Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 volume (52 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1946-1949) is about baseball player Jackie Robinson and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. Coverage includes Robinson's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers, making him the first African American Major League Baseball player, his performance after being signed, opinion pieces about his signing, and his being named Rookie of the Year in 1947. There is also a ten-part recurring column in the Brooklyn Eagle entitled "Jackie Robinson Tells His Story."
2. Publications include New York Herald Tribune, 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

Alternative title

1. Robinson, Jackie

Subject

1. Rickey, Branch, 1881-1965
2. Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
3. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
4. Major League Baseball (Organization)
5. African American baseball players -- 20th century
6. Baseball -- United States -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Robinson, Jackie)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 15

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 : Robinson, Jackie.

Production

1. 1946-1949.

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. 15

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. Robinson, Jackie

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Robinson, Jackie)