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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: The Man and His TimesFrom May 20, 1995 through April 28, 1996
The second in a series of three exhibitions at the Schomburg Center commemorating the Library's Centennial and the Center's 70th anniversary, this exhibition offers an overview of the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, from his birth in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1874 to his death in New York City 64 years later. The objects included in the exhibition comment on both the life of Schomburg and the world in which he lived. On view in the exhibition are numerous rare photographs and letters, including an early photograph of Schomburg at the presentation of the Harmon Foundation Awards, and a letter to his mentor, the journalist and historian John E. Bruce, dated 1911. Best known as a bibliophile, Schomburg was also a patron of the arts, lecturer, scholar, educator, and social activist. The exhibition reveals the many facets and contributions of this complex man and the forces that influenced his visionary work in helping to establish the Schomburg Center 70 years ago. |
