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Harry Belafonte papers.

Title: Harry Belafonte papers.
Author: Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
Publication: 1872-2017, bulk 1946 - 2005.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	box 1	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 933 box 1	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	box 2	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 933 box 2	Offsite
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Description

40.87 linear feet (113 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 4 tubes); 7.9 megabytes (124 computer files)

Summary

Harry Belafonte is a Jamaican-American musician, actor, and activist best known for popularizing calypso music with international audiences, and his involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. His collection contains project files, correspondence, scrapbooks, press materials, scores, lyrics, and scripts that chronicle his career as a singer, songwriter, actor, public speaker, and advocate for political and humanitarian causes. Belafonte's papers reveal the business aspects of his performance projects, source material for his acting and singing career, and organizing efforts associated with the political causes he championed.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Albums (Books)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Notated music.
Posters.
Programs.
Scores.
Scripts (documents)

Source (note)

Purchased from Harry Belafonte in 2019.

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

Harry Belafonte photograph collection, SCP 186084, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, https://archives.nypl.org/scp/186084.

Call Number

Sc MG 933

OCLC

1322256784

Author

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, creator.

Title

Harry Belafonte papers.

Production

1872-2017, bulk 1946 - 2005.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

computer

Type of Carrier

sheet

other

Location of Other Archival Materials

Materials Separated from the Resource: Audio and moving image materials have been 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. Photographs have been transferred to The Schomburg Center's Prints and Photographs division. Artwork and artifacts have been transferred to The Schomburg Center's Art and Artifacts division.

Harry Belafonte photograph collection, SCP 186084, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, https://archives.nypl.org/scp/186084.

Source

Purchased from Harry Belafonte in 2019.

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Occupation

Actors.

Civil rights activists.

Musicians.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 933

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