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Uptown; the story of Harlem's Apollo Theatre.

Text

New York, Cowles Book Co. [1971]

1971

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 792.097-S (Schiffman, J. Uptown)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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FormatTextCall numberJND 72-17Item locationOffsite
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Apollo Theatre jump [Sound recording] / Bostic.

Audio

Philadelphia : Gotham G248B x 4, [194-?]

1940-1949

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall numberSc Audio CM-63Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Showtime at the Apollo / Ted Fox.

Text

New York, N.Y. : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, ©1983.

1983

3 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 97-253Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 84-142Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberMWED (New York) 84-607Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Harlem heyday : a pictorial history of modern Black show business and the Apollo Theatre / by Jack Schiffman ; foreword by John Hammond.

Text

Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1984.

1984

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 94-507Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black conversations. Harlem streetlife, today and tomorrow [videorecording] / WPIX, New York ; director, Victoria Benson and Peter Pontillo.

Moving image

New York : WPIX, 1979-11-01.

1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-818 Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Amateur night at the Apollo : Ralph Cooper presents five decades of great entertainment / Ralph Cooper with Steve Dougherty.

Text

New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, ©1990.

1990

3 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 99-602Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc *792.7-C (Cooper, R. Amateur night at the Apollo)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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FormatTextCall numberJNE 91-25Item locationOffsite

Count Basie portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1935?-1980?>

1935-1980

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Basie, Count folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Basie, Count folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Bennie Benjamin portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<194-?>-1950.

1940-1950

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Benjamin, BennieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Lionel Hampton portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1935?-1979?>

1935-1979

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Hampton, Lionel folder 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Hampton, Lionel folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Hampton, Lionel folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Claude Hopkins portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1927?-1970?>

1927-1970

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Hopkins, ClaudeItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Ella Fitzgerald portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1934?-1979?>

1934-1979

2 items

Available online

NYPL Digital Collections
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Fitzgerald, Ella folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Fitzgerald, Ella folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Honi Coles portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1930?-1989?>

1930-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Coles, HoniItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Cab Calloway portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1930?-1979?>

1930-1979

4 items

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Calloway, Cab folder 4Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Calloway, Cab folder 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Calloway, Cab folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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The Apollo story.

Text

[New York, 1966?]

1966

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc+ 792.097-A (Apollo Theatre. Apollo Theatre story)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Apollo Theatre story.

Text

[New York, c1966]

1966

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc+ 792.097-A (Apollo Theatre. Apollo Theatre story)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dance on: Charles "Honi" Coles [videorecording] / producer, Billie Mahoney ; associate producer and director, Jon Hutcheson.

Moving image

c1981.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIDVD 5-5650Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Rainbow Dancers (Company) [clippings]

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Rhythm's the name of the game: Originality and style [videorecording]

Moving image

1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIC 9-2998Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Apollo Theatre (New York, N.Y.) [clippings]

Text

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*MGZR (Apollo Theatre (New York, N.Y.))Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Billie Holiday : a portrait / produced by Richard Bertematti ; narrated by Michael J. Hostetler ; commentary by Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies librarian, Northwestern University ; [photographs from the many faces of Billie Holiday by Robert O'Meally ; music by Billie Holiday and Benny Goodman ; engineer, Chris Kolosov].

Moving image

[Evanston, Ill. : R. Bertematti], c1992.

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-122Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Bring in the morning (Musical) [clippings]

Text

1994-present

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Gordon Anderson collection [graphic].

Still image

1947-[198-]

1947-198

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall number Sc Photo Gordon Anderson CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Interview with James Buster Brown [sound recording]

Audio

1997.

1997

4 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2039 [sound cassette] reel 3Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2039 [sound cassette] reel 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2039 [sound cassette] reel 1Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Interview with Leonard Reed [sound recording]

Audio

1997.

1997

7 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2098 [sound cassette] reel 6Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2098 [sound cassette] reel 5Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatAudioCall number*MGZTC 3-2098 [sound cassette] reel 4Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Machito : a Latin jazz legacy [motion picture] / presented by Nubia Music Society.

Moving image

c1987.

1987

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-264Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Stars of the Apollo [sound recording].

Audio

New York, N.Y. : Columbia Legacy, p1992.

1992-1927

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 19252 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Live at the Apollo / Douglas Wolk.

Text

New York : Continuum, 2004.

2004

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc B 05-4Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall number*LE 04-6139Item locationOffsite

Motown returns to the Apollo [videorecording] : celebrating 50 years of great entertainment / Motown Productions ; Inner City Broadcasting Corporation in association with Don Mischer Productions ; directed and produced by Don Mischer.

Moving image

c1985.

1985

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIA 4-7675 Reel 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIA 4-7675 Reel 1Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Show time at the Apollo [videorecording] : Harlem variety revue / Reel Images presents A Video Yesteryear recording.

Moving image

1955.

1983

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIA 4-7677Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Nightclubs and theaters [graphic].

Still image

[192-?]-[198-?]

198-198

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Nightclubs and TheatersItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Stars of the Apollo [sound recording].

Audio

New York : Columbia, p1973.

1973-1927

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall number*LZR 56749 [Disc]Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Apollo theatre : Maikaru honmoku.

Text

Tōkyō : Hamingubādo, [19--]

1900

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 07-542Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Steel drumming at the Apollo : the road to super top dog / by Trish Marx ; photographs by Ellen B. Senisi.

Text

New York : Lee & Low Books, c2007.

2007

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberJNF 10-40Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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FormatTextCall number*LDC 50187Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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James Brown viewing : December 28, 2006.

Text

[New York] : The Foundation, [2007]

2007

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 09-233Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Ain't nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment / edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill.

Text

Washington, DC : National Museum of African American History and Culture through Smithsonian Books, ©2010.

2010

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc+ F 10-468Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Raisin' Cane (Musical : Sharpe), 2006/07 : reviews.

Text

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*T-NBL+ Collection 2006/07 (Raisin' Cane)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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God's trombones (Musical : Harris), 2007/08 : reviews.

Text

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*T-NBL+ Collection 2007/08 (God's trombones)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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Photographs [graphic] / Kwame Brathwaite.

Still image

1958-[1995]

1958-1995

4 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.) Box 4Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.) Box 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Portfolio (Brathwaite, K.) Box 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Dreamgirls (Musical : Krieger), 2009/10 : reviews.

Text

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*T-NBL+ Collection 2009/10 (Dreamgirls)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference

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Apollo "Uptown"/ directed by Dwight Hemion.

Moving image

[1980]

1980

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-190Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Rhythm for sale / by Dr. Grant Harper Reid.

Text

North Charleston, South Carolina : CreateSpace Independant Publishing Platform, 2013.

2013

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberMWES (Harper, L.) 14-902Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Apollo Theater (Harlem, N.Y.): clippings.

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatCall numberSc VF: Part 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Desk

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Brown, James, 1928-2006 (singer): clippings.

1 item

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FormatCall numberSc VF: Part 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Desk

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Get Ella to the Apollo / by Lisa and John Mullarkey ; illustrated by Courtney Bernard.

Text

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon, [2015]

2015

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 16-704Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The first Noel (Musical : Thompson) : programs.

1 item

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FormatCall number*T-PRG (First Noel (Musical : Thompson)) Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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