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Description

1. 1 volume (48 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1926-1946) is about West Africa and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes the customs and culture of the region, education, agriculture, the status of religious missionary work, and forms of communication. The countries covered include Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
2. Publications represented include African American newspapers The Afro-American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Defender, Interstate Tattler (New York), Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as Life magazine, Literary Digest, Missionary Review, New York Post, New York Times, and Time magazine. 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. Africa, West
2. Boston chronicle
3. Interstate tattler
4. Norfolk journal and guide
5. Louisiana weekly
6. Negro world
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Philadelphia tribune
9. St. Louis argus

Subject

1. Missions -- Africa, West
2. Slavery -- Africa, West
3. World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa, West
4. Africa, West -- Agriculture -- 20th century
5. Africa, West -- Civilization -- 20th century
6. Africa, West -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
7. Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
8. Africa, West -- Education -- 20th century
9. Africa, West -- Description and travel -- 20th century
10. Africa, French-speaking West -- 20th century
11. Angola -- 20th century
12. Benin -- 20th century
13. Burkina Faso -- 20th century
14. Cameroon -- 20th century
15. Côte d'Ivoire -- 20th century
16. Gambia -- 20th century
17. Ghana -- 20th century
18. Mali -- 20th century
19. Mauritania -- 20th century
20. Nigeria -- 20th century
21. Senegal -- 20th century
22. Sierra Leone -- 20th century
23. Togo -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Africa, West)

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 A McD, CMN, EJ, EW, FNR, JC, MPT, MS, MW, and WA.
3. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch.

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 : Africa, West.

Production

1. 1926-1946.

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. Africa, West

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. Boston chronicle
6. Interstate tattler
7. Norfolk journal and guide
8. Louisiana weekly
9. Negro world
10. New York Amsterdam news
11. Philadelphia tribune
12. St. Louis argus

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Africa, West)