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Description

1. 1 volume (49 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1921-1934) is about the country of Egypt, and contains ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings in this scrapbook primarily focus on Ancient Egypt, including archaeological digs, opening of tombs and their contents, and explorations of Ancient Egyptian culture. Clippings also cover the 1921 Egyptian election, the opening of the Egyptian hall at the Brooklyn Museum, and the excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza.
2. Publications includes African American newspapers Chicago Defender, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), and Philadelphia Tribune, as well as the New York Times and New York World Telegram. 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. Chicago defender.

Alternative title

1. Egypt
2. Negro world
3. Philadelphia tribune

Subject

1. Lythgoe, Albert M. 1868-1934
2. Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, active 14th century B.C
3. Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942
4. Tutankhamen, King of Egypt
5. Zaghloul, Saad
6. Brooklyn Museum
7. Art objects, Egyptian
8. Elections -- Egypt
9. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt
10. Great Sphinx (Egypt)
11. Egypt -- Antiquities
12. Egypt -- History -- 1919-1952
13. Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1919-1952
14. Egypt -- Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Egypt)

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 and ANR.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 5

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 : Egypt.

Production

1. 1921-1934.

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. 5

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. Egypt

Added title

1. Chicago defender.
2. Negro world
3. Philadelphia tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Egypt)