<I>In Search of our Mothers' Gardens</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1983
name: label: Written by
content: Alice Walker, American, born 1944
label: Published by
content: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, founded 1970
label: Designed by
content: Joy Chu, American
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: A softcover copy of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker. The softcover book has an adhesive binding. The book has a purple and white front cover with brown and black type and a purple-and-white headshot of Walker on the front jacket. Walker looks at the viewer, smiling. She holds her proper right hand under her chin and rests her cheek on her raised, proper right index finger. She is wearing a woven wrap, patterned with rectangular blocks and metal hoop earrings. In the bottom right quadrant is a framed, light tan text box outlined in white and black with the title of the book printed inside in brown text of varying sizes that reads [IN / SEARCH / OF OUR / MOTHERS' / GARDENS / Womanist / Prose by / ALICE / WALKER]. Small black text printed in the top left corner of the text box reads [A Harvest/HBJ Book]. At the top of the spine is the title of the book printed in black text that reads [IN SEARCH OF OUR / MOTHERS' GARDENS] and [Alice / Walker] printed in purple text at the center. At the bottom of the spine is the publisher’s logo and name, [HBJ / HARCOURT / BRACE / JOVANOVICH] printed in black-outlined white text and black text. The back cover is light tan. At the top is a two paragraph book description. Below is a white and black outlined text box with blurbs printed in black text from Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, New Statesman, and the Los Angeles Times. The ISBN number is printed in the bottom right corner above the barcode. To the left of the barcode are photography and design credits and the publisher information. The interior pages are off-white paper with black type. There are also a few small decorative illustrations, a double quatrefoil, on some of the pages. The book has 397 pages.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Feminism
label: Topic
content: Literature
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
label: Movement
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: Movement
content: BAM (Black Arts Movement 1965-1976)
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.13
objectType: label: Type
content: paperbacks
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 1983 Alice Walker
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) with adhesive
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 1/16 × 5 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (20.4 × 13.5 × 2.9 cm)