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Black American science doctorates [microform] : some characteristic comparisons and contrasts with American science doctorates / by Herman A. Young.
- Text
- 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-4519 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black pioneers of science and invention.
- Text
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [c1970]
- 1970
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JBE 18-557 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 925-H (Haber, L. Black pioneers of science and invention) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The hidden contributors: Black scientists and inventors in America [by] Aaron E. Klein.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEC 72-1738 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Eight Black American inventors [by] Robert C. Hayden.
- Text
- [Reading, Mass.] Addison-Wesley [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 925-H (Hayden, R. Eight Black American inventors) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The hidden contributors: Black scientists and inventors in America [by] Aaron E. Klein.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 925-K (Klein, A. Hidden contributors) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A Negro history compendium [by] Ethel M. Turner.
- Text
- Cheyney, Pa., Cheyney State College [c1971]
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 973-T (Turner, E. Negro history compendium) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Scientists in the Black perspective / by Herman A. Young and Barbara H. Young ; sponsored by the Lincoln Foundation.
- Text
- [s.l. : s.n., 1974]
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 925-Y (Young, H. Scientists in the Black perspective) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
American Black scientists and inventors / Edward S. Jenkins ... [et al.] ; port. sketches by Kathy Nichols.
- Text
- Washington : National Science Teachers Association, [1975]
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 925-A (American Black scientists and inventors) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black contributors to science and invention [microform].
- Text
- [Washington, D.C., Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, 1977]
- 1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3726 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lewis Howard Latimer: a Black inventor: a biography and related experiments you can do/produced by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, General Electric Company, Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum.
- Text
- Detroit: T. A. Edison Foundation, 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9056 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Blacks in science : ancient and modern / editor, Ivan Van Sertima.
- Text
- New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Transaction Books, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 85-46 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger / by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Hetty Mitchell.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 87-859 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black science : coloring, learning activities.
- Text
- Chicago : Chandler/White Pub. Co., 1985-
- 1985-present
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 87-235 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Creativity and inventions : the genius of Afro-Americans and women in the United States and their patents / Patricia Carter Ives.
- Text
- Arlington, Va. (P.O. Box 15906, Arlington 22215-0906) : Research Unlimited, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 89-200 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Red light, green light : the life of Garrett Morgan and his invention of the stoplight / Dovie Davis Sweet ; illustrations by Larry Sherman, adapted from sketches by Charlotte Durante.
- Text
- Smithtown, N.Y. : Exposition Press, 1978
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 89-70 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[Public service announcements--Black history] / KHOU-TV, Houston ; director and producer, Al Varela.
- Moving image
- Houston, Tex. : KHOU-TV, 1980-02.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-110 Service copy Sc Visual VRB-242 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-110 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The real McCoy : African-American invention and innovation, 1619-1930 / Portia P. James.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : Published for the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
- 1990
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 90-155 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *606.2-J (James, P. The real McCoy) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Missing pages, a moment in Black history. Inventors [videorecording] / WETA-TV ; produced by C. Campbell and J. Zabriskie ; [sponsored] by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Moving image
- Washington, D.C. : WETA-TV, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRB-49 no. 9 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Snipets [videorecording] / Field Communications ; director, Frank Allen Philpot.
- Moving image
- San Francisco, Calif. : KBHK-TV, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-98 Service copy. Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Outward dreams : Black inventors and their inventions / Jim Haskins.
- Text
- New York : Walker, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 91-235 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The "Real McCoy" of Ypsilanti / by Albert P. Marshall.
- Text
- Ypsilanti, Mich. : MARLAN Publishers, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 90-424 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lewis Howard Latimer / Glennette Tilley Turner.
- Text
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 91-400 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
[1985 CEBA awards. Category 24] [videorecording] : [public service, institutional, political announcements].
- Moving image
- United States : [various stations], 1984.
- 1984
[1978 CEBA awards. Category 32] [videorecording] : [public relations].
- Moving image
- United States : [various stations], 1978.
- 1978
Elijah McCoy portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1910?-1989?>
- 1910-1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo McCoy, Elijah Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jan Matzeliger portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1950?-1969?>
- 1950-1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Matzeliger, Jan Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lewis H. Latimer portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1880?-1990?>
- 1880-1990
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Latimer, Lewis Howard folder 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Latimer, Lewis Howard folder 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Granville T. Woods portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1930?-1989?>
- 1930-1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Woods, Granville T. Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1932-1988.
- Mixed material
- 1938-1988
- 3 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20967Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 281 Box 1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 281 Box 2 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 281 Box 3 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black inventors of America / McKinley Burt, Jr.
- Text
- Portland, Or. : National Book. Co., c1969.
- 1969
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *608-B (Burt, M Black inventors of America) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc *608-B (Burt, M. Black inventors of America) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Elijah McCoy, inventor / written by Garnet Nelson Jackson ; illustrated by Gary Thomas.
- Text
- Cleveland, Ohio : Modern Curriculum Press, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 93-1265 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators / James Michael Brodie.
- Text
- New York : W. Morrow, c1993.
- 1993
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 11-52 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 93-640 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Garrett Morgan, inventor / written by Garnet Nelson Jackson ; ilustrated by Thomas Hudson.
- Text
- Cleveland, Ohio : Modern Curriculum Press, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 93-1070 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Middleton "Spike" Harris papers, 1929-1977.
- Mixed material
- 1929-1977
- 42 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c82ae620-64b5-0139-f554-0242ac110002Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 40 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 41 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 34 Box 42 Offsite Negro inventors, architects and engineers [microform] : research studies / compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in New York City, for "Negroes of New York".
- Text
- [New York, 1936-1938]
- 1936-1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-6544 r. 3 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The real McCoy : the life of an African-American inventor / by Wendy Towle ; paintings by Wil Clay.
- Text
- New York : Scholastic, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 94-353 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
I've got an idea! : the story of Frederick McKinley Jones / Gloria M. Swanson, Margaret V. Ott.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Runestone Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-650 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lewis Latimer / Winifred Latimer Norman and Lily Patterson ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King].
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 94-711 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African American answer book, science & discovery : 325 questions drawn from the expertise of Harvard's Du Bois Institute / R.S. Rennert.
- Text
- New York : Chelsea House, c1995.%0
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-353 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Five notable inventors / by Wade Hudson ; illustrated by Ron Garnett.
- Text
- New York : Scholastic, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-435 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
9 African-American inventors / Robert C. Hayden ; [portrait illustrations by Richard Loehle].
- Text
- Frederick, Md. : Twenty-First Century Books, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 95-1441 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Blueprint for change : the life and times of Lewis H. Latimer / edited by Janet M. Schneider, Bayla Singer ; essays by Asa J. Davis, Kenneth R. Manning, Bayla Singer.
- Text
- Jamaica, NY : Queens Borough Public Library, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 96-124 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
To fathom more : African American scientists and inventors / Edward Sidney Jenkins ; with contributions by Patricia Stohr-Hunt, Exyie C. Ryder, S. Maxwell Hines.
- Text
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 96-570 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Negro as an inventor [microform].
- Text
- [Philadelphia : Publishing House of A.M.E. Church, 1886]
- 1886
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-3650 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Biographies of Black female scientist[s] and inventors : an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum guide : "what shall I tell my children who are Black?" / by Arlene Hambrick.
- Text
- 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-115 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Creations recreations of the African family in kidnapped captivity, U.S.A. North America : inventions, science & industry.
- Text
- New York : A. Morris, 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 98-781 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black contributors to science and energy technology.
- Text
- Washington : Dept. of Energy, Office of Public Affairs, 1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-273 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black innovators / by Irene Diggs.
- Text
- Chicago : Institute of Positive Education, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 98-2009 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The colored inventor [microform] : a record of fifty years / by Henry E. Baker...
- Text
- [New York City, The Crisis Publishing Company, c1913]
- 1913
- 2 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/32b897b0-c60a-012f-153a-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 608-B (Baker, H. Colored inventor) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-1168 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Leonidas H. Berry photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [1932-1986]
- 1932-1986
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection box 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection box 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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