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Title
“Brief History of Negro Libraries, Also Schomburg Collection”
Names
Writers' Program (New York, N.Y.) (Creator)
United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) (Sponsor)
Collection

Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection

Intellectual Attainments and Cultural Life

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1937-05-19
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-6544
Topics
African Americans
New York (N.Y.)
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Genres
Essays
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496
MSS Unit ID: 21183
Archives EAD ID: 2057866
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): edff57d0-55a3-0133-49b3-00505686d14e
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1937: Created
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "“Brief History of Negro Libraries, Also Schomburg Collection”" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1937. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0e27d610-6ebd-0133-2af6-00505686d14e

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "“Brief History of Negro Libraries, Also Schomburg Collection”" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 2, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0e27d610-6ebd-0133-2af6-00505686d14e

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1937). “Brief History of Negro Libraries, Also Schomburg Collection” Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0e27d610-6ebd-0133-2af6-00505686d14e

Wikipedia Citation

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“Brief History of Negro Libraries, Also Schomburg Collection”