Guestbook from the Powell family vacation cottage
date: label: Date
content: 1930s-1970s
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Used by
content: Isabel Powell, American, 1908 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: Guestbook from the Powell family vacation cottage. The guestbook has a wood cover, two (2) metal hinges attaching the front cover to the spine, paper sheets on which guests wrote their entries, and a leather cord that holds the paper sheets in place and knots at the back cover. At the upper center of the guestbook cover is a piece of paper adhered to the wood listing "Rules of this Tavern." In the lower right quadrant of the front cover, engraved into the surface, is the cursive text [Guest/ Log]. Inside, the guestbook has twenty-five (25) bound pages and two (2) loose sheets. Guest entries are written by hand throughout the guestbook on all pages, in various colors of ink, including black, blue and green, and in pencil. Guest entries range in date from 1937 to 1975. The final five (5) bound pages have tabs adhered to the right edge, in descending colors of green, white, blue, yellow, and red.
place: label: Place used
content: Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, Martha's Vineyard, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Recreation
label: Topic
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
label: Exhibition
content: Power of Place
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Community/Third Floor, 3 051
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Preston Powell and The Isabel Powell Foundation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.54.1-.3
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: wood, paper, metal and leather
label: Dimensions
content: Open (flat): 11 9/16 × 16 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (29.4 × 41 × 3.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Open (90 degrees): 11 9/16 × 9 1/4 × 8 3/4 in. (29.4 × 23.5 × 22.2 cm)