Photograph Album Documenting Pow-Pows and Other Native American Events in the Philadelphia Area

Mainly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1980 to 1993. Blue leatherette ring bound photo album binding measuring 13 x 12.5", containing 107 color photographs on sticky leaves, together with postcards, newspaper clippings and several ephemeral items, some images captioned on small laid in pieces of paper. A photograph album and scrapbook compiled by a Cherokee woman (name withheld) living in Pennsylvania, documenting her participation in several area pow-wows and other Native American events in the 1980s. The album includes a series of images of Native Americans marching in on the William Penn Historical Pageant, held in 1982 as part of Philadelphia's bicentennial celebrations; also included is a flyer printing a schedule of events for the pageant. The album also includes images of a "1980 Pow-Wow", the 1980 Folk Fair held at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, a pow-wow held in 1985 in Fairmount Park, and other events which are possibly described in the laid in newspaper clippings. The album concludes with a group of 11 photographs of the compiler's visit in 1993 to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina. Some album leaves detached from rings, some pages of the plastic laminate covering album leaves detached or detaching, otherwise in very good condition. Item #10801

Price: $750.00