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Description

1. 3 volumes (50; 50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1912-1940) are about African American visual artists and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily articles highlighting African American artists, including W.E. Braxton, Mabel Randolph Brooks, Richard Lonsdale Brown, Aaron Douglas, Palmer C. Hayden, Sargent Johnson, and O. Richard Reid. Coverage also includes notices of shows and exhibits, reviews of shows and exhibits, and awards won by African American artists. There are several articles about African American architects included as well. These scrapbooks include many flyers and programs for both Harlem and New York City based art exhibits, including clippings noting exhibits at the 135th St. branch of the New York Public Library (later the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture).
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Interstate Tattler (New York), Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New Age Dispatch (Los Angeles), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as 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

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. Negroes - Art
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Interstate tattler
6. Negro world
7. New age dispatch
8. New York Amsterdam news
9. Norfolk journal and guide
10. Philadelphia tribune
11. St. Louis argus
12. Washington tribune

Subject

1. Braxton, William Ernest, 1878-1932
2. Brooks, Mabel Randolph, 1899-
3. Brown, Richard Lonsdale, 1886-1915
4. Hayden, Palmer C., 1890-1973
5. Johnson, Sargent, 1888-1967
6. Reid, O. Richard 1898-
7. African American architects -- 20th century
8. African American artists -- 20th century
9. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Negroes - Art)

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, A Mcd, AVR, CMN, EMN, EW, JC, JP, MN, MPT, 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 of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 12

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 : Negroes - Art.

Production

1. 1912-1940.

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. 12

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. Negroes - Art

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. Chicago bee
7. Chicago whip
8. Interstate tattler
9. Negro world
10. New age dispatch
11. New York Amsterdam news
12. Norfolk journal and guide
13. Philadelphia tribune
14. St. Louis argus
15. Washington tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Negroes - Art)