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

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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