Collection of Negroiana : [microform], 1800-1981

Summary Information

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