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Mahalia Jackson : queen of gospel song / by Jean Gay Cornell ; illustrated by Victor Mays.
- Text
- Champaign, Ill. : Garrard Pub. Co., [1974]
- 1974
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 19-22118 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B-Jackson, M. (Cornell, J. Mahalia Jackson) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mahalia, gospel singer / Kay McDearmon ; illustrated by Nevin and Phyllis Washington.
- Text
- New York : Dodd, Mead, c1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 77-35 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bricktop / Bricktop with James Haskins.
- Text
- New York : Atheneum, 1983.
- 1983-1983
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 83-31 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MSS DIV IGIC BIO B27 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 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 E 84-101 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Not available - In use until 2024-10-28 - Please for assistance.Life, travels and works of Miss Flora Batson : deceased queen of song / by Gerard Millar, the basso, for ten years her manager and professional associate, interspersed with comments from the leading characters of the world, and original poems heretofore unpublished.
- Text
- [United States] : Published by the T.M.R.M. Company, Gerard Millar, manager, [after 1906]
- 1906-191
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare B-Batson (Millar, G. Life, travels and works of Miss Flora Batson) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Mabel Mercer papers, 1900-1984.
- Mixed material
- 1932-1984
- 43 Items
Available Online
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20756Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material Sc MG 341 Box 41 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 341 Box 42 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 341 Box 43 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Serenade / Sandra Kitt.
- Text
- New York, NY : Windsor Pub. Corp., c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 00-318 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sarah Vaughan / Marianne Ruuth.
- Text
- Los Angeles : Melrose Square Pub. Co., c1994.
- 1994
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNC 96-23 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 01-70 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Etta Moten Barnett : A Kansas City tribute / by Ann Vernon.
- Text
- [Kansas City, Mo. : s.n], 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 03-1097 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 soulful divas : personal portraits of over a dozen divine divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin & Diana Ross to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston & Janet Jackson / David Nathan ; foreword by Luther Vandross.
- Text
- New York : Billboard Books, 1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 99-275 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 782.42164-N (Nathan, D. Soulful divas) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Poppin' their thang : African American blueswomen and multiple jeopardy / by Delane E. Wright.
- Text
- 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 99-2219 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jessye Norman sings for the healing of AIDS : a benefit for The Balm in Gilead Inc.
- Text
- New York : Balm in Gilead, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 01-682 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
This is my story / Candi Staton.
- Text
- Bakersfield, CA : Pneuma Life Pub., c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 00-174 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Marian Anderson : a singer's journey / Allan Keiler.
- Text
- New York : Scribner, c2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 00-122 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-123 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Midnight at Mabel's : the Mabel Mercer story : centennial biography of the great song stylist / by Margaret Cheney ; foreword by Rex Reed.
- Text
- Washington, DC : New Voyage, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-845 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dinah was : the Dinah Washington musical [videorecording] / Jean Doumanian presents the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, artistic director / Lori Sherman, managing director) production ; [written] by Oliver Goldstick ; directed by David Petrarca ; musical supervision, Jason Robert Brown ; musical direction, Lanny Hartley ; choreography, George Faison ; [video director] Peter Powell ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Moving image
- New York, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOV 2253 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Gotta pay to live / Rae Shawn Stewart.
- Text
- Los Angeles, Calif. Holloway House Pub., 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 00-464 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lena Horne / Brett Howard.
- Text
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Melrose Square Pub. Co., c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 00-426 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tina Turner / by D.L. Mabery.
- Text
- Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 00-2868 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Florence Mills collection, 1896-1974, 1923-1927.
- Mixed material
- 1896-1974
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material 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 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Women of Motown : an oral history / by Susan Whitall.
- Text
- New York : Avon Books, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-535 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lena Horne photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [192-?]-1985.
- 198-1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Lena Horne Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Brandy / by Cynthia Laslo.
- Text
- New York : Children's Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-1191 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lauryn Hill / by Cynthia Laslo.
- Text
- New York : Children's Books, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-1076 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Aretha Franklin : the queen of soul / Mark Bego.
- Text
- New York : Da Capo Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-879 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Carmen McRae : Miss Jazz / Leslie Gourse.
- Text
- New York : Billboard Books, 2001.
- 2001
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 01-512 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-1504 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 biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley, 1867-1922, African-American singer and social activist / Lisa Pertillar Brevard.
- Text
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 04-1131 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Any way the wind blows : a novel / by E. Lynn Harris.
- Text
- New York : Doubleday, c2001.
- 2001
- 2 Items
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/2001042232.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 12-118 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading 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 C 02-111 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whitney Houston / Ted Cox.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-171 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Della Reese / Tanya Dean.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-717 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Open the door : the life and music of Betty Carter / by William R. Bauer.
- Text
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2002.
- 2002
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 02-578 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-1031 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Race woman : the political consciousness of Billie Holiday / Dawn-Wisteria Bates.
- Text
- c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMD 02-611 Offsite Lisa LeftEye Lopes, 1971-2002 : the riveting life & death story as told by her mom, uncle, brother, sister, T-Boz, Andre, and more.
- Text
- Takoma Park, MD : Sister 2 Sister, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 02-599 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Who killed Tiffany Jones? : a novel / "Mavis Kaye" ; created by Bill Adler and Mel Watkins.
- Text
- New York : Amistad, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-1422 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Destiny's Child : the complete story / by Kelly Kenyatta.
- Text
- Hollywood, CA : Busta Books, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 03-165 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
SoulStyle : Black women redefining the color of fashion / [author/designer] Duane Thomas ; [editor, Gena Pearson].
- Text
- New York : Universe, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 02-790 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 time of our singing / Richard Powers.
- Text
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-308 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Friday nights at Honeybee's / Andrea Smith.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-307 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Diana Ross : going back / by Diana Ross ; edited by Rosanne Shelnutt.
- Text
- New York : Universe, 2002.
- 2002
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 24-96 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 24-96 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Not available - Please for assistance.Billie Holiday / Muñoz & Sampayo ; with an afterword by Stanley Crouch ; [translated by Katy MacRae, Robert Boyd and Kim Thompson].
- Text
- Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, 1993.
- 1993
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNF 09-107 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 17-141 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bessie / Chris Albertson.
- Text
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.
- 2003
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 03-459 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-1073 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Chaka! : through the fire / Chaka Khan ; with Tonya Bolden.
- Text
- [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the book trade by St. Martin's Press, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003012735.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-1392 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 great divas of gospel : a poetic salute to gospel's pioneers / by Lady Peachena (Lena Mary Rebecca Eure).
- Text
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Sum VeryPeachy Music Pub., c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 03-2565 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 never walked alone : the autobiography of an American singer / Shirley Verrett with Christopher Brooks.
- Text
- Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 04-623 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
My fine lady / Yolanda Joe.
- Text
- New York : Dutton, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-1916 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Labelle portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [196-]-[197-]
- 197-197
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Labelle Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Patti LaBelle portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [197-]-[198-?]
- 198-198
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo LaBelle, Patti Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Sweethearts of Soul / Evelyn "Slim" Lambright.
- Text
- New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 05-281 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lady Day : histoire d'amours / Alain Gerber.
- Text
- Paris : Fayard, 2005.
- 2005
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 17-8018 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 05-1310 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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