Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Calvin, Floyd, 1902-1959

Description

1. 1 volume (50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1923-1937) is about journalism in the African American community and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings primarily cover the milestones, histories, and workings of African American newspapers like the Chicago Defender, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, and Philadelphia Tribune. Other topics include profiles of African American journalists, the creation of Freedom's Journal, the first African American newspaper by John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish, the space for African American women journalists, the need for a national African American newspaper, and the lack of African American newspapers among the holdings of the Library of Congress at the time.
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Interstate Tattler, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, New York New, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as Daily Worker and New York Times. Not all clippings contain date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform title

1. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Journalism
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Interstate tattler
6. Louisiana weekly
7. Negro world
8. St. Louis argus
9. Washington tribune

Subject

1. Boozer, Thelma Berlack, 1906-
2. Russwurm, John Brown, 1799-1851
3. National Negro Press Association
4. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
5. Chicago defender
6. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. News (New York, N.Y. : 1919)
9. Norfolk journal and guide
10. Philadelphia tribune
11. West Indian times
12. African American journalists
13. African American newspapers
14. African American newspaper editors
15. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Journalism)

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, CMN, JC, MN, MS, MW, VK, and WA.
3. Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials VK likely belong to Vincent Kerr, Assistant Research Worker, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 8

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 : Journalism.

Production

1. 1923-1937

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. 8

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.

Added author

1. Calvin, Floyd, 1902-1959.

Spine title

1. Journalism

Added title

1. Pittsburgh courier.
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Interstate tattler
6. Louisiana weekly
7. Negro world
8. St. Louis argus
9. Washington tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Journalism)