Research Catalog

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Description

1. 27.86 linear feet (59 boxes, 4 volumes)

Summary

1. Hilda Simms (1920-1994) was an actress best known for playing the title role in the American Negro Theater production of Anna Lucasta that moved successfully to Broadway in 1944. Her acting career also included film, television, and radio broadcasts. The Hilda Simms papers date from the 1930s to 1994 (bulk dates 1940s-1950s) and document her career as an actress; her work on creative arts and drug treatment programs in New York; and her personal life.

Subject

1. Angarola, Richard, 1920-2008. - [Browse in index]
2. Addiction Research Center (U.S.) - [Browse in index]
3. New York (State). State Commission for Human Rights. - [Browse in index]
4. American Negro Theatre. - [Browse in index]
5. African American radio stations. - [Browse in index]
6. African Americans in motion pictures. - [Browse in index]
7. African Americans in television broadcasting. - [Browse in index]
8. African Americans in the performing arts. - [Browse in index]
9. Artists and community. - [Browse in index]
10. Arts -- Therapeutic use. - [Browse in index]
11. Black people in the performing arts. - [Browse in index]
12. Community arts projects. - [Browse in index]
13. Live radio programs. - [Browse in index]
14. Motion pictures and television. - [Browse in index]
15. Women in the performing arts. - [Browse in index]

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Correspondence.
3. Diaries.
4. Moving images.
5. Notes.
6. Photographs.
7. Printed ephemera.
8. Programs (documents)
9. Reports.
10. Scripts (documents)
11. Sound recordings.
12. Souvenirs.
13. Writings (documents)

Call number

1. Sc MG 539

Language

1. English

Access (note)

1. Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction. Sound recordings and moving images are unavailable pending digitization.

Terms of use (note)

1. Information on copyright available from repository.

Source (note)

1. Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.

Location of other archival materials (note)

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

Author

1. Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994, creator.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Location of other archival materials

1. Hilda Simms photograph collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
2. Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Actresses, Black.
2. African American actresses.
3. African American entertainers.
4. Women entertainers.