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Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Related Resources

NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names: McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1914; Place: New York; Publisher: s.n.
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare B 02-11
Topics: Older African Americans
Genres: Photographs; Portraits
Notes: Content: On t.p. of this copy "O, darkies, how my heart grows weary far from the old folks at home."
Physical Description: Extent: 16 p. : ill., ports ; 16 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Barcode: 33433036926552; RLIN/OCLC: 50318897; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15466198; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 56e83e90-c61f-012f-248a-58d385a7bc34