Box MT-12

[Mel Tapley.] "Balance World Views, Read Your Amsterdam News," "Recording the Heartbeat of the Black Community: New York Amsterdam News," "Rocking or Swinging... Your Kind of Views are in the N.Y. Amsterdam News." Pencil, 20" x 18.5", folded to 10.5" x 18.5". Undated. Three sketches for subscription cards.

[Mel Tapley.] "New York Amsterdam News has 30,000 More New Readers!" Pencil and ink drawing, 16.75" x 14". Undated.

[Mel Tapley.] "Bargains that bloom in the Spring!" Pencil and ink drawing, 16.75" x 14". Undated.

[Mel Tapley.] Velox prints of approximately 5 editorial cartoons, stuck together in a bundle with paste. Undated.

[Mel Tapley.] "Highest Indoor Jump." Pencil and ink drawing, 12" x 10.75". Undated.

[Mel Tapley.] "Back Into Slavery." Photocopy of original artwork for a comic strip. 14 leaves, each 8.5" x 14". Undated. Housed in a mailing envelope addressed in ms. to Robert Lewis.

[Mel Tapley.] "Announcing Amsterdam News special Black Bicentennial Issue, to be published Feb. 1976." Pencil, 23.75" x 14.5", folded to 12" x 14.5". [Ca. 1975-1976.] Sketch for an advertisement. With three accompanying large-format photocopies of a later state of the artwork, each 24" x 18", folded to 12" x 18".

[Mel Tapley.] "Disney Land." Ink drawing, 11" x 8.5". Undated. With two accompanying 11" x 8.5" photocopies of the completed cartoon.

[Mel Tapley.] "You Don’t Have to be a Square." Ink drawing, 5.5" x 8.5". Undated.

[Mel Tapley.] "What does the Future Hold? Read the Amsterdam News." Ink drawing, 5.5" x 8.5". Undated.