Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Soldiers.

Publication

1907-1938.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook (1907-1938) is about African American soldiers and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Several wars are covered, including the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I. Topics include the accomplishments of African American soldiers and regiments, discrimination in the Army, criticism of African American soldiers in World War I, and the activities of members of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization for Union Civil War veterans.
• Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, New York Age, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Herald Tribune and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform Title

• Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
• Chicago defender.
• New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
• Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative Title

• Soldiers
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• United States > Army
• Grand Army of the Republic
• African American soldiers
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Davis, Benjamin O., 1880-1970
• Scrapbooks

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library
• The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for this volume are AJ, CMN, ETP, EW, GM, JC, LS, MB, MN, MS, VK, and WA.
• Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 16

Cite As (note)

• Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

• 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)

• 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.

Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Soldiers)

OCLC

1098061835

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Soldiers.

Production

1907-1938.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 16

Cite As:

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms Of Use

Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

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

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

Soldiers

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Soldiers)