Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Harlem.

Publication

1919-1962.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

9 volumes (53; 50; 50; 47; 51; 51; 49; 46; 61 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1919-1962) cover various aspects of life in Harlem and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings cover a range of topics, but some of the major coverage includes the high price of both housing and food, poor housing conditions, increase in crime, the connection between crime and poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, the 1935 and 1943 riots (causes and repercussions), discrimination in employment of African Americans and related protests, adult education, politics, and the opening of new housing developments, businesses, and community centers.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Interstate Tattler (New York), Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, Savannah Tribune, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings contain date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

• Harlem
• Boston chronicle
• Chicago bee
• Interstate tattler
• Louisiana weekly
• Negro world
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus
• Savannah tribune
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Riots > 20th century
• Education and crime > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• African Americans > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Housing > Prices > 20th century
• Pompez, Alex, 1890-1974
• Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• New York (N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Politics and government > 20th century
• Rucker, Benjamin Black Herman 1889-1934
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
• Crime > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York
• African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Nightlife > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• La Guardia, Fiorello H (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
• United States > Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > African Americans > 20th century
• Grace, Daddy, 1882?-1960
• African Americans > Education > 20th century
• African Americans > Employment > 20th century
• Hamid, Sufi Abdul, 1903-1938
• Unemployment and crime > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
• Scrapbooks
• Discrimination in employment > New York (State) > New York > 20th century

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, AMC, AVR, BB, DM, EJ, EM, EMN, EW, GG, JC, JP, LM, MB, MPT, MS, MW, VK, and WA.
• Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom 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 of NYPL 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)

OCLC

1100422974

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Harlem.

Production

1919-1962.

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

Added Title

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

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

Boston chronicle

Chicago bee

Interstate tattler

Louisiana weekly

Negro world

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Savannah tribune

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Harlem)