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Series II: Correspondence, 1961-1993
Series IV: Personal Papers, 1960-1992
Series V: Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, 1998-2011
Series VII: Slides, 1959-1991
Series IX: Photographs and Memorabilia, 1961-1974

Sylvia Ardyn Boone Papers, 1925-2011, bulk 1961-1993

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Series I: Manuscripts and Publications, 1970-1986

This series comprises chapter drafts, revisions, and related papers for Boone's Master's thesis, doctoral dissertation, and books, dating from 1970 to 1986. Materials also include her writing proposals, publication contracts, book notes, and correspondence with publishers. The writing proposals and notes provide a reflection of her experience and identity as an African-American. The series also contains manuscript drafts by others that were collected as part of her collection.

The Sande Society Mask "Bundu" (1973), 1972-1973

Master Thesis


Box 2 Folder 20 Bundu, Master's Thesis, 1973

Box 2 Folder 21 Bundu, Master's Thesis Photocopy, 1973


Box 3 Folder 14 The Sande Society--Notes and Newspaper Clippings, 1973


Box 4 Folder 49 The Sande Society Mask--Master's Thesis--Binder, 1973, 2002


Box 27 Folder 51 Sande Society--Drafts, undated


Box 44 Folder 1 Research notes for Eliot Elisofon: Art of the Yoruba and Their Neighbors, circa 1970s

Box 44 Folder 2 Notes, Bud Mask, circa 1973

Box 44 Folder 3 Research notebook, circa 1970s

Box 44 Folder 4 Women and Art in Wolff and Mende Civilizations, circa 1973

Proposal for Master thesis and notes

Box 44 Folder 5-6 M.A. Thesis: Research materials, 1972

Box 44 Folder 7 M.A. Thesis: Manuscript, The Sande Society Mask "Bundu", 1973 September

Box 44 Folder 8-15 M.A. Thesis: Manuscript, Chapter drafts, circa 1973

West African Travels (1974), 1973-1974


Box 4 Folder 1 West African Travels 1--Photocopies, 1974

Box 4 Folder 2 West African Travels 2--Photocopies, 1974

Box 4 Folder 4 West African Travels – Manuscript on Accra, Ghana, undated

Box 4 Folder 5 West African Travels – Manuscript Chapter on Ghana, circa 1970

Box 4 Folder 6 West African Travels – Manuscript on Timbuctoo, undated

Box 4 Folder 7 West African Travels, notes, undated


Box 12 Folder 1 West African Travels Binder (1), 1974

Box 12 Folder 2 West African Travels Binder (2), 1974


Box 38 Folder 1-6 Manuscript, Typescript edited drafts, circa 1973-1974

Box 38 Folder 7-15 Manuscript chapters, handwritten drafts, circa 1973-1974


Box 39 Folder 1-7 Manuscript chapters, handwritten drafts, circa 1973-1974

Box 39 Folder 8-14 Manuscript chapters, typed copy, circa 1973-1974


Box 40 Folder 1-2 Manuscript chapters, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 3 Manuscript: Art in Nigeria, Phantasies, Myth and Lies; outgoing correspondence, Charles Talbot, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 4-5 Manuscript: Master proof, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 6 Manuscript, Master proof, Index, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 7 Manuscript, Master proof, Photographs, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 8 Manuscript, Master proof, Maps, circa 1973-1974

Box 40 Folder 9-12 Manuscript, "Dead copy", 1974

Box 40 Folder 13-14 Manuscript, 1974


Box 60 Folder 3 Manuscript, Photographs and maps on plates, 1974

Box 60 Folder 4 Manuscript, Blue folio prints, 1974


Box 41 Folder 1 Manuscript, Photocopy, 1974

Box 41 Folder 2-4 Manuscript, Proof copy, 3 copies, 1974

Box 41 Folder 5-7 Manuscript, Duplicative, 1973

Box 41 Folder 8-9 Manuscript, Proof copy with edits, 1974


Box 42 Manuscript, Drafts and Binders (2 binders and 1 folder), circa 1973-1974


Box 43 Folder 1-2 Manuscript: Master proof with Edits, 1974

Box 43 Folder 3-4 Manuscript, 1974

Box 43 Folder 5 Manuscript, handwritten drafts, circa 1973-1974

Box 43 Folder 6 West African Travels: Book promotion, 1974

Box 43 Folder 8 Correspondence, Random House, 1969-1974

Box 43 Folder 9 Correspondence, Congratulatory, 1974

Sowo Art in Sierra Leone: The Mind and Power of Woman on the Plane of the Aesthetic Disciplines (1979), 1977-1982

Ph.D. Dissertation


Box 1 Folder 33 Dissertation Manuscript--Pages 17-136, undated

Box 1 Folder 34 Dissertation Manuscript--Prologue Draft with Revisions, undated


Box 2 Folder 13 Sowo Art in Sierra Leone--Dissertation, 1979

Box 2 Folder 14 Sowo Art in Sierra Leone--Dissertation (Yale), 1979

Box 2 Folder 15 Sowo Art in Sierra Leone--Dissertation (Yale), 1979

Box 2 Folder 16 Sowo Art in Sierra Leone--Dissertation Critiques, 1979


Box 3 Folder 13 Sowo Art in Sierra Leone--Selected Manuscript, 1979

Box 3 Folder 22 Sowo Art--Yale University Press Letter of Agreement, 1979

Box 3 Folder 29 Doctoral Dissertation Prospectus, 1974


Box 4 Folder 13 Dissertation Papers, circa 1977

Box 4 Folder 21 Dissertation--Selected Bibliography, circa 1979

Box 4 Folder 24 Dissertation –Reader originals, circa 1979-1982

Box 4 Folder 31 Dissertation, Pages 1-139, 1979

Box 4 Folder 32 Dissertation, Pages 138-285, 1979

Box 4 Folder 33 Dissertation Excerpt, Chapter 3, 1979

Glory Put on, 1985


Box 2 Folder 17 Glory Put On--Manuscript, undated

Box 2 Folder 18 Glory Put On--Manuscript, undated


Box 3 Folder 1 Glory Put On--Bound Manuscript, undated

Box 3 Folder 2 Glory Put On--Revisions, Folder 1 of 2, undated

Box 3 Folder 3 Glory Put On--Revisions, Folder 2 of 2, undated

Box 3 Folder 4 Glory Put On--Draft, Folder 1 of 2, undated

Box 3 Folder 5 Glory Put On--Draft, Folder 2 of 2, undated


Box 4 Folder 17 Glory Put On, 1--Photos, 1985

Box 4 Folder 18 Glory Put On, 2--Photos, 1985

Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art (1986), 1983-1990


Box 1 Folder 1 Index, undated

Box 1 Folder 2 Manuscript with Editorial Comments, 1983

Box 1 Folder 3 Manuscript with Editorial Comments, 1983

Box 1 Folder 4 Dissertation--Chapter IV (Chapter 3--Original), undated

Box 1 Folder 5 Chapter III--Kpanguima Working Papers, undated

Box 1 Folder 6 Bibliography--Photographs, undated

Box 1 Folder 7 Bibliography, undated

Box 1 Folder 8 Footnotes, undated

Box 1 Folder 9 Dissertation and Book Manuscripts--Prologue, undated

Box 1 Folder 10 Notes from Anne Granger, Editor, undated

Box 1 Folder 11 Chapter I--Mende History: Culture Edited by J. Metro, undated

Box 1 Folder 12 Glossary--Photocopies, undated

Box 1 Folder 13 Glossary--Drafts and Notes, undated

Box 1 Folder 14 Aspects--Chapter IV--Working Pages, undated

Box 1 Folder 15 Final Kpanguima--Submitted May 9, undated

Box 1 Folder 17 Chapter I--Final "Mende History"--Submitted May 9, undated

Box 1 Folder 16 Chapter II--Final, "The Sande Society--Submitted May 9, undated

Box 1 Folder 18 Prologue--Final--Submitted June 18, undated

Box 1 Folder 19 Chapter III--"Kpanguima" Edited by J. Metro--Draft, undated

Box 1 Folder 20 Chapter II--"The Sande Society" edited by J. Metro--Draft, undated

Box 1 Folder 21 Chapter II--"The Sande Society" Working Papers, undated

Box 1 Folder 22 Chapter V Originals--Handwritten, undated

Box 1 Folder 23 Chapter V--Scrubbed, undated

Box 1 Folder 24 Chapter V--Part 2, undated

Box 1 Folder 25 Chapter V Dissertation, 2nd Draft--Working Papers, undated

Box 1 Folder 26 Chapter IV Final, Minus Aspects, Submitted May 18, undated

Box 1 Folder 27 Chapter V, undated

Box 1 Folder 28 Aspects of Beauty--Working Papers, undated

Box 1 Folder 29 Chapter V--"Sowo: The Good Made Visible"--Read Edited by J Metro, undated

Box 1 Folder 30 Chapter I--Working Papers, Mende Culture, undated

Box 1 Folder 31 Chapter IV--Working Papers, Physical and Metaphysical Aspects of Female Beauty, 1983

Box 1 Folder 32 Chapter VI--Pages to be Retyped, undated

Box 1 Folder 35 Manuscript--Mende People, Culture Chapters, undated

Box 1 Folder 36 Manuscript--Mende Culture--Animals and Objects, 1983

Box 1 Folder 37 Manuscript--Masks and the Senses, 1983

Box 1 Folder 38 Manuscript--Female Beauty, undated

Box 1 Folder 39 Manuscript Draft with Revisions--"The Sande Society", undated

Box 1 Folder 40 Manuscript--Beauty: The Body, 1983

Box 1 Folder 41 Manuscript--Chapters 3-4, undated

Box 1 Folder 42 Manuscript--Prologue Draft, undated

Box 1 Folder 43 Manuscript with Comments and Revisions, Chapter 1, undated


Box 2 Folder 1 Manuscript with comments and revisions, Chapter 4, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 Manuscript – Chapter 3 endnotes, undated

Box 2 Folder 3 Manuscript with Comments and Revisions--Un-numbered Chapter, undated

Box 2 Folder 4 Manuscript, undated

Box 2 Folder 5 Manuscript – Introduction, undated

Box 2 Folder 6 Manuscript – Pages 146-313, undated

Box 2 Folder 7 Radiance From the Waters--Proofs, 1986

Box 2 Folder 8 Radiance From the Waters--Index, 1986

Box 2 Folder 9 Radiance From the Waters 1--Draft, 1983

Box 2 Folder 10 Radiance From the Waters 2--Draft, 1983

Box 2 Folder 11 Radiance from the Waters--Draft, undated

Box 2 Folder 12 Radiance From the Waters, Bibliography--Draft, undated

Box 2 Folder 19 Radiance From the Waters, Spiral Bound, 1986


Box 3 Folder 19 Radiance From the Waters--Reviews, 1986-1987

Box 3 Folder 20 Radiance--Images and Photos for, undated

Box 3 Folder 21 Radiance--Publicity File, 1985

Box 3 Folder 26 Yale U Press--File, 1979-1990

Box 3 Folder 27 Radiance--Packet, Flyers, Notes, Slides, circa 1986

Box 3 Folder 28 Book Promotion--File, 1990


Box 4 Folder 8 Radiance, London, 1986

Box 4 Folder 9 Radiance--Reviews, 1986

Box 4 Folder 10 Radiance or Dissertation Index, undated

Box 4 Folder 11 Radiance--Yale University Press Booklets, 1986

Box 4 Folder 36 Radiance--Book Reviews, 1986-1987

Box 4 Folder 37 Radiance From the Waters--Book Review (Essence), 1987

Box 4 Folder 38 Radiance From the Waters--Reviews, 1986-1987

Box 4 Folder 39 Radiance from London Review of Books--Review, 1986

Box 4 Folder 40 Radiance From the Waters in The Weekly Bulletin and Calendar--Article, 1986

Box 4 Folder 41 Radiance From the Waters--Proofs, 1986

Box 4 Folder 42 Radiance From the Waters--Royalty Statement, 1990

Box 4 Folder 43 Radiance From the Waters--Proofs, undated

Box 4 Folder 44 Radiance From the Waters--Book Cover, undated

Box 4 Folder 45 Radiance--Publication Announcement, 1998

Box 4 Folder 46 Radiance From the Waters--Correspondence, 1986

Box 4 Folder 47 Radiance From the Waters--Photos from, undated

Other Manuscripts and Writings by Boone, 1967-1986


Box 3 Folder 6 "…Aspects of Mende Feminine Beauty" -1--Manuscripts, undated

Box 3 Folder 7 "…Aspects of Mende Feminine Beauty" -2--Manuscripts, undated

Box 3 Folder 8 "…Aspects of Mende Feminine Beauty" -3--Manuscripts, undated

Box 3 Folder 9 "…Aspects of Mende Feminine Beauty" -4--Manuscripts, undated

Box 3 Folder 10 Mother is Gold, 1--Draft and Notes, undated

Box 3 Folder 11 Mother is Gold, 2--Draft and Notes, undated

Box 3 Folder 12 Name of Woman--Manuscript, undated

Box 3 Folder 15 Mende Art Manuscript 1, undated

Box 3 Folder 16 Mende Art Manuscript 2, undated

Box 3 Folder 17 Selected Bibliography, undated

Box 3 Folder 18 Illustration List and Guidelines, undated

Box 3 Folder 23 Four African Artists--Manuscript, undated

Box 3 Folder 24 Ideas for Books and Projects, undated

Box 3 Folder 25 Sande society--Manuscript, undated


Box 4 Folder 3 "Radiance," "West African Travels"--Photocopies from, undated

Box 4 Folder 12 Manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 14 Research Papers, circa 1970-1975

Box 4 Folder 15 Research Papers, Mende people, 1, undated

Box 4 Folder 16 Research Papers, Mende people, 2, undated

Box 4 Folder 19 Tabaski--Partial Manuscript, undated

Box 4 Folder 20 Tentative Bibliographies, undated

Box 4 Folder 22 Table of Contents and Illustrations, undated

Box 4 Folder 23 Illustration guide, undated

Box 4 Folder 25 Creative Women in Artistic and Literary Change," by S.A. Boone, 1982

Box 4 Folder 26 Four African Artists by S.A. Boone, undated

Box 4 Folder 27 Time Longer Than Rope by Sylvia Ardyn Boone, undated

Box 4 Folder 28 Boone "Mother is Gold: Image of Women in African Art", undated

Box 4 Folder 29 Images of Mende Masks (photocopies), undated

Box 4 Folder 30 Illustrations – Mende masks, undated

Box 4 Folder 34 Four African Artists, Sylvia Boone, undated

Box 4 Folder 35 Mother is Gold--Notes: Proposal, 1985

Box 4 Folder 48 West African Travels and Radiance From the Waters--Book Excerpts, 1974-1986


Box 8 Folder 16 Drafts--The Harlem Renaissance--Draft of Paper, undated


Box 31 Folder 17 Queen Mother"/"Mother is Gold," --Prospectus Draft, circa 1974-1976


Box 49 Folder 19 Manuscript: Chapter II, The Women's Sphere: Art, Power, and the Supernatural (Senufo Society), undated


Box 43 Folder 10 Book proposals, publication contract, 1969

Box 43 Folder 11 Correspondence, 1971

Box 43 Folder 12 Book notes, 1972

Box 43 Folder 13 West African culture book, 1974

Materials on unpublished title "Highlife: The Contemporary Cultural Scene in Africa"

Box 43 Folder 14 Forthcoming books and correspondence, 1974


Box 47 Folder 14 Publication Contracts and Proposals, 1969-1970

Box 47 Folder 15 Outline of "Notes of a Black Girl in Search of God", circa 1967-1970

Box 47 Folder 16 Notes on Race issue in New York, 1967-1968

Box 47 Folder 17 Notes on Black men, religion, and Black Americans, circa 1967-1969

Box 47 Folder 18 Notes on Social structure, values, politics, etc., circa 1968-1969

Collected Manuscripts by others, 1975-2008


Box 19 Folder 2 Brown, Kimberly Juanita, "The Repeating Body" -1, 2006

Box 19 Folder 3 Brown, Kimberly Juanita, "The Repeating Body" -2, 2006

Box 19 Folder 4 Peabody, Rebecca Rae. "A Strategic Cut", 2006

Box 19 Folder 5 Raiford, Leigh Renee. "Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare", 2003

Box 19 Folder 6 Hamlin, Francoise. "The Book Hasn't Closed"– 1, 2004

Box 19 Folder 7 Hamlin, Francoise. "The Book Hasn't Closed"– 2, 2004

Box 19 Folder 8 Hamlin, Francoise. "The Book Hasn't Closed"– 3, 2004

Box 19 Folder 9 Boittlin, Jennifer. "Soleil Noir"-1, 2005

Box 19 Folder 10 Boittlin, Jennifer. "Soleil Noir"-2, 2005

Box 19 Folder 11 Runstedtler, Theresa. "Journeymen", 2008

Box 19 Folder 12 Martinex-Ruiz, Barbaro. "The Kongo Machinery", 2004

Box 19 Folder 13 Woodard, Laurie Avant. "Performing Artists of the Harlem Renaissance" 1, 2007

Box 19 Folder 14 Woodard, Laurie Avant. "Performing Artists of the Harlem Renaissance" 2, 2007


Box 31 Folder 25 Draft - Barry Hallen, "The Art Historian As Conceptual Analyst", undated

Box 31 Folder 53 Draft, Ruth Phillips, "The Iconography of the Sowei Mask", undated


Box 30 Folder 4 Mende Carvers Dissertation, L. Reinhardt, 1975

Series II: Correspondence, 1961-1993

This series contains incoming and outgoing professional and personal correspondence throughout Boone's adult life, dating from 1961 to 1993. Some correspondence is labeled by recipients. Correspondence designated "personal" consists of letters related to personal matters, greeting cards, postcards, while "professional" are letters related to Boone's work, such as letters to publishers, Yale faculty members, museum curators.


Box 7 Folder 47 African Literature Association Conference--Correspondence, 1980


Box 18 Folder 74 Agboyiwitz, Umma, 1992


Box 10 Folder 58 Akindona, Tosin Victor, 1980

Box 10 Folder 73 Altman, Sidney (Yale), 1980


Box 27 Folder 56 American Association of University Professors, 1983


Box 51 Folder 11 Amoo-Gottfried, Kojo, 1965, 1971-1972


Box 18 Folder 54 Amoo-Gottfried, Kojo, 1984


Box 27 Folder 22 Baughman, Sara, 1985


Box 18 Folder 82 Baughman, Sara--Personal Correspondence, 1986


Box 10 Folder 87 Baughman, Sara, 1988

Box 10 Folder 46 Bay, Edna, 1979


Box 25 Folder 19 Belhag, Ramadan, 1984


Box 18 Folder 83 Berkshire Conference Guidelines, 1993


Box 10 Folder 41 Bethelheim, Judith, 1980


Box 9 Folder 10 Biebuyak, Daniel, 1986


Box 27 Folder 21 Black Women's Health Project, 1985


Box 23 Folder 61 Blassingame, John, 1972-1988


Box 27 Folder 33 Blassingame, John, 1983


Box 9 Folder 3 Blassingame, John, 1988

Box 9 Folder 8 Blassingame, John and Dick Barnhart, 1988

Box 9 Folder 17 Blassingame, John and Robert Farris Thompson--Drafts, undated

Box 9 Folder 14 Boone Professional Activities, 1986


Box 10 Folder 42 Boone Professional, Dominqiue de Menil, 1980

Box 10 Folder 36 Boone to Various Recipients, 1979


Box 27 Folder 25 Boone, Mrs. Edgar, 1985


Box 10 Folder 47 Botchway, Dr. F.A., 1979


Box 20 Folder 27 Busselle, Rebecca, 1979-1980


Box 10 Folder 53 Busselle, Rebecca, 1981


Box 31 Folder 6 Busselle, Rebecca, 1984


Box 23 Folder 64 Cahn, Walter, 1981 June


Box 18 Folder 62 Carter, John Randolph, 1989


Box 10 Folder 89 Center for African Art, 1988


Box 27 Folder 24 Chain Letter, 1986


Box 18 Folder 84 Conference Correspondence, 1994


Box 27 Folder 49 Consortium for International Cooperation in Education, 1985

Box 27 Folder 62 Council on African Studies, 1982-1983


Box 24 Folder 27 Crossey, Moore--Memo, 1978


Box 27 Folder 16 Dayton, Nancy, 1982


Box 9 Folder 71 Fields, Edda, 1992


Box 18 Folder 43 Foner, Eric, 1992


Box 10 Folder 70 Fraser, Earl – Urban League of Greater New Haven, CT, 1980


Box 25 Folder 20 Goffen, Rona, 1984


Box 27 Folder 35 Goffen, Rona, 1985


Box 18 Folder 50 Gordon, Edmund, 1989

Box 18 Folder 33 Greaves, William, 1992


Box 9 Folder 5 Greene, Barbara, 1980-1983


Box 10 Folder 61 Grilli, Stephanie, undated

Box 10 Folder 44 Hadzi, Martha Leeb, 1980


Box 9 Folder 13 Helen Searing, Helen--Draft, 1988


Box 7 Folder 62 Herbert, Bob, 1990


Box 10 Folder 7 Hodges, Warren O., undated


Box 29 Folder 8 Holiday and Greeting Cards, 1965-1988

Box 29 Folder 9 Holiday and Greeting Cards, 1965-1988


Box 18 Folder 79 Johnson, Sylvia, 1993


Box 25 Folder 73 Judith, undated


Box 27 Folder 15 Kevin Berlin, Kevin, 1985


Box 7 Folder 23 Keys, John, 1986


Box 9 Folder 95 Keys, John W. (Brother John), 1983-1984


Box 18 Folder 75 King, A.B., 1992


Box 10 Folder 67 Kirsch, Lucille, 1980


Box 31 Folder 13 Kreutzinger, H.A.M. to I.C. Hotobah-During, 1964-1969


Box 24 Folder 32 Lamar, Howard R., 1983 October


Box 31 Folder 56 Liberian Studies Association, undated


Box 29 Folder 4 Lillo-Moro, Eduarda--Correspondence and Poems, undated


Box 23 Folder 51 Livre d'or de la Femme Creole, 1990

Box 23 Folder 62 Loomis, Bob, 1969-1974


Box 31 Folder 7 Loomis, Bob, 1988


Box 10 Folder 54 Massey, Nikole Wood, 1980


Box 27 Folder 26 Maw, Joan--University of London, 1986


Box 18 Folder 53 Memel-Fote, Harris, 1982


Box 10 Folder 88 Memel-Fote, Harris, 1988


Box 23 Folder 55 Mende Art Photos and Correspondence, 1981


Box 31 Folder 36 Metro, Judy (Yale University Press), re: Radiance From the Waters Manuscript, 1980


Box 27 Folder 20 Metro, Judy, 1982


Box 10 Folder 8 Metro, Judy, 1985


Box 18 Folder 48 Metro, Judy, 1986


Box 23 Folder 66 O'Meally, Robert, 1983-1984


Box 17 Folder 52 PBS – Hobson--Correspondence, 1987


Box 25 Folder 50 Peters, William, 1989


Box 27 Folder 28 Powell, Rick, undated

Box 27 Folder 34 Prown, Jules, 1985


Box 10 Folder 59 Rabia Ben Barka, 1981


Box 27 Folder 19 Recipient Unknown--Draft, undated

Box 27 Folder 29 Recipient Unknown--Draft, undated


Box 10 Folder 43 Recipient Unknown--Draft, undated


Box 7 Folder 21 Richards, Johnetta, 1985


Box 23 Folder 28 Richards, Johnetta, 1989


Box 10 Folder 57 Richards, Johnetta, 1990


Box 18 Folder 49 Robb, Frances, 1989


Box 31 Folder 57 Roberto, 1977


Box 17 Folder 57 Seyon, Patrick, 1987-1990


Box 18 Folder 34 Shestack, Alan, 1984


Box 10 Folder 52 Social Science Research Council, 1981


Box 31 Folder 55 Social Science Research Council, 1975 June


Box 7 Folder 43 Social Science Research Council--Correspondence, 1992


Box 18 Folder 78 Steiner, Christopher B., 1985


Box 10 Folder 71 Stringfellow, Gregory, 1980


Box 27 Folder 14 Sullivan, Junellen, 1983

Box 27 Folder 18 Sullivan, Junellen--Draft, undated


Box 20 Folder 21 Swan, Simone, 1990


Box 10 Folder 45 Taylor, Jules--Draft, undated


Box 9 Folder 67 The College Board, 1992


Box 31 Folder 42 Thompson, Addison, 1987 January


Box 9 Folder 2 Thompson, Robert Farris (Timothy Dwight College), 1988


Box 18 Folder 58 Thompson, Robert Farris, 1989

Box 18 Folder 46 Thompson, Robert Farris, undated


Box 27 Folder 30 Thompson, Robert Farris--Draft, undated


Box 10 Folder 26 Thought Bricks Teaching Centre, 1981

Box 10 Folder 72 Tony Finlayson, re: Fulbright application, 1980


Box 18 Folder 66 Ulrich, Susan – Professional Correspondence, 1986


Box 10 Folder 84 University of Illinois, 1979


Box 31 Folder 16 University of Sierra Leone, 1976


Box 7 Folder 72 Wells, Vera, 1982

Box 7 Folder 22 Wells, Vera, 1984


Box 24 Folder 31 Wells, Vera, 1991-2001


Box 10 Folder 65 West Africa Publishing Co. Ltd, 1980


Box 18 Folder 59 Wilson, Judith, 1983


Box 23 Folder 31 Windom, Alice, 1984-1990


Box 37 Folder 4 Windom, Alice, 1964, 1986

Includes photographs of Malcolm X in Africa w/ Boone and Maya Angelou


Box 10 Folder 66 Wright, Paul re: Research Bibliography, 1980


Box 18 Folder 45 Zoe, 1992


Box 12 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1986-1988


Box 11 Folder 19 Correspondence, 1979


Box 18 Folder 20 Correspondence, 1977

Box 18 Folder 24 Correspondence, 1978

Box 18 Folder 40 Correspondence, undated

Box 18 Folder 41 Correspondence, undated

Box 18 Folder 64 Correspondence, 1988

Box 18 Folder 52 Correspondence, 1989


Box 25 Folder 29 Correspondence, 1985

Box 25 Folder 35 Correspondence, 1990


Box 28 Folder 22 Correspondence, 1968-1979

Box 28 Folder 25 Correspondence, 1980-1989

Box 28 Folder 26 Correspondence, 1990-1993

Box 28 Folder 24 Correspondence, 1992-1993

Box 28 Folder 28 Correspondence, undated

Box 28 Folder 29 Correspondence, 1965-1969

Box 28 Folder 31 Correspondence, 1982-1983

Box 28 Folder 33 Correspondence, 1988


Box 17 Folder 50 Correspondence, 1983


Box 27 Folder 32 Correspondence, undated


Box 9 Folder 7 Correspondence, 1988


Box 28 Folder 23 Correspondence, 1980-1989

Box 28 Folder 27 Correspondence, 1990-1991


Box 29 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1985-1988


Box 7 Folder 71 Correspondence – General (Multiple Letters), 1979


Box 10 Folder 64 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 11 Folder 18 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 18 Folder 22 Correspondence Drafts, 1978

Box 18 Folder 57 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 25 Folder 39 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 24 Folder 50 Correspondence Drafts, 1979-1980


Box 25 Folder 36 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 27 Folder 88 Correspondence Drafts, undated


Box 23 Folder 29 Correspondence Drafts, 1961

Box 23 Folder 30 Correspondence Drafts, 1977-1978


Box 27 Folder 89 Correspondence Drafts, 1971


Box 10 Folder 51 Correspondence from Desk Contents--Draft, undated


Box 9 Folder 63 Correspondence Drafts, undated

Box 9 Folder 46 Correspondence, undated


Box 8 Folder 57 Correspondence--Drafts of Two Letters, undated


Box 27 Folder 87 Personal Correspondence, 1980


Box 10 Folder 55 Personal Correspondence, 1981

Box 10 Folder 85 Personal Correspondence, 1979


Box 28 Folder 30 Personal Correspondence, 1973-1977


Box 29 Folder 1 Personal Correspondence

Box 29 Folder 5 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1968

Box 29 Folder 6 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1968

Box 29 Folder 7 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1968

Box 29 Folder 10 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1969

Box 29 Folder 11 Personal Correspondence, 1980-1992

Box 29 Folder 12 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1969

Box 29 Folder 13 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1978

Box 29 Folder 14 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1970

Box 29 Folder 15 Personal Correspondence, 1979-1988

Box 29 Folder 16 Personal Correspondence, undated

Box 29 Folder 17 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1969

Box 29 Folder 18 Personal Correspondence, 1979-1992


Box 31 Folder 1 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1968

Box 31 Folder 2 Personal Correspondence, 1965-1968

Box 31 Folder 3 Personal Correspondence, undated


Box 9 Folder 6 Personal Correspondence, undated


Box 7 Folder 40 Personal Correspondence – Multiple letters: Thank you Notes, 1987-1990

Box 7 Folder 64 Personal Correspondence, 2 drafts, undated


Box 9 Folder 62 Personal Correspondence--Angel's Notes (Dominique de Menil), undated


Box 27 Folder 90 Personal Correspondence--Packet, 1972


Box 29 Folder 3 Personal Correspondence--Packet, 1966-1971


Box 28 Folder 15 Professional Correspondence, 1971-1987

Box 28 Folder 21 Professional Correspondence, 1974

Box 28 Folder 17 Professional Correspondence, 1980

Box 28 Folder 32 Professional Correspondence, 1979-1980


Box 22 Folder 37 Professional Correspondence, 1979-1987


Box 28 Folder 14 Professional Correspondence, 1978-1990

Box 28 Folder 16 Professional Correspondence, 1990-1991

Box 28 Folder 19 Professional Correspondence, 1990

Box 28 Folder 18 Professional Correspondence, 1991

Box 28 Folder 20 Professional Correspondence, 1991-1992


Box 9 Folder 45 Professional Correspondence re: U.S. Dept. of Education Funding, 1987


Box 57 Folder 2 Correspondence and Guinea Files, 1962-1963

Materials include: Personal correspondence


Box 51 Folder 1 Incoming Correspondence, 1961

Box 51 Folder 2 Ghana Correspondence, 1965

Box 51 Folder 3 Ghana Academy of Sciences, Resignation letter; African Review, 1965-1966

Box 51 Folder 4 Correspondence, 1961-1966

Box 51 Folder 5-6 Correspondence, 1967-1969

Box 51 Folder 7 Correspondence, in French, 1967-1974

Box 51 Folder 8 Professional Correspondence, 1967-1972

Box 51 Folder 9 Personal Correspondence, 1970-1975

Box 51 Folder 10 Personal Correspondence, 1973-1975

Box 51 Folder 12 Ben Barka, Mohamed M., 1973-1975, 1979

Box 51 Folder 13 Tabmen, George W. W. (Ministry of Information, Liberia), 1974

Also see photo scrapbook in Photograph series.

Box 51 Folder 14 Yale University Art Gallery, re: South Indian Bronze, 1932-1946

Box 51 Folder 15 U.E.R. Anthropologie Ethnologie Science Des Religions, 1974

Box 51 Folder 16 Yale Correspondence, 1970-1974

Box 51 Folder 17 Correspondence, 1970, 1972-1974

Box 51 Folder 18 De Menil/Menil Foundation, 1972-1975

Box 51 Folder 19 Professional Correspondence, 1972-1975

Series III: Professional Work, 1961-1995

This series contains papers relating to Sylvia Boone's extensive professional activities in researching, consulting, and teaching, specifically in the field of African and Afro-American Studies and Art History, dating from 1961 to 1993. The early materials from 1961 to 1966 emphasize her work in West Africa as well as her research project in Ghana. Also included are materials from conferences she attended and Pan-African organizations that she was actively involved in. The materials from 1966 to 1970 emphasize her consulting and teaching work at various organizations and colleges.

The bulk of the materials from 1971 onward documents her teaching and active involvement in the department of African-American Studies and department of Art History at Yale, as well as papers relating to other professional projects such as fellowships, lectures, and committees. The materials include syllabi, course proposals, exams, notes and other material relating to several courses taught by Sylvia Boone at Yale University. The series also includes other information about Boone's experience at Yale, such as pursuit of tenure and departmental correspondence. It also includes office files with Boone's original folder titles, marked "Yale Office Files."

General Professional Records, 1961-1993


Box 57 Folder 1 West Africa and other mixed personal files, 1961-1963

Materials include: Correspondence, Operation Crossroad Africa, Guinea Stamps, University of London, Conakry, School of Social Work Student Directory.

Box 57 Folder 3 Ghana travel materials, 1961, 1966

Materials include: flight tickets, 5 Ghana bank notes (one cedi), a photograph of friend Kofi, and travel guides, etc.


Box 45 Folder 7 Materials on Republic of Guinea, 1962, undated

Box 45 Folder 8 Conakry materials, 1963

Box 45 Folder 9 Guinea Residents Ministry in Ghana, Bulletin of Information, circa 1965

Box 45 Folder 10 First Meeting of the Ghana Cooperating Committee of the Encyclopedia Africana, 1964 May 15

Box 45 Folder 11 Information Bureau Launching, 1964 August

Box 45 Folder 12 Telephone Directory for Central Government Offices, Accra, Ghana, 1964-1965

Box 45 Folder 13 Jeanne Martin Cissé, Conférence des Femmes Africaines, 1965

Box 45 Folder 14 Council of African Organizations, 1965

Materials on the assassination of Malcolm X, protest meeting, press releases, etc.


Box 61 Folder 1 Council of African Organizations: Protest Demonstration Poster, on the assassination of Malcolm X, 1965


Box 45 Folder 15-18 Fourth Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference, 1965 May, 4 folders

Box 45 Folder 19 World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), 1965 April

Box 45 Folder 20 Seminar for Youth Leaders of Africa, 1965 April

Box 45 Folder 21 Ghana Young Pioneers, 1965

Materials on Pan-African Youth Movement, Pan-African Youth Congress

Box 45 Folder 22 Ninth World Youth Festival, 1965 July-August

Box 45 Folder 23 Organization of African Unity (OAU), 1965 October

Papers on the Third Summit Conference of the Organization of African Unity held in Accra, Ghana, 1965 October. Materials also include menus and invitations, charter, speeches, press card, photographs, etc.

Box 45 Folder 24 Invitations, 1964-1969


Box 46 Folder 1 Report: "Resettlement" First Phase of Practical Work (1962-1963), by J. N. Arthur, 1963 August 05

Include photographs, charts, and appendix

Box 46 Folder 2 Resettlement at the Volta, 1965

Ghana Academy of Sciences

Box 46 Folder 3 Survey of Contemporary Ghana: Memoranda, Reports, and Outlines of work in progress, 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 4 Survey of Contemporary Ghana: Social Service in Ghana, Health Status of the Ghanaian People, 1964

Box 46 Folder 5 Survey of Contemporary Ghana: Relationships of the NIHMR/MOH Accra Central Community Health Pilot Project with 5 Major Agencies, circa 1965

Box 46 Folder 6 Survey of Contemporary Ghana: Inventory of Highly Educated Ghanaians, Survey of Post-Graduates, Graduates, and Potential Graduate Manpowers of Ghana, circa 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 7 Conditions of Services for Senior Staff of the Academy, circa 1965

Box 46 Folder 8 Talks given by Sylvia A. Boone: "Education for Citizenship: Talk on Nutrition", "Talk on Use of Leisure Time", circa 1965

Research Materials

Also see Series VIII: Printed Materials, for additional research materials

Box 46 Folder 9 Ghana Library Board, 1961, 1963 October

The Akan of Ghana, A Selected Bibliography; Books about Ghana.

Box 46 Folder 10 Ghana Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, 1955-circa 1965

Box 46 Folder 11 Articles and writings, in French, by Chinua Achebe, Dipak Nandy, Ama Ata Aidoo

Box 46 Folder 12 Articles on Pan-Africanism, Democracy and Socialism

Box 46 Folder 13 Articles on African Nationalism, 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 14 Articles: "The Party Press in Ghana", "Socio-cultural Influences on Casework Practice in Urban Ghana", circa 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 15 Toward Nkrumaism: The Building of Socialist Ghana, by John K. Tettegah, 1962 March

Box 46 Folder 16 "New Approaches and Emphases" on Ghana

Missing first page

Box 46 Folder 17 Institute of Public Education, Minutes of the 7th meeting, 1963 September 08

Box 46 Folder 18 Speeches: Osvaldo Dorticos, 2nd Conference of Non-Aligned Countries, 1964 October

Box 46 Folder 19 Réactions et opérations exemplaires, undated

Box 46 Folder 20 Journal of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, v.1:no.1, 1928 January

Box 46 Folder 21 Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Publications and Annual Reports, 1959-1963

Box 46 Folder 22 Historical Origins of National Movements in Ghana, circa 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 23 Students in the Sudanese National Movement, 1963

Box 46 Folder 24 Boone's Notes on Article: "Political Parties in Basutoland, Swaziland, and Bechuanaland since 1945" by Peter Knauss, circa 1964-1965

Box 46 Folder 25 Collected Documents related to Ghana, Congo, Gambia, Senegal, Bangui, Togo, etc., 1879, 1952-1965

Box 46 Folder 26 University of Ghana, 1963-1965

Course materials, syllabi, etc.

Box 46 Folder 27 Student papers on Church Services, Tema, and Site visit, 1965

Box 46 Folder 28 Notes, Contact list, circa 1964-1966

Box 46 Folder 29 Lecture notes, 1963

Box 46 Folder 30 Notes on art and industrialists, 1963

Box 46 Folder 31 Notes on African Nationalist Movements, circa 1963-1965

Box 46 Folder 32 Notes: Conversation between lovers, 1964 March 03

Box 46 Folder 33 New York Books and Book store list, 1960s

Box 46 Folder 34 Autobiography Manuscript, Unidentified author, 1960s

Box 46 Folder 35 Resume: Norman Laliberte, 1960s

Box 46 Folder 36 Resume: Julius I. Rosenthal, circa 1970


Box 47 Folder 1 Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference, 1966

Box 47 Folder 2 Articles: "Black Power and White Response", "Black Revolution and the Tet Offensive", by Julian Mayfield, 1967, undated

Box 47 Folder 3 Home Demonstration, 1966-1967

Women's Africa Committee

Box 47 Folder 4 Leadership Program for African Women, 1962

Box 47 Folder 5 Background materials for teachers placed in Ghana and Nigeria by the African-American Institute, 1962 July

Box 47 Folder 6 Community Service Program, 1967-1969

Box 47 Folder 7 Leadership Training Course for African Women, 1967 Summer

Box 47 Folder 8 "African American typing", Student writings, in French, 1967-1968

Box 47 Folder 9 Student papers on Sociology, in French, 1968

Box 47 Folder 10 Grievance Investigations, 1968-1969

Box 47 Folder 11 Community Organizing, 1968

Box 47 Folder 12 Community Educational Associates, 1968-1970

Box 47 Folder 13 Manuscript: The Search for Freedom, by Robert A. Liston, 1970

Manuscript Review for McGraw-Hill Book Company's Multi-ethnic Services. Includes sample reviews and "Recommended Guidelines for Multi-ethnic publishing in McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Box 47 Folder 19 Ghana National Planning Commission, Report of the Sub-committee on Education, Manpower, and Employment (1963-1970), 1970


Box 48 Folder 1 Mary Rogers College, 1968-1969

Box 48 Folder 2-3 Afro-American Studies and Literature, Teaching Course Materials, 1968-1970

Teaching materials for African American Studies and African Literature courses Boone taught at CUNY Richmond College and Hunter College, Mary Rogers College, NYU, New School for Social Research, UC Berkeley, Hamilton College, Timothy Dwight College, etc.

Box 48 Folder 4 Teaching Notebook, 1969-1970

Box 48 Folder 5 OMEGA Magazine, 1970

Correspondence and magazine profile

Box 48 Folder 6 "Black Consciousness: A Hope for the Future" by Frank H. Williams, 1969

Box 48 Folder 7 Outline for a Conference on Scientific Colonialism, undated

Box 48 Folder 8 First World Festival of Black Arts, 1966

Box 48 Folder 9 Conference on the Functional Aspects of Black Art (CONFABA), 1970

Box 48 Folder 10 National Conference of Artists Convention, 1972

Box 48 Folder 11 American Forum for International Study, 1972

Box 48 Folder 12 Third International Congress of Africanists, 1973

Held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 1973. Boone attended during her trip to Ethiopia.

Box 48 Folder 13 Sixth Pan-African Congress, 1974

Box 48 Folder 14 Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, 1975

Box 48 Folder 15 Programme for the Arts Society, Fourah Bay College, 1974

Box 48 Folder 16-17 Educational Development Center/Career Opportunities Program: Ethnic Studies, African Art and Culture, 1973

Course proposal and Teaching materials

Box 48 Folder 18 Educational Development Center/Career Opportunities Program: Correspondence, 1973


Box 50 Folder 2 Annual Report, Afro-American Studies, 1971-1973

Box 50 Folder 3 African Literature Course, 1970-1973

Box 50 Folder 6 Ethiopia trip receipts, 1973-1974

Box 50 Folder 7 Ph.D. progress, 1974

Orals, colloquium, etc.

Box 50 Folder 8 Research Proposals, Resume, circa 1974


Box 17 Folder 10 Administrative and Employment Documents, 1972-1993


Box 7 Folder 34 Africa: A Voyage of Discovery, Basil Davidson--Department Correspondence, 1988


Box 12 Folder 3 African American Studies and Yale: Revisiting Origins, Imagining Futures--Yale University African American Studies Alumni Reunion--Program


Box 25 Folder 2 African American Studies/Art History 379a--Course Descriptions, undated


Box 10 Folder 90 African and Afro-American Studies Courses--Correspondence, 1988


Box 27 Folder 9 African and Afro-American Studies Program Funding--Correspondence, 1986


Box 7 Folder 3 African Art, 1989


Box 18 Folder 16 African Art--Course Materials, undated


Box 7 Folder 42 African Studies Program at Yale--Proposal Letter and Other Correspondence, 1984-1990


Box 27 Folder 10 African Studies Program Guide, 1980-1981


Box 6 Folder 37 Afro-American and African Studies at Yale, 1987


Box 7 Folder 5 Afro-American Art, 1989


Box 9 Folder 43 Afro-American Art, 1845-1945--Course Materials--Syllabus, 1985


Box 18 Folder 68 Afro-American Art, 1845-1945--Syllabus, 1986


Box 25 Folder 52 Afro-American Art--Syllabus, 1985


Box 23 Folder 38 Afro-American Studies at Yale--Catalog, circa 1973


Box 20 Folder 15 Afro-American Studies--Blassingame, John Memos, 1981


Box 25 Folder 10 Art history and African American Studies, Guidelines for Researching, undated

Box 25 Folder 1 Art History/African American Studies 374a, undated


Box 7 Folder 65 Assistant Professorship, Appointment and Tenure, 1979-1988


Box 24 Folder 14 At-A-Glance Academic Planner, 1989-1990


Box 9 Folder 30 Boone Book Announcement in Yale Newsletter, 1987


Box 8 Folder 53 Boone Enrollment Schedule for Courses Taught, undated

Box 8 Folder 54 Boone Professional Activities, 1990


Box 27 Folder 75 Calendar--Winterfest (Yale), 1983


Box 7 Folder 56 Catalog from Prestel Books, 1991


Box 25 Folder 67 Class Presentation Notes, undated


Box 7 Folder 6 Commonwealth of Letters-1990, 1989-1990


Box 8 Folder 75 Correspondence – Incomplete Draft of Reference Letter, undated

Box 8 Folder 76 Correspondence – Yale re: Personal Profile for Department Annual Report", 1992


Box 24 Folder 19 Correspondence on treatment of faculty of color, 1984


Box 7 Folder 38 Council on African Studies (Yale)--Correspondence, undated


Box 27 Folder 52 Council on African Studies Meetings--Agenda, 1983

Box 27 Folder 12 Course Announcement, 1983


Box 17 Folder 13 Course Descriptions, 1989-1993


Box 10 Folder 99 Course Documents, undated


Box 25 Folder 3 Course Evaluations, undated


Box 24 Folder 13 Course Materials, 1983

Box 24 Folder 24 Course Materials, 1988-1991

Box 24 Folder 55 Course Materials, undated

Box 24 Folder 24 Course Materials, 1988-1991

Box 24 Folder 55 Course Materials, undated


Box 8 Folder 77 Course Materials, Selected Boone Course Materials, Final Exams, undated


Box 9 Folder 23 Course Notes, undated


Box 18 Folder 88 Course Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 77 Course Planning Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 27 Course Preparation Materials, 1983


Box 17 Folder 31 Course Proposals and Curriculum Plans, 1983


Box 25 Folder 41 Course Syllabus--Draft and Notes, 1989


Box 7 Folder 18 Department Meetings--Correspondence, 1988


Box 9 Folder 56 Department Search Committee Resumes, 1985


Box 27 Folder 61 Departmental Correspondence, 1982-1986


Box 10 Folder 9 Departmental Materials--List of Possible Candidates, 1986


Box 9 Folder 51 Departmental Papers–Annual Report Profile, 1986-1987


Box 31 Folder 19 Doctoral Work at Yale, 1974-1975


Box 9 Folder 26 Employment Search at Smith College--Correspondence, 1988


Box 7 Folder 4 European art and Art History, 1990


Box 27 Folder 65 Film and Melodrama: A Symposium", Yale University--Agenda, 1982

Box 27 Folder 60 Final Exam, undated


Box 11 Folder 25 Final Exam--Draft, undated


Box 9 Folder 35 Final Examination Schedule--Correspondence, 1986


Box 7 Folder 30 Fulbright and Tenure--Correspondence, 1988


Box 10 Folder 68 General Materials re: Professional Life and Archives at Yale, 1979-1980

Box 10 Folder 6 General Personal re: Work and Yale--Notes, undated

Box 10 Folder 74 General Yale Professional, 1988


Box 7 Folder 10 Herskovits Prize--Correspondence, 1987


Box 9 Folder 39 Herskovitz Award nomination for Radiance From the Waters--Correspondence, 1987


Box 7 Folder 57 History of Art/Afro-American Studies 373a (Yale)--Final Exam, 1978


Box 9 Folder 11 HYA 373a/AAS273a--Course Materials--Syllabus, 1986


Box 7 Folder 24 HYA 373a: Afro-American Studies 273a Final Exam, undated


Box 9 Folder 41 HYA 373a: The Image of Women in African Art--Course Evaluations, undated

Box 9 Folder 55 HYA 373a: The Image of Women in African Art--Course Materials, Syllabus, Final, 1985


Box 10 Folder 3 HYA 373a: The Image of Women in African Art--Course Syllabus, 1986

Box 10 Folder 86 HYA373a/Afro-Am 273a--Course Materials – Syllabus, 1986


Box 27 Folder 79 International Forum at Yale, 1982


Box 17 Folder 32 International Forum at Yale, 1982


Box 7 Folder 48 Interview--Correspondence, 1977


Box 24 Folder 20 Intro to African Studies--Course Materials, 1983


Box 23 Folder 52 Invoices, 1975


Box 9 Folder 18 J. Blassingame's Departure as Department Chair--Correspondence, 1988


Box 27 Folder 76 John Hope Franklin--Ida Wells Barnett Lecture (Yale), 1983


Box 7 Folder 16 Johnetta Richards--Correspondence, 1985


Box 9 Folder 34 Junior Methods Seminar--Course Materials--Reading List, 1985


Box 26 Folder 32 Key Words for Position Questionnaires, undated


Box 23 Folder 65 Letter to Menil Foundation on "Historic" Tenure, 1982 September


Box 27 Folder 69 Library Exhibition Guide--Filippo Marinetti and Futurism (Yale), 1983


Box 22 Folder 34 Life and Death of Affirmative Action at Yale"--Article by Blassingame, John, circa 1990


Box 18 Folder 51 List of Professional Activities, 1988-1989


Box 8 Folder 56 List of Yale Undergraduate Art History Courses, undated


Box 23 Folder 23 Masquerades--Course, 1991


Box 24 Folder 48 Memo on African and Afro-American Photographic Archive, 1987


Box 9 Folder 16 Memo re: Yale African Art History Initiative, undated


Box 25 Folder 66 Memo Yale (Timothy Dwight College), 1984


Box 8 Folder 68 Morse Research Fellowship Award, in Concilium Newsletter--Announcement, 1981

Box 8 Folder 59 Notes Describing a Course, undated

Box 8 Folder 15 Notes on Curriculum--General, undated


Box 7 Folder 11 Office Files--General, 1991


Box 10 Folder 20 Personal Expenses Yale Bursar, 1988


Box 9 Folder 73 Professional Activities, Accomplishments--Notes, undated


Box 7 Folder 8 Professional Correspondence – Yale Professional Accomplishments, 1985


Box 8 Folder 67 Professional Correspondence, HBC-ETS Workshops, 1989


Box 6 Folder 32 Professional Papers--Miscellaneous, 1984-1989

Box 6 Folder 34 Promotion Letters, 1981-1984


Box 25 Folder 13 Prop 1980--Syllabus, 1980


Box 23 Folder 15 Publicity--Yale University Art Gallery, 1984


Box 25 Folder 11 Queen Mother class, circa 1988


Box 23 Folder 16 Quid Tum: Yale Alumni Newsletter, 1987


Box 9 Folder 50 Receipt for Accommodations (London), 1984


Box 24 Folder 23 Receipts for Book Purchases, 1986


Box 10 Folder 4 Research and Proposed Courses--Notes, undated

Box 10 Folder 35 Robert Farris Thompson Course and General Course Materials, 1979


Box 9 Folder 70 Rosalind Jeffries Dissertation--Correspondence, 1992

Box 9 Folder 68 Search Committees Afro-American Cultural Center and Assistant Dean of Yale College, 1992


Box 23 Folder 39 SHE- Information for Women at Yale, 1972


Box 9 Folder 37 Spring Term Departmental Leave for 1993--Correspondence, 1992-1993


Box 7 Folder 13 Student Dissertation Review Criteria--Correspondence, 1992

Box 7 Folder 9 Studio Museum in Harlem--Correspondence, 1987


Box 9 Folder 97 Study Guide for WNYW "Shaka Zulu", 1987


Box 8 Folder 60 Syllabi from Yale Art History Courses, 1990


Box 27 Folder 11 Syllabus Draft and Course Description Request, 1983

Box 27 Folder 74 Symposium on the History of Art (The Frick Collection)--Agenda, 1983


Box 7 Folder 25 Talks and Papers--Correspondence, 1979


Box 9 Folder 57 Tenure Process – Correspondence re: Referees with C.V. and Related Materials, 1988

Box 9 Folder 40 Tenure Process--Dossier Contents, 1974-1988

Box 9 Folder 15 Tenure Process--Draft of Referees for Tenure Process, undated

Box 9 Folder 19 Text of J. Blassingame Speech on Affirmative Action at Yale, undated


Box 18 Folder 77 The Image of Women in African Art--Syllabus, 1986


Box 7 Folder 14 The New Journal, 1986

Box 7 Folder 61 Undergraduate Anthropology courses--Departmental Correspondence, 1989


Box 9 Folder 49 Upcoming Book Projects, UNICEF Committee--Correspondence, 1981-1984


Box 23 Folder 41 VENTURES - Magazine of Yale Graduate School, 1971


Box 27 Folder 68 Wole Soyinka--Richard Wright Lecture (Yale), 1983


Box 25 Folder 33 Women in African Art--Course Materials, 1991


Box 27 Folder 55 Women's Studies Program--Correspondence, 1982-1983

Box 27 Folder 48 Women's Week at Yale--Agenda, undated


Box 8 Folder 5 Yale (probably) Boone Course Materials – Syllabus – Introduction to African Studies, undated


Box 27 Folder 43 Yale Afro-American Cultural Center--Alumni Magazine Article, 1980

Box 27 Folder 42 Yale Afro-American Cultural Center--Brochure, 1985

Box 27 Folder 44 Yale Afro-American Cultural Center--Correspondence, 1983


Box 7 Folder 59 Yale Afro-American Studies Course Catalog, 1978-1979


Box 27 Folder 83 Yale Alumni Association--Correspondence, 1983


Box 9 Folder 94 Yale Alumni Cruise, circa 1987


Box 27 Folder 50 Yale Alumni Records and Information, 1983


Box 25 Folder 14 Yale Alumni Trip--Correspondence, 1988


Box 18 Folder 67 Yale Art Gallery – Grant Proposal, 1988


Box 7 Folder 15 Yale Art Gallery, Calendar of Events, 1986


Box 17 Folder 14 Yale Campus Directory Entries-89", 1988-1993


Box 27 Folder 73 Yale Center for British Art--Museum Exhibitions, Symposium Guide, undated


Box 10 Folder 69 Yale Correspondence, undated


Box 11 Folder 28 Yale Correspondence, 1982


Box 9 Folder 60 Yale Correspondence, 1988


Box 8 Folder 37 Yale Correspondence – Brenda Stevenson, 1981


Box 9 Folder 28 Yale Course Offerings--Correspondence, 1988


Box 10 Folder 2 Yale Course Proposals--Colleagues, undated

Box 10 Folder 1 Yale Courses by Colleagues--Syllabi, 1985-1989


Box 27 Folder 41 Yale Daily News Magazine, 1983


Box 7 Folder 1 Yale Departmental Correspondence, 1984-1991


Box 27 Folder 58 Yale Faculty Meeting--General, 1982-1983

Box 27 Folder 39 Yale Free Press, 1982-1983


Box 6 Folder 35 Yale Inter-Office Correspondence, 1985-1988


Box 26 Folder 4 Yale Notebook, undated


Box 27 Folder 40 Yale Political Monthly, 1982


Box 20 Folder 22 Yale Press--General, 1979-1983

Box 20 Folder 23 Yale Press--Requirements, 1979-1985


Box 27 Folder 63 Yale Professional Correspondence, 1982-1983


Box 10 Folder 50 Yale Professional Walter Cahn--Correspondence, 1980


Box 7 Folder 2 Yale Professional--Curriculum Vitae and Letters, 1980-1984


Box 27 Folder 59 Yale Professional--Final Exam Schedule, 1983


Box 10 Folder 28 Yale Professional--General, 1987

Box 10 Folder 34 Yale Professional–Romare Bearden Exhibition, 1964, 1979


Box 22 Folder 24 Yale Registrar, 1987


Box 31 Folder 62 Yale Research Notebooks, 1989


Box 9 Folder 44 Yale Senior Awards Ceremony--Program, 1987


Box 23 Folder 71 Yale Studies Program Directory, 1988 January


Box 17 Folder 56 Yale University Art Gallery, 1988-1991


Box 27 Folder 72 Yale University Art Gallery--Museum Exhibitions, 1983

Box 27 Folder 17 Yale University Library--Correspondence, 1982


Box 10 Folder 81 Yale University Library--Correspondence, 1988


Box 9 Folder 42 Yale Weekly Bulletin, 1988


Box 17 Folder 46 Yale Weekly Bulletin, 1983 November


Box 27 Folder 47 Yale Weekly Bulletin, 1982


Box 25 Folder 55 Yale Weekly Bulletin and Calendar, 1991


Box 12 Folder 7 Yale Weekly Planner, 1988-1989


Box 24 Folder 17 Yale--College Course Catalogs, 1985-1990


Box 20 Folder 29 Yale--Photocopies for AFST120a Final Exam, 1983


Box 12 Folder 8 Yale--Promotion/Tenure, 1987


Box 25 Folder 74 Yale--University Correspondence, 1980

Box 25 Folder 47 Yale--West African Masquerades Course--Project Proposals, 1991

Yale Office Files


Box 22 Folder 27 100 Black Women, 1992


Box 13 Folder 41 AFRAM/Wilcox, 1991


Box 9 Folder 88 African Arts, 1986


Box 24 Folder 53 African Language Incremental Position, Yale, 1987


Box 9 Folder 83 African Studies, 1991


Box 13 Folder 2 Afro-Am, 1984

Box 13 Folder 19 Afro-Am Cultural Center Lecture, 6 March, 1986

Box 13 Folder 38 Afro-Am PhD, undated


Box 9 Folder 89 Afro-American Art, 1990


Box 13 Folder 52 Afro-American Art and Art in America: A Problem in Methodology," MASJ, Ehrlich, G., 1970

Box 13 Folder 11 American Museum, Nov. 4, 1984

Box 13 Folder 27 Anne Higonnet, 1990


Box 9 Folder 90 Art, 1990


Box 13 Folder 64 Art History Notes, circa 1991

Box 13 Folder 59 Baldrige, Malcolm, 1980-1981

Box 13 Folder 56 Bannister, Edward Mitchell, undated

Box 13 Folder 50 Bibliographies in Afro-Am Art, American Quarterly, David Driskill, 1978


Box 17 Folder 49 Black Books, 1991


Box 9 Folder 86 Black Films, 1990


Box 13 Folder 57 Black Music at the Movies, 1990

Box 13 Folder 13 Books/Lists/Bibliographies, circa 1978

Box 13 Folder 15 Boone, Curriculum Vitae, circa 1989, circa 1989

Box 13 Folder 44 Cassandra Garner, 1986

Box 13 Folder 35 Center for African Art, 1991

Box 13 Folder 42 Debby Amory, 1986

Box 13 Folder 10 Dominique Malaquais, 1986

Box 13 Folder 40 DuBois/Massiah, 1991

Box 13 Folder 23 Eduarda, undated

Box 13 Folder 48 Emily Ballew, 1986

Box 13 Folder 36 Faculty Status 1991, 1990-1991

Box 13 Folder 73 Femmes and Research Into African Art, 1990

Box 13 Folder 54 For Input in H'burg, 1970-1975

Box 13 Folder 51 Four Problems in the History of Negro Art--ASNLH, Porter, James, circa 1969

Box 13 Folder 24 Gallery V, 1986-1987

Box 13 Folder 5 Gender/Feminist Theory, 1986

Box 13 Folder 4 Ghana/Nigeria in New York, 1991

Box 13 Folder 55 Gordon, Janet – "February Films", 1986

Box 13 Folder 58 Hamilton, Ruth, 1989-1990

Box 13 Folder 62 Harris, 1979-1980


Box 22 Folder 44 Healy, Christopher, 1980-1981


Box 13 Folder 6 HYA, 1988

Box 13 Folder 37 HYA – Colton – Fellowships, 1990

Box 13 Folder 74 Job Search and Xerox, 1988


Box 17 Folder 4 John Blassingame, 1989


Box 9 Folder 82 Johnetta (Richards), 1990


Box 13 Folder 45 Joyce Davis Stevens, 1987

Box 13 Folder 47 Judith Wilson, 1987


Box 9 Folder 87 Kemet, undated


Box 23 Folder 10 Last Clear Chance--Plan for Small Businesses, 1 of 2, 1980-1990

Box 23 Folder 11 Last Clear Chance--Plan for Small Businesses, 2 of 2, 1980-1990


Box 13 Folder 46 Laurel Katz, 1987

Box 13 Folder 12 Lecture – Teaching Women to Rule By Art, 1986

Box 13 Folder 68 Lecture at Spelman – 1987- 'Beauty in Africa', 1987


Box 9 Folder 79 Lecture Materials to be Filed by Topic, 1990

Box 9 Folder 85 Lecture to HYA 1st Year Grads, circa 1989


Box 13 Folder 8 Letters of Recommendation, 1986-1987

Box 13 Folder 26 Lou Ann Thompson, 1990


Box 9 Folder 80 Masquerade Class, 1989


Box 13 Folder 18 Mementos, 1988-1991


Box 22 Folder 10 Mende Art, undated


Box 13 Folder 25 Michael Cooke Common-Wealth, 1990


Box 22 Folder 29 Michael D. Harris, 1990


Box 13 Folder 32 Michael Harris, 1990

Box 13 Folder 33 Michael Harris, 1991

Box 13 Folder 34 Michael Harris Vita Qualifying, 1990

Box 13 Folder 22 Michigan State – PBK, 1989

Box 13 Folder 66 Millsaps Lecture, circa 1990


Box 20 Folder 19 Miscellaneous Professional Papers, 1980-1982


Box 13 Folder 61 Museum of African Art, 1979-1980


Box 31 Folder 10 My Career, circa 1988-1989


Box 13 Folder 16 My Vitae, 1986-1987

Box 13 Folder 60 NEH Proposal, 1979-1980


Box 17 Folder 40 New Year 1991, 1991


Box 13 Folder 71 Newark Museum, 1984-1985


Box 11 Folder 55 Notes, undated


Box 13 Folder 76 October Lectures at American Museum, undated

Box 13 Folder 28 PBK (Phi Beta Kappa), 1990

Box 13 Folder 72 Professional, 1980


Box 23 Folder 22 Professional Activities-90, 1990 September


Box 13 Folder 69 Publish or Perish, 1980

Box 13 Folder 1 Queen Mother '91, 1991-1992

Box 13 Folder 75 Queen Mother Class Schedule, undated


Box 23 Folder 9 Queen Mother Syllabus, 1991

Box 23 Folder 17 Queen Mother--Very Important Materials, 1986-1987


Box 13 Folder 31 RISD, 1990


Box 9 Folder 84 Samella Lewis Lecture, 1992


Box 13 Folder 43 Sara Baughman, 1985

Box 13 Folder 3 Senior majors, Class of '85, 1984-1985

Box 13 Folder 7 SKIP, 1984


Box 9 Folder 81 Summer--Image of Women, 1989


Box 13 Folder 49 Suzanne Beddoe, 1986-1987

Box 13 Folder 9 Sylvia's Letters, 1987

Box 13 Folder 21 Tagged Xeroxes on Absolute Truth, 1985


Box 23 Folder 18 Tanner (Henry Ossawa)


Box 17 Folder 6 Taxes, 1990


Box 13 Folder 39 Teaching Africa, undated

Box 13 Folder 53 The Black Artist in America--The Art Gallery, Greene, Jr., 1970

Box 13 Folder 63 Toby--The Nation, 1991


Box 24 Folder 29 Untitled Notes, undated


Box 13 Folder 14 Update, 1990


Box 31 Folder 4 Vassar College, 1989


Box 23 Folder 14 Vera Wells + NBC Memos, 1983-1984

Box 23 Folder 12 Visual Arts Conference, 1992 August


Box 13 Folder 17 Vita, 1988

Box 13 Folder 29 Windom, Alice. Re: National Congress of Black Faculty, 1989

Box 13 Folder 67 Women and Beauty Notes, undated

Box 13 Folder 70 Yale Committees, 1980


Box 22 Folder 31 Yale Registrar, Masquerades in West Africa, 1983


Box 13 Folder 65 Yearly Report, 1991


Box 8 Folder 78 Negro Ability Gaining Recognition Through Efforts of Harmon Foundation--Article by Marian P. Saul, 1928

Box 8 Folder 79 Current (Yale Information), 1990

Box 8 Folder 80 The Matriarch," Article by Witi Ihimaera, 1986

Box 8 Folder 81 New Negritude, 1990

Box 8 Folder 82 African Speakers, 1990

Box 8 Folder 83 Distinction in the Major, 1989-1991

Box 8 Folder 84 AAAS May Conference Yale, 1990

Box 8 Folder 85 Barbara Hudson/Wadsworth, 1990

Box 8 Folder 86 Carlos Work CBC I, 1990

Box 8 Folder 87 "Dakar, 1990

Box 8 Folder 88 African Art in US Collections, 1990

Box 8 Folder 89 Course Description for Handbook, undated

Box 8 Folder 90 HYA-376b Afro-Am Art Notes, circa 1992

Box 8 Folder 91 Letters of Recommendation, 1983-1988

Box 8 Folder 92 Gillian Wynn, 1990

Box 8 Folder 93 The Black Aesthetic"--Outline--Leininger, Theresa, 1989

Box 8 Folder 94 The J.W. Johnson Collection at Yale, Van Vechten, Carl, 1942

Box 8 Folder 95 Jacob Lawrence--Article by Elizabeth, 1945


Box 10 Folder 13 Critique by Boone – Unpublished Arnold Rubin Article, undated


Box 25 Folder 55 Book Review--Draft, undated

Box 25 Folder 5 Editorial Recommendations (with draft and essay copy), 1989


Box 9 Folder 48 Job Offers, Dissertation, and Smithsonian Consultancy--Correspondence, 1979-1983


Box 6 Folder 29 Job Offers--File, 1983

Box 6 Folder 30 Hampshire College Application Materials, 1988

Box 6 Folder 31 "Afro-Am" File, with Job Offers, 1983


Box 7 Folder 37 Membership Directory – African Studies Association, 1990

Box 7 Folder 41 Membership Materials – American Black Book Writers Association, 1988


Box 17 Folder 43 Professional Notes and Drafts, undated


Box 10 Folder 27 Boone Professional –Cornell Art Consulting Group, 1980


Box 6 Folder 27 C.V.s and Biographical Content, circa 1990

Box 6 Folder 28 Boone Curriculum Vitae, circa 1985


Box 20 Folder 26 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1988-1993


Box 9 Folder 31 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1987


Box 25 Folder 4 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1981

Box 25 Folder 6 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1960-1985

Box 25 Folder 7 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1987


Box 31 Folder 18 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1985-1989


Box 10 Folder 82 Boone Biography, undated


Box 9 Folder 54 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1960-1990


Box 18 Folder 81 Boone Curriculum Vitae, undated


Box 25 Folder 53 Boone Curriculum Vitae, circa 1988


Box 7 Folder 7 Boone Curriculum Vitae, 1987-1988


Box 10 Folder 19 Boone Tributes – Istanbul, Turkey, 2002 February

Box 10 Folder 21 Boone Tributes – New Haven, Connecticut, 2002 February


Box 26 Folder 33 Boone Obituary - New York Times, 1993


Box 24 Folder 33 Obituary Photocopy, 1993


Box 12 Folder 5 Boone Tribute by Masons in New Haven--Photographs Include Prize Winner Cheryl Finley and Lyniese Williams, undated


Box 31 Folder 14 In Honor of Sylvia Boone, Patrick McNaughton, 1993 May


Box 12 Folder 4 Memorial Program--Photo of Boone for Memorial Program and Letter from Vera Wells, 1982 May


Box 50 Folder 11 Professional Activities, 1988-1990

Box 50 Folder 12 Correspondence, Articles, 1989

Box 50 Folder 13 Carlos Moore: Castro, the Blacks, and Africa, 1989

Include Carlos Moore's C.V. press release, portrait

Box 50 Folder 14 Carlos Moore: Congressional Black Caucus, 1990

Box 50 Folder 15 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1989-1990


Box 60 Folder 2 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: Lecture on Radiance Posters, circa 1989-1990


Box 50 Folder 16 American Museum Course, circa 1990

Box 50 Folder 17 Article on Tantra, 1990

Box 50 Folder 18 Africa Trip, 1990

Box 50 Folder 19 W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, 1993


Box 9 Folder 52 Professional Correspondence –re: Incoming Graduate students, 1980

(Restricted until 2055)

Box 9 Folder 32 Art History Senior Essays--Correspondence, 1988

(Restricted until 2063)

Box 9 Folder 36 Correspondence – re: Boone Activities – student supervision, 1988

(Restricted until 2063)

Box 9 Folder 12 Student Recommendations, Beddoe, 1988-1989

(Restricted until 2064)

Box 9 Folder 27 Student Recommendation Letter, Jometric McIntyre, 1988

(Restricted until 2063)

Box 9 Folder 69 Student Recommendations – Belinda Tate (draft), undated

(Restricted until 2067)

Box 9 Folder 64 Student work – Bernard de Grunne Paper, Masquerades in West Africa, 1983

(Restricted until 2058)

Box 9 Folder 75 Student Work – Senior Essay Comments – Emily Ballew, 1985

(Restricted until 2060)

Research Materials and Notebooks, 1925-1993

Includes spiral-bound notebooks from field work, as well as loose undated pages with notes. Also includes a wide range of articles, notes, museum information, and many other documents on African art.


Box 8 Folder 30 "Fisk Art Center: Stieglitz Collection Makes Its Finest in South"--Article in Ebony, 1950

Box 8 Folder 66 "Nigerian Splendor, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries"--Museum Exhibitions Guide, 1980


Box 22 Folder 15 African Arts Book, 1985

Box 22 Folder 26 American Black Book Writers Assn, Inc., undated


Box 7 Folder 68 Malcolm X Lovers Network--Materials, 1991


Box 8 Folder 73 "Advance on the Art Front"--Article by Alain Locke, 1939

Box 8 Folder 20 "Alabama"--Poem by Julia Fields, 1975

Box 8 Folder 13 "Alma Thomas: A One-Woman Art Movement"--Article by Judith Wilson, 1979

Box 8 Folder 48 "Art Reaches the People"--Article by J. Porter, 1939

Box 8 Folder 21 "Artist Robert S. Duncanson"--Article by J. Porter, 1954

Box 8 Folder 22 "Current Revolution and Future Prospects"--Article on Art by Selby Mvusi, 1966

Box 8 Folder 14 "Faith Ringgold Makes Dolls an Art"--Article, undated

Box 8 Folder 24 "It's Not Enough to Say Black is Beautiful"--Article by Frank Bowling, 1971

Box 8 Folder 96 "Iron Art in West Africa: A Study of the Sorko Blacksmiths of Mali" by Patrick Ronle McNaughton, 1972

Box 8 Folder 19 "Jacob Lawrence"--Book Chapter from Six Black Masters of American Art, 1972

Box 8 Folder 6 "Looking Back to the Days of Nkrumah and the Government of the CPP"--Article by K. Armah, undated

Box 8 Folder 72 "Marvin Gray Johnson, Artist"--Article by James Porter, 1935

Box 8 Folder 58 "N'dyombot and Ndate Yala Have Governed without Reigning"--Article by B. Barry, undated

Box 8 Folder 45 "Ori: The Significance of the Head in Yoruba Sculpture"--Article by B. Lawal, undated

Box 8 Folder 29 "Romare Bearden"--Article by C. Douglas, 1975

Box 8 Folder 23 "The Perception of Beauty in Negro-African Culture"--Article by H. Memel-Fote, undated

Box 8 Folder 25 "Walter Simon: The Socialization of An American Negro Artist"--Article by Lawrence Reddick, 1954

Box 8 Folder 26 "What is Black Art?"--Article by Douglas Davis, 1970

Box 8 Folder 4 "What's in a Face"--Article by S. Brownlee, 1985

Box 8 Folder 32 "Afro-American Art: 1800-1950"--Article in Ebony, 1950

Box 8 Folder 28 "Atlanta's Annual Exhibition and Sculpture by Negroes"--Article from Time, 1951

Box 8 Folder 31 "Fisk University Dedicates Stieglitz Collection"--Article in The Crisis, 1950

Box 8 Folder 69 "The Black Artist in America"--Book Chapter by Carroll Greene, Jr., undated


Box 10 Folder 18 …And They Called Us 'Colored'"--Exhibitions – Guide – Oklahoma Arts Institute, 1992


Box 8 Folder 39 18th-19th Century African-American Artists--Notes, undated

Box 8 Folder 36 19th Century American Sculptors--Notes, undated


Box 22 Folder 22 A Successful Life for Everyone" Packet, undated

Box 22 Folder 46 Abafazi Review of Women of African Descent, 1991

Box 22 Folder 45 Abbwa Journal: Black Book Guide, 1991


Box 25 Folder 81 Abimbola, Wande--"Yoruba Oral Tradition", 1975

Box 25 Folder 49 ACASA Newsletter with Call for Papers, 1986


Box 31 Folder 12 Address Cards, undated


Box 12 Folder 6 Address Cards, undated


Box 10 Folder 12 AFRAM News, Services/Malcolm X Lovers Network, 1992


Box 11 Folder 31 Africa Bibliography, 1958


Box 8 Folder 7 African Aesthetics, Art, Spirituality--Notes, undated


Box 9 Folder 20 African Aesthetics--General--Notes, undated


Box 27 Folder 78 African American Art--Essay, undated


Box 8 Folder 49 African American Artists--Notes, undated


Box 23 Folder 47 African -American Institute--Packet on Ghana, 1973


Box 22 Folder 7 African Art Exhibition Programs, 1988


Box 8 Folder 34 African Art Exhibits--Photographs of Programs, Announcements, San Diego Museum of Art, 1968-1978


Box 24 Folder 4 African Art Studies: The State of the Discipline"--Article by Michael D. Harris, 1987


Box 23 Folder 34 African Art, and "Radiance", 1986-1987


Box 31 Folder 11 African Astrology Files, undated


Box 25 Folder 75 African Clothing and Textiles--Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 65 African Disapora--Notes, undated


Box 18 Folder 35 African Hairstyles--Brochure, undated


Box 23 Folder 37 African Heritage Studies Association Conference, 1970-1973


Box 18 Folder 9 African Language Review, 1967

Box 18 Folder 5 African Language Review, 1968


Box 9 Folder 53 African Masquerading--Bibliography, undated


Box 26 Folder 1 African Seafood, undated


Box 8 Folder 2 African Textiles--Articles, 1968-1981


Box 26 Folder 10 African Woman Magazine, 1977-1978


Box 17 Folder 2 African Women, African Art exhibition, 1976


Box 24 Folder 3 African Women/African Art--Catalog, 1976


Box 10 Folder 98 Africana in London Research Guide, undated

Box 10 Folder 75 Africana Research Bulletin, 1973


Box 7 Folder 58 African-American Art Music--Notes, undated


Box 8 Folder 18 African–American Core Values--Notes, undated


Box 26 Folder 3 African-American Institute, circa 1967


Box 23 Folder 36 African-American Institute reports, 1974


Box 18 Folder 56 Africa--Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 83 AFRICOBRA Program--Howard University, 1989

Box 25 Folder 86 AFRIKA Magazine, 1992 April


Box 17 Folder 55 Afrocentric Travel, 1991


Box 9 Folder 76 American Museum of Natural History, 1985-1987


Box 22 Folder 11 American Museum of Natural History Packet, 1983


Box 25 Folder 37 American Museum of Natural History--Museum Exhibition Schedule, 1984


Box 10 Folder 102 American Negro Art"--Article by Cedric Dover, circa 1970


Box 18 Folder 29 American Philosophical Society"--Envelope, 1986


Box 31 Folder 27 An Aesthetic of Cool: West African Dance"--Article by Robert Farris Thompson, undated


Box 18 Folder 28 Annual Bibliography on African Women – Press Release, 1987


Box 10 Folder 95 Art as a Didactic Device in African Initiation Systems"--Article by Daniel Biebuyck, 1968


Box 17 Folder 54 Art Gallery File, 1985


Box 22 Folder 14 Art History in Africa"--Article by Vansina (1984)


Box 18 Folder 6 Art in Small-Scale Societies, 1993


Box 24 Folder 1 Art Journal, 1988


Box 26 Folder 23 Art Museum Programs + Flyers, 1980-1991


Box 22 Folder 5 Art of the Mende – University of Maryland Art Gallery, 2019 May 27


Box 17 Folder 29 Art Programs and Flyers, 1984-1989

Box 17 Folder 27 Articles


Box 30 Folder 7 Articles and Photocopies


Box 8 Folder 47 Art--Notes, General, undated


Box 17 Folder 12 Art-related event programs, 1984-1988


Box 25 Folder 31 Asante Gold-weights: Images and Words" by McLeod, M.D., undated


Box 23 Folder 70 At Random"--Random House Newsletter, 1974


Box 10 Folder 60 Baltimore Museum of Art--Correspondence, 1981


Box 8 Folder 50 Beauty, Aesthetics, Masks--Notes, undated


Box 18 Folder 65 Beddoe Recommendation Letter, undated


Box 24 Folder 37 Beddoe, Suzanne -Master's Thesis: "'De Mas' In We", 1990 April


Box 25 Folder 82 Bell Hooks, "Cornel West", 1990


Box 23 Folder 40 Bibliographic Packet on Mali, circa 1973


Box 10 Folder 101 Black American Literature Forum--Articles, circa 1991


Box 17 Folder 38 Black and Beautiful, Ayo Vaughan-Richards, 1986


Box 26 Folder 16 Black Art- Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Art, 1989


Box 8 Folder 27 Black Artists on Art--List of Holdings at Sanders Educational Media Association (SEMA), undated


Box 22 Folder 47 Black Ethnic Collectibles Magazine, 1989

Box 22 Folder 49 Black Film Review, Folder 1 of 2, 1985-1990

Box 22 Folder 50 Black Film Review, Folder 2 of 2, 1985-1990

Box 22 Folder 30 Black Images in American Painting…"--Article by Wright, Beryl, 1981 May


Box 30 Folder 1 Black Orpheus Journals, 1958-1967

Box 30 Folder 2 Black Orpheus Journals, 1964-1967

Box 30 Folder 3 Black Orpheus Journals, 1964-1967


Box 17 Folder 37 Black Resource Guide, 1985


Box 25 Folder 58 Black Women in Academia--Article, undated


Box 23 Folder 20 Black Women's Alliance, 1991

Box 23 Folder 32 Black Women's Development Foundation, 1973


Box 17 Folder 35 Blackbook 1986 Guide, 1986


Box 18 Folder 44 Blank Card, undated


Box 9 Folder 92 Blassingame, John--African Studies Prizes, 1987


Box 27 Folder 27 Book and Papers, undated


Box 8 Folder 17 Book Chapter from "The Afro-American Artist: The Search for Identity," by Elsa Honing Fine, 1973


Box 18 Folder 80 Book Review, undated


Box 7 Folder 46 Booklet – Senegal, 1984


Box 9 Folder 47 Books and Journals – African Arts, 1988


Box 23 Folder 35 Brooklyn Academy of Music Poster of Billie Holiday, undated


Box 22 Folder 38 Bunting Correspondence, 1991

Box 22 Folder 41 Bunting File, "Chave, Anna C.", 1990

Box 22 Folder 43 Bunting File, "Elizabeth Cochary", 1990

Box 22 Folder 40 Bunting File, "Marilyn Richardson", 1990

Box 22 Folder 42 Bunting File, "Parris, Nina G.", 1990


Box 17 Folder 30 C.V. for Harms, Robert, circa 1988


Box 18 Folder 25 Calendar, "Black Hollywood Yesterday", 1983


Box 24 Folder 36 Call and Response: Journeys in African Art, 2000


Box 31 Folder 44 Call for Articles, "Presenting the Past: The Public and History", 1980


Box 17 Folder 15 Calliope's Sisters, Richard L. Anderson, circa 1990


Box 28 Folder 1 Cameroun Information, 1972-1973


Box 12 Folder 11 Carlos Moore Clippings--Arlene Mancuso, 1987

Box 12 Folder 12 Carlos Moore Clippings--Cuba, 1990

Box 12 Folder 13 Carlos Moore--Fela Fela--Carlos Moore book, 1982


Box 11 Folder 16 Carol P. MacCormack--Article, 1977


Box 31 Folder 23 Catalogue of Sierra Leone, Harry Turay, 1976


Box 17 Folder 41 Chaka Productions, 1969


Box 10 Folder 38 Christopher Healy – A Preliminary Study of Bush Negroe Art--Paper, 1977


Box 31 Folder 9 Clippings, Articles, Photocopies, 1981-1985


Box 8 Folder 44 Conference Program: ROOTS, Howard University, 1974


Box 24 Folder 54 Conferences, 1980-1987


Box 31 Folder 26 Conservatism and Modern Adaptation in Luvale Female Puberty Ritual"--Article by C.M.N. White, undated


Box 24 Folder 2 Dallas Museum of Art Teacher Packet--African Art, undated


Box 18 Folder 17 Dance Images, 1984


Box 22 Folder 28 Daydreamers, signed by Tom Feelings, 1987


Box 18 Folder 7 Design Masks: A Structural Study of Form and Meaning, 1979


Box 24 Folder 8 Diop, "Birth of the Negro Myth", undated


Box 18 Folder 26 Dominique de Menil – S. Chadwick, 1987


Box 28 Folder 9 EF Educational Tours, 1992-1993


Box 8 Folder 3 Egyptian Spiritualism--Notes, undated


Box 22 Folder 36 Envelope from "Cutter", 1978-1979


Box 18 Folder 8 Erotisme Africain, 1970


Box 26 Folder 11 Essence Magazine, 1977


Box 10 Folder 79 Evocative Images," Yale University Art Gallery--Exhibition Guide and Preliminary Item List, 1988


Box 18 Folder 60 Exhibition Guide, Spelman College, 1987

Box 18 Folder 36 Exotic Lands Trip--Correspondence, 1988


Box 26 Folder 13 Expedition Magazine with Marginal Notes and Miscellaneous Papers, 1972


Box 31 Folder 20 Fax, Carlos Moore, 1990


Box 18 Folder 11 Field Notes, undated


Box 23 Folder 21 Film Festival, 1991


Box 9 Folder 24 Film--Notes, undated


Box 28 Folder 4 Flashcards and Illustrations, circa 1970


Box 31 Folder 47 Fourah Bay College -1--Research Materials, circa 1977

Box 31 Folder 48 Fourah Bay College -2--Research Materials, circa 1977


Box 24 Folder 52 Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, 1978-1980


Box 9 Folder 4 Freedom Summer '92"--Correspondence, 1992


Box 17 Folder 22 French Guide on Senegal with Notes, circa 1960-1970


Box 8 Folder 51 From Tanner to Gilliam--Museum Exhibition Guide, 1980


Box 25 Folder 30 Gaither, Edmund Barry "Heritage Reclaimed", 1989


Box 26 Folder 29 Gallery Flyers and Programs, 1979-1991


Box 22 Folder 48 Gbakanda Drama Festival, 1976


Box 17 Folder 8 Gelede Dance Sculpture – Babatuude Lawal -1, 1985

Box 17 Folder 9 Gelede Dance Sculpture – Babatuude Lawal -2, 1985


Box 7 Folder 26 General, 1992


Box 18 Folder 39 George E. Brooks--Article, 1980


Box 22 Folder 6 German language text on Mende culture (1936)


Box 23 Folder 43 Ghana and Nigeria Visa and Tourism, 1973


Box 10 Folder 39 Goddess: Mother of Living Nature--Book by Adele Getty, 1990


Box 18 Folder 23 Guide – Africana in London, 1975


Box 27 Folder 70 Guide Bob Thompson--Museum Exhibitions, 1983


Box 26 Folder 7 Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. Books, 1981-1982


Box 7 Folder 66 Hazel Carby--Article, 1992


Box 8 Folder 63 Heffers Catalogue for African Studies, 1988


Box 9 Folder 29 Henry Louis Gates at Cornell University--Clippings, 1988


Box 8 Folder 46 Henry O. Tanner--Notes, undated


Box 10 Folder 15 Henry Tanner--Notes and Profile, undated


Box 26 Folder 26 Herbert, White Manuscripts--African Studies Association, 1980


Box 24 Folder 40 Houston Chronicle Lifestyle Section, 1987 June


Box 31 Folder 5 Illiria--Travel File, 1988


Box 18 Folder 72 Image, undated


Box 10 Folder 48 Image of Women in Black Film--Notes, undated


Box 11 Folder 33 Images – African Women, undated


Box 24 Folder 42 Images of Blacks in Motion Pictures", CUNY, 1991


Box 18 Folder 86 Images, Transparency, undated


Box 10 Folder 77 Images--African Art, undated


Box 17 Folder 28 Index notecards, undated


Box 24 Folder 43 International African Institute Bulletin, 1991


Box 20 Folder 18 International Festival of Women Artists, 1980


Box 31 Folder 40 International Review of African American Art, 1987


Box 23 Folder 68 International Seminar on Apartheid- Position Paper, 1967


Box 31 Folder 15 Interview Transcript, Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks, undated


Box 18 Folder 3 Introductory Questions on American Ethnology by George Foncart, 1921


Box 7 Folder 31 J.D. Prown--Article, 1982

Box 7 Folder 32 J.D. Prown--Article, 1980


Box 26 Folder 18 Jacob Lawrence, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series, undated


Box 10 Folder 37 Janice Hall, Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles--Paper, 1979


Box 8 Folder 74 Jeff Donaldson--Interview, 1988


Box 24 Folder 6 John Powers - Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard Man, undated


Box 22 Folder 16 Journal of the International African Institute, 1978


Box 7 Folder 17 Judith Wilson and Richard Powell--Article, 1990

Box 7 Folder 39 Judith Wilson--Essay, undated


Box 18 Folder 30 Language and Languages Handout, 1983


Box 7 Folder 19 Lectures on African American Art--Brochure for Dr. David Driskell, 1991


Box 18 Folder 12 List, undated

Box 18 Folder 14 List, undated


Box 10 Folder 10 List – African American Artists and Their Work, undated


Box 7 Folder 33 List of "Masking" Articles, undated


Box 9 Folder 33 List of Art History Program Applicants and their interviews, 1988


Box 10 Folder 78 List, Exhibition Items, undated

Box 10 Folder 100 Looking at Art" Article, 1988


Box 31 Folder 29 Magazine Clippings, sent by Barbara Greene, 1978


Box 25 Folder 71 Masks and Masquerading--Notes, undated


Box 10 Folder 5 Masquerading: Masks--Notes, undated


Box 8 Folder 42 Medicinal Parts of West Africa--Book Announcement, 1978


Box 25 Folder 63 Mende Aesthetics and Culture--Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 62 Mende Aesthetics--Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 78 Mende Aesthetics--Notes, undated


Box 8 Folder 12 Mende Beauty Aesthetic--Notes, undated


Box 17 Folder 21 Mende Folk Tales"--Article by Kilson, circa 1960-1970


Box 23 Folder 53 Mende Language Notecards, undated


Box 9 Folder 21 Mende Language--Notes, undated


Box 23 Folder 56 Mende People--Notes, undated

Box 23 Folder 54 Mende Reader, "Our Food", 1960


Box 25 Folder 34 Mende Syllabary, undated


Box 22 Folder 12 Mende Word List with Papers Inserted


Box 25 Folder 59 Mende, Sande, and Sierra Leone--Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 69 Mende, Sande, Sowo--Notes, undated


Box 28 Folder 10 Mende--Research Notes, undated


Box 22 Folder 18 Miscellaneous, circa 1980s


Box 31 Folder 8 Miscellaneous, 1988-1989


Box 26 Folder 36 Mother is Gold: Ideas and Ideals in Beauty and African Art"--Exhibition Narrative, undated


Box 22 Folder 4 Mu Jaleisia Leenga, circa 1966


Box 24 Folder 12 Museum Catalogs and Letters, 1971-1985


Box 10 Folder 80 Museum Exhibitions--Event Programs, 1978-1979


Box 24 Folder 21 Museum of African Art, 1970-1978


Box 23 Folder 46 Museum of African Art, 1973


Box 9 Folder 1 Museum of African Art – Correspondence re: Consultancy to Museum, 1980-1981


Box 7 Folder 60 Museum of African Art Library (Smithsonian)--Bibliographies and Guides to Holdings, 1981


Box 25 Folder 12 Museum of African Art, Traditional Art of the Nigerian People, 1977


Box 17 Folder 3 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1987


Box 24 Folder 25 Museum Programs and Flyers, 1983-1990


Box 22 Folder 25 Nassau County Museum, 1979


Box 9 Folder 22 National Fellowship Fun Award Letter, 1977


Box 8 Folder 70 National Geographic Map, "Discoveries of the Pacific", 1974


Box 25 Folder 54 National Museum of African Art Commission Information, 1983


Box 18 Folder 76 National Museum of African Art Guide to Programming, 1993


Box 25 Folder 85 National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian, 1991


Box 31 Folder 43 National Museum of African Art--Flyer, 1993


Box 25 Folder 45 National Museum of African Art--Museum Exhibition Guide, 1983


Box 24 Folder 16 Native Son: A Celebration of Readings", 1990


Box 27 Folder 71 Nat'l Council for Black Studies, Voices in Black Studies--Newsletter re: Our Nig, 1982


Box 24 Folder 38 New Haven Register, 1988 September


Box 22 Folder 21 New York Amsterdam News – Sports, August 2, 1986 August 2


Box 11 Folder 30 New Yorker Cartoon, undated


Box 26 Folder 27 Newspaper Clippings, circa 1980

Box 26 Folder 31 Newspaper Clippings, circa 1988


Box 28 Folder 6 Newspaper Clippings and Flyers, circa 1980-1990


Box 6 Folder 42 Newspapers, 1987-1990


Box 10 Folder 40 Nigeria--Notes, undated


Box 7 Folder 36 Nka Nkaiso Obio Nyin Gala Materials, 1991


Box 31 Folder 22 Nkang'a", Part One and Part Two, undated


Box 28 Folder 11 Notebook, 1979


Box 12 Folder 10 Notebooks, undated


Box 22 Folder 17 Notebooks Mailed from Freetown, Sierra Leone, undated

Box 22 Folder 5 Notes, undated

Box 22 Folder 9 Notes, undated


Box 11 Folder 14 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 15 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 17 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 20 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 21 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 22 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 24 Notes, 1984

Box 11 Folder 27 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 29 Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 36 Notes, undated


Box 18 Folder 13 Notes, 1977

Box 18 Folder 21 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 32 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 55 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 61 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 70 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 71 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 85 Notes, undated

Box 18 Folder 87 Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 28 Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 40 Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 42 Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 68 Notes, undated


Box 9 Folder 9 Notes, undated


Box 10 Folder 56 Notes, undated


Box 8 Folder 33 Notes – General, undated


Box 22 Folder 23 Notes and Clippings, circa 1980s


Box 27 Folder 3 Notes and Correspondence --General, undated


Box 8 Folder 38 Notes--General, undated


Box 27 Folder 67 NYC Opera Calendar, 1986


Box 22 Folder 13 Old and New in Sierra Leone"--Article by Gorvie (1962)


Box 18 Folder 10 Oral Tradition as History, 1985

Box 18 Folder 38 Orthography--Note, undated


Box 27 Folder 54 Our Nig and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.--Article, 1982


Box 17 Folder 16 Outline for "The First Twenty-Two Black Congressmen", undated


Box 26 Folder 9 Packet from Detroit Institute of Arts, undated


Box 23 Folder 57 Packet from Gloria Lynch Boone, containing slides, 1969

Box 23 Folder 58 Packet from KNOW, Inc., 1973

Box 23 Folder 59 Packet from The Author's Guild, Inc., 1973


Box 9 Folder 98 Packet on "Free Your African Mind" Lecture Series", 1992


Box 11 Folder 35 Painting--Original on Vellum of Weavers and Potters, undated


Box 23 Folder 25 Pamphlet on "Paintings on Glass from Senegal", 1986


Box 28 Folder 3 Papers and Slides, 1990-1992


Box 24 Folder 22 Papers from University of Sierra Leone, circa 1977


Box 7 Folder 63 Parade Magazine--Article, 1982


Box 24 Folder 7 Patricia A. Turner - "Tainted Glory: Truth and Fiction in Contemporary Hollywood", 1990

Box 24 Folder 46 Perinbam, B. Marie. "Creative Women and Changing Societies", 1980


Box 22 Folder 4 Peter Principle Calendar w/ personal Financial notes, 1975


Box 24 Folder 41 Philadelphia Daily News, 1986 November


Box 17 Folder 36 Philip Morris Guide to Black Organizations, 1984


Box 31 Folder 54 Photocopied article, Loretta R. Reinhardt, "Mende Secret Societies", 1970


Box 20 Folder 30 Photocopied articles, circa 1980


Box 23 Folder 24 Photocopied Bibliography of Sierra Leone (1925)


Box 8 Folder 61 Photocopied Images, undated


Box 17 Folder 17 Photocopied Mende-English dictionary, 1969

Box 17 Folder 18 Photocopied Mende-English dictionary, 1969

Box 17 Folder 26 Photocopies – Drewal, and The Power of Decision

Box 17 Folder 47 Photocopies and Articles, 1982-1983


Box 9 Folder 91 Photocopies from Archive, 1989

Box 9 Folder 78 Photographs – "Ekow Adawpaa (Ghana)", 1992


Box 23 Folder 49 Photographs, Yale University Art Gallery, 1955


Box 10 Folder 22 Photos – Cello Bocum and Mama Ali, undated


Box 11 Folder 34 Plea for an Economic Analysis of African Art"--Draft, Author Unknown, undated


Box 31 Folder 41 Please Proof"--Packet, 1988-1992


Box 23 Folder 44 Politics as Drama: Philosophy and Opinions of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah"--Botchway, Francis A., 1970


Box 24 Folder 35 Portraiture and the Harlem Renaissance, 1999


Box 7 Folder 73 Postcard Collection –Scenes from Continental Africa, undated


Box 10 Folder 93 Postcards, General (blank), undated


Box 22 Folder 32 Poster, "The Black Woman: A Figure in World History", 1972


Box 20 Folder 17 Pounds and Inches", 1971


Box 24 Folder 49 Powell, Richard J. "Cinque, A Portrait" by Nathaniel Jocelyn" w/ Boone notes, 1983


Box 17 Folder 1 Powell, The Blues Aesthetic, 1982


Box 27 Folder 80 Press Release (Wadsworth Atheneum) re: Amos Ferguson, 1985


Box 30 Folder 5 Prince Hall Masons Tribute Exhibit Program, "Rediscovery of Sylvia Ardyn Boone", 2007


Box 24 Folder 34 Producing Histories and Tracing Memory, 1999


Box 27 Folder 77 Profile of Roger Ferlo--Article, 1983


Box 25 Folder 46 Program Guide - Parsons in West Africa, 1984


Box 10 Folder 76 Program Guide for African Sculpture Events, undated


Box 8 Folder 64 Program Menil Collection Opening, Houston, Texas, 1987


Box 20 Folder 28 Program, "Beyond the Color Line" tribute to Du Bois, 1993


Box 17 Folder 24 Programs and Books on Indian art


Box 30 Folder 8 Programs and flyers, 1976

Box 30 Folder 9 Programs and flyers, 1980-1989

Box 30 Folder 10 Programs and flyers, 1990-1992


Box 24 Folder 26 Programs and flyers related to African-American achievement, 1979-1984


Box 28 Folder 5 Programs: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 1978-1979


Box 31 Folder 32 Project Proposal, NEH Summer Stipend, 1986


Box 10 Folder 62 Projections from the Top in Yoruba Art"--Article by Margaret Thompson Drewal, 1977


Box 27 Folder 45 Publications - Newsletter (Prayer Tower), 1983


Box 8 Folder 35 Recent Fourah Bay Bookshop Titles--Book List, 1980


Box 10 Folder 96 Recommendation – Judith Seidel, 1981

Box 10 Folder 94 Recommendations – Rosa Guy, 1979

Box 10 Folder 63 Reflections of 'Negroid Features"--Article, undated


Box 8 Folder 41 Reflections on African American Art with Marginalia, undated


Box 30 Folder 6 Related Documentation, Prince Hall Masons Tribute Exhibit, 1996, 2001


Box 25 Folder 15 Remarks- Employment History, undated


Box 7 Folder 29 Reprint of Survey Graphic--Journal, 1925


Box 27 Folder 64 Research guide - Nat'l Gallery of Art, 1981-1983


Box 25 Folder 60 Research Interests--Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 64 Research Interests--Notes, undated


Box 31 Folder 45 Research Materials, 1977-1983


Box 30 Folder 13 Research Notes, circa 1978


Box 17 Folder 42 Research Notes and Drafts, circa 1983-1990


Box 31 Folder 58 Research Notes and Photographs, 1979


Box 7 Folder 50 Reverend Ike (NYT)--Article, 1975


Box 28 Folder 13 Richard A. Spears, "Short Course in Mende", 1967


Box 27 Folder 81 Richard Powell--Newspaper Clipping, 1983


Box 24 Folder 15 Ritual and Dissent journal, 1984


Box 17 Folder 25 Ritual and Myth"--Book from Studio Museum, 1982


Box 10 Folder 16 Robert Duncanson--Notes and Profile, undated


Box 11 Folder 13 Robert Farris Thompson--Article, undated


Box 24 Folder 5 Roland Abiodun - "Verbal and Visual Metaphors: mythical allusions in Yoruba ritualistic art of Ori, 1987


Box 17 Folder 53 SAGE Journal, 1986


Box 22 Folder 33 Scarce, Rare, and Out of Print Books on Africa"--Catalog, 1981


Box 25 Folder 57 Schomburg Center Folder, 1989


Box 9 Folder 65 Science of Living Institute--Broadsheet, 1985


Box 23 Folder 27 Sculpture magazine, 1989

Box 23 Folder 13 Secrecy Conference, 1992 October


Box 20 Folder 20 Seminar and Conference Papers, 1988-1990


Box 25 Folder 21 Shannon Shannon brochure, 1987


Box 8 Folder 43 Short Readings on African American Culture: Art During Enslavement"--Article, undated


Box 18 Folder 4 Sierra Leone Language Review, 1966


Box 25 Folder 25 Sierra Leone Language Review, 1962-1965


Box 18 Folder 18 Sierra Leone Studies Article – H. Michell, 1919


Box 8 Folder 71 Sierra Leone Studies at Birmingham, England--Symposium, 1985


Box 25 Folder 24 Sierra Leone Studies: A Journal of Arts and Sciences, 1967-1970


Box 18 Folder 2 Sierra Leone yearbook, 1978


Box 31 Folder 46 Sierra Leone--Research Materials, 1975-1977

Box 31 Folder 52 Sjoerd Hofstra--Articles, undated


Box 22 Folder 35 Smithsonian Institution (UNESCO), 1978


Box 20 Folder 31 Smithsonian Institution Contracts, 1980


Box 9 Folder 99 Smithsonian Institution Libraries Acquisition List, 1987 September-November


Box 17 Folder 5 Social Science Research Council, circa 1973


Box 25 Folder 84 Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter, 1988

Box 25 Folder 26 Some Folktales of Sierra Leone, 1974


Box 18 Folder 31 Some Terms from Liberian Speech – W.L. d'Azevedo, 1970


Box 9 Folder 74 Sonia Butler New Haven Register--Articles, 1992


Box 23 Folder 48 Storefront Museum, Black History Week, circa 1972


Box 25 Folder 80 Structure of the New York Mambo"--Article, undated


Box 27 Folder 66 Studio Museum in Harlem--Museum Exhibitions, undated


Box 17 Folder 51 Studio Museum Search, 1987


Box 31 Folder 51 Sunday News, Travel Section, 1975 April


Box 26 Folder 8 Survey Graphic: "Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro", 1925 reprint

Box 26 Folder 25 Sylvia Ardyn Boone file, Phi Beta Kappa visiting Scholar, circa 1990


Box 17 Folder 34 The African Studies Review, 1989


Box 18 Folder 1 The African-American Institute--Museum Exhibition Guide, 1984-1985


Box 23 Folder 19 The Afro-American Artistic Tradition: Alive and Well in the Quilts of New Haven"--Berkeley, Nancy, Manuscript, 1985


Box 22 Folder 8 The Ancestral Spirits of the Mendi"--Article by Sjoerd Hofstra, 1960-1970


Box 10 Folder 30 The Art of Cameroon"--Exhibition Materials, 1984-1986


Box 23 Folder 26 The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism"--Book, 1989


Box 31 Folder 28 The City Sun Clipping, 1989 December


Box 9 Folder 25 The Crisis Magazine, 1986


Box 24 Folder 51 The Elizabethan Image of Africa" with Photographs, circa 1971


Box 31 Folder 21 The First Black Student", 1978 November


Box 23 Folder 60 The Mabel Brady Garvan Galleries: American Arts and the American Experience, 1973


Box 17 Folder 19 The Mende Language (1908), F.W.H. Migeod, 1960-1970


Box 24 Folder 9 The Naked Truth, Nude Figures in Yoruba Art"--Moyo Okediji, 1991

Box 24 Folder 39 The New Art Examiner, 1980 June


Box 10 Folder 97 The New England Negro: A Remnant"--Article by Jane DeForest Shelton, 1894


Box 27 Folder 46 The New Journal, 1983


Box 31 Folder 35 The New Journal, re: Giamatti at Yale, 1986 February


Box 24 Folder 47 The New Yorker, "Profiles: A Gentle Reign", 1988


Box 31 Folder 24 The Political Function of the Poro", Kenneth Little, 1965


Box 25 Folder 23 The Sierra Leone Bulletin of Religion, 1961-1969


Box 9 Folder 38 The Studio Museum in Harlem, NEH Proposal for African Art Exhibit, 1987


Box 25 Folder 22 Thompson, Robert Farris - "The Song That Named the Land", 1989


Box 17 Folder 45 Timothy Dwight College, 1970-1992


Box 27 Folder 7 Timothy Dwight College Materials--Boone Administrative Papers, 1983

Box 27 Folder 6 Timothy Dwight College Materials--Chubb Fellowship Programs Announcement, undated

Box 27 Folder 8 Timothy Dwight College Materials--General Announcements, 1983-1985

Box 27 Folder 5 Timothy Dwight College Materials--Newsletters, 1982-1983

Box 27 Folder 4 Timothy Dwight College Materials--R.F. Thompson Correspondence, 1982-1985


Box 25 Folder 32 To-do List, undated


Box 24 Folder 45 Toward 'Object' and 'Verb'"--Article by Harris, Michael D., 1991


Box 25 Folder 8 Traditional Sculpture From Upper Volta"--Museum of African Art + Smithsonian--Exhibition Guide, 1979

Box 25 Folder 17 Travel Itinerary, undated


Box 23 Folder 45 Mao, Tse-tung. "Problems of Art and Literature" w/ personal correspondence, 1973


Box 8 Folder 62 Two Poems from African Commentary, 1990


Box 26 Folder 17 UNICEF Folder, 1980-1981


Box 25 Folder 48 University of Maryland Art Gallery--Museum Exhibition Guide, 1974


Box 18 Folder 15 University of Pennsylvania Book on African Sculpture, 1986


Box 9 Folder 61 Visual and Research Materials Recommendation to John Blassingame--Correspondence, 1988


Box 17 Folder 20 Vocabulary of the Mende Language (1884), J.F. Schon, circa 1960-1970

W.E.B. Du Bois Film Project, 1991


Box 8 Folder 1 W.E.B. Du Boise and the Nationalist Idea--A Proposal for a 90 Minute Documentary Film," Prepared by Louis Massiah, 1991


Box 17 Folder 11 W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington--Notes, undated


Box 9 Folder 66 W.E.B. DuBois Film Paper--Correspondence, 1992


Box 25 Folder 44 W.E.B. DuBois--Article, 1926


Box 26 Folder 35 Wall Street Journal--Article, 1983


Box 17 Folder 39 Washingtonian, from Douglas Moore", 1992


Box 10 Folder 11 West African and Slave Craftsmanship--Paper, undated


Box 26 Folder 12 Wilson, Judith. "Claiming an Identity they Taught me to Despise", circa 1980


Box 11 Folder 32 Women--Notes, undated


Box 27 Folder 2 Work and Research--Notes and Correspondence, 1982-1984

Journals and Notebooks, 1962-1981


Box 52 Folder 1 Notebooks, 1962

Box 52 Folder 2 Notebooks, 1963

Box 52 Folder 3 Notebooks, 1963-1965

Box 52 Folder 4 Notebooks, circa 1965-1966

Box 52 Folder 5 Notebook and Address Book, 1967

Box 52 Folder 6 Notebooks, undated

Box 52 Folder 7 Notebooks, undated

Box 52 Folder 8 Notebooks, 1970

Box 52 Folder 9-10 Notebooks, circa 1971

Box 52 Folder 11 Notebooks, 1971-1972

Box 52 Folder 12-15 Notebooks, 1972


Box 53 Folder 1-7 Yale notebooks, 1973

Box 53 Folder 8-9 Yale notebooks, 1974

Box 53 Folder 10 Yale notebooks, 1974-1975

Box 53 Folder 12 Mende Language Learning Notebook, undated


Box 5 Folder 1 Research Notebook, 1976

Box 5 Folder 3 Egypt Journal, 1967

Box 5 Folder 4 Spiral Notebook, undated

Box 5 Folder 5 Field Notes and Diary–Sierra Leone, 1977

Box 5 Folder 6 Personal Notebooks, undated

Box 5 Folder 11 Libya--Notes, undated

Box 5 Folder 13 Notebook (Miscellaneous), 1974

Box 5 Folder 14 Notebook (Miscellaneous), 1975-1976

Box 5 Folder 15 Notebook (African American Cinema and Miscellaneous), undated

Box 5 Folder 16 Notebook (Miscellaneous), undated

Box 5 Folder 18 Journal, undated

Box 5 Folder 19 Journal with Notes on Arabian Nights, undated

Box 5 Folder 20 Journal--Freetown, Sierra Leone, undated

Box 5 Folder 21 Journal--Boone in Ethiopia, 1973-1975

Box 5 Folder 22 Journal--Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1976

Box 5 Folder 23 Journal--Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1976


Box 6 Folder 1-6 Sierra Leone Students' notebooks -1-6, 1977

(Restricted until 2052)

Box 6 Folder 7 Sierra Leone--Books, circa 1966-1970

Box 6 Folder 8 Sierra Leone Symposium, 1981

Box 6 Folder 9 Sierra Leone--Photocopied Articles, 1960-1970

Box 6 Folder 10 Sierra Leone's Past, J.S.T. Thompson--Photocopy, 1960-1970


Box 32 Folder 1 Research Notebook, Volume 1, 1976

Box 32 Folder 2 Research Notebook, Volume 2, 1976

Box 32 Folder 3 Research Notebook, Volume 3, 1976

Box 32 Folder 4 Research Notebook, Volume 4, 1976

Box 32 Folder 5 Research Notebook, Volume 5, 1976

Box 32 Folder 6 Research Notebook, Volume 6, 1976

Box 32 Folder 7 Research Notebook, Volume 7, 1976

Box 32 Folder 8 Research Notebook, Volume 8, 1976

Box 32 Folder 9 Research Notebook, Volume 9, 1976

Box 32 Folder 10 Research Notebook, Volume 10, 1976

Box 32 Folder 11 Research Notebook, Volume 11, 1977

Box 32 Folder 12 Research Notebook, Volume 12, 1977


Box 33 Folder 1 Research Notebook, Volume 13, 1977

Box 33 Folder 2 Research Notebook, Volume 14, 1977

Box 33 Folder 3 Research Notebook, Volume 15, 1977

Box 33 Folder 4 Research Notebook, Volume 16, 1977

Box 33 Folder 5 Research Notebook, Volume 17, 1978

Box 33 Folder 6 Research Notebook, Volume 18, 1978

Box 33 Folder 7 Research Notebook, "F.K.", 1976

Box 33 Folder 8 Research Notecards, undated

Box 33 Folder 9 Research Notecards, undated

Box 33 Folder 10 Research Notecards, undated

Box 33 Folder 11 Research Notecards, undated


Box 31 Folder 63 Research Index Cards, undated


Box 30 Folder 14 Research Index Cards, undated

Box 30 Folder 15 Research Index Cards, undated

Box 30 Folder 16 Research Index Cards, undated

Box 30 Folder 17 Research Index Cards, undated


Box 18 Folder 69 Research Materials – Article –Robert Stepto, 1986


Box 22 Folder 1 Research Notebook, 1967-1975


Box 26 Folder 15 Research Notebook, undated


Box 17 Folder 23 Research Notes, 1971


Box 26 Folder 20 Research Notes, undated


Box 30 Folder 11 Research Notes, undated

Box 30 Folder 12 Research Notes, undated


Box 37 Folder 5 Posters: Art Traditions of Sierra Leone, Nassau County, Black History Museum, 1979

Box 37 Folder 6 Photographs of Artworks and People, 1924-[1925?]

Box 37 Folder 7 Artworks from "An Outline Guide to the Art of the South Pacific", Paul S. Wingert, circa 1946

Box 37 Folder 8 Photographs of Figures from the American Museum of Natural History, undated

Box 37 Folder 9 Sculpture of Negro Africa, Paul S. Wingert, 1950-1951

Box 37 Folder 10 Life Magazine, 1946 November 04

Box 37 Folder 11-12 Plates of African Sculptures, undated

Fellowships, Grants, and Proposed Projects, 1969-1990

Includes application materials and correspondence relating to fellowships won by Sylvia Boone, such as Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Morse, as well as grant and project proposals and information.


Box 28 Folder 2 "Africa: Contemporary Travel and Culture"--Proposal, circa 1969


Box 20 Folder 16 "Black Socialization"--Proposal Draft, 1981


Box 31 Folder 39 Center for Field Research Application Guidelines, 1978


Box 17 Folder 7 Chubb Fellowship Application, undated


Box 6 Folder 41 Curriculum and Fellowship Proposals, 1980-1984


Box 31 Folder 50 Fellowship Applications--Correspondence, 1973-1979

Box 31 Folder 49 Fellowship Applications--Correspondence, 1973-1979


Box 6 Folder 40 Filing 23 Sept-3 Feb, 1990

Box 6 Folder 19 Four Languages of Beauty, NEH Application, 1986

Box 6 Folder 15 Fulbright – Guides for Travel to Senegal, 1985

Box 6 Folder 14 Fulbright Application, French Language, 1986

Box 6 Folder 12 Fulbright Application-1, 1986

Box 6 Folder 13 Fulbright Application-2, 1986

Box 6 Folder 16 Fulbright Award Letter--Grants and Awards, 1987

Box 6 Folder 17 Fulbright Notes and Revisions, 1987

Box 6 Folder 11 Fulbright--Personal File – Research in Africa, 1986


Box 8 Folder 8 Grant Application for African American Exchange Program, 1979


Box 18 Folder 42 Grant Proposal – "Four Languages of Beauty," Yale, 1985


Box 6 Folder 26 Grant Proposal--American Association of University Women, undated, undated


Box 9 Folder 77 Grants and Awards – NEH Grant for African American Studies, 1978


Box 31 Folder 31 Grants and Fellowships - NEH Summer Stipend Application, 1980


Box 6 Folder 39 Guides on Traveling Abroad, circa 1980

Box 6 Folder 38 Journey Across Three Continents, 1985


Box 31 Folder 37 Morse Fellowship Application, circa 1980


Box 6 Folder 22 Morse Fellowship Application, undated

Box 6 Folder 23 Mother is Gold--Proposal, 1976-1990


Box 31 Folder 30 NEH Application Guidelines, circa 1978

Box 31 Folder 33 NEH Summer Stipend, 1985-1986


Box 6 Folder 25 NEH Summer Stipend Application, undated


Box 25 Folder 79 Proposal with Notes, undated


Box 23 Folder 33 Proposed Itinerary for Illiria, 1988


Box 6 Folder 24 Queen Mother--Project File, 1990

Box 6 Folder 20 Teaching Women to Rule by Art"--Research Proposal, circa 1974


Box 7 Folder 28 The Moore Fund, 1975-1985


Box 8 Folder 9 The Studio Museum in Harlem Biennial Report, 1984-1986

Box 8 Folder 11 The Studio Museum in Harlem –NEH Application Sample, 1986

Box 8 Folder 10 The Studio Museum in Harlem--Correspondence, Notes, Documents, re: Exhibition Plans, 1987

Box 8 Folder 55 The Studio Museum in Harlem--Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America Exhibition--Press Materials, 1987


Box 6 Folder 21 Write-Up Fellowship--Proposal for, 1977 July

Box 6 Folder 18 Yale Center Application--Four Languages of Beauty, 1985


Box 50 Folder 4-5 Fellowship and Grants, 1971-1975


Box 65 Folder 1 Social Science Research Council, 1974

Lectures, Seminars, and Conferences, 1974-1992

Includes materials related to Boone's lectures and invited talks on behalf of Phi Beta Kappa and as an independent scholar at colleges, universities, and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa. It also includes conference and seminar information.


Box 18 Folder 73 "African Artist"--Lecture Notes, undated


Box 10 Folder 29 "Daughters of the Sun: Portrayals of Black Women in Art"--Presentations and Lectures, 1991


Box 8 Folder 65 "Masterpieces of Cameroon Art," Announcement of Boone Lecture at American Museum of Natural History, 1985

Box 8 Folder 40 "Radiance from the Waters: Meaning in an African Mask"--Lecture Announcement, 1985-1986


Box 7 Folder 35 African Heritage Studies Association--Conferences – Registration (blank), 1988

Box 7 Folder 20 Architecture Lectures, Yale--Correspondence, 1991


Box 10 Folder 31 Conference and Meetings – Sierra Leone Studies Symposium, 1979


Box 7 Folder 52 Conference Materials – African Institute for the Study of Human values, 1981-1982

Box 7 Folder 55 Conference Materials – First World Symposium on the Thought of Muammar Al-Quthafi, 1983

Box 7 Folder 49 Conference Materials – Women and Work in Africa, 1979

Box 7 Folder 51 Conference Materials: UNICEF International Art Committee, 1982


Box 9 Folder 72 Conferences and Meetings – Contemporary African-American Cinema (Yale)", 1992


Box 10 Folder 32 Conferences and Meetings – University Seminar on Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, 1979

Box 10 Folder 17 Conferences and Meetings – Women in Africa and African Diaspora Announcement", 1992

Box 10 Folder 33 Conferences and Meetings –Women and Work in Africa, 1979


Box 7 Folder 27 Correspondence – Vera Wells, 1979-1990


Box 10 Folder 49 Desk Contents – Conference Materials", 1992


Box 7 Folder 69 Final Report from UNESCO Meeting of Experts on "The Cultures of the Caribbean" -1, 1979

Box 7 Folder 70 Final Report from UNESCO Meeting of Experts on "The Cultures of the Caribbean" -2, 1979

Box 7 Folder 54 Informative – Phi Beta Kappa Visits, 1988

Box 7 Folder 53 Interview with S.A. Boone – San Diego Tribune, undated


Box 27 Folder 38 Invitation (Black Admissions and Financial Aid Officers Reception)--Correspondence, 1983

Box 27 Folder 23 Invitation w/ Boone's notes--Correspondence, 1983

Box 27 Folder 53 Lecture (Creighton Gilbert)--Flyer, undated


Box 23 Folder 67 Lecture and Conference Flyers, 1984-1985


Box 25 Folder 43 Lecture at American Museum of Natural History--Promotional Materials, 1983


Box 17 Folder 44 Lecture at Museum of Natural History, 1983-1985


Box 18 Folder 37 Lecture Flyer, 1986


Box 10 Folder 83 Lecture Planning and Prep--Notes, undated


Box 27 Folder 82 Lecture Series Announcements--Concilium on International and Area Studies (Yale), 1982-1983


Box 20 Folder 24 Lectures--AKAN Lecture, 1984

Box 20 Folder 25 Lectures--AKAN Research File, undated


Box 6 Folder 36 Lectures--File, 1983


Box 9 Folder 58 Lecture Series Descriptions, undated


Box 10 Folder 92 Mt. Holyoke College Lecture--Correspondence, 1980


Box 25 Folder 16 Presentation Announcement at Kalamazoo College, 1983


Box 18 Folder 19 Presentation at American Museum of Natural History, 1983


Box 10 Folder 24 Presentation Event – Black Music at the Movies (Yale)--Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 61 Presentation Notes, undated


Box 27 Folder 31 Speech re: R.F. Thompson--Notes, undated


Box 18 Folder 27 Summer Workshop Description, undated


Box 7 Folder 45 Symposium Guide – "Roots, Herbal Medicines, Spiritual Symposium", 1974

Box 7 Folder 44 Third World News Reel Film and Lecture Series Guide, 1985


Box 25 Folder 18 University Seminar--Meeting Minutes, 1981


Box 26 Folder 19 Visits--Guest Lectures (Millsaps, Skidmore, Randolph-Macon), 1990


Box 27 Folder 84 Whitney Humanities Center--Flyer, undated


Box 26 Folder 6 Lectures in Paris--Notes, undated

Roothbert Fund, 1980-1995

Includes applications to the Roothbert Fund for which Sylvia Boone served as a reviewer. Also includes Boone's notes on each individual applicant's interview.


Box 15 Folder 45 Application, 1980

Box 15 Folder 46 Interviews, 1990

Box 15 Folder 47 Roothbert Letter, 1990

Box 15 Folder 48 Notes, undated

Box 15 Folder 49 General, 1985-1995

Box 15 Folder 50 Correspondence--Draft, undated

Box 15 Folder 51 Carl Solberg--Correspondence, 1981

Box 15 Folder 52 General, 1991

Box 15 Folder 53 1991-92 Scholarship Application Draft, 1990


Box 31 Folder 38 Application Notes, 1984

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 1980

Includes materials related to Boone's participation in the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in 1979 and corresponding UN Seminar on Creative Women in Changing Societies in Oslo, Norway in 1980.


Box 20 Folder 1 General, 1980

Box 20 Folder 2 General, 1980

Box 20 Folder 3 General, 1979-1980

Box 20 Folder 4 United Nations Contact Information, 1980

Box 20 Folder 5 United Nations Conference Journals, 1980

Box 20 Folder 6 United Nations Conference Journals, 1980

Box 20 Folder 7 UNITAR Conference Flyers, 1980

Box 20 Folder 8 UNITAR Press Section, 1972

Box 20 Folder 9 Materials from UN Seminar on Creative Women in Changing Societies – Oslo, Norway, 1980

Box 20 Folder 10 John Renninger--Correspondence re: UNITAR, 1980

Box 20 Folder 11 Materials from World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, 1980

Box 20 Folder 12 General, 1980

Box 20 Folder 13 File, "David Nicol" (UNITAR), 1980

Box 20 Folder 14 Proposal for Colloquium on Women, UNITAR 1980, 1980

Amistad Project, 1986-1992

Includes materials related to Boone's work on a 1989 project commemorating the 150th anniversary of the mutiny on the Amistad. Subseries contains papers and proposals reviewed by Boone regarding statues, films, books, and museum exhibitions related to the Amistad.


Box 8 Folder 52 Amistad Article in American Visions Magazine", 1992


Box 31 Folder 34 Dr. Ronald Bailey, re: "The Amistad Incident: A Dramatic Film Portrayal", 1987-1988


Box 15 Folder 1 Call for Artists for Memorial, 1989

Box 15 Folder 2 Yale Amistad Symposium--Brochure, 1989

Box 15 Folder 3 Committee Certificate (Original) and Letterhead, 1992

Box 15 Folder 4 Amistad Celebration--Program, 1989

Box 15 Folder 5 Amistad-Related Publications, 1986

Box 15 Folder 6 Amistad Celebration--Planning, undated

Box 15 Folder 7 Amistad Celebration--Panel I Africa, undated

Box 15 Folder 8 Amistad Memorial--Panel II Trial, undated

Box 15 Folder 9 Amistad Memorial--Panel III Freedom, undated

Box 15 Folder 10 Amistad Celebration--Plaque Committee Meeting Minutes, 1991-1992

Box 15 Folder 11 Connecticut Afro-American Historical Society, NYT, 1988-1989

Box 15 Folder 12 Amistad Symposium Planning Notes, undated

Box 15 Folder 13 New Haven Register, September 17, 1989 September 17

Box 15 Folder 14 Amistad Movie, Ron Bailey, circa 1989

Box 15 Folder 15 Masons and Amistad, 1992-2000

Box 15 Folder 16 Amistad Memorial and Inscription Draft, undated

Box 15 Folder 17 Inscription/Dups, undated

Box 15 Folder 18 Programs and Budget Papers, 1989

Box 15 Folder 19 Golden Legacy Magazine on Amistad Mutiny, 1970

Box 15 Folder 20 New Haven Colony Historical Society, Amistad Press, 1989

Box 15 Folder 21 Amistad Article, "The New Haven Advocate", 1989

Box 15 Folder 22 Amistad memorial--Inscription, undated

Box 15 Folder 23 Amistad Memorial--Call for Slides, 1989

Box 15 Folder 24 Amistad Celebration--Statue Photos, undated

Box 15 Folder 25 Amistad Symposium Letterhead, 1989

Box 15 Folder 26 Amistad Celebration--Brochure and Notes, 1989-1990

Box 15 Folder 27 Amistad Affiliates, 1990

Box 15 Folder 28 Amistad Exhibition Program, 1990

Box 15 Folder 29 Amistad--General, New Haven, circa 1989

Box 15 Folder 30 Amistad Conference, 1989

Box 15 Folder 31 Spiral-bound Script, undated

Box 15 Folder 32 Spiral-bound Script, undated

Box 15 Folder 33 General, 1990

Box 15 Folder 34 Amistad Papers, 1989

Box 15 Folder 35 General, circa 1990

Box 15 Folder 36 Amistad Publication and Report, 1990

Box 15 Folder 37 Amistad Statue Jury, 1990

Box 15 Folder 38 General, undated

Box 15 Folder 39 Photocopies and Illustrations, circa 1989

Box 15 Folder 40 Monument Jury, 1972-1990

Box 15 Folder 41 Amistad Script, 1988

Box 15 Folder 42 Amistad Clipping, 1992

Box 15 Folder 43 Statue Proposals, 1990

Box 15 Folder 44 Newspapers featuring Amistad, 1992


Box 50 Folder 20 Activities and writings, 1989

Box 50 Folder 21 Amistad Celebration, 1989

Box 50 Folder 22 Amistad Film, 1989

Box 50 Folder 23 Connecticut Humanities Council, Grant Application, 1989

Box 50 Folder 24 Event materials, Amistad Committee, 1989

Box 50 Folder 25 Source file, 1989

Box 50 Folder 26 Amistad Conference, 1989

Box 50 Folder 27 Amistad Foundation: Silhouettes, Shadows, and Substance (Exhibition), 1990, 9 slides

Box 50 Folder 28 Amistad Committee, Amistad Memorial, 1990

Box 50 Folder 29 Plaque committee on Sculpture and Dedication, 1991-1992

Series IV: Personal Papers, 1960-1992

This series includes personal files of Sylvia A. Boone, dating from 1960 to 1992. Materials include diploma, class materials, personal notebooks, calendars, financial and academic records, and various newspaper and magazine clippings reflecting her personal interests.


Box 26 Folder 2 Diploma, Brooklyn College , 1960


Box 37 Folder 2 Diploma, Columbia School of Social Work, 1962

Box 37 Folder 3 Diploma, Yale University, 1975


Box 27 Folder 1 Business Card Proof, 1987


Box 37 Folder 1 Calendar, 1979-1980


Box 18 Folder 63 Calendar, 1980


Box 26 Folder 14 Calendar and Papers, 1980

Box 26 Folder 30 Clippings on Self-care, undated


Box 17 Folder 48 Directories and Addresses of Colleagues, circa 1985-1992


Box 23 Folder 42 Financial and Lease Agreements, 1966-1969


Box 24 Folder 44 Financial and Receipts, 1979-1988


Box 26 Folder 24 Graduation Photograph, undated


Box 10 Folder 91 Lists – Addresses (General), undated


Box 31 Folder 59 Address Book, circa 1970


Box 27 Folder 91 Calendars and Postcards, undated


Box 21 Folder 8 Wall Calendar, 1983


Box 31 Folder 60 Pocket U.S. Constitution, undated

Box 31 Folder 61 Photography, 1978


Box 27 Folder 13 Articles and Programs, 2000

Box 27 Folder 95 Chart, circa 1994

Box 27 Folder 92 Personal clippings, Miscellaneous, circa 1980


Box 5 Folder 2 Personal Notepads, undated

Box 5 Folder 7 Calendar, 1979

Box 5 Folder 8 Personal Notepads, undated

Box 5 Folder 9 Calendars, 1982-1989

Box 5 Folder 10 Agenda, 1980

Box 5 Folder 12 Agenda, 1981

Box 5 Folder 17 Calendar/Agenda, 1978

Box 5 Folder 24 Personal Journal Late 1970s, 1975-1979


Box 27 Folder 37 Recipes--Correspondence, 1986


Box 9 Folder 59 Various Personal--Notes, undated


Box 7 Folder 67 Apartment Lease, 1978


Box 6 Folder 33 Personal File, circa 1966-1968

Box 6 Folder 43 Finances and Taxes, 1986-1990


Box 7 Folder 12 Tom Feelings--Personal Files, undated


Box 11 Folder 67 African Studies, 1983


Box 13 Folder 78 Health and Beauty, 1976-1979

Box 13 Folder 79 Money, 1978

Box 13 Folder 77 Success/Heroines, 1977-1979


Box 11 Folder 39 African Art and Images, 1967-1978

Box 11 Folder 59 African Studies Association, 1970-1979

Box 11 Folder 37 Afro American Studies Master, 1980

Box 11 Folder 51 Autobiographical Statement, undated

Box 11 Folder 68 Boone Papers: Proposals, 1977

Box 11 Folder 60 Conferences, 1991

Box 11 Folder 57 Conferences and Meetings, 1978-1979

Box 11 Folder 42 Correspondence, 1977-1991

Box 11 Folder 52 Correspondence Yale from London, 1977-1978

Box 11 Folder 43 Correspondence, Memel-Fote, 1984

Box 11 Folder 41 Correspondence, Santo Domingo Friends, 1978

Box 11 Folder 47 Course Notes, Black Culture/Contemporary Culture, undated

Box 11 Folder 46 Course Notes, Masquerades, 1991

Box 11 Folder 45 Course Notes/Intro to African Studies, 1978-1983

Box 11 Folder 44 Departmental Correspondence, 1978-1992

Box 11 Folder 63 General, 1979-1992

Box 11 Folder 62 Haiti and the Caribbean, 1978

Box 11 Folder 48 History of Art (Italian Renaissance- Kury), 1978

Box 11 Folder 49 Intro to African Studies, Course Materials and Course Evaluations, 1982-1983

Box 11 Folder 64 Lectures, undated

Box 11 Folder 54 Libya, 1973-1976

Box 11 Folder 65 Newspaper clippings, 1987

Box 11 Folder 69 Notes (angels), undated

Box 11 Folder 50 Papers (S.A. Boone), 1978

Box 11 Folder 40 Professional Contacts, correspondences, 1978

Box 11 Folder 70 Research and Notes – African American Arts, 1979

Box 11 Folder 66 Research/Intelli (sic) Issues, 1978

Box 11 Folder 53 Resources for African Studies, 1976-1978

Box 11 Folder 38 Syllabi and correspondence related to classes at Yale, 1978, 1 audiocassettes; 1 35mm color slides

Box 11 Folder 58 UNESCO, 1977-1979

Box 11 Folder 61 African and Afro-American Film, 1979-1989

Box 11 Folder 56 Afro American Heritage Museum, 1987-1988


Box 13 Folder 84 Correspondence –Traci, 1980

Box 13 Fashion, 1974-1979

Box 13 Folder 82 Professional Associations, 1978-1979

Box 13 Folder 80 Restaurants/Recipes, 1975-1989

Box 13 Folder 83 Senior Colloquium, 1991

Box 13 Folder 20 Spa Brochures, 1988-1989

Box 13 Folder 81 Travel, 1979


Box 11 Folder 4 3 Feb – to do now, 1990

Box 11 Folder 1 Afall + Dakar, 1986

Box 11 Folder 7 Columbia University Seminars, 1986

Box 11 Folder 3 RFT, 1987

Box 11 Folder 2 Joanna Featherstone, 1987

Box 11 Folder 5 Akan Materials, undated

Box 11 Folder 12 Books and Trips, circa 1984

Box 11 Folder 9 CURRENT, 1984

Box 11 Folder 10 HYA, 1984

Box 11 Folder 8 Lectures, 1986-1987

Box 11 Folder 6 Botchway Papers, 1978-1979

Box 11 Folder 11 Phi Beta Kappa, 1988-1989


Box 23 Folder 4 Afro-Am--African-American Studies, 1980

Box 23 Folder 8 Arts of Libya", 1981

Box 23 Folder 1 Children's Books", 1968-1975

Box 23 Folder 6 LIBYA", 1976-1979

Box 23 Folder 7 New Libya", 1980-1981

Box 23 Folder 3 RFT," History of Afro-Am. Art, 1979-1980

Box 23 Folder 2 Simone Swan", 1990

Box 23 Folder 5 SSRC Phila Conference", 1980


Box 17 Folder 33 Current", 1983-1984


Box 24 Folder 28 Mende, undated


Box 22 Folder 39 Bunting Fellowship, 1984


Box 27 Folder 85 Correspondence - Personal Letters, 1988

Box 27 Folder 86 Correspondence - Personal Letters, 1979-1992


Box 23 Folder 63 Personal Correspondence, circa 1984


Box 25 Folder 38 Personal Notes, undated


Box 28 Folder 12 Personal Notebook, undated


Box 22 Folder 20 Personal Notebooks, undated


Box 26 Folder 37 Personal Notebooks, undated


Box 28 Folder 8 Personal Notepads, undated


Box 9 Folder 93 Personal Notes, undated


Box 11 Folder 23 Personal Notes, undated

Box 11 Folder 26 Personal Notes, undated


Box 23 Folder 50 Personal Notes, undated


Box 24 Folder 18 Personal Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 51 Personal Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 72 Personal Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 76 Personal Notes, undated

Box 25 Folder 9 Personal Notes, undated


Box 26 Folder 5 Personal Notes, undated

Box 26 Folder 21 Personal Notes, undated

Box 26 Folder 22 Personal Notes, undated

Box 26 Folder 28 Personal Notes, undated

Box 26 Folder 34 Personal Notes, undated


Box 28 Folder 7 Personal Notes, undated


Box 24 Folder 11 Mende Beauty--Notes, undated


Box 25 Folder 70 Research Interests--Notes, undated


Box 27 Folder 57 Personnel Information - correspondence, 1983


Box 9 Folder 96 "Personal" file with photo of Boone, 1983


Box 22 Folder 19 Personal Notebook, circa 1985-1990


Box 45 Folder 1 Operation Crossroad Africa, Rooster, 1960

Box 45 Folder 2 Remarks from Memorial Services for Berta Fantl, New York School of Social Work, 1962 November 04

Box 45 Folder 3 Columbia University, Course materials for casework 123, 1961 November

Box 45 Folder 4 Columbia University, Course materials for casework 124, 1962 June

Box 45 Folder 5 Resume, 1962-1964

Box 45 Folder 6 Guinea Stamps, 1963


Box 47 Folder 20 Statement of Mission, Resume, circa 1969

Box 47 Folder 21 Contacts, Notes, undated

Box 47 Folder 22 Personal time pattern (Astrology Report), 1970

Box 47 Folder 23 Recipes and Articles on Health and Food

Box 47 Folder 24 Tax, 1974


Box 53 Folder 11 Rev. Ike, 1975

Yale: Class materials and research, 1970-1979


Box 48 Folder 19 Graduate Admissions, 1971

Materials include: graduate admission applications, course catalogs, housing information, student loan applications, student directory, memoranda, etc.

Box 48 Folder 20 Yale University Library, Resources for History of Art, 1971

Box 48 Folder 21 Yale University Library, Recommendations in Library Acquisitions in African Art and Afro-American Art, 1970s

Box 48 Folder 22 Proposal for International Black Film Festival "Soul on Celluloid", circa 1972

Box 48 Folder 23 Commencement, Dissertation Evaluation and Award, 1979


Box 49 Folder 1 Class Notes, lists, etc., 1970-1972

Box 49 Folder 2 Research Material, Primitive and Pre-Columbian Art, Notes on Art, 1970-1972

Box 49 Folder 3 Research Material, Political Anthropology, Primitive Art, 1970-1972

Box 49 Folder 4 History of Art 78b: Thompson Notes and papers, 1972-1973

Box 49 Folder 5 Course materials, circa 1972-1973

Box 49 Folder 6 History of Art 200, Methods: Course materials, 1972

Box 49 Folder 7 History of Art 200, Methods: Class paper "Study on Surya: A South Indian Bronze", 1972

Box 49 Folder 8 History of Art 200, Methods: Study on Indian Art, 1972

Box 49 Folder 9 Teaching Materials for Afro-American Studies: Black Women and White Women in American Society; Notes on African Women; Correspondence, 1972

Box 49 Folder 10 Research Proposal, Bibliography, Fellowship list, 1970s

Box 49 Folder 11 Class Notes, 1972

Box 49 Folder 12 Class Notes, 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 13 Course materials, 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 14 Ethnographic Atlas, Cultural Comparison, 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 15 Notes, Correspondence Drafts, 1974

Box 49 Folder 16 History of Art 202: Course materials, 1972-1973

Box 49 Folder 17 Art history, Notes, circa 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 18 Course materials: "Women, The Roles They Played in Traditional African Society and How These are Reflected Art Historically", 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 20 Research materials, Bibliography, circa 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 21 Research materials: Study of the Mukanda Society of Central Africa, circa 1970-1973

Box 49 Folder 22 Research materials: Art of the Congo, notes, etc., 1974

Box 49 Folder 23 Research materials: Les sociétés secrètes chez les bayaka (1930), photocopy, 1974

Box 49 Folder 24 Research materials: The Great Prophecy, by Abullahi Ayuk Kima, 1974


Box 50 Folder 1 Yale Publication: Off the Wall, vol.1:no.1, 1974

Series V: Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, 1998-2011

This series comprises manuscripts of dissertations that have been awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize at Yale, as well as correspondence to Vera Wells regarding this award, dating from 1998 to 2011.


Box 15 Folder 54 Boone Prize Dissertations, 2011

Box 15 Folder 55 Winners--Call and Response Exhibition, 2000-2001

Box 15 Folder 56 Winners, 2004

Box 15 Folder 57 Correspondence – Boone Prize (Vera Wells), 1998


Box 19 Folder 1 Correspondence, Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, 2007

Series VI: Audio-Visual, 1974-1993

All original copies of audio / moving image media are closed until reformatting. Please contact RBML regarding special-formats digital reproduction service.

This series contains VHS tapes, film and audio reels, and audiocassettes of events and interviews. Some items may be commercial.

Video and Film


Box 14 Folder 1 CBS; Author of African Ark; Art Fakes; Arsenio Hall: Maya Angelou--VHS, 1991

Box 14 Folder 2 WGBH: Say Brother, Carlos Moore--VHS, undated

Box 14 Folder 3 From These Roots--VHS, undated

Box 14 Folder 4 Sylvia Ardyn Boone memorial, Yale, Battell--VHS

Box 14 Folder 5 CBS Reports--VHS

Box 14 Folder 6 First World Festival of Negro Arts--VHS, undated

Box 14 Folder 7 Angelou #1-3, Clarke #1-4--Reel, undated

Box 14 Folder 8 Clarke #5, Dubois #1-3--Reel, undated


Box 12 Folder 14 Unlabeled--VHS, undated

Box 12 Folder 15 Our Voices: Cuba--BET/BEV/Original--VHS, undated

Box 12 Folder 16 BET/BEV--VHS, undated

Box 12 Folder 17 Carlos Moore--CBS News Nightwatch--VHS

Box 12 Folder 18 Amistad Seminar and Jury--VHS

Box 12 Folder 19 Black Woman--Minga Fannin, Queen M, Sylvia Boone--VHS, undated

Audiocassettes


Box 14 Folder 9 Memorial Program for Dr. Sylvia Boone Tapes #1-2--Audio Cassettes, 1993

Box 14 Folder 10 Memorial Program for Dr. Sylvia Boone Tapes #3-4--Audio Cassettes, 1993

Box 14 Folder 11 An Evening with John Bradshaw--Audio Cassette, 1991

Box 14 Folder 12 The African Presence in World Culture--Audio Cassette, undated


Box 35 Folder 1 SA in NH, undated

Box 35 Folder 2 Maya Angelou, 1-2, undated

Box 35 Folder 3 Maya Angelou, 3-4, undated

Box 35 Folder 4 Gwen Brooks, 1-2, undated

Box 35 Folder 5 Gwen Brooks, 3, undated

Box 35 Folder 6 Clarke, 1-2, undated

Box 35 Folder 7 Clarke, 3-4, undated

Box 35 Folder 8 Clarke, 5+, undated

Box 35 Folder 9 Mrs. Dubois, 1, undated

Box 35 Folder 10 Mrs. Dubois, 3-4, undated

Box 35 Folder 11 Black Women--Maya Angelou I, undated

Box 35 Folder 12 Black Women--Angelou 3, Brooks 3, undated

Box 35 Folder 13 Black Women--Brooks, I, undated

Box 35 Folder 14 Black Women--Clarke I, undated

Box 35 Folder 15 Black Women--Clarke II, undated

Box 35 Folder 16 Black Women--Dubois I, undated

Box 35 Folder 17 Black Women--Dubois II, undated


Box 21 Folder 1 Welcome Home Min Louis Farrakhan, undated

Box 21 Folder 2 From Cinque to Jesse Jackson, undated

Box 21 Folder 3 Cheikh Anta Diop, by Dr. James Spady, undated

Box 21 Folder 4 The Wisdom of Malcolm X, Part 3, undated

Box 21 Folder 5 Carlos Moore on "Night Talk", 1990 February 10


Box 43 Folder 7 West African Travels: Book promotion, 1974, 1 audiocassettes


Box 59 Folder 11 Unidentified, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

Series VII: Slides, 1959-1991

This series contains a large number of slides, mainly professionally shot images of African art in museums. It also contains many images of African women with a focus on hairstyles and clothing, and some images of African architecture.


Box 16 Folder 1 Maps, 1988

Box 16 Folder 2 AFAM, Faculty, Staff, Students, 1975-1976

Box 16 Folder 3 "Essential", circa 1989

Box 16 Folder 4 "Boring", circa 1978

Box 16 Folder 5 West African Architecture--Cote D'Ivoire, Nigeria, Ghana, Haute Volta, 1976

Box 16 Folder 6 Artists--Charles Alston; William E. Artis; Edward Bannister; Richmond Barthe; Romare Bearden; George W. Carver; George Catlin; Elizabeth Catlett; Claude Clark; William Cooper; Eldzier Cortor; Allan Crite; Mary Reed Daniel; Charles Dawson; B. Delaney; Robert Duncanson; Aaron Douglas; Thomas Eakins; William Edmondson; Rex Gorleigh; David Hammons; Elisha Hammond; Edwin Harleston; Isaiah Hathaway; Palmer Hayden; Richard Hobbs; Roscoe Holder; Julien Hudson; Wilmer Jennings; Joshua Johnston; Malvin G. Johnson; Sargent Johnson; William H. Johnson; Absalom Jones; Lois Jones, undated

Box 16 Folder 7 Artists--Lois Jones; Jacob Lawrence; Hughie Lee-Smith; Phillip Mason; Richard Mayhew; Richard Nugent; Gordon Parks; Robert Pious; Horace Pippin; PH Polk; James Porter; Betsy Reyneau; Winold Reiss; Earle Richardson; Al Schurlock; William Scott; William Simpson; Albert Smith; Lincoln Springfield; Vincent Smith; Henry O. Tanner, undated

Box 16 Folder 8 Artists--Alma Thomas; Dox Trash; James Van Der Zee; Laura Waring; James Wells; Charles White; Ellis Wilson; Walter Williams; Hale Woodruff; Unknown, Quilts, undated

Box 16 Folder 9 Eliot Elisofon Archives of the National Museum of African Art--Requested Slides of Central Africa, Women, 1959-1971

Box 16 Folder 10 Descriptions of Eliot Elisofon Slides, 1959-1971

Box 16 Folder 11 African Sets 1+2--Sculpture from the UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1980

Box 16 Folder 12 African Art, Oceanic Art, Artifacts--UCLA, undated

Box 16 Folder 13 African Masks--UCLA, undated

Box 16 Folder 14 Ashanti People, undated

Box 16 Folder 15 Amistad, 1988

Box 16 Folder 16 Bolgatanga, Ghana, undated

Box 16 Folder 17 African Art--Figures, Stools, Jewelry, and Other Objects from the National Museum of African Art, ?

Box 16 Folder 18 Central African Art--Sculpture, Textiles from Multiple Collections, circa 1988

Box 16 Folder 19 West Africa--Sculpture, Textiles, Furniture, Jewelry, Metal, Ceramics, Ceremony, Dance, Calligraphy, circa 1988

Box 16 Folder 20 Clothing, Ceremony, Architecture, Villages--National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisofon Archives, undated

Box 16 Folder 21 Clothing, Ceremony, Architecture, Villages--National Museum of African Art, Eliot Elisofon Archives, undated

Box 16 Folder 22 Unlabeled Event--Face Cast, undated

Box 16 Folder 23 Drums--H. Ross, 1979

Box 16 Folder 24 Masks and Figures from Dallas Museum of Art, undated

Box 16 Folder 25 Photos of Boone, undated

Box 16 Folder 26 Sculpture, Masks--Unlabeled, undated

Box 16 Folder 27 Neku and Mende, 1966-1991

Box 16 Folder 28 National Museum of Natural History Slide Set 10--Gemstones, 1980

Box 16 Folder 29 Women--Hair, Clothing, Textiles, circa 1980s

Box 16 Folder 30 Women--Hair, Clothing, Textiles, 1988

Box 16 Folder 31 Women--Hair, Clothing, Textiles, 1989


Box 36 Folder 1 Libya Trip--Photos, undated

Box 36 Folder 2 Unknown Event, undated

Box 36 Folder 3 Art and Architecture, 1986-1990

Box 36 Folder 4 Architecture, 1988

Box 36 Folder 5 Art--Clothing and Hairstyles, 1990

Box 36 Folder 6 Ancient Art, Hairstyles, Architecture, 1988

Box 36 Folder 7 Clothing and Hairstyles, 1990

Box 36 Folder 8 Ancient Art, 1988

Box 36 Folder 9 Clothing and Hairstyles, 1990

Box 36 Folder 10 Art and Architecture, 1989

Box 36 Folder 11 Art, 1988


Box 21 Folder 6 Hairstyles, Art, Architecture, 1988

Box 21 Folder 7 Hairstyles, 1989


Box 50 Folder 9-10 Artwork slides #1-273, undated

Series VIII: Printed Materials, 1951-1975

This series comprises printed materials such as periodicals, pamphlets, books, brochures, maps, guides, newspaper clippings, and other publications collected by Boone, dating from 1951 to 1975, including maps and guides related to her travels to West Africa. Most of the print materials and publications are related to neo-colonialism, law, politics, governments, social welfare, literature, art and culture in West African countries and the materials were mainly used for Boone's research projects.

Periodicals, Pamphlets, and Brochures, and Other Publications, 1951-1975


Box 54 Folder 1 Ghana Parliamentary Debate, 1962-1964

Box 54 Folder 2 Ghana Parliamentary Debate, 1965

Box 54 Folder 3 Ghana Parliamentary Debate, 1966

Box 54 Folder 4 Africa and the World, 1964 December-1966 January, 1970 November

Box 54 Folder 5 Africa Report, 1960-1962

Box 54 Folder 6 Africa Report, 1963

Box 54 Folder 7 Africa Report, 1967-1968

Box 54 Folder 8 African Review, v.1:no.1, 1965

Box 54 Folder 9 African Review, v.1:no.2, 1965

Page 21 contains article (book reviews) by Sylvia A. Boone

Box 54 Folder 10 African Review, v.1:no.3-4, 1965

Box 54 Folder 11 African Review, v.2:no.1, 1966

Box 54 Folder 12 Black Orpheus, no.10, 12-14, 1963-1964


Box 55 Folder 1 Présence Africaine: Guinée indépendante! (N° XXIX), 1960/1

Box 55 Folder 2 Pan-Africanist Review, v.1:no.1-2, 4, 1964

Box 55 Folder 3 Ghana Gazette, 1963, 1965

Box 55 Folder 4 Ghana Radio Review, 1964

Box 55 Folder 5 West Africa, 1965, 1972, 1975

Box 55 Folder 6 United Africa, 1965 November

Box 55 Folder 6 The New African, 1966 January

Box 55 Folder 7 Operation Crossroad Africa, Publications, 1961-1969

Box 55 Folder 8 Advance, 1963-1964

Published by the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, Ghana

Box 55 Folder 9 University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, 1962-1965

Include: Invitation to the Congregation of the University, regulations and course lists, prospectus

Box 55 Folder 10 Ghana Academy of Sciences, 1963-1965

Include annual report, proceedings, bulletin

Box 55 Folder 11 Ghana: Accra Business Guide, 1964 July

Box 55 Folder 12 Ghana: Phone Directory, circa 1965

Box 55 Folder 13 Ghana: Seven-Year Development Plan 1963/64 to 1969/70, 1964

Include: A Guide to the implementation of the Seven-year Development Plan, Aspects of Ghana's Seven-year Development Plan

Box 55 Folder 14 Ghana: Handbook, Guides, Reports, 1959-1965

Box 55 Folder 14 Annual Report of the Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, 1959-1961

Box 55 Folder 14 Ghana: an official handbook, 1961

Box 55 Folder 14 1965 Budget Statement, 1965

Box 55 Folder 14 Health Services in Ghana: A Ten-Year Programme 1961-70, 1961

Box 55 Folder 14 Health and Nutrition Problems of the Less Developed Areas, 1963

Box 55 Folder 14 Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Trade Malpractices in Ghana, 1965

Box 55 Folder 15 Ghana Government Publication: Staff List, 1960-1961, 1960

Box 55 Folder 16 Ghana Art and Crafts, by Kofi Antubam, 1961-1962, 3 copies

written for Ghana National Trading Corporation

Box 55 Folder 16 Ghana : music, dance and drama : a review of the performing arts of Ghana, 1962

Author: J H Kwabena Nketia; University of Ghana. Institute of African Studies.

Publisher: Legon : Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, [2010], 1965.

Box 55 Folder 17 Ghana 1957, undated, 2 copies

Box 55 Folder 18 This is Ghana Television, 1963, 2 copies

Published by the State Publishing Corporation, Tema, Ghana

Box 55 Folder 19-20 Publications on Ghana

Box 55 Folder 19 Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, v.4:part.1, 1959

Box 55 Folder 19 The Worker: Official Organ of Ghana Trades Union Congress, 1965 May

Box 55 Folder 19 Ghana, 1965

Box 55 Folder 19 Abankaba (comic book), 1970

Author: Ghanatta (Firm). Publisher: Accra, Ghana : Ghanatta, [1970].

Box 55 Folder 19 The Ghanian Woman

Box 55 Folder 19 Ghana Cultural Review, v.1:no.1, 1965

Box 55 Folder 19 National Research Council of Ghana, undated

Box 55 Folder 19 Ghana Reconstructs, v.5:no.4, 1965

Box 55 Folder 20 Ghana main owns and cities, 1965

Box 55 Folder 20 The Role of the Party, 1965

Box 55 Folder 20 The Northern Factor in Ashanti History, by Ivor Wilks, 1961

University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies

Box 55 Folder 20 Ghana Notes and Queries, no.4, 1962 January-June

Box 55 Folder 20 Fourth Republic Anniversary Celebrations, Armed Forces Parade at the Black Star Square, 1964 July 01

Box 55 Folder 20 Opening of Most Press in Ghana, undated

Box 55 Folder 20 Ghana Today, v.8:no.25, 1965 February 10

Box 55 Folder 20 A Portrait of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, by Tawia Adamafio, 1961

Box 55 Folder 20 The Volta River Project, 1961

Box 55 Folder 20 The Volta River Project, 1965

Box 55 Folder 20 Historic Elmina, undated

Box 55 Folder 20 Historic Christiansborg, undated

Box 55 Folder 20 Regalia for an Ashanti Durbar, 1961


Box 56 Folder 1 Publications on African Law, 1962

Box 56 Folder 1 Report of the Zanzibar Constitutional Conference, 1962

Box 56 Folder 1 The Influence of Equity in West African Law, by W.C. Ekow Daniels, 1962

Box 56 Folder 1 Journal of African Law, v.6:no.3, 1962 Autumn

Box 56 Folder 1 The African Eagle, v.1:no.1-2, 1960

Box 56 Folder 2 Bibliography on Africa, undated

prepared by Edward Warner Brice, Education Advisor, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State

Box 56 Folder 3 Publications on the RDA, 1965, undated

Box 56 Folder 3 La Rassemblement démocratique africain dans la lutte anti-impérialiste, undated

Box 56 Folder 3 Le R. D. A. est toujours anticolonialiste : lettres ouvertes à Félix Houphouet-Boigny, undated

Box 56 Folder 3 4eme Semaine de la Jeunesse de l'USRDA, 1965

Also include an article with notes on neo-colonialisme

Box 56 Folder 4 African Territorial Documents, in French, 1955-1963

Box 56 Folder 5 La République de Guinée, AN2, undated

Box 56 Folder 6 Republic of Guinea: First Year of Freedom, circa 1962

Box 56 Folder 7 Publications on Guinea

Box 56 Folder 7 Institut National de Recherches et de Documentation, Recherches africaines : Études guinéennes : (nouvelle série), 1961-1962

Box 56 Folder 7 La Guinée, undated

Box 56 Folder 7 African Independence and Unity, by Sékou Touré, 1959

Box 56 Folder 7 Du colonialisme mercantile au néo-colonialisme; les causes profondes du sous-développement, by Georges Montaigu, 1962

Publisher: Conakry, Institut national de recherches et de documentation

Box 56 Folder 7 NTU, v.1:no.2, 1964 Autumn/Winter

Box 56 Folder 7 Programme de la visite d'etat en République de Guinée de son excellence Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1962

Box 56 Folder 7 Escale d'amitié du Président Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1962 April 10

Box 56 Folder 7 La Guinnee a Travers L'art et la Culture, undated

Box 56 Folder 8 Nigerian Journal of Economics and Social Studies, 1960-1962

Box 56 Folder 9 Publications on Nigeria

Box 56 Folder 9 Nigeria's National Archives, undated

Box 56 Folder 9 Nigeria, Background to Independence, 1960

Box 56 Folder 9 Art in Nigeria, 1960

Box 56 Folder 9 How to be a Nigerian, by Peter Enahoro, 1971

Box 56 Folder 9 Nigeria magazine, no.71, 73-74, 1961-1962

Box 56 Folder 9 Visiting Western Nigeria

Box 56 Folder 10 Publications on Kwame Nkrumah

Box 56 Folder 10 Forward to Socialism, Speech delivered by Osagyefo the Preseident at the Accra Sports Stadium, 1963 January 08

Box 56 Folder 10 Fifth Anniversary of Ghana Academy of Sciences, Speech delivered by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, 1964 November 28

Box 56 Folder 10 The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah, by K.A. Bediako, circa 1967

Box 56 Folder 10 Kwame Nkrumah and the African Revolution, no.3, 1964

Box 56 Folder 10 Flower of learning; some reflections on African learning, ancient and modern, 1962

Box 56 Folder 10 The Nkrumaist, 1964 December

Box 56 Folder 10 Why "the Spark" by Kwame Nukrumah, 1964

Box 56 Folder 11 Approaches to African Literature, 1959 November

Ibadan University Press

Box 56 Folder 11 A Prologue to the Study of the African Arts, no.7, 1964 October

Box 56 Folder 11 Africa - what lies ahead, by Dunduzu K Chisiza, 1962

Publisher: New York : African-American Institute

Box 56 Folder 11 "The American Negro writer and his roots : selected papers from the first Conference of Negro Writers, March, 1959". By American Society of African Culture, 1963

Box 56 Folder 11 Mind the living conditions of the masses and attend to the methods of work. By Mao Zedong, 1953

Publisher: Peking : Foreign Languages Press

Box 56 Folder 11 Television speech delivered on November 1, 1962. By Fidel Castro; United Nations, 1963

Secretary-General. Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press.

Box 56 Folder 11 Zambia's economic revolution : address by His Excellency the President dr. K.D. Kaunda at Mulungushi, 19th April, 1968, 1968

Author: K D Kaunda Publisher: Lusaka : Govt. Printer.

Box 56 Folder 12 Social customs and manners in the United States: a guide for foreign students, 1960

Box 56 Folder 12 Orientation of foreign students: sign posts for the cultural maze, 1956 June

Box 56 Folder 12 Practical suggestions for the learning of an African language in the field, by Ida C. Ward, 1960

Publisher: London : Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1965.

Box 56 Folder 13 Publications on Addis Ababa, 1962-1963

Box 56 Folder 13 Africa Hall, Addis Ababa, 1963 May

Box 56 Folder 13 Report of the workshop on urbanization in Africa, 1962

Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa.; United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs.; International Labour Organisation.; Unesco.; World Health Organization. Publisher: [New York] : United Nations, [1962] Series: United Nations., Document ;, ST/SAO/ser. T/4.; United Nations., Document ;, E/CN. 14/170.; United Nations., Document ;, ST/TAO/ser. C/57.

Box 56 Folder 14 Publications on Social Welfare, 1951-1963

Box 56 Folder 14 Welfare and Mass Education in the Gold Coast, 1946-1951, 1953

Author: Gold Coast. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development. Publisher: Ãccra, 1953.

Box 56 Folder 14 Social work in West Africa; report of the Seminar on Social Work in West Africa, 1963

Author: St Clair Drake; Ghana. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development. Publisher: [Accra, Ghana] : [Dept. of Social Welfare and Community Development], [1963]

Box 56 Folder 14 Plan for mass literacy and mass education, 1951 or 1952

Author: Kojo Botsio; Gold Coast. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development. Publisher: [Accra] : The Department

Box 56 Folder 14 Literacy campaign, 1952, 2 copies

Author: Gold Coast. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development. Publisher: [Accra]

Box 56 Folder 15 Publications on West African Art, 1954, 1971

Box 56 Folder 15 West African art : handbook 5, by William R Bascom; Robert E Ritzenthaler; Paul Gebauer, 1954

Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Milwaukee Public Museum

Box 56 Folder 15 Introducing West African cloth. By Kate Peck Kent; Denver Museum of Natural History, 1971

Box 56 Folder 16 Other Pamphlets and Brochures

Box 56 Folder 16 The African journalist. By W M Sulemana-Sibidow; Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute, 1965

Publisher: Winneba : Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute. Edition: 1st ed.

Box 56 Folder 16 La philosophie de la revolution. By Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1970s

Publisher: Le Caire : Dar Al-Maaref

Box 56 Folder 16 Free: A Roosevelt University Magazine, v.1:no.2, undated

Box 56 Folder 16 African summit in Monrovia. By Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Information, 1960s

Publisher: [Lagos? Nigeria] : Published on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Federal Ministry of Information., [196-?]

Box 56 Folder 16 Our emirates. By Rex Niven, Sir, 1960

Publisher: [Lagos, Nigeria] : Federal Ministry of Information.

Box 56 Folder 16 The Ivory Coast Republic, undated

Box 56 Folder 16 Yoruba towns. By Akin Ladipo Mabogunje, 1962

Publisher: Ibadan : Ibadan University Press

Box 56 Folder 16 Malaysia in Afro-Asia, undated

Box 56 Folder 17 Other Journals and Magazines, 1962-1966

Box 56 Folder 17 Revolution Africa, Latin America, Asia. V.1:no.11, 1964 March

Box 56 Folder 17 Journal of African American History, v.47:no.2, 1962 April

Box 56 Folder 17 African Student, v.2-3, 1964-1965

Box 56 Folder 17 West African Review, 1962 September

Box 56 Folder 17 Notes Africaines, no.110, 1966 April

Box 56 Folder 17 Continent 2000, undated

Box 56 Folder 18 The United Nations and Africa : a collection of basic information on economic and social activities of the United Nations and related agencies in Africa, 1962

Author: United Nations. Office of Public Information. Publisher: New York


Box 57 Folder 13 Materials on the Organization of African Unity, 1962-1965

Box 57 Folder 14 OAAU Blacklash, v.1:no.4, 8, 1964 September, November

Author: Organization of Afro-American Unity. Publisher: New York, N.Y. : OAAU.

Box 57 Folder 15 African Art at the OAU, 1965, 3 copies

Box 57 Folder 16 Le Mali : revue mensuelle politique, économique, sociale et culturelle, no.1, 3, 1965

Publisher: [Bamako, Mali] : Ministère de l'information et du tourisme

Box 57 Folder 17 Encyclopedia Africana, Information Report, 1963-1965

Materials include information reports in English and French, poster/pamplet from the W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, In Memoriam to Du Bois

Box 57 Folder 18 Comic: Harlem Youth Report #5, 1964 June

Box 57 Folder 19 Liberator, 1965, 1967

Box 57 Folder 20 Committee of Correspondence Inc.: Community Action Series, 1966


Box 58 Folder 5 University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, 1973

Plan of Fourah Bay College, prospectus 1972-1974

Box 58 Folder 6 Africa: an international business, economic, and political monthly, 1972-1973

Box 58 Folder 7 At Random, 1974 May, 5 copies

Features Maya Angelou

Box 58 Folder 8 Black history bulletin, v.34:no.8, 1971 December

Box 58 Folder 8 African Progress magazine, v.1:no.4, 1971 September

Box 58 Folder 9-10 Assorted Magazines, 1968-1975

Titles include: Ramparts, Washington Monthly, Bloomingdales, Entente Africaine, Encore American and Worldwide News, New Yorker, New York, Clipper, Yale Alumni magazine, Jet

Box 58 Folder 11 Essence, 1970-1971

Box 58 Folder 12-13 Assorted booklets, brochures, pamphlets

Box 58 Folder 12 How to trace your ancestors, by John Tanner, 1971

Box 58 Folder 12 Nigeria Demain: second plan national de developpement 1970-1974, 1971

Box 58 Folder 12 The Incredible I Ching, by Louis T. Culling, 1969

Box 58 Folder 12 Museum Masterpieces, 1975

with calendar notes

Box 58 Folder 12 "Black Americans stay out of South Africa", undated

Box 58 Folder 12 Sex is never an emergency, 1971

Box 58 Folder 12 Chapter 13: The Sign of the Divine King, by Robert F. Thompson, 1972

Box 58 Folder 12 Research in African Literature, v.2:no.2, 1971

Box 58 Folder 13 Black Woman's Role in the Revolution, 1969

Author: Mothers of African Unity. Publisher: Newark, N.J. : Jihad Productions.

Box 58 Folder 13 Aikido, undated

Box 58 Folder 13 Shango de Ima: a Yoru Mystery Play, undated

Box 58 Folder 13 Apdusa, v.2:no.1, 1966 January

Author: African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa (Lusaka); Unity Movement of South Africa (London). Publisher: [London] : [Unity Movement of South Africa]

Box 58 Folder 13 Carnegie Corporation of New York Quarterly, v.11:no.2, 1963 April

Box 58 Folder 13 Books and Things, Specializing in Islamic Literature, undated

Box 58 Folder 13 Primitive Art Bibliographies, no.6, 1968

Box 58 Folder 13 The Black Scholar, 1969 November

Box 58 Folder 13 Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 55th Annual Meeting, 1970

Box 58 Folder 13 Symposium on Black Women, 1972

Sponsored by the Black Women's Community Development Foundation

Box 58 Folder 13 A gala premiere of the most unusual movie of the year starring Diana Sands in Maya Angelou's Georgia, Georgia, 1972

Box 58 Folder 13 Cultural Events in Africa, no.87, 1972

Box 58 Folder 14 Postcard, pamphlets, and articles, 1971-1972

Box 58 Folder 15 Pamphlets and clippings on food, 1975

Box 58 Folder 16 Materials on travel, 1965, 1970s

Include materials on International Zoological Expeditions, Mali: Bamako, Pan Am travel brochures: Priceless Europe (1965), Discover West Africa 1973-1974, etc.

Box 58 Folder 17 Notes, articles, manuscript pages, 1973

Box 58 Folder 18 Jamaica Journal, 1973-1974


Box 65 Folder 2 Ethiopia, Planner, 1974

Box 65 Folder 2 Guide to the Rock Paintings of Tanzania, by Hamo Sassoon, 1965

Published: Dar es Salaam : National Culture and Antiquities Division, Ministry of Community Development and National Culture

Box 65 Folder 2 Profile of Haile Sellassie I University, 1973

Box 65 Folder 2 Journal of Ethiopian Studies, v.11:no.1-2, 1973

Box 65 Folder 3 African Presence in the Americas, 1991 April, 2 copies

The Grand Opening of the New Schomburg Center Complex

Box 65 Folder 3 Jacob Lawrence, American Painter, 1991

Exhibition Pamphlet

Box 65 Folder 3 Bundu, Bush-Devils in the Land of the Mende, circa 1991

Box 65 Folder 3 Black Women in America, Posters, circa 1991, 2 posters

Box 65 Folder 4 The Amistad Celebrate, 1992 September, 2 copies

Box 65 Folder 4 Yale publication catalogue, 1990

Box 65 Folder 5 Articles on Black Americans

Box 65 Folder 5 "The Negro American: his self-image and integration", by AF Poussaint, 1966

Publication: Journal of the National Medical Association, 1966 Nov; 58(6): 419-23

Box 65 Folder 5 "When Will the Real Black Man Stand Up?" by Louise Moore, undated

Box 65 Folder 5 " Black Men vs. Black Women?" by Louise Moore, undated

Box 65 Folder 5 The Black Madonna, Black Americans' Art and Culture, 1968 June

Preston Wester, Instructor

Box 65 Folder 5 "Beyond the Sistine Chapel", undated

Box 65 Folder 6 AMSAC newsletter, 1966

Box 65 Folder 6 Afrique Noire, 1973

Box 65 Folder 6 Seminar in East Africa, 1973

Box 65 Folder 6 "History of Congo", undated

Box 65 Folder 6 Music and ceremony of central and east Africa : [catalogue], 1970s

Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Museum and Laboratories of Ethnic Arts and Technology. Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [197-?]

Box 65 Folder 6 Carroll Reed, shopping catalogue, 1975

Box 65 Folder 6 Black World, 1972 August

Box 65 Folder 6 Inside the Black World, v.1:no.1, 1971 April

Box 65 Folder 6 Rights and Reviews, 1966/67 Winter

Box 65 Folder 6 Congo Magazine, 1968 February

Box 65 Folder 7 Afro-American Studies at Yale, circa 1973

Box 65 Folder 7 Africana and Anthropology, 1972-1973

Box 65 Folder 7 "Alioune Diop and the African Renaissance" by Davidson Nicol, undated

Box 65 Folder 7 Ethnic Arts Series, no.4, 1985

Box 65 Folder 7 African Studies Association, Annual Meeting Abstract, 1972

Books, 1937, 1961-1967


Box 57 Folder 11 African songs of love, war, grief and abuse, by Leon Damas, 1961

Designed & illustrated by Georgina Betts. Author: Leon DAMAS Publisher: Ibadan : Mbari Publication, 1961.

Box 57 Folder 12 "The Negro genius : a new appraisal of the achievement of the American Negro in literature and the fine arts", 1937

Author: Benjamin Griffith Brawley. Publisher: New York : Dodd Mead & Company. Apollo edition.

Box 57 Folder 12 Introduction to African Literature, by Ulli Beier, 1967

Box 57 Folder 12 Le malade imaginaire : comédie-ballet, 1965

Publisher: Paris : Librarie Larousse

Box 57 Folder 12 Springs of African wisdom, by Erwin J Haeberle, 1970

Publisher: New York Herder and Herder [1970?]

Box 57 Folder 12 The novels of Chinua Achebe, by G D Killam, 1975

Publisher: London [etc.] : Heinemann.

Include 1 cardboard photogrpahic postcard of Poets and Heroes, Father Divine

Box 57 Folder 12 Afrique occidentale française, Togo. By Gilbert Houlet, 1958

Publisher: Paris : Hachette, 1958.

Maps and Guides, 1946-1973

Box 57 Folder 4 Architectural print: Ghana State House improvement, 1965 August 28

By the Ghana National Construction Corporation (GNCC), S. F. Kwaku (chief engineer)

Box 57 Folder 5 Guides: New York, Denmark, 1959, 1961

Box 57 Folder 6 Map of "Holy Lands"; Map and Atlas of "Bible Lands", 1946, 1963

Box 57 Folder 7 Maps of Japan, Morocco (Fes and Marrakesh), 1965, 1967

Box 57 Folder 8 World maps, 1965

Box 57 Folder 9 Africa, 1955-circa 1965

Include regional maps of Africa

Box 57 Folder 10 Ghana, 1961-1962


Box 58 Folder 1-3 Ethiopia trip, 1973

Box 58 Folder 4 Roma, 1973

Newspapers and Clippings, 1948-1975


Box 61 Folder 2 Clippings on Malcolm X, 1965

Box 61 Folder 3 A.E.F. Nouvelle: organe du rassemblement democratique africain pour L'A.E.F., 1948 September

Box 61 Folder 4 Assorted clippings, 1961-1965

Box 61 Folder 5 The Freedom Fighter, 1963

Published by "Organ of Freedom Fighters Movement in Africa". [Accra : Bureau of African Affairs].

Box 61 Folder 6 Muhammad Speaks, 1963-1964

Box 61 Folder 7 Daily Graphic, 1965-1966

Box 61 Folder 8 Evening News, 1964-1966

Box 61 Folder 9 Sunday Mirror; Ghana Daily Gazette, 1966

Box 61 Folder 10 Sunday Punch; Weekly Spectator, 1966

Box 61 Folder 11 Assorted newspaper, 1965, 1968

Nkrumah Youth, v.1:no.1, 3 copies, 1965. Cameroun Peoples Union (UPC), Evidence on the Struggle of the Kamerun People, 1965. L'etoile: quotidien du matin, 1968. La Tribune Africaine, 1968.


Box 62 Folder 1-2 Ghanaian Times, 1964-1966

Box 62 Folder 3 Paris Match, 1963, 1965

Box 62 Folder 4 Jeune Afrique, 1965-1968


Box 63 Folder 1 West Indian gazette and Afro-Asian-Caribbean news, 1961-1965

Box 63 Folder 2 Newspapers, 1972

Box 63 Folder 3 Clippings, 1975

Box 63 Folder 4 Newspapers and Clippings, 1972, 1975

Box 63 Folder 5 Ethiopia Tourist News, 1973-1974

Box 63 Folder 6 Magazines, 1963-1971


Box 64 Folder 1 Horoya, 1962, 2 photographs

Publisher: Agence guinéenne de presse. Conakry : GU. Photographs related to conference in the newspaper.

Box 64 Folder 2 Assorted newspapers, in French, 1964-1971

L'Etincelle; organe de la revolution africaine, 1964-1965. Les Actualities Africaines, 1966. Le courrier d'Afrique, 1968. Le Soleil, 1971.

Box 64 Folder 3-5 The spark : A socialist weekly of the African revolution, 1964-1966, 3 folders

Series IX: Photographs and Memorabilia, 1961-1974

This series comprises photographs and memorabilia that Boone collected, dating from 1961 to 1974. The photographs depict Sylvia A. Boone's travels to West Africa, including the buildings, streets, people, aesthetics, and culture in Ghana, Senegal, and other West African countries. Additional photographs include her family and friends, and photographic postcards she collected. Also included in the series is a hairpin she used. Additional photographs may be found in Series III: Professional Work, Series IV: Personal Papers, and Series VII: Slides.


Box 59 Folder 1 Photographs: Travels, circa 1960s-1970s

Box 59 Folder 2 Photographs: Senegal, 1968 March-April

Box 59 Folder 3 Photographs: Accra, Ghana, circa 1963-1966

Box 59 Folder 4 Assorted Photographs, 1961-1974, undated

Include photographs of family and friends, travels, buildings, conferences, women committee, portraits, photographic postcards, etc.

Box 59 Folder 5 Photographs: Mask from Mende, Sierra Leone, undated

Box 59 Folder 6 Photographs: Art Objects, undated

Box 59 Folder 7 Color Slides: Dallas Museum of Art, African Collection, undated, 9 slides

Box 59 Folder 8 Photo scrapbook: Brief Note on the Two Secret Brush Schools in Liberia, by George W. W. Tahmen, 1974

Box 59 Folder 9 Photo scrapbook: Photographs from Liberia, by George W. W. Tahmen, 1974

Box 59 Folder 10 Photo scrapbook: The Traditional Hairdos of Liberia, by George W. W. Tahmen, 1974

Box 59 Folder 12 Artifact: Hairpin


Box 60 Folder 1 Artwork: Painting by Pontiflet, Accra, Ghana, 1973