Printed Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thomas, Alma (1891-1978)
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content: Alma Thomas papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.8 Linear Feet (Boxes 3-5, OV 7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thomalma, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized. Material not digitized includes duplicates; some exhibition catalogs and other publications for which only covers, title pages, and/or relevant pages have been digitized; and some of the Howard University and miscellaneous publications not related to Alma Thomas.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Printed material is comprised primarily of announcements and catalogs for Thomas's exhibitions and news clippings related to her activities and to subjects of interest to her. The series includes clippings that  J. Maurice Thomas continued to collect about her sister after Alma Thomas's death. Some of the clippings relate to curators and gallery owners who showed Thomas's work and that of other African American and Washington Color School artists.

Other printed material includes a catalog of six linoleum block print Christmas cards designed by Thomas, calendars of events, programs, publications featuring Thomas, reproductions of art work by Thomas and others, and two yearbooks from Saint Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., of which Alma and J. Maurice Thomas were members.