Ruby Sheppard Davis scrapbooks 1948-1978

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Ruby Sheppard Davis scrapbooks 1948-1978

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20692

Actress, singer, poet, playwright. Private secretary to actor Leigh Whipper. Davis' scrapbooks include news clippings relating to Davis' career as a performer; and plays, fables, poems, jokes and gags written by Davis. Also, musical compositions consisting of photocopies of music, 1948-1974; and a scrapbook about Leigh Whipper containing news clippings and other printed material, 1978.

.4 lin. ft.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316983

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Davis, Ruby S. (Ruby Sheppard), 1916-

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Actress, singer, poet, playwright. Private secretary to actor Leigh Whipper. From the guide to the Ruby Sheppard Davis scrapbooks, 1948-1978, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) Actress, singer, poet, playwright. Private secretary to actor Leigh Whipper. From the description of Ruby Sheppard Davis scrapbooks, 1948-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975

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Character actor in the movies and theater, a founder of the Negro Actors Guild of America. From the description of Leigh Rollin Whipper papers, 1861-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122346178 African American actor and playwright. From the description of Papers, 1864-1965. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941227 Leigh Whipper, one of America's best known character actors, was born in Charleston, South Carolina o...