Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Harlem - Housing.

Publication

1927-1964.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes (44; 45 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1927-1961) are about the state of housing in Harlem and contain ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. While primarily focused on the state of housing for African Americans in Harlem, these scrapbooks also address housing in the New York City boroughs of Queens and the Bronx, as well as the cities of Chicago and Philadelphia. Topics covered include the unsatisfactory state of housing available to African Americans, the lack of affordable housing, discrimination in housing with a particular focus on Stuyvesant Town in New York City, unfair evictions, the lack of heat and subsequent increase in fires, prosecution of landlords for the proliferation of slums, building new low income housing, and breakdowns of the cost and availability of housing on specific streets.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Chicago Bee, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Pittsburgh Courier, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Post, New York Sun, and New York Times. Not all clippings contain date or source information.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform Title

• Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
• New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
• Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative Title

• Harlem - Housing
• Chicago bee
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• Harlem River Houses (New York, N.Y.)
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks
• Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Ickes, Harold L (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
• Office of Price Administration
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.)
• Low-income housing > United States > 20th century
• African Americans > Housing > 20th century
• African American neighborhoods

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
• The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for these volumes are AJ, CMN, EW, JP, MPT, MS, and VK.
• Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 6

Cite As (note)

• Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

• The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

• The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Harlem - Housing)

OCLC

1099696833

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Harlem - Housing.

Production

1927-1964.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 6

Cite As:

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms Of Use

Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Spine Title

Harlem - Housing

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Pittsburgh courier.

Chicago bee

Norfolk journal and guide

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Harlem - Housing)