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Description

1. 5 volumes (51; 50; 50; 50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1920-1938) are about the island of Haiti, and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage is primarily on the United States occupation of Haiti, including the effect on the Haitian people and economy and the work done to remove the United States presence. Other topics include the Moton Commission (which studied education in Haiti), Haitian culture, politics, art, voodoo practices, the strained relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and a 1934 visit by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Two of the scrapbooks primarily contain French-language clippings. There are several installments of a column entitled "The Black Man in World Literature" published in the Pittsburgh Courier, highlighting Haitian authors
2. Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Amsterdam News, New York Age, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier, as well as French-language newspapers Haiti-Journal, La Lanterne, Le Mouvement, L'Opinion, Le Papyrus, and Psyche. 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. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Alternative title

1. Haiti
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Haiti-journal
6. La lanterne
7. Louisiana weekly
8. Le mouvement
9. Negro world
10. New York Amsterdam news
11. Norfolk journal and guide
12. L'opinion
13. La papyrus
14. Philadelphia tribune
15. Pittsburgh courier

Subject

1. Bellegarde, Dantès, 1877-1966
2. Borno, Louis, 1865-1942
3. Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963
4. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
5. Légitime, François Denys, 1841-1935
6. Lindbergh, Charles A. 1902-1974
7. Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803
8. Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940
9. Munro, Dana Gardner, 1892-1990
10. Pierre-Noel, Louis V
11. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
12. Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944
13. Roy, Louis Eugene, 1861-1939
14. Russell, John H. 1872-1947
15. Vincent, Sténio, 1874-1959
16. Authors, Haitian
17. Haitian American authors
18. Moton Commission -- Haiti
19. Haiti -- History -- American occupation, 1915-1934
20. Haiti -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
21. Haiti -- Politics and government -- 20th century
22. Haiti -- Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Haiti)

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 these volumes are AJ, AMC, AVR, EJ, JC, MC, and WA.
3. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson who 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. 5

Cite as (note)

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

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 : Haiti.

Production

1. 1920-1938.

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

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. Haiti

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Boston chronicle
5. Chicago bee
6. Chicago whip
7. Haiti-journal
8. La lanterne
9. Louisiana weekly
10. Le mouvement
11. Negro world
12. New York Amsterdam news
13. Norfolk journal and guide
14. L'opinion
15. La papyrus
16. Philadelphia tribune
17. Pittsburgh courier

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Haiti)