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Owen Middleton papers
- Title
- Owen Middleton papers, 1945-1953.
- Author
- Middleton, Owen.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Folder 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 152 Folder 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional Authors
- American Labor Party. New York State Committee.
- Description
- 16 items (one folder)
- Summary
- Three certificates from the New York City Board of Elections designating Owen Middleton as a Delegate to the 1952 New York State Convention of the American Labor Party, and nine letters of recommendation supporting his application to the title of director of interracial relations at an unnamed institution (1953).
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Note
- Four anatomical drawings and six political cartoons and mounted drawings are transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division.
- Source (note)
- Middleton, Mary
- Biography (note)
- Born on March 3, 1888, in Cleveland, Ohio, Owen Middleton was an African American furniture draftsman and graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago who worked as a quick sketch artist for the "Chicago Tribune".
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 152
- OCLC
- NYPW086000009-A
- Author
- Middleton, Owen.
- Title
- Owen Middleton papers, 1945-1953.
- Biography
- Born on March 3, 1888, in Cleveland, Ohio, Owen Middleton was an African American furniture draftsman and graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago who worked as a quick sketch artist for the "Chicago Tribune". Middleton also worked as a syndicated columnist for several African-American newspapers and wrote a weekly newsletter on United Nations issues relating to Blacks. Additionally, he served as a volunteer art teacher at a Congress of Industrial Organizations' Community Center in Brooklyn. Owen Middleton died in 1954.
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- Added Author
- American Labor Party. New York State Committee.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 152