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Description

1. 1 volume (49 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1923-1935) is about the relationship between art and Africa and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes traditional African art, European and American art inspired by African art, and European and American art inspired by Africans, as well as The Races of Mankind, a major show at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
2. Publications represented include African American newspapers The Afro-American (Baltimore), Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Interstate Tattler (New York), Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus. Not all clippings include date or source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Art, Africa
2. Chicago bee
3. Interstate tattler
4. Negro world
5. Philadelphia tribune
6. St. Louis argus

Subject

1. Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918
2. Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy, 1889-1977
3. Barnes, Albert C. 1872-1951
4. Hoffman, Malvina, 1885-1966
5. American Museum of Natural History
6. Brooklyn Museum
7. Field Museum of Natural History
8. Fisk University
9. Musée du Congo belge
10. Art and anthropology -- Africa
11. Carving (Decorative arts) -- Africa
12. Decorative arts -- Africa
13. Fetishes (Ceremonial objects)
14. Masks, African
15. Sculpture -- Africa
16. Slave labor -- Africa
17. Textile fabrics -- Africa
18. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Art, Africa)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for this volume are AJ, A McD, and FNR.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1

Cite as (note)

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

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Art, Africa.

Production

1. 1923-1935.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1

Cite as:

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

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960

Local note

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 1

Spine title

1. Art, Africa

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.
5. Chicago bee
6. Interstate tattler
7. Negro world
8. Philadelphia tribune
9. St. Louis argus

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Art, Africa)