Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Hughes, Langston.

Publication

1925-1961.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

3 volumes (54; 62; 30 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1925-1961) are about poet, novelist, playwright, and activist Langston Hughes and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily reviews and publicity for his works, including The Dream Keeper, Fine Clothes to the Jew, The Weary Blues, The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks, The Big Sea, The Negro Mother, Laughing to Keep from Crying, Fields of Wonder, Montage of a Dream Deferred, Simple Takes a Wife, Simple Speaks His Mind, Shakespeare in Harlem, Tambourines to Glory, I Wonder as I Wander, and Famous Negro Heroes in America. Coverage also includes his work as lyricist for the musical Street Scene. Additional clippings include short interviews, poems, his trips to Cuba and Haiti, his support of far left radical politics, and his testimony before Senator Joseph McCarthy on his charges of being a communist.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Atlanta Daily World, Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Michigan Chronicle, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as Daily Worker (New York), New York Herald Tribune, and New York Times. There are also many clippings from college newspapers and local newspapers. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

• Hughes, Langston
• Atlanta daily world
• Boston chronicle
• Boston guardian
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Louisiana weekly
• Louisville defender
• Michigan chronicle
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Communism > United States
• Gilbert, Mercedes
• African American poets
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• Scrapbooks
• African American authors
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Poems Selections

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, EJ, EMN, EW, JC, JP, 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 through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 7

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 (Hughes, Langston)

OCLC

1100587800

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Hughes, Langston.

Production

1925-1961.

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. 7

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

Hughes, Langston

Added Title

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

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Atlanta daily world

Boston chronicle

Boston guardian

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Louisiana weekly

Louisville defender

Michigan chronicle

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Hughes, Langston)