Research Catalog

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Description

1. 2 volumes (48; 64 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1886-1939 [bulk 1920-1939]) provide a sample of African American history and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage in these scrapbooks is vast, including the lack of African American representation in history education, profiles of accomplished individuals, the presence of African American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, prominent individuals of African American ancestry, African American book collectors, historical contributions of African Americans, and the need to erect monuments to historic African American figures. There are several clippings that mention both Arthur Schomburg and the 135th St. branch of the New York Public Library. There are also several recurring columns, including "Interesting Facts About the Negro," "Questions and Answers in Negro History," and surveys of the years 1925, 1927, 1929, and 1930, which sum up the previous year in African American life.
2. Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Cape Fear Journal, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Cleveland Herald, Interstate Tattler, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus. 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)
4. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. History
2. Boston chronicle
3. Cape Fear journal
4. Chicago bee
5. Chicago whip
6. Cleveland herald
7. Interstate tattler
8. Louisiana weekly
9. New York Amsterdam news
10. Norfolk journal and guide
11. Philadelphia tribune
12. St. Louis argus
13. Negro world

Subject

1. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
2. De Priest, Oscar, 1871-1951
3. Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815-1882
4. Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844-1922
5. Jesus Christ -- African American interpretations
6. Parsons, Lucy E. 1853-1942
7. Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695
8. Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957
9. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
10. Seifert, Charles C
11. Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915
12. African Americans -- History
13. African American soldiers
14. Slavery -- America -- History
15. Social sciences and history
16. Africa -- History
17. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
18. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (History)

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, CMN, EJ, EMN, JC, JP, MS, VK, and WA.
3. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, assigned to the 135th St. branch of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 7

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 : History.

Production

1. 1886-1939.

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. 7

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. History

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.
5. Boston chronicle
6. Cape Fear journal
7. Chicago bee
8. Chicago whip
9. Cleveland herald
10. Interstate tattler
11. Louisiana weekly
12. New York Amsterdam news
13. Norfolk journal and guide
14. Philadelphia tribune
15. St. Louis argus
16. Negro world

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (History)