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Description

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

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1930-1934) is about the play "The Green Pastures" by Marc Connelly and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes reviews of the play on Broadway and on tour, profiles of the actors, the winning of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, commemoration of 1,000 performances, and the deaths of actors Wesley Hill, who played the character Gabriel, and Salem Tutt Whitney, who played the character Noah. There are a number of clippings about Richard B. Harrison, who played the character "De Lawd."
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Defender, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement and Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, and Pittsburgh Courier, as well as New York Herald Tribune 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. Theatre Green Pastures
2. Boston chronicle
3. Negro world
4. New York Amsterdam news
5. Norfolk journal and guide

Subject

1. Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980
2. Harrison, Richard B
3. Hill, Wesley
4. Whitney, Salem Tutt
5. African American actors
6. African American theater
7. African Americans in the performing arts

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Theatre Green Pastures)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 18

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 : Theatre Green Pastures.

Production

1. 1930-1934.

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. 18

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. Theatre Green Pastures

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. Negro world
7. New York Amsterdam news
8. Norfolk journal and guide

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Theatre Green Pastures)