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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, black bibliophile & collector : a biography / by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette.

By: Series: African American life seriesPublication details: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Public Library ; Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press [distributor], 1989.Description: xiii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0814321569 (Wayne State University Press) :
  • 0814321577 (Wayne State University Press : pbk.) :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.3/8
LOC classification:
  • Z989.S36 S56 1989
Contents:
Prologue -- The Early Years -- Arthur Schomburg and the Research Societies -- Arthur Schomburg, Collector -- Arthur Schomburg and the Harlem Renaissance -- The Library, Harlem's Cultural Center -- Arthur Schomburg at Fisk University -- The Final Years -- Epilogue.
Summary: "This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the hidden records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals. Today it forms the core of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, one of the leading collections in the field. At the center of the Harlem Renaissance, Schomburg was a generous friend of many of the writers, artists, performers, collectors, scholars, and political figures who made Harlem the capital of Black America. A contributor to the major black journals of the period, he went on to head the Negro Collection at Fisk University and became curator of his own collection in the New York Public Library until his death in 1938"--Amazon.
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Book - training Learning Library Adult Non-fiction 303.38 Des (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 28721826727203

Spine title: Schomburg.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 201-233.

"Selective bibliography": p. 235-249.

Prologue -- The Early Years -- Arthur Schomburg and the Research Societies -- Arthur Schomburg, Collector -- Arthur Schomburg and the Harlem Renaissance -- The Library, Harlem's Cultural Center -- Arthur Schomburg at Fisk University -- The Final Years -- Epilogue.

"This is the first full biography of the pioneering black collector whose detective work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture. Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg came to New York militantly active in Caribbean revolutionary struggles. He searched out the hidden records of the black experience and built a collection of books, manuscripts, and art that had few rivals. Today it forms the core of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for research in Black Culture, one of the leading collections in the field. At the center of the Harlem Renaissance, Schomburg was a generous friend of many of the writers, artists, performers, collectors, scholars, and political figures who made Harlem the capital of Black America. A contributor to the major black journals of the period, he went on to head the Negro Collection at Fisk University and became curator of his own collection in the New York Public Library until his death in 1938"--Amazon.

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