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Description

1. 1 volume (40 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1926-1962) is about East Africa and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Topics include imperialism, colonialism, anthropological explorations of African culture, and the events and effects of World War II on Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Libya. Individuals mentioned include Apolo Kagwa, political leader of Uganda, and Peter Koinange, Kenyan politician.
2. Publications include African American newspapers The Afro-American (Baltimore), Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Missionary Review, New York Post, New York Times, and Newsweek. 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. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Africa, East
2. Negro world
3. New York Amsterdam news
4. Philadelphia tribune
5. St. Louis argus

Subject

1. Kadalie, Clements, 1893-1951
2. Kagwa, Apolo, Sir, 1864?-1927
3. East African Trade Union
4. Riots -- Africa
5. Colonies -- Africa
6. Commerce
7. Families -- Africa
8. Geology -- Africa
9. Industrialization -- Africa
10. Labor -- Africa
11. Leprosy -- Africa
12. Missions -- Africa
13. Nyamwezi (African people)
14. Refugees -- Africa
15. Swahili language
16. Witchcraft -- Africa
17. World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa
18. Africa, East -- Civilization -- 20th century
19. Africa, Eastern -- Civilization -- 20th century
20. Africa, East -- Politics and government -- 20th century
21. Africa, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1918-1960

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Africa, East)

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 these volumes are AJ, A McD, CSM, EJ, EW, JC, MS, MW, VK, 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. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.

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, East.

Production

1. 1926-1962.

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

Spine title

1. Africa, East

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Pittsburgh courier.
3. Negro world
4. New York Amsterdam news
5. Philadelphia tribune
6. St. Louis argus

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Africa, East)