Research Catalog
Hilda Simms papers
- Title
- Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
- Author
- Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994
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Details
- Description
- 27.86 linear feet (59 boxes, 4 volumes)
- Summary
- Hilda Simms (1920-1994) was an actress best known for playing the title role in the American Negro Theater production of Anna Lucasta that moved successfully to Broadway in 1944. Her acting career also included film, television, and radio broadcasts. The Hilda Simms papers date from the 1930s to 1994 (bulk dates 1940s-1950s) and document her career as an actress; her work on creative arts and drug treatment programs in New York; and her personal life.
- Subjects
- Live radio programs
- Correspondence
- Addiction Research Center (U.S.)
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Programs (documents)
- Artists and community
- Arts > Therapeutic use
- Reports
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- Blacks in the performing arts
- Motion pictures and television
- Community arts projects
- Writings (documents)
- African Americans in motion pictures
- Diaries
- African American radio stations
- Angarola, Richard, 1920-2008
- Photographs
- African American entertainers
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Notes
- African American actresses
- Scripts (documents)
- Women entertainers
- Souvenirs
- Women in the performing arts
- Sound recordings
- New York (State) > State Commission for Human Rights
- Printed ephemera
- American Negro Theatre
- Actresses, Black
- Moving images
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence.
- Diaries.
- Moving images.
- Notes.
- Photographs.
- Printed ephemera.
- Programs (documents)
- Reports.
- Scripts (documents)
- Sound recordings.
- Souvenirs.
- Writings (documents)
- Access (note)
- Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction. Sound recordings and moving images are unavailable pending digitization.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Information on copyright available from repository.
- Source (note)
- Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 539
- OCLC
- 973733226
- Author
- Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994, creator.
- Title
- Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Restricted Access
- Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction. Sound recordings and moving images are unavailable pending digitization.
- Terms Of Use
- Information on copyright available from repository.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Hilda Simms photograph collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
- Source
- Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actresses, Black.African American actresses.African American entertainers.Women entertainers.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 539