Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

Description

1. 4 volumes (53; 53; 35; 30 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1942-1963) are about housing issues faced by African Americans in New York City and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes discrimination in housing (with a focus on Stuyvesant Town in New York City), the passage of the Sharkey Brown Isaacs bill which outlawed housing bias in New York City, the attempts to take an anti-housing bias bill statewide, the unsanitary conditions and frequent closure of slum apartments, and unfair evictions of African American tenants. Publications include African American newspaper the New York Age, as well as The Daily Worker (New York), New York Post, and New York Times. 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)

Alternative title

1. Housing NYC

Subject

1. Glen Cove (N.Y.)
2. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
3. Sharkey Brown Isaacs bill
4. Tenement houses > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
5. New York City Housing Authority
6. Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.)
7. Low-income housing > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
8. Scrapbooks
9. Wagner, Robert F (Robert Ferdinand), 1910-1991
10. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
11. Civil rights > United States
12. Clippings (information artifacts)
13. African Americans > Housing > 20th century
14. Impellitteri, Vincent R (Vincent Richard), 1900-1987
15. Parkchester (New York, N.Y.)
16. Discrimination in housing > New York (State) > New York > 20th century
17. Knickerbocker Village > New York (State) > New York
18. Manhattanville (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing NYC)

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 member in these volumes is EI.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 7

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 : Housing NYC.

Production

1. 1942-1963.

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. 7

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. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. My day.

Spine title

1. Housing NYC

Added title

1. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing NYC)