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Description

1. 1 volume (23 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1933-1965) is about tourism in Haiti and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. Topics include the 1949 Haitian International Exposition, Haitian culture, infrastructure improvements, voodoo, and several recaps of tourist trips to the country. 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. Haiti Description and Travel

Subject

1. Haitian International Exposition 1949
2. Culture and tourism -- Haiti -- 20th century
3. Infrastructure (Economics) -- Haiti -- 20th century
4. Haiti -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
5. Port-au-Prince (Haiti)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Haiti Description and Travel)

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. 6

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 : Haiti Description and Travel.

Production

1. 1933-1965.

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. 6

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. Haiti Description and Travel

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Haiti Description and Travel)