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Description

1. 1 volume (35 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1927-1950) is about housing issues faced by African Americans and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Topics covered include African American housing in Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, and Philadelphia, the need for more housing for African Americans, discrimination in housing and the fight against it, attempts to clean up tenements in New York City, and the negative effects of the Depression on New York City housing. The clippings also include several articles analyzing the results of the 1930 census with regards to African American housing statistics, particularly how many African Americans owned homes across the country.
2. Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as Christian Science Monitor, 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

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
3. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Housing
2. New York Amsterdam news
3. Norfolk journal and guide
4. Philadelphia tribune
5. St. Louis argus
6. Washington tribune

Subject

1. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
2. Dunbar Apartments (New York, N.Y.)
3. Home ownership -- African Americans -- 20th century
4. African Americans -- Housing -- 20th century
5. Civil rights -- United States -- 20th century
6. Discrimination in housing
7. Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York
8. Chicago (Ill.) -- Housing -- 20th century
9. Detroit (Mich.) -- Housing -- 20th century
10. Memphis (Tenn.) -- Housing -- 20th century
11. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Housing -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing)

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 BB, DM, EMN, GG, JC, MB, MPT, MS, and MW.
3. Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, 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. 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 : Housing.

Production

1. 1927-1950.

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. Housing

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
3. Pittsburgh courier.
4. New York Amsterdam news
5. Norfolk journal and guide
6. Philadelphia tribune
7. St. Louis argus
8. Washington tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Housing)