Research Catalog
Patricia Spears Jones papers.
- Title
- Patricia Spears Jones papers.
- Author
- Jones, Patricia Spears, 1955-
- Publication
- 1970s-2010s.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 1 | Offsite | |
| box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 2 | Offsite | |
| box 3 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 3 | Offsite | |
| box 4 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 4 | Offsite | |
| box 5 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 5 | Offsite | |
| box 6 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 6 | Offsite | |
| box 7 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 7 | Offsite | |
| box 8 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 8 | Offsite | |
| box 9 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 9 | Offsite | |
| box 10 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 10 | Offsite | |
| box 11 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 11 | Offsite | |
| box 12 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 12 | Offsite | |
| box 13 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 13 | Offsite | |
| box 14 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 14 | Offsite | |
| box 15 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 15 | Offsite | |
| box 16 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 16 | Offsite | |
| box 17 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 17 | Offsite | |
| box 18 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 18 | Offsite | |
| box 19 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 19 | Offsite | |
| box 20 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 975 box 20 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 23.42 linear feet (57 boxes); 21.4 megabytes (20 computer files)
- Summary
- Patricia Spears Jones (born in 1951 in Forrest City, Arkansas) is a Black American poet, playwright, writer, educator, editor, and publisher. Her papers date from the 1970s to the 2010s, and chronicle Jones' career and personal life through correspondence; publishing contracts; drafts of poems; notebooks; ephemera; interviews; press clippings; photographs; and recorded poetry readings and performances. The collection illuminates her development as a social justice and environmental activist through her work as a poet, educator, volunteer, and non-profit development officer and administrator.
- Subjects
- Poets
- Educators
- Authors
- Video recordings
- Sound recordings
- Programs (Publications)
- Photographs
- Notebooks
- Manuscripts for publication
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Correspondence
- Social justice
- Feminist poetry
- Feminism and art
- Environmentalists
- African Americans > Poetry
- African American women political activists
- African American women poets
- Yaddo (Artists' colony)
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry Project
- Squaw Valley Community of Writers
- New York State Council on the Arts
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Mabou Mines (Theater group)
- Heresies Collective, Inc
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Notebooks.
- Photographs.
- Programs (Publications)
- Sound recordings.
- Video recordings.
- Access (note)
- Sound and video recordings transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.
- Source (note)
- Purchased from Patricia Spears Jones in 2021.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 975
- OCLC
- 1308494495
- Author
- Jones, Patricia Spears, 1955- creator.
- Title
- Patricia Spears Jones papers.
- Production
- 1970s-2010s.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediatedcomputer
- Type of Carrier
- sheetother
- Restricted Access
- Sound and video recordings transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Materials Separated from the Resource: Audio and moving image materials were separated from the papers and transferred to The Schomburg Center's Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Source
- Purchased from Patricia Spears Jones in 2021.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Authors.Educators.Poets.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 975