Research Catalog
Earl Sydnor papers
- Title
- Earl Sydnor papers, 1929-1989.
- Author
- Sydnor, Earl, 1907-1989.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 382 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 382 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Description
- .7 lin. ft. (1 archival box, 1 oversize)
- Summary
- Papers documenting the acting career of Earl Sydnor. The papers are divided in two series, Personal and Professional, which include correspondence, biographical material, newspaper articles and reviews, and playbills. Additionally, there are two scrapbooks dealing with his acting career and service in the Army Air Force in 1943. A third scrapbook relates to his appearance, with his wife Virginia, in "The American Home" magazine in 1945, which became a controversial issue because the magazine had never featured blacks before.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Print Division.
- Calendar and movie advertisement transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
- Source (note)
- Earl Sydnor
- Lucille Sydnor
- Biography (note)
- Actor, Earl Sydnor appeared on and off-Broadway, on television, and in film. He began his acting career after performing with the New Jersey Federal Theatre Company. Throughout his career, he worked with Katherine Dunham, Ethel Waters, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones, and Lou Gossett, Jr. in various plays such as "Cabin in the Sky," "Kiss The Boys Goodbye," "First Monday in October" and the films, "The Emperor Jones" and "Take A Giant Step." As a young man Sydnor wrote poetry and several of his poems were published in black literary magazines. Sydnor died on July 9, 1989.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 382
- OCLC
- NYPW02-A40
- Author
- Sydnor, Earl, 1907-1989.
- Title
- Earl Sydnor papers, 1929-1989.
- Biography
- Actor, Earl Sydnor appeared on and off-Broadway, on television, and in film. He began his acting career after performing with the New Jersey Federal Theatre Company. Throughout his career, he worked with Katherine Dunham, Ethel Waters, Henry Fonda, James Earl Jones, and Lou Gossett, Jr. in various plays such as "Cabin in the Sky," "Kiss The Boys Goodbye," "First Monday in October" and the films, "The Emperor Jones" and "Take A Giant Step." As a young man Sydnor wrote poetry and several of his poems were published in black literary magazines. Sydnor died on July 9, 1989.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 382