Title:

[Archeleen Scrutchings photograph album of African American life in Pocatello, Idaho]

Creator/Contributor:

Scrutchings, Archeleen, creator, creator.

Photograph album documenting the social and leisure activities of Archeleen Scrutchings (1927-2021) and her African American milieu during her years attending Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. Images depict friends and fellow students; Archeleen's colleagues in Pocatello's African Methodist Episcopal Church community; portraits and snapshots of African American men in military uniform; and houses and cars of family and friends, among other topics. Members of the LaRue family (Mary, Joseph (J.D.) and Jacob) are depicted throughout. Also includes scenes taken in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho; Birmingham, Alabama (Scrutchings' birthplace); Portland, Oregon: and Bremerton and Seattle, Washington; among other locations. Also includes a few images of Japanese Americans who lived in Scrutchings' neighborhood in Pocatello. Most individuals are identified by name in captions. Subject matter of negatives overlaps that of many prints in the album.

Date:

1945 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-id

African Americans -- Idaho -- Pocatello -- Photographs

African American college students -- Idaho -- Pocatello -- Photographs

Noirs américains -- Idaho -- Pocatello -- Photographies

Étudiants noirs américains -- Idaho -- Pocatello -- Photographies

Pocatello (Idaho) -- Photographs

Scrutchings, Archeleen -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

Label adhered inside front cover: "Archeleen Scrutchings 650 East Lander Street, Pocatello, Idaho, Phone 977-W". Above label is hand-written name of compiler: "Miss Archeleen Scrutchings."

Prints found laid into album removed by library staff and, along with a few miscellaneous papers, shelved separately (PIC folders).

Also includes 8 negatives shelved separately (NEG sleeves).

Most images described in hand-written captions on album leaves.

Purchase from Langdon Manor Books, LLC ; 2023.

Archeleen Scrutchings photograph album of African American life in Pocatello, Idaho, BANC PIC 2023.100, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Photograph albums.

photoprint

approximately 150 photographs in 1 album and 2 folders : chiefly gelatin silver prints mounted to album leaves ; prints various sizes, album 14 x 23 cm

English

Origin:

Idaho