Collection of Negroiana : [microform], 1800-1981

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
Micro\Gumby
Bib ID:
4079776 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Gumby, L. S. Alexander, 1885-1961
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
22 Reels (positive reels, 1977 revised version); 17 Reels (positive reels, 1972 version; reels 15 are partly illegible); 22 Reels (master negative reels, 1977 revised version)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Description

Summary

A collection concerned with the various phases of black life in America, containing clippings, pamphlets, photographs, pictures, extracts from periodicals, and a representative group of approximately 350 letters, signatures, manuscripts, and documents. Among the letters are several each from Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Dumas, fils, William Lloyd Garrison, Claude McKay, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Mencken, William Pickens, Albert A. Smith, and Booker T. Washington. Also, eighteen slavery documents.

Most of the material is mounted in 139 scrapbooks or groups of folio leaves. The clippings are from both general and specialized newspapers and magazines ranging in date from 1850 to 1960, however the majority of the material falls between 1910 and 1950. Whole volumes are devoted to major figures such as Joe Louis, Booker T. Washington, Paul Robeson, and Josephine Baker

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--Microfilm; Dates and / or sequential of issues reproduced--20 April 1977.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gumby collected this material during the first half of the 20th century.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Microfilm: Date of acquisition--04/20/77. Accession number--M-77-04-20.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Only 139 of 161 scrapbooks have been microfilmed

Microfilm Entered HR 05/07/92.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Autographs (manuscripts) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographic prints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Postcards CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Pickens, William, 1881-1954 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Smith, Albert A. (Albert Alexander), 1896-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
United States -- History CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States -- Social conditions CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
United States -- Social life and customs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
African American athletes CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African American scientists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African American teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African American women CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African Americans -- History CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African Americans -- Social conditions CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
African Americans in the performing arts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scrapbooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Slavery -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID