Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, 1924-1979.

Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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Additional Authors

• Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961.
• Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948.
• Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.
• Collings, Dorothy.
• Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

Description

24 lin. ft.

Summary

Records of the Schomburg Center document the activities pertinent to the organization, expansion, and development of the library. Collection covers the administration and curatorship of Ernestine Rose, Catherine Latimer, Arthur A. Schomburg, Lawrence D. Reddick, Dorothy Williams, and Jean Blackwell Hutson. General correspondence consists largely of letters of appreciation, invitations, donations, and proposals. Reference correspondence requests information about black history and culture and the resources of the Center. Memoranda with New York Public Library departments such as the Business Manager's Office, Personnel Officer, Adult Services Office, Accounting Office, Photographic Service, Manhattan Borough Office, Office of Branch Libraries, and Research Libraries Administrative Office. Memoranda concern the internal business affairs of the Schomburg Center. Files contain articles and reports of curators, statistical reports, and exhibition files. Subjects include art, Ira Aldridge Society, W.E.B. Du Bois Presentation, Harmon Foundation, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Urban League, North Manhattan Project, and the controversial exhibition presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled "Harlem on My Mind." Also, a visitor's register.

Subjects

• Black people > History
• Archives > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > History
• Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
• Libraries and community > New York (State) > New York
• African American librarians > New York (State) > New York
• African American art
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
• Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961
• African Americans > Study and teaching
• African Americans and libraries > New York (State) > New York
• North Manhattan/Central Harlem Project
• Art, African
• National Urban League
• Ira Aldridge Society
• Collings, Dorothy
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• New York Public Library
• Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
• Art museums > Educational aspects > New York (State) > New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Public libraries > New York (State) > New York

Source (note)

• NIC

Biography (note)

• One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc MG 44

OCLC

122455501

Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Title

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, 1924-1979.

Biography

One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

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Added Author

Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.

Collings, Dorothy.

Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 44