Research Catalog
Harry Belafonte papers.
- Title
- Harry Belafonte papers.
- Author
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
- Publication
- 1872-2017, bulk 1946 - 2005.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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121 Items
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 1 | Offsite | |
| box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 2 | Offsite | |
| box 3 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 3 | Offsite | |
| box 4 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 4 | Offsite | |
| box 5 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 5 | Offsite | |
| box 6 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 6 | Offsite | |
| box 7 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 7 | Offsite | |
| box 8 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 8 | Offsite | |
| box 9 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 9 | Offsite | |
| box 10 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 10 | Offsite | |
| box 11 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 11 | Offsite | |
| box 12 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 12 | Offsite | |
| box 13 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 13 | Offsite | |
| box 14 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 14 | Offsite | |
| box 15 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 15 | Offsite | |
| box 16 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 16 | Offsite | |
| box 17 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 17 | Offsite | |
| box 18 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 18 | Offsite | |
| box 19 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 19 | Offsite | |
| box 20 | Mixed material | Request in advance | Sc MG 933 box 20 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 40.87 linear feet (113 boxes, 4 oversize folders, 4 tubes); 7.9 megabytes (124 computer files)
- Summary
- Harry Belafonte is a Jamaican-American musician, actor, and activist best known for popularizing calypso music with international audiences, and his involvement in the American Civil Rights movement. His collection contains project files, correspondence, scrapbooks, press materials, scores, lyrics, and scripts that chronicle his career as a singer, songwriter, actor, public speaker, and advocate for political and humanitarian causes. Belafonte's papers reveal the business aspects of his performance projects, source material for his acting and singing career, and organizing efforts associated with the political causes he championed.
- Subjects
- Musicians
- Civil rights activists
- Actors
- Scripts (documents)
- Scores
- Programs
- Posters
- Notated music
- Correspondence
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Albums (Books)
- South Africa > Politics and government > 20th century
- Television personalities
- Screenwriters
- Politicians > United States > Correspondence
- Musicians, Black
- Jamaican Americans
- Folk musicians
- Calypso (Music)
- Authors, Black
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African Americans > Political activity
- African Americans > Civil rights > History
- African American singers
- African American civil rights workers
- Actors, Black
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Poitier, Sidney
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Genre/Form
- Albums (Books)
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence.
- Notated music.
- Posters.
- Programs.
- Scores.
- Scripts (documents)
- Source (note)
- Purchased from Harry Belafonte in 2019.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Harry Belafonte photograph collection, SCP 186084, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, https://archives.nypl.org/scp/186084.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 933
- OCLC
- 1322256784
- Author
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, creator.
- Title
- Harry Belafonte papers.
- Production
- 1872-2017, bulk 1946 - 2005.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediatedcomputer
- Type of Carrier
- sheetother
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Materials Separated from the Resource: Audio and moving image materials have been transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270. Photographs have been transferred to The Schomburg Center's Prints and Photographs division. Artwork and artifacts have been transferred to The Schomburg Center's Art and Artifacts division.Harry Belafonte photograph collection, SCP 186084, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, https://archives.nypl.org/scp/186084.
- Source
- Purchased from Harry Belafonte in 2019.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actors.Civil rights activists.Musicians.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 933