Research Catalog
Hilda Simms papers
- Title
- Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
- Author
- Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| volume 4 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 volume 4 | Offsite | |
| volume 3 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 volume 3 | Offsite | |
| volume 2 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 volume 2 | Offsite | |
| volume 1 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 volume 1 | Offsite | |
| box 1 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 1 | Offsite | |
| box 2 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 2 | Offsite | |
| box 3 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 3 | Offsite | |
| box 4 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 4 | Offsite | |
| box 5 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 5 | Offsite | |
| box 6 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 6 | Offsite | |
| box 7 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 7 | Offsite | |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 8 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 8 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 9 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 9 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 10 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 10 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 11 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 11 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 12 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 12 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 13 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 13 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 14 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 14 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 15 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 15 | Offsite |
Not available - In use until 2024-01-25 - Please for assistance. | box 16 | Mixed material | Restricted use | Sc MG 539 box 16 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 27.86 linear feet (59 boxes, 4 volumes)
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Black people in the performing arts
- Writings (documents)
- Printed ephemera
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- New York (State) > State Commission for Human Rights
- Artists and community
- African American entertainers
- Motion pictures and television
- Actresses, Black
- Programs (documents)
- Addiction Research Center (U.S.)
- African American actresses
- Community arts projects
- Correspondence
- Women entertainers
- Live radio programs
- American Negro Theatre
- Arts > Therapeutic use
- Women in the performing arts
- Angarola, Richard, 1920-2008
- Souvenirs
- Sound recordings
- African Americans in motion pictures
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Photographs
- Reports
- Notes
- African American radio stations
- Diaries
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Moving images
- Scripts (documents)
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Moving images.
- Notes.
- Photographs.
- Printed ephemera.
- Programs (documents)
- Reports.
- Scripts (documents)
- Sound recordings.
- Souvenirs.
- Writings (documents)
- Access (note)
- 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)
- Information on copyright available from repository.
- Source (note)
- Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 539
- OCLC
- 973733226
- Author
- Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994, creator.
- Title
- Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Restricted Access
- 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
- Information on copyright available from repository.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Hilda Simms photograph collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
- Source
- Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actresses, Black.African American actresses.African American entertainers.Women entertainers.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 539