

Cmi Box 168

Scrapbook 139: Miscellaneous, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 22.]

Box 16 Folder 140 & 141

Greeting and Christmas Cards, 2 volumes,

Box 17 Folder 142

Stamp Scrapbook, 1 volume,

Box 18 Folder 143

Tony P. [Gumby's cat], 1 volume,

Cmi Box 169

Scrapbook 144: Poetry, 1 volume,

Cmi Box 170

Scrapbook 145: Odd, Strange and Curious, 1 volume,

Cmi Box 171

Scrapbook 146: Art, 1 volume,

Cmi Box 172

Scrapbook 147: Literature, 1 volume,

Box 18 & 19 Folder 148 & 149

Stewart, James, 2 volumes,

Box 20 Folder 150

Sinatra, Frank, 1 volume,

Box 20 Folder 151

Movie Stars, 1 volume,

Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks

These scrapbooks have been digitized from microfilm. Please consult the digitized version first, before requesting the physical artifact. The scrapbooks are quite fragile and show the effects of repeated handling.

Cmi Box 26

Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 1 & 2 in one volume


They were microfilmed and are on microfilm 96-2042.

Box 21

Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 3, 1 Volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 95-2042. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 2"]

Box 22

Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 4, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2042. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 3"]

Box 23

Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 5, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2043. [The target on the microfilm label this as "Volume 4"]

Box 24

Gumby's Autobiography In Scrapbooks: Number 6, 1 volume,


[Available on Microfilm Reel 96-2043. [The target on the microfilm label this as "volume 5"]

Unnumbered Scrapbooks

Part of accession 435 (2002)

Cmi Box 175

Sex Life

Three-ring, cloth-bound notebook. Clippings from magazines, Newspapers, and physique magazines from the 1950s depeciting nude men and other material of gay interest. Some material that came loose or was laid-in was removed to a separate folder.

Box 177 Folder 4

Sex Life (separated materials)

Cmi Box 176

Speaking of Pictures

Box 177 Folder 5-10

Speaking of Pictures (separated materials)

Part IV: Subjects

Box 1

Africa

Box 1

Africa - The Congo

Box 1

Africa - East Africa

[Scrapbook compiled by James Arthur Hutton, Manchester, England]

Box 1

Africa - Stamps

Box 1

Africa - Union of South Africa

Box 2

Alabama

Box 2

British Race Relations

Box 2

Cartoons

Box 2

Civil Rights

Box 2

Civil Rights Bill

Box 2

Communism

Box 3

Crimes - News Clippings

Box 3

Crimes - The Virginus Outrage

Box 3

Crimes - Claraence Darrow

Box 3

Crimes - French - Petain

Box 3

Crimes - The Munn Trial

Box 3

Curtwright, Arthur

Box 3

Darden, Norman

Box 3

Death Notices

Box 3

Delaware

Box 3

Discrimination

Box 3

Education

Box 3

Educators

Box 3

Eisenhower, Dwight

Box 3

Ethopia

Box 4

Father Divine

Box 4

Films

Box 4

Florida

Box 4

Gibson, Althea

Box 4

Haiti

Box 4

Harlem

Box 4

Henson, Matthew

Box 4

History

Box 4

Housing

Box 4

Hughes, Langston

Box 5

Illinois

Box 5

Integration

Box 5

Inter-Racial Marriage

Box 5

Invitations

Box 5

Jack, Hulan E.

Box 5

Jackman, Harold

Box 5

Kennedy, John and Robert

Box 5

Kentucky

Box 5

King, Martin Luther

Box 5

Korean War

Box 6

Labor

Box 6

Labor - Negro Actors Guild

Box 6

Letters to the New York Times

Box 6

Liberia

Box 6

Lincoln, Abraham

Box 6

Literature

Box 6

Little Rock - 1957

Box 6

Little Rock - 1958

Box 6

Little Rock - 1959

Box 6

Louisiana

Box 6

Lucy Case

Box 7

Marshall, Charles

Box 7

Milestones

Box 7

Mississippi

Box 7

Music

Box 7

Music - Carnegie Hall

Box 7

Music - Times Hall

Box 7

Music - Town Hall

Box 8

NAACP

Box 8

Negro as Soldier

Box 8

New Jersey

Box 8

New York City Hospital

Box 8

North Carolina

Box 8

Nugent, R. Bruce

Box 8

Opera

Box 8

Painters

Box 8

Patton, General George S

Box 8

Personal Friends

Box 8

Personal Records

Box 9

Physicians

Box 9

Pictures

Box 9

Politics

Box 9

Powell, Adam Clayton

Box 9

Prack, Tony

Box 9

Religion

Box 9

Robeson, Paul

Box 10

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Box 10

Roosevelt, Theodore

Box 10

Royalty

Box 10

Science

Box 10

Segregation

Box 10

Sale of a Negro Woman, 1777, 1 Signed Bill of Sale,

Box 10

Slavery

Box 10

The South

Box 10

South Carolina

Box 11

Sports - Baseball

Box 11

Sports - Boxing, Track, Football, Basketball

Box 12

Sports - Campenella, Roy

Box 12

Sports - Louis, Joe

Box 12

Sports - Patterson, Floyd

Box 12

Sports - Robinson, Jackie

Box 12

Sports - Robinson, Suagr Ray

Box 12

Supreme Court

Box 13

Theatre

Box 13

Theatre - "Change Your Luck"

Box 13

Theatre - Critics

Box 13

Theatre - "The Green Pastures"

Box 13

Theatre - Negro Players in the Casts of White Shows

Box 13

Theatre - The Playbill, 1937-1949

Box 13

Theatre - The Playbill, 1950-1959

Box 13

Theatre - "Porgy"

Box 13

Theatre - "St. Louis Woman"

Box 13

Tuskegee Institute

Box 13

The Unknown Soldier

Box 13

Urban League

Box 13

Whipper, Leigh

Box 13

Worthy, William D.

Box 14

Notebooks

Box 14

Miscellaneous

Part V: Books

Box 25

List of Books from Gumby's Library

Bound volume where Gumby listed some of his publications

Box 25

Books from Gumby's Library