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Alice Walker calendar: "The Alice Walker Calendar for 1986", 1986

Item — Box: BW-2, Folder: 12, item: 1

Scope and Contents

A calendar book bound in plastic spiral binding and consisting of 123 pages, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers in 1986. The cover of the calendar features a photograph of Alice Walker and the title “The Alice Walker Calendar for 1986.” Interspersed among the calendar’s pages are excerpts from various writings by Alice Walker and photographs of Walker and her family. The calendar measures 17 x 24 cm.

Dates: 1986

Found in: Special Collections / Alice Walker ephemera

Limited edition print featuring Alice Walker signature and excerpt from "The Color Purple", 1999

Item — Box: BW-2, Folder: 12, item: 3

Scope and Contents A limited edition print measuring 20 x 10 cm created in 1999, consisting of an photographic image (in the background) of an oil lamp and feather pen, printed in duotone shades of brown and black. Printed in the foreground is a brief passage from Alice Walker's The Color Purple: "I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here. Celie." The image is signed by Alice Walker in gold ink and numbered...

Dates: 1999

Found in: Special Collections / Alice Walker ephemera

Broadside featuring Alice Walker excerpt and letter, 1988

Item — Box: BW-2, Folder: 12, item: 2

Scope and Contents Broadside measuring 22 x 36 cm titled “From Alice Walker,” created in 1988. It features an excerpt and letter written by Alice Walker during the 1970s from her book Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987. The excerpt explains that the letter follows up on a letter she'd previously written to "an imaginary young black woman, giving her some sense of my own experiences and telling her things she might need to know." The broadside includes a...

Dates: 1988

Found in: Special Collections / Alice Walker ephemera

Alice Walker fundraising letter for the Berkeley Public Library Foundation, approximately 2000

Item — Box: BW-2, Folder: 12, item: 4

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An fundraising letter circa 2000 written by Alice Walker for the Berkeley Public Library Foundation’s “We Love the Library” campaign. The letter is typed and signed in facsimile, by Alice Walker (as issued by Berkeley Public Library Foundation). The text includes eight paragraphs in which Walker provides update and solicits donations for the campaign to fund the expansion and renovation of the Central Library branch. Walker served as Co-Chair of the campaign.

Dates: approximately 2000

Found in: Special Collections / Alice Walker ephemera

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Alice Walker calendar: "The Alice Walker Calendar for 1986", 1986

Limited edition print featuring Alice Walker signature and excerpt from "The Color Purple", 1999

Broadside featuring Alice Walker excerpt and letter, 1988

Alice Walker fundraising letter for the Berkeley Public Library Foundation, approximately 2000

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