Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Egypt.

Publication

1921-1934.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (49 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook (1921-1934) is about the country of Egypt, and contains ephemera and clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings in this scrapbook primarily focus on Ancient Egypt, including archaeological digs, opening of tombs and their contents, and explorations of Ancient Egyptian culture. Clippings also cover the 1921 Egyptian election, the opening of the Egyptian hall at the Brooklyn Museum, and the excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza.
• Publications includes African American newspapers Chicago Defender, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), and Philadelphia Tribune, as well as the New York Times and New York World Telegram. 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.

Alternative Title

• Egypt
• Negro world
• Philadelphia tribune

Subjects

• Great Sphinx (Egypt)
• Egypt > Social life and customs
• Scrapbooks
• Brooklyn Museum
• Egypt > Politics and government > 1919-1952
• Egypt > History > 1919-1952
• Reisner, George Andrew, 1867-1942
• Elections > Egypt
• Tutankhamen, King of Egypt
• Art objects, Egyptian
• Lythgoe, Albert M (Albert Morton), 1868-1934
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Egypt
• Zaghloul, Saad
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Egypt > Antiquities
• Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, active 14th century B.C

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 and ANR.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 5

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 (Egypt)

OCLC

1099575887

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Egypt.

Production

1921-1934.

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. 5

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

Egypt

Added Title

Chicago defender.

Negro world

Philadelphia tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Egypt)