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Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Haiti.

Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Haiti.
Publication
1920-1938.

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Description
5 volumes (51; 50; 50; 50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
  • These scrapbooks (1920-1938) are about the island of Haiti, and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage is primarily on the United States occupation of Haiti, including the effect on the Haitian people and economy and the work done to remove the United States presence. Other topics include the Moton Commission (which studied education in Haiti), Haitian culture, politics, art, voodoo practices, the strained relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and a 1934 visit by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Two of the scrapbooks primarily contain French-language clippings. There are several installments of a column entitled "The Black Man in World Literature" published in the Pittsburgh Courier, highlighting Haitian authors
  • Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Amsterdam News, New York Age, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier, as well as French-language newspapers Haiti-Journal, La Lanterne, Le Mouvement, L'Opinion, Le Papyrus, and Psyche. 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)
Alternative Title
  • Haiti
  • Boston chronicle
  • Chicago bee
  • Chicago whip
  • Haiti-journal
  • La lanterne
  • Louisiana weekly
  • Le mouvement
  • Negro world
  • New York Amsterdam news
  • Norfolk journal and guide
  • L'opinion
  • La papyrus
  • Philadelphia tribune
  • Pittsburgh courier
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, AMC, AVR, EJ, JC, MC, and WA.
  • Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch.
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
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 (Haiti)
OCLC
1099693883
Title
Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Haiti.
Production
1920-1938.
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
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
Haiti
Added Title
Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
Chicago defender.
New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
Boston chronicle
Chicago bee
Chicago whip
Haiti-journal
La lanterne
Louisiana weekly
Le mouvement
Negro world
New York Amsterdam news
Norfolk journal and guide
L'opinion
La papyrus
Philadelphia tribune
Pittsburgh courier
Research Call Number
Sc MG 958 (Haiti)
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