Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cordle, Edward A

Description

1. 1 volume (50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook is about Barbados between 1922 and 1939 and contains ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes a selection of poems entitled "Overheard" by Edward A. Cordle, which was originally published in the Weekly Reader newspaper, based in Bridgetown, Barbados. The pieces are written in Bajan dialect and styled as a conversation. Additional topics include colonialism, discrimination, government, labor, slavery, sugar, the sinking of the SS Vestris, and the economic riots of 1937.
2. Publications represented include African American newspapers Boston Chronicle, New York Age, Pittsburgh Courier and Voice of Ethiopia, as well as Barbados Herald, Daily Gleaner (New York), New York Daily News, and West Indian Times and American Review. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform title

1. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
2. Pittsburgh courier.
3. Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)

Alternative title

1. Barbados
2. Barbados herald
3. Boston chronicle
4. Voice of Ethiopia
5. West Indian times and American review

Subject

1. Aspinall, Algernon E. 1871-1952
2. Braithwaite, Chris, 1885-1944
3. Licorish, Lionel
4. Wheatland, Marcus (Doctor)
5. Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
6. Barbados. Legislature. House of Assembly
7. Vestris (Ship)
8. Discrimination -- Barbados -- 20th century
9. Labor -- Barbados -- 20th century
10. Slavery -- Barbados
11. Barbados -- Riot, 1937
12. Great Britain -- Colonies

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Barbados)

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, AMC, CMN, EJ, EW, JC, LS, MS, 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 : Barbados.

Production

1. 1922-1939.

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

Added author

1. Cordle, Edward A.

Spine title

1. Barbados

Added title

1. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
2. Pittsburgh courier.
3. Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)
4. Barbados herald
5. Boston chronicle
6. Voice of Ethiopia
7. West Indian times and American review

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Barbados)