Research Catalog

Title

Mildred Stock research audio collection.

Author

Stock, Mildred

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Summary

The collection consists of 1 audio recording of an radio interview in which Stock discusses her biography of Ira Aldridge.

Subjects

• Sound recordings
• Fugitive slaves > United States
• Slavery > United States
• African Americans > Music
• African American composers
• African American actors
• Stock, Mildred
• Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

• Mildred Stock (1902-ca.1980) was a writer and researcher, best known for the work, "Ira Aldridge:The Negro Tragedian", which she co-authored with Herbert Marshall. The Mildred Stock Research Collection consists of research files concerning Stock's studies of African-American and European stage actors, slavery and other subjects. The bulk of the collection is comprised of research files and correspondence relating to the book she co-authored with Herbert Marshall, "Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian." Included is correspondence, manuscript drafts, notes and clippings pertaining to her research on Aldridge, Thomas Greene Bethune a.k.a. "Blind Tom," Toussaint Louverture, Paul Cuffe, and fugitive slaves (e.g., Henry "Box" Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Venture Smith and others). Other topics of her research were the nineteenth century Irish actor, Tyrone Power, and Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth century women's rights advocate. Stock also prepared draft manuscripts for baby books aimed at African American, Asian Indian and general audiences. S

Linking Entry (note)

• See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division forthe Mildred Stock research collection, Sc MG 177. See the Photographs & Prints Division for the Mildred Stock research photograph collection, Sc Photo Mildred Stock Research Collection.

Call Number

Sc MIRS Stock 1980-25

OCLC

1199299628

Author

Stock, Mildred, creator.

Title

Mildred Stock research audio collection.

Linking Entry

See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division forthe Mildred Stock research collection, Sc MG 177. See the Photographs & Prints Division for the Mildred Stock research photograph collection, Sc Photo Mildred Stock Research Collection.

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Added Author

Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991. Ira Aldridge.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Stock 1980-25