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Americana. Studies over mensen, dieren en een kaktus tussen Rio Grande en Potomac. [Door] A. N. J. den Hollander.
- Text
- Meppel, Boom, [1970].
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER 71-433 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.
A man ain't nothin' but a man : the adventures of John Henry / by John Oliver Killens.1st ed.
- Text
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1975]
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Fic (Killens, J. Man ain't nothin' but a man) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Destination freedom: the legend of John Henry. (Radio program) (Audiotape).
- Audio
- Chicago, WMAQ, 1949.
- 1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio C-327 [Side 1, no. 1] 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.
John Henry, a bio-bibliography / Brett Williams.
- Text
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1983.
- 1983
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 83-1559 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 E 84-81 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 natural man : the true story of John Henry / by Steve Sanfield ; illustrated by Peter Thornton.
- Text
- Boston : D.R. Godine, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 87-183 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry : for piano solo / by Peter Gena.
- Notated music
- Dortmund : Edition V., Verlag "pläne", c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Music-Am. (Sheet) 90-149 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
John Henry : 1940 / Aaron Copland.
- Notated music
- 1940 Feb. 25.
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JPB 91-54 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
John Henry; a folk-lore study, by Louis W. Chappell.
- Text
- Jena, Frommannsche Verlag, W. Biedermann, 1933.
- 1933
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-C (Chappell, L. John Henry. 1933) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill; by Irwin Shapiro, with drawings by James Daugherty.
- Text
- New York, J. Messner [1945]
- 1945
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER (Shapiro, I. John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill) 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 398.21-S (Shapiro, I. John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tall tale America, a legendary history of our humorous heroes, by Walter Blair, illustrated by Sgt. Glen Rounds.
- Text
- New York, Coward-McCann, inc. [1944]
- 1944
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-B (Blair, W. Tall tale America) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry; a folk-lore study, by Louis W. Chappell.
- Text
- Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1968]
- 1968-1933
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-C (Chappell, L. John Henry. 1968) 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 HAER (Chappell, L. W. John Henry) 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.
John Henry and his hammer. Illus. by Aldren A. Watson.
- Text
- New York, Knopf [1950]
- 1950
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER (Felton, H. W. John Henry and his hammer) 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 398.21-F (Felton, H. John Henry and his hammer) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses, by James Cloyd Bowman ... illustrated by Roy La Grone.
- Text
- Chicago, Ill., A. Whitman & Company, 1942.
- 1942
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-B (Bowman, J. John Henry) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry; tracking down a Negro legend, by Guy B. Johnson.
- Text
- Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929.
- 1929
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-J (Johnson, G. John Henry) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Railroad avenue; great stories and legends of American railroading, by Freeman H. Hubbard.
- Text
- New York, London, Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc. [1945]
- 1945
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 656-H (Hubbard, F. Railroad avenue) 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 TPR (Hubbard, F. H. Railroad avenue) Offsite John Henry : a play / by Roark Bradford ; music by Jacques Wolfe ; sets by Albert Johnson.
- Text
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, c1939.
- 1939
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBM (Bradford, R. John Henry) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 812-B (Bradford, R. John Henry) 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 natural man (based on the legend of John Henry) a play in eight episodes.
- Text
- [n.p., 1936?]
- 1936
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare 812-B (Browne, T. Natural man) Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry (the steel driving man) Tracking down a Negro legend. A saga in a prologue, eight scenes and epilogue. By Frank B. Wells.
- Text
- [Los Angeles? 1936?]
- 1936
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 812-W (Wells, F. John Henry) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Folklore & society; essays in honor of Benjamin A. Botkin.
- Text
- Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, [1966].
- 1966
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MFF (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) 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 784.4-J (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Negro workaday songs, by Howard W. Odum...and Guy B. Johnson...
- Text
- Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926.
- 1926
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MF (Odum, Negro workaday songs) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MFFB (U.S.-Negro) (Odum, H. W. Negro workaday songs) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 784.7-O (Odum, H. Negro workaday songs) 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'm a railroad man; compiled and edited by Leon R. Harris.
- [Chicago?, c1948]
- 1948
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Sc+ 784.67-H (Harris, L. I'm a railroad man) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry : a folk opera / libretto by Roark Bradford ; music by Jacques Wolfe.
- Text
- [195-?]
- 1950-1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 12 - 20 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
A streetcar named Desire [sound recording] : ballet / Alex North. The legend of John Henry : ballet / Milton Rosenstock.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Premier Recordings, p1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 8309 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
John Henry Days : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
- Text
- New York : Doubleday, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 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.
John Henry Days : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
- Text
- New York : Anchor Books, 2002, c2001.
- 2002-2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 02-14908 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.
Big man [sound recording] : [the legend of John Henry : a folk musical / with] music by Julian and Nat Adderley ; lyrics by Diane Lampert and Peter Farrow ; [book by Diane Lampert and George W. George, from material by Paul Avila Mayer, G.W. George, and Peter Farrow].
- Audio
- [Berkeley, Calif.] : Fantasy, c1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 24905 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Steel drivin' man : John Henry, the untold story of an American legend / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
- Text
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 06-2576 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry [sound recording] ; Jack o' Diamonds / arranged by John Jacob Niles.
- Audio
- Camden, NJ : Victor, [1940]
- 1940-1939
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LO 329 [Disc] c.1 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LO 329 [Disc] c.2 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
John Henry : Roark Bradford's novel and play / introduction and scholarly materials by Steven C. Tracy.
- Text
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 09-94 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses, by James Cloyd Bowman ... illustrated by Roy La Grone.
- Text
- Chicago, Ill. : A. Whitman & company, 1942.
- 1942
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.21 B 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 J 398.21 B 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.
John Henry [videorecording] / Scholastic/Weston Woods ; produced and directed by Paul R. Gagne.
- Moving image
- Westport, CT : Weston Woods, 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image VTH 5429 J Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
John Henry / by Julius Lester ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books, 1994
- 1994
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 L Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFG 95-708 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 G 95-13 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry's big : (Man vs. machine) : for trombone and piano / Adolphus Hailstork.
- Notated music
- [King of Prussia, Pennsylvania] : Theodore Presser Company, [2012]
- 2012-2012
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNG 13-99 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Caricatures of Paul Robeson as John Henry, [1940].
- Still image
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image *T-Vim 2013-179 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Steel drivin' man [electronic resource] : John Henry, the untold story of an American legend / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
- Text
- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.06198Steel hammer ((Musical : Wolfe), 2015/16 : reviews.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16 (Steel hammer) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Steel hammer / Julia Wolfe.
- Audio
- Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe Music, [2014]
- 2014-2011
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=CA-21099Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky / Kwame Mbalia.
- Text
- Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019.
- 2019-2019
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 20-1840 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 D 20-167 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry, an American legend. Story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats.
- Text
- New York, Pantheon Books [1965]
- 1965
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-K (Keats, E. John Henry) 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 F 94-360 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill; by Irwin Shapiro, with drawings by James Daugherty.
- Text
- New York : J. Messner, [1945]
- 1945
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.21 S Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.21 S Offsite Ain't nothing but a man : my quest to find the real John Henry / Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson.
- Text
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J B Henry N Offsite John Henry and his hammer. Illus. by Aldren A, Watson.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, [c1950]
- 1950
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 F 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 J 398.2 F 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.
John Henry, an American legend / story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats.
- Text
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1987], ©1965.
- 1987
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 K Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 K Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 K Offsite Duke Ellington-- : and more stories to celebrate great figures in African American history.
- Moving image
- [United States] : Scholastic : Distributed by New Video, c2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-290 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.
John Henry and his people : the historical origin and lore of America's great folk ballad / John Garst ; foreword by Art Rosenbaum.
- Text
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- 2022
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 22-655 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 coping in the political sphere / Jas M Sullivan and Moriah Harman ; foreword by Sherman James.
- Text
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- 2023
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 24-29 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
John Henry ; tracking down a Negro legend / by Guy B. Johnson.
- Text
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, 1929.
- 1929
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 809.813 J632 Off-site John Henry : Roark Bradford's novel and play / introduction and scholarly materials by Steven C. Tracy.
- Text
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 2008
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PS3503.R2215 J6 2008 Off-site Americana. Studies over mensen, dieren en een kaktus tussen Rio Grande en Potomac. [Door] A.N.J. den Hollander.
- Text
- Meppel, Boom, [1970].
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E13 .H6 Off-site
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