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Joseph Boromé research and writings on opera

Title: Joseph Boromé research and writings on opera, 1931-1976.
Author: Boromé, Joseph Alfred, 1919-2002.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 06-23 Box 1	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 06-23 Box 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 06-23 Box 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 06-23 Box 4	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 06-23 Box 5	Offsite

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Description

1.67 linear feet (5 boxes )

Summary

The Joseph Boromé research and writings on opera consist primarily of Boromé's correspondence, research materials, and manuscript drafts of published and unpublished writings on opera and related topics in music history.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Correspondence.
Manuscripts (documents)

Source (note)

Boromé, Joseph

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Biography (note)

Joseph Alfred Boromé (1919-2002) was a longtime professor of history at City College in New York, who specialized in African American and Caribbean studies, but who also had other research interests, including library history and music history. Born in New York City, Boromé's parents were from the island of Dominica. He worked as a page at the Schomburg Library and received an associate's degree from City College in 1942. Boromé earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University, where he also worked as a librarian from 1943 to 1950 (serving as head of the Burgess Library from 1949 to 1950). His master's thesis, Popular Priced Opera in New York City: A History and Analysis, was completed in 1945. Boromé was awarded fellowships from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the American Council of Learned Societies in the late 1940s to undertake research on the nineteenth century librarian and historian Justin Winsor, the research topic of his dissertation. He also published a biography, Charles Coffin Jewett (1951), and was a reviewer for Library Journal and New York History magazine. Boromé served on the faculty of City College from 1950 to 1984 and compiled and edited the correspondence of such diverse figures as John Candler, Hiram Revels, and Toussaint Louverture. He also wrote extensively on Dominica and other Caribbean countries.

Language (note)

While English predominates throughout the collection, there is a significant amount of correspondence and research materials in Italian, as well as some items in French, German, Russian, and Spanish.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 06-23

OCLC

122532994

Author

Boromé, Joseph Alfred, 1919-2002.

Title

Joseph Boromé research and writings on opera, 1931-1976.

Biography

Joseph Alfred Boromé (1919-2002) was a longtime professor of history at City College in New York, who specialized in African American and Caribbean studies, but who also had other research interests, including library history and music history. Born in New York City, Boromé's parents were from the island of Dominica. He worked as a page at the Schomburg Library and received an associate's degree from City College in 1942. Boromé earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University, where he also worked as a librarian from 1943 to 1950 (serving as head of the Burgess Library from 1949 to 1950). His master's thesis, Popular Priced Opera in New York City: A History and Analysis, was completed in 1945. Boromé was awarded fellowships from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and the American Council of Learned Societies in the late 1940s to undertake research on the nineteenth century librarian and historian Justin Winsor, the research topic of his dissertation. He also published a biography, Charles Coffin Jewett (1951), and was a reviewer for Library Journal and New York History magazine. Boromé served on the faculty of City College from 1950 to 1984 and compiled and edited the correspondence of such diverse figures as John Candler, Hiram Revels, and Toussaint Louverture. He also wrote extensively on Dominica and other Caribbean countries.

Location of Other Archival Materials

See also Joseph Boromé collection and Joseph Boromé papers (SC MG 714) in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

See also Joseph Alfred Boromé papers (Native American Collection, #9164) in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Language

While English predominates throughout the collection, there is a significant amount of correspondence and research materials in Italian, as well as some items in French, German, Russian, and Spanish.

Indexes