Guestbook from Shearer Cottage
date: label: Date
content: 1931-1947
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Used by
content: Shearer Cottage, American, founded 1903
notes: label: Description
content: The guestbook from Shearer Cottage, an African American vacation home in Oak Bluffs, MA near Martha's Vineyard. It contains numerous handwritten signatures of past guests from the years 1931 to 1947. The guestbook is bound in red and brown leather backing boards. The front cover has "Shearer Cottage Oak Bluffs, Mass" written horizontally across the front inside a stylized border. The spine is broken with loose pages.
place: label: Place used
content: Oak Bluffs, Duke County, Massachusetts, United States, Martha's Vineyard, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Recreation
label: Topic
content: Segregation
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Documents and Manuscripts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Shearer Cottage
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: visitors' books
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: leather, cardboard, paper and ink
label: Dimensions
content: 12 7/8 x 8 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (32.7 x 20.6 x 2.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Dimensions of book laid open: 12 7/8 × 16 × 1 1/4 in. (32.7 × 40.6 × 3.2 cm)