Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Collections > Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

Manuscripts Collections

The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division holds manuscript and archival collections of personal and family papers, organizational records, and miscellaneous manuscripts. These holdings focus on the history, literature, politics, and culture of peoples of African descent in the Americas and Africa, primarily in the twentieth century. The collections are strongest in the areas of the performing arts, women's studies, Harlem, civil rights and post-civil rights movements, cultural and political movements, African-American religion, and Haitian, Caribbean and Central African history. Geographic concentration within the manuscripts collection is primarily in the United States.

Catalog records for approximately two-third of the collections can be found in the Library's online catalog. In addition, links can be made to finding aids on the Library's Manuscript & Archival Finding Aids site. Not all of the finding aids are available via the Archives & Manuscripts webpage, nor do all of the collections have finding aids. For additional information concerning these collections contact the division via email (scmarbref@nypl.org) or telephone: 212 491-2224. Some collections are closed until processed.

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Saint, Assotto Papers
Saunders, Cecelia Cabiniss Collection
Savage, Augusta Papers
Scarborough, William S. Letters
Ruth Schein/1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project Collection - Finding Aid
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Records
Schomburg Corporation Records
Arthur A. Schomburg Papers, 1724-1895 - Finding Aid
School of African Philosophy Collection
Schultz, Charles Chiz/Fireside Productions - Finding Aid
Schuyler Philippa, George, and Josephine) Family Papers
Scott, William Edouard Collection
Screenplay Collection
Second African Baptist Church, Savannah, Ga. Records, 1812-1979 - Finding Aid
Seldon, Benjamin Collection
Seraile, William/Theophilus G. Steward Research Collection Sermons Collection
Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church. Mount Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, Records, 1873-1993 - Finding Aid
Sharp, Louis Scrapbook
Shearer, Jackie Papers *
Sheet Music Collection
Sherwood, Marika/Claudia Jones Research Materials
Sherwood, Marika/Kwame Nkrumah Research Materials
Shoemaker, Elijah Collection
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority. Northeast Regional Conference Collection
Simms, Hilda Papers
Sims, Naomi Papers
Sinclair, Thomas Collection
Sindab, Jean Papers *
Skinner, Elliott P. Papers *
Slavery and Abolition Collection
Small, Lelia Dannett Collection
Smith, Ada Bricktop Papers
Smith, J. Alfred Papers
Smith, J. Alfred Papers (Additions) *
Smith/Shivery Family Papers
Hugh Smythe Papers, 1942-1963 - Finding Aid
Smythwick, Eleanor T. Papers
Snelson, Floyd Scrapbook
Soler y Balsas - Vida de la Venerable Negra La Madre S. Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo. 1757 (2 vol)
South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection
South Africa Election Materials, 1994
South Africa. Conspiracy Trial. Decision, 1988 Collection
Southern Africa Collective. Records
Southwest Harlem Neighborhood Council Minutes
Spence, Eulalie Papers
Spencer, Edith Scrapbook
William N. and Isabele T. Spiller Papers, 1906-1958 - Finding Aid
Spingarn, Joel and Amy Papers
Sr. M. Margaret/Countee Cullen Research Material
St. Leger, Theodore Etienne D. de Collection
St. Mark's United Methodist Church Collection
St. Philip's Episcopal Church Records
St. Prix, Joseph Collection
Stein, Robert & Anita Collection
John Lewis Steptoe Papers, 1877-1991 - Finding Aid
Stern, Bernard - Alain Locke Collection
Harold A. Stevens Papers, 1936-1990 - Finding Aid
Steward, Gustavus Papers
Steward, Theophilus G. Papers
Alexander and Shirlene Stewart Pentecostal Collection, 1925-1993 - Finding Aid
Stock, Mildred Papers
Stokes, Olivia P. Papers
Strachen, John R. Papers
Study Commission on U.S. Policy toward Southern Africa Records
Sydenham Hospital Protest Collection *
Sydnor, Earl Papers
Symphony of the New World Records

* Closed until processed