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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Music and Musicians.

Title: Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Music and Musicians.
Publication: 1918-1947.

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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?	v. 7	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 7	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 6	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 6	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 5	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 5	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 4	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 4	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 3	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 3	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 2	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 2	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	v. 1	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians) v. 1	Offsite
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	r. 12: v. 3-4, Moving Pictures- v. 1-3, New York City and State	Mixed material	Use in library	Sc Micro R-707 r. 12: v. 3-4, Moving Pictures- v. 1-3, New York City and State	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Details

Additional Authors

Freeman, H. Lawrence (Harry Lawrence), 1869-1954.

Description

7 volumes (50; 50; 50; 49; 50; 50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

These scrapbooks (1918-1947) are about African American musicians and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings include concert announcements and recaps, general music news, and profiles of musicians, conductors, songwriters, and others involved in the music industry, as well as discussions of discrimination in the music industry and the lack of opportunities for African Americans. Genres include jazz, opera, blues, and vocal performance. There is also coverage of the history and popularity of African American spirituals and folk music.
Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New Age Dispatch (Los Angeles), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Time magazine. 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

Music and Musicians
Boston chronicle
Chicago bee
Chicago whip
Louisiana weekly
Negro world
New age dispatch
New York Amsterdam news
Norfolk journal and guide
Philadelphia tribune
St. Louis argus
Washington tribune

Subjects

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, BB, CMN, CVE, EJ, EM, ETP, EW, GG, JC, JP, LS, MB, MN, MPT, MS, MW, TH, 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, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, 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. 12

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 (Music and Musicians)

OCLC

1101195162

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Music and Musicians.

Production

1918-1947.

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. 12

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.

Added Author

Freeman, H. Lawrence (Harry Lawrence), 1869-1954.

Spine Title

Music and Musicians

Added Title

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

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston chronicle

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Louisiana weekly

Negro world

New age dispatch

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Music and Musicians)

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