Hilda Simms papers

Title
  1. Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
Author
  1. Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994

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Description
  1. 27.86 linear feet (59 boxes, 4 volumes)
Summary
  1. Hilda Simms (1920-1994) was an actress best known for playing the title role in the American Negro Theater production of Anna Lucasta that moved successfully to Broadway in 1944. Her acting career also included film, television, and radio broadcasts. The Hilda Simms papers date from the 1930s to 1994 (bulk dates 1940s-1950s) and document her career as an actress; her work on creative arts and drug treatment programs in New York; and her personal life.
Subject
  1. Live radio programs
  2. Correspondence
  3. Addiction Research Center (U.S.)
  4. African Americans in the performing arts
  5. Programs (documents)
  6. Artists and community
  7. Arts > Therapeutic use
  8. Reports
  9. African Americans in television broadcasting
  10. Blacks in the performing arts
  11. Motion pictures and television
  12. Community arts projects
  13. Writings (documents)
  14. African Americans in motion pictures
  15. Diaries
  16. African American radio stations
  17. Angarola, Richard, 1920-2008
  18. Photographs
  19. African American entertainers
  20. Clippings (information artifacts)
  21. Notes
  22. African American actresses
  23. Scripts (documents)
  24. Women entertainers
  25. Souvenirs
  26. Women in the performing arts
  27. Sound recordings
  28. New York (State) > State Commission for Human Rights
  29. Printed ephemera
  30. American Negro Theatre
  31. Actresses, Black
  32. Moving images
Genre/Form
  1. Clippings (information artifacts)
  2. Correspondence.
  3. Diaries.
  4. Moving images.
  5. Notes.
  6. Photographs.
  7. Printed ephemera.
  8. Programs (documents)
  9. Reports.
  10. Scripts (documents)
  11. Sound recordings.
  12. Souvenirs.
  13. Writings (documents)
Call number
  1. Sc MG 539
Access (note)
  1. Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction. Sound recordings and moving images are unavailable pending digitization.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Information on copyright available from repository.
Source (note)
  1. Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
Location of other archival materials (note)
  1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Author
  1. Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994, creator.
Title
  1. Hilda Simms papers, 1930-1994 (bulk 1940s-1950s).
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. sheet
Restricted access
  1. Unrestricted access. All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies on reproduction. Sound recordings and moving images are unavailable pending digitization.
Terms of use
  1. Information on copyright available from repository.
Location of other archival materials
  1. Hilda Simms photograph collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
  2. Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic]; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Source
  1. Donated by Evelyn B. Sharp, 1995.
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Occupation
  1. Actresses, Black.
  2. African American actresses.
  3. African American entertainers.
  4. Women entertainers.
Research call number
  1. Sc MG 539
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