Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Intermarriage.

Publication

1913-1954.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

1 volume (53 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• This scrapbook (1913-1954) is about interracial marriage and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Marriages covered include those of low-profile individuals alongside high-profile individuals such as British author and socialite Peggy Cripps and African politician and lawyer Joseph Appiah, singer Billy Daniels, jazz musician Sidney Bechet, Olympic athlete Phil Edwards, and actress Helen Lee Worthing. Clippings also cover several arrests and court cases relating to interracial marriage, opinion pieces about the topic, legislation, and the consequences often faced by those who married outside of their own race.
• Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News. Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as Daily Worker (New York), New York Sun, New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings contain 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

• Intermarriage
• Boston chronicle
• Boston guardian
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus
• Washington tribune

Subject

• Appiah, Joseph, 1918-
• Appiah, Peggy
• Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959
• Daniels, Billy, 1915-1988
• Edwards, Phil 1907-1971
• Worthing, Helen Lee 1905-1948
• Rhinelander, Leonard Kip
• Interracial marriage > 20th century
• Marriage > 20th century
• Marriage law > 20th century
• Married people > 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 this volume are ABJ, CMN, JC, JP, MN, MS, and WA.
• Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch. Initials 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. 7

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 (Intermarriage)

OCLC

1100588006

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Intermarriage.

Production

1913-1954.

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. 7

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

Intermarriage

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 bee

Chicago whip

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Intermarriage)