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Half a man : the status of the Negro in New York
- Title
- Half a man : the status of the Negro in New York / by Mary White Ovington ; with a foreword by Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University.
- Author
- Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951.
- Publication
- New York ; London ; Bombay ; Calcutta : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc 309.174-O (Ovington, M. W. Half a man. 1911 ed.) | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc 309.174-O (Ovington, M. W. Half a man. 1911 ed.) | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IEC (Ovington, M. W. Half a man) | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, [1], 236 p.; 20 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Ink stamps (Provenance)
- Note
- With a half-title.
- "Copyright, 1911, by Longmans, Green, and Co."--verso of title page.
- "The Plimpton Press (W.D.O.) Norwood, Mass. U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page (parenthesis subtituted for square brackets in transcription.)
- "This investigation was carried on ... under the auspices of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations ..."--Foreword, p. ix.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Provenance (note)
- with the ink stamp: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- "Up from slavery" -- Where the Negro lives -- The child of the tenement -- Earning a living, manual labor and the trades -- Earning a living, business and the professions -- The colored woman as a bread winner -- Rich and poor -- The Negro and the municipality -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc 309.174-O (Ovington, M. W. Half a man. 1911 ed.)
- LCCN
- 11016291
- OCLC
- 5636584
- NYPGR5636584-B
- Author
- Ovington, Mary White, 1865-1951.
- Title
- Half a man : the status of the Negro in New York / by Mary White Ovington ; with a foreword by Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University.
- Imprint
- New York ; London ; Bombay ; Calcutta : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 309.174-O (copy 2) (accession no. B594385) with the ink stamp: "Arthur A. Schomburg 205 West 115th Street" ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Local Note
- Copy 2 in: Sc 309.174-O is from the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection.
- Added Author
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations.Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.Plimpton Press, printer.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 309.174-O (Ovington, M. W. Half a man. 1911 ed.)IEC (Ovington, M. W. Half a man)