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. Black people in the performing arts
2. Writings (documents)
3. Printed ephemera
4. African Americans in television broadcasting
5. New York (State) > State Commission for Human Rights
6. Artists and community
7. African American entertainers
8. Motion pictures and television
9. Actresses, Black
10. Programs (documents)
11. Addiction Research Center (U.S.)
12. African American actresses
13. Community arts projects
14. Correspondence
15. Women entertainers
16. Live radio programs
17. American Negro Theatre
18. Arts > Therapeutic use
19. Women in the performing arts
20. Angarola, Richard, 1920-2008
21. Souvenirs
22. Sound recordings
23. African Americans in motion pictures
24. Clippings (information artifacts)
25. Photographs
26. Reports
27. Notes
28. African American radio stations
29. Diaries
30. African Americans in the performing arts
31. Moving images
32. Scripts (documents)

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

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.

Title

1. Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Restricted access

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

1. Information on copyright available from repository.

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.

Source

1. Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Occupation

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

Research call number

1. Sc MG 539