Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections
- Title
- Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.
- Author
Collection information
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 17 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 17 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 16 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 16 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 15 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 15 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 14 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 14 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 13 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 13 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 13 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 13 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 12 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 12 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 12 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 12 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 11 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 11 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 11 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 11 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 11 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 11 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 10 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 10 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 10 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 10 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 10 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 10 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 9 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 9 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 9 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 9 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 9 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 9 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 8 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 8 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 8 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 8 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details. | ContainerBox 8 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc MG 599 Box 8 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)
- Summary
- The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
- Alternative title
- Helen Armstead-Johnson Collection
- Subject
- Aldridge, Ira Frederick, 1807-1867
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
- Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
- Bubbles, John W
- Byrd, Sam, 1908-
- Croxton, Darryl
- Dafora, Asadata, 1890-1965
- Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983
- Dunham, Katherine
- Handy, W. C. 1873-1958
- Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Jarboro, Caterina
- Jessye, Eva, 1895-1992
- John, Henry
- Johnson, Hall, 1888-1970
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
- Mapp, Jim
- Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983
- Miller, Bessie Oliver, 1888-1974
- Mitchell, Abbie
- Muse, Clarence
- Parker, Dolores
- Pomare, Eleo
- René, Leon, 1902-
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
- Saunders, Gertrude
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001
- Shepp, Archie
- Sidney, Jay
- Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975
- South, Eddie
- Thompson, Ulysses S
- Troy, Henry
- Whipper, Leigh R. 1877-1975
- Williams, Fess, 1894-1975
- National Negro Opera Company
- Norton and Margot (Dance team)
- Lafayette Theatre Players
- Playward Bus Thater
- African American authors
- African American actors
- African American artists
- African American choral conductors
- African American comedians
- African American composers
- African American dramatists
- African American musicians
- African American poets
- African American singers
- African American women entertainers
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American dancers
- Choreographers
- Authors, Black
- American drama -- African American authors
- African American theater
- African American dance
- Music publishing
- Musicals
- Opera
- Genre/Form
- Plays.
- Call number
- Sc MG 599
- Note
- The bulk of the photographs, artifacts and audio-visual materials making up the Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection were either not associated with the manuscripts collections or were allocated to the Photographs and Prints Division, the Arts and Artifacts Division or the Moving Images and Recorded Sound Division, respectively upon receipt of the collection by the Center. Any photographs and artifacts separated while processing the miscellaneous collections were transferred to the appropriate divisions and are identified by a "See Also" note following the collection's description.
- Source (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson;
- Armstead-Johnson, Helen
- Biography (note)
- Helen Armstead-Johnson began conducting research into African American theater following a chance meeting in 1966 with Noble Sissle (1889-1975), musician, band conductor and show business partner of composer Eubie Blake. As a result of her interest in Black theater, she established The Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research in February 1974 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, documenting and exhibiting the history of Black contributions to the American stage. As the Foundation's director her research and other activities for the Foundation took her across the United States, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia enabling her to acquire materials.
- Provenance (note)
- The Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections consist of materials gathered by Helen-Armstead Johnson from Amanda Aldridge (pseud. Ring, Montague), Bessie Oliver Miller, Ulysses S. Thompson, Leigh Whipper, Fess Williams and Margot Webb,and others over various periods. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center
- Linking entry (note)
- Forms parts of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Processing action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Author
- Johnson, Helen A.
- Title
- Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.
- Biography
- Helen Armstead-Johnson began conducting research into African American theater following a chance meeting in 1966 with Noble Sissle (1889-1975), musician, band conductor and show business partner of composer Eubie Blake. As a result of her interest in Black theater, she established The Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research in February 1974 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, documenting and exhibiting the history of Black contributions to the American stage. As the Foundation's director her research and other activities for the Foundation took her across the United States, Europe, Africa, South America and Australia enabling her to acquire materials.
- Provenance
- The Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections consist of materials gathered by Helen-Armstead Johnson from Amanda Aldridge (pseud. Ring, Montague), Bessie Oliver Miller, Ulysses S. Thompson, Leigh Whipper, Fess Williams and Margot Webb,and others over various periods. It was subsequently donated by Helen Armstead-Johnson along with other theater related collections to the Schomburg Center
- Linking entry
- Forms parts of: Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Ring, Montague.
- Miller, Bessie Oliver, 1888-1974.
- Thompson, Ulysses S.
- Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975.
- Williams, Fess, 1894-1975.
- Webb, Margot.
- Research call number
- Sc MG 599