Hilda Simms papers
- Title
- Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
- Author
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Status Available by appointment. Please for assistance. | Containervolume 4 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessRestricted use | Call numberSc MG 539 volume 4 | Item locationOffsite |
Status Available by appointment. Please for assistance. | Containervolume 3 | FormatArchival Mix | AccessRestricted use | Call numberSc MG 539 volume 3 | Item locationOffsite |
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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.
- Subject
- 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)
- Call number
- Sc MG 539
- 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.
- 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