Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961.
2. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948.
3. Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.
4. Collings, Dorothy.
5. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

Description

1. 24 lin. ft.

Summary

1. Records of the Schomburg Center document the activities pertinent to the organization, expansion, and development of the library. Collection covers the administration and curatorship of Ernestine Rose, Catherine Latimer, Arthur A. Schomburg, Lawrence D. Reddick, Dorothy Williams, and Jean Blackwell Hutson. General correspondence consists largely of letters of appreciation, invitations, donations, and proposals. Reference correspondence requests information about black history and culture and the resources of the Center. Memoranda with New York Public Library departments such as the Business Manager's Office, Personnel Officer, Adult Services Office, Accounting Office, Photographic Service, Manhattan Borough Office, Office of Branch Libraries, and Research Libraries Administrative Office. Memoranda concern the internal business affairs of the Schomburg Center. Files contain articles and reports of curators, statistical reports, and exhibition files. Subjects include art, Ira Aldridge Society, W.E.B. Du Bois Presentation, Harmon Foundation, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Urban League, North Manhattan Project, and the controversial exhibition presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled "Harlem on My Mind." Also, a visitor's register.

Subject

1. Black people > History
2. Archives > New York (State) > New York
3. African Americans > History
4. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
5. Libraries and community > New York (State) > New York
6. African American librarians > New York (State) > New York
7. African American art
8. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
9. Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961
10. African Americans > Study and teaching
11. African Americans and libraries > New York (State) > New York
12. North Manhattan/Central Harlem Project
13. Art, African
14. National Urban League
15. Ira Aldridge Society
16. Collings, Dorothy
17. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
18. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948
19. African Americans > Societies, etc
20. Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995
21. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
22. New York Public Library
23. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
24. Art museums > Educational aspects > New York (State) > New York
25. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
26. Public libraries > New York (State) > New York

Call number

1. Sc MG 44

Source (note)

1. NIC

Biography (note)

1. One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Title

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, 1924-1979.

Biography

1. One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

Finding aids

1. Finding aid in repository.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Added author

1. Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961.
2. Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948.
3. Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.
4. Collings, Dorothy.
5. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 44