Research Catalog

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Description

1. 2 volumes (50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1926-1936) are about orator, educator, and journalist William Pickens and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily recurring columns written by Pickens in several different African American newspapers about topics pertaining to the African American community, including segregation, Communism, lynching, Cuba, Haiti, Russia, the future of African Americans, the effect of the Great Depression, Marcus Garvey, and Langston Hughes.
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, 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, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune. 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. Pittsburgh courier.
4. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Alternative title

1. Pickens, Wm
2. Boston chronicle
3. Chicago bee
4. Chicago whip
5. Louisiana weekly
6. Negro world
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Norfolk journal and guide
9. Philadelphia tribune
10. St. Louis argus
11. Washington tribune

Subject

1. Pickens, William, 1881-1954.
2. African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
3. African American educators -- 20th century.
4. African American journalists -- 20th century.

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Pickens, Wm.)

Language

1. English

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, AVR, CMN, EJ, JC, MN, 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, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch through the Works Progress Administration.
4. For more information about William Pickens, see the William Pickens papers (SC Micro R-993) and William Pickens papers (Additions) (SC Micro R-4463)

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 13

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.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume