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Description of Reading Room and Curatorial Units' Collections
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801
(212) 491-2200
Humanities and Social Sciences Library | The
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture | Science,
Industry and Business Library
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Description |
| Art and
Artifacts Division |
- collects, documents, preserves and interprets art and artifacts
by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world.
- fine and applied art and material culture objects are collected
from the seventeenth century to the present
- emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United
States, the Americas and Africa.
- works include traditional African art; painting and sculpture; works
on paper (i.e. drawings, prints, illustrations, posters and reproductions);
textiles, artifacts and ephemera.
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| General
Research and Reference Division |
- principal provider of professional reference service for the Center.
- access to published information by and about people of African descent
throughout the world.
- monographic and serial publications on paper, and in micro and electronic
formats.
- popular and scholarly works are acquired, including dissertations,
pamphlets, and art and exhibition catalogs.
- serial publications include periodicals, newspapers, newsletters
and conference proceedings. Flyers and other ephemera are held in
the division's clipping files.
- small collection of topographic and thematic maps dating from the
16th century through the 20th century.
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| Manuscripts,
Archives and Rare Books Division |
- rare, unique and primary materials which document the history and
culture of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with a
concentration on the Americas and the Caribbean.
- personal papers; records of organizations and institutions, including
the records of the Schomburg Center, literary and scholarly typescripts,
scripts, rare books, sheet music, broadsides, programs and playbills,
and other ephemera.
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| Moving
Image and Recorded Sound Division |
- collection of African American, Caribbean and African popular and
traditional music genres
- a growing collection of nation-wide public affairs television broadcasts
- Caribbean and African contemporary popular music collections
- early jazz and tap dance film footage
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| Photographs
and Prints Division |
- photographs and prints which document peoples of African descent
worldwide.
- documentary and fine art photography by U.S.-born photographers
of African descent.
- prints, transparencies and negatives ranging from mid-eighteenth
century graphics to modern photographic prints.
- Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and albumen prints are among the nineteenth
century photographic processes represented.
- Twentieth century photographic processes include gelatin silver,
C-prints and cibachrome prints.
- Manual and process prints include wood engravings, lithographs,
photogravures and photolithographs.
- Cartes-de-visite, stereographs, postcards and lobby cards are among
the formats collected.
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