Boulder sign for Rock Rest Tourist Home

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On View: Segregation Gallery; Museum Maps; Objects in this Location

Exhibition: Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968

Created by: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
Owned by: Sinclair, Clayton, American; Sinclair, Hazel, American

Date: ca. 1930-1970

Medium: stone and paint
Dimensions: H x W: 30 x 19 x 14 in. (76.2 x 48.3 x 35.6 cm)

Description: A stone boulder with [Rock Rest] hand-painted on it with white paint.

Place collected: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America

Collection title: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
Classification: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Type: signage

Topic: Black Enterprise; Black interiors; Business; Recreation; Segregation; Travel

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.

Object number: 2011.12.1

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions; Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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Boulder sign for Rock Rest Tourist Home