Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Marian Anderson.

Publication

1928-1963.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2 volumes (48; 38 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1928-1963) are about singer Marian Anderson and contain ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Articles include reviews of Anderson's performances, the events surrounding the refusal by the Daughters of the American Revolution to allow her to perform at Constitution Hall, her Metropolitan Opera debut, becoming the first African American woman to sign with the Metropolitan Opera, and her United States television appearances in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro-American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Interstate Tattler (New York), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus, as well as Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, New Yorker magazine, and Variety. Not all clippings include date or 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

• Marian Anderson
• Boston Chronicle
• Boston Guardian
• Chicago Whip
• Interstate Tattler
• New York Amsterdam News
• Norfolk Journal and Guide
• Philadelphia Tribune
• St. Louis Argus

Subjects

• Opera > United States > 20th century
• Scrapbooks
• African American singers > 20th century
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
• Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000
• Race discrimination > United States > 20th century
• Hurok, Sol, 1888-1974
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
• Boghetti, Giuseppe 1896-1941
• Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
• African American women on television > 20th century

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 these volumes are BB, EJ, GG, CMN, JC, JH, LS, MB, 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, 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. 1

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 (Marian Anderson)

OCLC

1091358084

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Marian Anderson.

Production

1928-1963.

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. 1

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

Spine Title

Marian Anderson

Added Title

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

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston Chronicle

Boston Guardian

Chicago Whip

Interstate Tattler

New York Amsterdam News

Norfolk Journal and Guide

Philadelphia Tribune

St. Louis Argus

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Marian Anderson)