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Description

1. 1 volume (52 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1926-1940) covers African American life in Illinois, with a focus on the city of Chicago. It contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes the 1933 World's Fair, which took place in Chicago, preparation for and reviews of O Sing a New Song, an African American musical pageant, instances of discrimination in hiring, and African Americans in Illinois politics. There is also an untitled recurring column from the Chicago Defender, profiling early African American residents of Chicago and their varied accomplishments.
2. Publications include African American newspapers Boston Chronicle, Cape Fear Journal, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as New York Times and Time magazine. 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.
2. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Illinois
2. Boston chronicle
3. Cape Fear journal
4. Chicago whip
5. Louisiana weekly
6. Negro world
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Norfolk journal and guide
9. St. Louis argus

Subject

1. Pointe de Sable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818
2. Jourdain, Edwin B., Jr., 1900-1986
3. Wright, Edward Herbert 1863-1930
4. African Americans -- History
5. African Americans -- Illinois -- 20th century
6. African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century.
7. African Americans -- Music -- 20th century
8. African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
9. Discrimination in employment -- Illinois -- 20th century
10. Quality of life -- Illinois -- 20th century
11. Brooklyn (Lee County, Ill.)
12. Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Illinois)

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, AM, AMC, AVR, CMN, EJ, JC, MPT, MS, and MW.
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.

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 : Illinois.

Production

1. 1926-1940.

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. Illinois

Added title

1. Chicago defender.
2. Pittsburgh courier.
3. Boston chronicle
4. Cape Fear journal
5. Chicago whip
6. Louisiana weekly
7. Negro world
8. New York Amsterdam news
9. Norfolk journal and guide
10. St. Louis argus

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Illinois)