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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records

Title: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, 1924-1979.
Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 308	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 44 Box 308	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 307	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 44 Box 307	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 306	Mixed material	Restricted use	Sc MG 44 Box 306	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 305	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 305	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 304	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 304	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 303	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 303	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 302	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 302	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 301	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 301	Offsite
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How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 296	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 296	Offsite
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How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 294	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 294	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 293	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 293	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 292	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 292	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 291	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 291	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 290	Mixed material	Request in advance	Sc MG 44 Box 290	Offsite
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24 lin. ft.

Summary

Records of the Schomburg Center document the activities pertinent to the organization, expansion, and development of the library. Collection covers the administration and curatorship of Ernestine Rose, Catherine Latimer, Arthur A. Schomburg, Lawrence D. Reddick, Dorothy Williams, and Jean Blackwell Hutson. General correspondence consists largely of letters of appreciation, invitations, donations, and proposals. Reference correspondence requests information about black history and culture and the resources of the Center. Memoranda with New York Public Library departments such as the Business Manager's Office, Personnel Officer, Adult Services Office, Accounting Office, Photographic Service, Manhattan Borough Office, Office of Branch Libraries, and Research Libraries Administrative Office. Memoranda concern the internal business affairs of the Schomburg Center. Files contain articles and reports of curators, statistical reports, and exhibition files. Subjects include art, Ira Aldridge Society, W.E.B. Du Bois Presentation, Harmon Foundation, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, National Urban League, North Manhattan Project, and the controversial exhibition presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled "Harlem on My Mind." Also, a visitor's register.

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One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

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Call Number

Sc MG 44

OCLC

122455501

Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Title

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture records, 1924-1979.

Biography

One of the foremost repositories in the world for the collection and preservation of materials documenting the history and culture of blacks throughout the world. The Schomburg Center collects books, periodicals, archival and audiovisual material, photographs, and art. It was established in 1926 with the purchase of bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of over 5,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and prints by the New York Public Library for the Division of Negro History, Literature and Prints of the 135th Street Branch Library.

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Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995.

Collings, Dorothy.

Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 44

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