Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate
2. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948, collection librarian

Description

1. x, 274 p.; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

1. Press -- United States.
2. American newspapers.
3. Race relations.
4. African Americans -- Social conditions.
5. African Americans -- Civil rights.
6. African American newspapers.
7. African American press.
8. American newspapers.
9. Press.
10. United States.

Genre/Form

1. American newspapers.
2. History.
3. Bookplates (Provenance)

Contents

1. Volume and influence of the Negro press -- The Negro press in slavery days -- The Negro press in freedom -- Favorite themes of the Negro press -- What is in a Negro paper -- The demand for rights -- Other solutions of the race problem -- Negro life -- Negro criticism of Negro life -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call number

1. Sc 071-D (Detweiler, F. Negro press in the United States)

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 270-272.
2. Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-272) and index.

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in digital form.

Local note

1. The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is in Sc 071-D (Detweiler, F. Negro press in the United States) (accession no. A928577) is a pre-1926 purchase added or transferred to the Schomburg collection during Catherine A. Latimer's tenure as collection librarian. The book bears NYPL's bookplate of Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, as well as various ink stamps like: "Division of Negro Literature and History;" Property of the City of New York;" and "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." which indicate, this item was originally part of of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. It also includes NYPL's perforated stamp and early processing marking of the original collection. The book is imperfect: brittle and torn, with some loose pages, bound in hunter-green cloth over boards, library binding, and a gilt spine. The autograph of the author is lacking from the Schomburg collection's copy.
2. Library has autographed copy.

Author

1. Detweiler, Frederick G. (Frederick German), 1881-1960.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Physical medium

1. 8vo. rdabf

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 1924, column 1, row 5

Source

1. Copy in Sc 071-D (Detweiler, F. Negro press in the United States) A928577. NN

Connect to:

1. Full text available via HathiTrust
2. Library of Congress digital copy

Place of publication

1. United States Illinois Chicago.

Added author

1. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
2. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948, collection librarian.

Other form:

1. Online version: Detweiler, Frederick German, 1881-1960. Negro press in the United States. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press [1922] (OCoLC)592569353

LCCN

1. 23026022