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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Education.

Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Education.
Publication
1894-1941.

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r. 4: v. 3-6, Congo (Kinshasa)-v. 1-6, EducationMixed materialUse in library Sc Micro R-707 r. 4: v. 3-6, Congo (Kinshasa)-v. 1-6, EducationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Details

Additional Authors
  • Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939.
  • Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
Description
6 volumes (49; 50; 51; 50; 49; 49 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
  • These scrapbooks (1894-1941) are about education and the African American community and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings primarily cover Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), but also includes issues affecting African American high schools and students. The clippings cover milestones such as the 50th anniversary of the Tuskegee Institute, issues of funding for African American schools (sources of donations, locations that are in need of more funding, etc.), salaries of African American teachers, enrollment of African American students, general updates on HBCUs, short articles highlighting African American professors and students of note, and obituaries of African American educators.
  • These clippings particularly focus on Howard University, Tuskegee University, Fisk University, and Wilberforce University, but cover many more, including St. Augustine College, Edward Waters College, Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Alcorn College, Claflin College, Johnson C. Smith University, Samuel Houston College, Prairie View College, Spelman College, Talladega College, Brookwood Labor College, Kittrell College, Bethune-Cookman College, Storer College, Louisville Municipal College for Negroes, Livingstone College, Hampton Institute, Cheyney Training School for Teachers, Wiley College, Barber Scotia College, Shaw University, and Lincoln University. Many of these no longer exist or have changed names.
  • Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Guardian, Cape Fear Journal, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Kansas City Sun, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement and Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and St. Louis Argus. Recurring columns include "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt and "Kelly Miller's Column." Not all clippings include date and source information
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Uniform Title
  • Chicago defender.
  • New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
  • Pittsburgh courier.
Alternative Title
  • Education
  • Boston guardian
  • Cape Fear journal
  • Chicago bee
  • Chicago whip
  • Kansas City sun
  • Louisiana weekly
  • Negro world
  • New York Amsterdam news
  • Philadelphia tribune
  • St. Louis argus
Subjects
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 AJ, AM, CMN, EJ, ETP, EW, GG, JC, MB, MN, 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 (Education)
OCLC
1099572383
Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Education.
Production
1894-1941.
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
Added Author
Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962. My day.
Spine Title
Education
Added Title
Chicago defender.
New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
Pittsburgh courier.
Boston guardian
Cape Fear journal
Chicago bee
Chicago whip
Kansas City sun
Louisiana weekly
Negro world
New York Amsterdam news
Philadelphia tribune
St. Louis argus
Research Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Education)
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