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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
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| FormatText | Call numberHAER 71-433 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc Fic (Killens, J. Man ain't nothin' but a man) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Destination freedom: the legend of John Henry. (Radio program) (Audiotape).
Audio
Chicago, WMAQ, 1949.
1949
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| FormatAudio | Call numberSc Audio C-327 [Side 1, no. 1] | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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John Henry, a bio-bibliography / Brett Williams.
Text
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1983.
1983
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| FormatText | Call numberSc E 84-81 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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A natural man : the true story of John Henry / by Steve Sanfield ; illustrated by Peter Thornton.
Text
Boston : D.R. Godine, c1986.
1986
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| FormatText | Call numberSc F 87-183 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry : for piano solo / by Peter Gena.
Notated music
Dortmund : Edition V., Verlag "pläne", c1986.
1986
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberMusic-Am. (Sheet) 90-149 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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John Henry : 1940 / Aaron Copland.
Notated music
1940 Feb. 25.
1940
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberJPB 91-54 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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John Henry; a folk-lore study, by Louis W. Chappell.
Text
Jena, Frommannsche Verlag, W. Biedermann, 1933.
1933
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-C (Chappell, L. John Henry. 1933) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill; by Irwin Shapiro, with drawings by James Daugherty.
Text
New York, J. Messner [1945]
1945
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-S (Shapiro, I. John Henry and the double jointed steam-drill) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-B (Blair, W. Tall tale America) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry; a folk-lore study, by Louis W. Chappell.
Text
Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press [1968]
1968-1933
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| FormatText | Call numberHAER (Chappell, L. W. John Henry) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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John Henry and his hammer. Illus. by Aldren A. Watson.
Text
New York, Knopf [1950]
1950
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-F (Felton, H. John Henry and his hammer) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses, by James Cloyd Bowman ... illustrated by Roy La Grone.
Text
Chicago, Ill., A. Whitman & Company, 1942.
1942
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-B (Bowman, J. John Henry) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry; tracking down a Negro legend, by Guy B. Johnson.
Text
Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1929.
1929
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-J (Johnson, G. John Henry) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberTPR (Hubbard, F. H. Railroad avenue) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 656-H (Hubbard, F. Railroad avenue) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry : a play / by Roark Bradford ; music by Jacques Wolfe ; sets by Albert Johnson.
Text
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, c1939.
1939
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 812-B (Bradford, R. John Henry) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatText | Call numberNBM (Bradford, R. John Henry) | Item locationOffsite |
The natural man (based on the legend of John Henry) a play in eight episodes.
Text
[n.p., 1936?]
1936
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| FormatText | Call numberSc Rare 812-B (Browne, T. Natural man) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 812-W (Wells, F. John Henry) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Folklore & society; essays in honor of Benjamin A. Botkin.
Text
Hatboro, Pa., Folklore Associates, [1966].
1966
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 784.4-J (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatText | Call numberHAER (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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| FormatText | Call number*MFF (Jackson, B. Folklore & society) | Item locationOffsite |
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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 784.7-O (Odum, H. Negro workaday songs) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatText | Call number*MFFB (U.S.-Negro) (Odum, H. W. Negro workaday songs) | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call number*MF (Odum, Negro workaday songs) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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I'm a railroad man; compiled and edited by Leon R. Harris.
[Chicago?, c1948]
1948
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| Format | Call numberSc+ 784.67-H (Harris, L. I'm a railroad man) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry : a folk opera / libretto by Roark Bradford ; music by Jacques Wolfe.
Text
[195-?]
1950-1959
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| FormatText | Call numberJPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 12 - 20 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
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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
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| FormatAudio | Call number*LDC 8309 (F) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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"The natural man" (based on the legend of John Henry); a play in nine [i.e. seven] episodes, by Theodore Browne.
Text
[Seattle] cop. 1936
1936
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John Henry Days : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Text
New York : Doubleday, c2001.
2001
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| FormatText | Call numberSc E 01-682 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry Days : a novel / Colson Whitehead.
Text
New York : Anchor Books, 2002, c2001.
2002-2001
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 02-14908 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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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
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| FormatAudio | Call number*LZR 24905 [Disc] | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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Steel drivin' man : John Henry, the untold story of an American legend / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
Text
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
2006
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| FormatText | Call numberSc D 06-2576 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry [sound recording] ; Jack o' Diamonds / arranged by John Jacob Niles.
Audio
Camden, NJ : Victor, [1940]
1940-1939
2 items
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| FormatAudio | Call number*LO 329 [Disc] c.2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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| FormatAudio | Call number*LO 329 [Disc] c.1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc E 09-94 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses, by James Cloyd Bowman ... illustrated by Roy La Grone.
Text
Chicago, Ill. : A. Whitman & company, 1942.
1942
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.21 B | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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John Henry [videorecording] / Scholastic/Weston Woods ; produced and directed by Paul R. Gagne.
Moving image
Westport, CT : Weston Woods, 1998.
1998
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| FormatMoving image | Call numberVTH 5429 J | Item locationOffsite |
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John Henry / by Julius Lester ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
Text
New York : Dial Books, 1994
1994
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| FormatText | Call numberSc G 95-13 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatText | Call numberJFG 95-708 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.2 L | Item locationOffsite |
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
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| FormatNotated music | Call numberJNG 13-99 | Item locationOffsite |
Caricatures of Paul Robeson as John Henry, [1940].
Still image
1940
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| FormatStill image | Call number*T-Vim 2013-179 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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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
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPLSteel hammer ((Musical : Wolfe), 2015/16 : reviews.
Text
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| FormatText | Call number*T-NBL+ Collection 2015/16 (Steel hammer) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference |
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Steel hammer / Julia Wolfe.
Audio
Brooklyn, NY : Cantaloupe Music, [2014]
2014-2011
1 resource
Available online
Access Naxos Music LibraryTristan Strong punches a hole in the sky / Kwame Mbalia.
Text
Los Angeles ; New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2019.
2019-2019
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| FormatText | Call numberSc D 20-167 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry, an American legend. Story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats.
Text
New York, Pantheon Books [1965]
1965
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| FormatText | Call numberSc F 94-360 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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| FormatText | Call numberSc 398.21-K (Keats, E. John Henry) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.21 S | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.21 S | Item locationOffsite |
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
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| FormatText | Call numberJ B Henry N | Item locationOffsite |
John Henry and his hammer. Illus. by Aldren A, Watson.
Text
New York : Knopf, [c1950]
1950
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.2 F | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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John Henry, an American legend / story and pictures by Ezra Jack Keats.
Text
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1987], ©1965.
1987
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.2 K | Item locationOffsite |
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| FormatText | Call numberJ 398.2 K | Item locationOffsite |
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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
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| FormatMoving image | Call numberSc Visual DVD-290 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc D 22-655 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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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
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| FormatText | Call numberSc E 24-29 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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John Henry [electronic resource] : Roark Bradford's novel and play / introduction and scholarly materials by Steven C. Tracy.
Text
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
2008
2 resources
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View all available online resourcesAmerican tall tales [videorecording] / Scholastic ; Weston Woods.
Text
Norwalk, CT : Weston Woods, 2006.
1 item
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| FormatText | Call number | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video |
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Lincoln portrait ; Old American songs ; An outdoor overture ; The promise of living from The Tender Land ; Jubilee variations ; Ceremonial fanfare / Aaron Copland.
Audio
Cleveland, Ohio : Telarc, [1987]
1987-1985
1 resource
Available online
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