Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Woodson, C.G.

Publication

1925-1934.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950.

Description

2 volumes (50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

• These scrapbooks (1925-1934) are about historian Carter G. Woodson and contain clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. The clippings are primarily articles written by Woodson about topics such as the education of African Americans, the need for African American teachers, the history of African Americans, events at Howard University, the creation of Negro History Week, and other topics pertaining to African American history and life. Additional coverage includes profiles of Woodson, his receipt of the Spingarn Medal, as well as reviews of several of Woodson's books, including "The Mis-Education of the Negro," "The Negro in Our History," "The Rural Negro," "Negro Orators and Their Orations," and "The History of the Negro Church."
• Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Chicago Whip, Interstate Tattler, Louisiana Weekly, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, and Washington Tribune, as well as the 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

• Woodson, C.G.
• Boston chronicle
• Chicago bee
• Chicago whip
• Interstate tattler
• Louisiana weekly
• New York Amsterdam news
• Norfolk journal and guide
• Philadelphia tribune
• Washington tribune

Subjects

• Clippings (information artifacts)
• African American authors > 20th century
• African Americans > Social life and customs > 20th century
• African American History Month
• Scrapbooks
• Black History Week
• African American historians > 20th century
• African Americans > Education > 20th century
• Howard University

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, A McD, CMN, EMN, JC, MN, MS, and VK.
• Initials MS likely belong to M. Starke, who 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 of NYPL through the Works Progress Administration.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 18

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 (Woodson, Carter G.)

OCLC

1102415952

Title

Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Woodson, C.G.

Production

1925-1934.

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. 18

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

Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950.

Spine Title

Woodson, C.G.

Added Title

Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)

Chicago defender.

New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)

Pittsburgh courier.

Boston chronicle

Chicago bee

Chicago whip

Interstate tattler

Louisiana weekly

New York Amsterdam news

Norfolk journal and guide

Philadelphia tribune

Washington tribune

Research Call Number

Sc MG 958 (Woodson, Carter G.)