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Daniel Alexander Payne Murray letters
- Title
- Daniel Alexander Payne Murray letters, 1900.
- Author
- Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| Status | Container | 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. | folder 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 76 folder 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937.
- Description
- 10 items (one folder)
- Summary
- The Daniel Alexander Payne Murray Collection consists of four autograph letters of inquiry to Wilberforce Eames, librarian of the Lenox Library in New York, and two circulars to black authors and publishers of books relating to blacks.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- Removed from "Preliminary List of Books and Pamphlets by Negro Authors"by Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1900).
- Biography (note)
- Born in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray was an African-American bibliographer and historian who served as an assistant to the Librarian of Congress from 1881 to 1923.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 76 (MALP)
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A29
- Author
- Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925.
- Title
- Daniel Alexander Payne Murray letters, 1900.
- Biography
- Born in 1852 in Baltimore, Maryland, Daniel Alexander Payne Murray was an African-American bibliographer and historian who served as an assistant to the Librarian of Congress from 1881 to 1923. Murray compiled several extensive bibliographies of books and pamphlets on the black experience worldwide. He curated an exhibition on the same theme at the 1900 Paris Exposition, which became part of the permanent collection at the Library of Congress. He died in 1925.
- Source
- SCM 86-58
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 76 (MALP)