Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Moving Pictures.

Publication

1921-1959.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

4 volumes (50; 48; 50; 62 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1921-1959) are about African Americans in the film industry and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage primarily includes reviews of and articles about films that feature African American actors as well as profiles of African American actors. The films highlighted include Birth of a Nation, Emperor Jones, The Exile, The Green Pastures, Gone with the Wind, Hallelujah, Imitation of Life, the Our Gang series, Slave Ship, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Actors covered include Josephine Baker, Louise Beavers, Stepin Fetchit, Lena Horne, Allen Hoskins, Rex Ingram, Hattie McDaniel, Nina Mae McKinney, Etta Moton, Clarence Muse, Paul Robeson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Carolynne Snowden, and Fredi Washington.
• Publications include African American newspapers The Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Boston Guardian, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Interstate Tattler (New York), Louisiana Weekly, Negro World (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League newspaper), New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as the Daily Worker (New York), New York Herald Tribune, and New York Times. 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

• Moving Pictures
• Boston chronicle
• Boston guardian
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Interstate tattler
• Louisiana weekly
• Negro world
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• St. Louis argus
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• African Americans in motion pictures > 20th century
• Our Gang films
• Washington, Fredi, 1903-1994
• Vidor, King, 1894-1982
• Hallelujah (Motion picture : 1929)
• Clippings (information artifacts)
• Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915)
• Hoskins, Allen 1920-1980
• Horne, Lena
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
• Beavers, Louise, 1902-1962
• African Americans in the motion picture industry > 20th century
• Fetchit, Stepin
• Imitation of life (Motion picture : 1934)
• McKinney, Nina Mae, 1912-1967
• Gone with the wind (Motion picture : 1939)
• Scrapbooks
• Emperor Jones (Motion picture)
• McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952
• African American actors > 20th century
• Preer, Evelyn 1896-1932
• Snowden, Carolynne 1900-1985
• Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
• Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
• Ingram, Rex, 1895-1969
• Muse, Clarence 1889-1979

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, AMC, BB, CMN, EJ, EM, EW, GG, JC, JP, MN, MPT, MS, MW, RS, 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, RS likely belong to Ruby Scott, Clerk-Typist, and MN likely belong to Marie Neal, Library Clerk, assigned to the 135th St. branch of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 11 and r. 12

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 (Moving Pictures)

OCLC

1101177589

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Moving Pictures.

Production

1921-1959.

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. 11 and r. 12

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

Moving Pictures

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

Interstate tattler

Louisiana weekly

Negro world

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

St. Louis argus

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Moving Pictures)