Lawrence Gellert Scrapbook, 1930s

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Lawrence Gellert Scrapbook, 1930s

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A 191-page typed manuscript called collected by Lawrence Gellert and apparently prepared for publication by the Hours Press, New York. The manuscript contains about seventy folk-tales told by African-Americans in the South about Irish immigrants to the area. Included are thirty-six pen and ink illustrations by Gellert. Tales of One Time I'shman Told by Southern Negroes,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6626765

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Gellert, Lawrence

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Composer and author. From the description of Papers, 1927-1978. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 708580886 Very little information on Lawrence Gellert is available. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 September 1898, came to the United States when he was seven, and grew up in New York City. For health reasons, he moved to Tryon, N.C., probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. From 1933 to 1937, Gellert traveled through North Carolina, S...