Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Frederick Douglass.

Publication

1895-1950.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (51 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook (1895-1950) is about the legacy of Frederick Douglass and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes the many efforts made to memorialize Douglass, including renaming streets in New York City, a library memorial plaque in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a statue in Washington, DC, flying flags at half mast to commemorate his birthday in Boston, Massachusetts, and attempts at preserving his home in Washington, DC. Several articles compare Douglass to Abraham Lincoln, presenting them as contemporaries particularly because of their close birthdays, but other articles point out Douglass' criticism of the President Lincoln. There are also copies of several obituaries as well as reprintings of speeches given by Douglass.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Guardian, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Times and Philadelphia Tribune. Not all clippings include date and 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

• Frederick Douglass
• Boston guardian
• Chicago whip
• Louisana weekly
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• St. Louis argus
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Speeches, addresses, etc., American > African American authors
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
• Memorials > United States
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
• African American social reformers
• African American abolitionists
• Wagner, Robert F (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953
• Boston (Mass.)
• Scrapbooks
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• New Bedford (Mass.)
• Scott, Emmett J (Emmett Jay), 1873-1957

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 this volume are AJ, CMN, EJ, EM, JC, MN, 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, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, 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. 4

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 (Frederick Douglass)

OCLC

1091360469

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Frederick Douglass.

Production

1895-1950.

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. 4

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

Frederick Douglass

Added Title

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

Chicago defender.

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

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston guardian

Chicago whip

Louisana weekly

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Frederick Douglass)