Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Writers.

Publication

1899-1942.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Christian, Marcus Bruce, 1900-1976
• Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995
• Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973
• Sherman, Eloise Lee

Description

1 volume (53 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook (1899-1942) consists primarily of the published poetry of selected African American writers and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The poets represented include Marcus Christian, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Andy Razaf, and Eloise Lee Sherman. Additional coverage includes profiles of authors, winners of literary contests, and discussions about the place for African Americans in American literature.
• Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, New Age Dispatch (Los Angeles), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Herald Tribune and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Uniform Title

• Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
• Chicago defender.
• New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
• Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative Title

• Writers
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Louisiana weekly
• New age dispatch
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• American literature > African American authors
• African American authors > 19th century > 20th century
• Scrapbooks
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• African American poets > 19th century > 20th century
• African Americans > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Scrapbooks.

Note

• Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library
• The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for this volume are AJ, AM, AVR, CMN, EJ, EM, EW, GM, JC, JP, MB, MN, MPT, MS, MW, VK, and WA.
• 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.

Access (note)

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

Cite As (note)

• Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

• 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)

• 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.

Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Writers)

OCLC

1102416293

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Writers.

Production

1899-1942.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

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

Cite As:

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms Of Use

Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

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

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

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Christian, Marcus Bruce, 1900-1976.

Johnson, Helene, 1906-1995.

Razaf, Andy, 1895-1973.

Sherman, Eloise Lee.

Spine Title

Writers

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

Chicago defender.

New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Pittsburgh courier.

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Louisiana weekly

New age dispatch

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Writers)