Guestbook from Shearer Cottage
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Used by
- Shearer Cottage, American, founded 1903
- Date
- 1931-1947
- Medium
- leather, cardboard, paper and ink
- Dimensions
- 12 7/8 x 8 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (32.7 x 20.6 x 2.9 cm)
- Dimensions of book laid open: 12 7/8 × 16 × 1 1/4 in. (32.7 × 40.6 × 3.2 cm)
- Description
- 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 used
- Oak Bluffs, Duke County, Massachusetts, United States, Martha's Vineyard, North and Central America
- Type
- visitors' books
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Shearer Cottage
- Object number
- 2012.2.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.