Research Catalog

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Description

1. 2 volumes (50; 50 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. These scrapbooks (1932-1938) are about African Americans and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and contain clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes how African Americans fared within both the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), discrimination within the WPA, the need for more jobs for African Americans under the WPA, Roosevelt's condemnation of lynching, and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's humanitarian work and support of the African American community.
2. Publications include African American newspapers the Afro American (Baltimore), Boston Chronicle, Cape Fear Journal, Chicago Bee, Chicago Defender, Louisiana Weekly, New York Age, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, St. Louis Argus, and Washington Tribune, as well as New York Herald Tribune and New York Times. Not all clippings contain date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Uniform title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.

Alternative title

1. Roosevelt Administration
2. Boston chronicle
3. Cape Fear journal
4. Chicago bee
5. Louisiana weekly
6. New York Amsterdam news
7. Norfolk journal and guide
8. Philadelphia tribune
9. St. Louis argus
10. Washington tribune

Subject

1. Scrapbooks
2. Discrimination in employment > United States > 20th century
3. United States > Federal Emergency Relief Administration
4. Clippings (information artifacts)
5. United States > National Recovery Administration
6. African Americans > Employment > 20th century
7. Roosevelt, Franklin D (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
8. Washington, Forrester B., 1887-
9. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 > My day
10. United States > Works Progress Administration

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Roosevelt Administration)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library.
2. The staff who assembled the scrapbooks noted their initials alongside the articles they clipped. The staff responsible for these volumes are AJ, AM, AMC, AVR, CMN, EJ, EMN, JP, MS, MW, and WA.
3. Initials EJ likely belong to E. Johnson and MS likely belong to M. Starke, both of whom clipped periodicals at the 135th St. New York Public Library branch.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 16

Cite as (note)

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. 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.

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Roosevelt Administration.

Production

1. 1932-1938.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 16

Cite as:

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

1. 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

1. 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.

Spine title

1. Roosevelt Administration

Added title

1. Afro-American (Baltimore, Md. : National ed.)
2. Chicago defender.
3. New York age (New York, N.Y. : 1887)
4. Pittsburgh courier.
5. Boston chronicle
6. Cape Fear journal
7. Chicago bee
8. Louisiana weekly
9. New York Amsterdam news
10. Norfolk journal and guide
11. Philadelphia tribune
12. St. Louis argus
13. Washington tribune

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Roosevelt Administration)