I've finally rebuilt the site for a rather unusual book I've owned for over 25 years, back when I used to be a book dealer.
It's an old arithmetic textbook that somebody, probably around the turn of the 20th century, used as a scrapbook for newspaper cuttings about lynching, racial violence, Black politics, churches, education, sport, and quite a lot of other material. There are also some racist cartoons and a loose unidentified studio photograph tucked into the book.
I scanned it back in 2001, but I've now gone back through the whole thing, produced a checked transcription, and done some research into where the clippings came from, when it was assembled, and who might have put it together.
The whole thing is online, and there's also a single PDF of the complete scans and transcription if anyone wants to download it for research or preservation.
I put it onto: https://bygonestuff.com
It's been online for 25 years, but this is a much more accessible version of it.
Usual trigger warnings apply for newspapers of this era.
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