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Madeline Randolph autograph album [manuscript], 1923-1927.

Title: Madeline Randolph autograph album [manuscript], 1923-1927.

Randolph's album contains signatures of entertainment figures including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson; and silent film starsor vaudevillans Raymond Hitchcock, "Baby Peggy" Montgomery (Diana Serra Cary), Pat Rooney, and Edgar Allan Woolf. A postcard of Bill Robinson "The dark cloud of joy" is included.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648019959 View

Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122363936 View

Henderson, Scott L. Photographs, 1912-1989 (bulk 1960-1980).

Title: Photographs, 1912-1989 (bulk 1960-1980).

Collection consists mostly of black and white photographs by Scott Henderson which document events and activities of the university during the 1960s and 1970s.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970007 View

Anderson, Richard N. Richard N. Anderson photographs [manuscript], 1937-1972.

Title: Richard N. Anderson photographs [manuscript], 1937-1972.

The collection contains photographic negatives and contact prints of various prominent people and places, particularly those associated with Richmond, Va. Virginia politicians and national dignitaries include J. Lindsay Almond, Stuart D. Baker, William Battle, Harry F. Byrd Sr. & Jr., Richard S. Byrd, Dan Daniel, , Clifford Dowdey, Dwight Eisenhower, Allen Ellender, Indira Gandhi, Mills Godwin, Arthur Godfrey, Mills Godwin, Barry Goldwater, Albertis S. Harrison, Linwood Holton, Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eugene McCarthy, Robert Mehridge, Richard Nixon, A. Willis Robertson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charlie Spivak, Herman Talmadge, Clarence Townes, Bill Tuck , George Wallace, Edwin Watson, and L. Douglas Wilder. The majority of the images are from Richmond, Va., and include aerial and panorama views, the James River and bridges, construction sites, banks, businesses, hotels, churches, government buildings, parks, residences, schools, "slums," and events including visits by dignitaries, inaugurations, parades, General Assembly sessions, press conferences, election coverage by WRVA; sports and a beauty pageant. Anderson had a special interest in railroads and there are numerous images of trains, crossings, stations, yards, tracks, and a derailment. Of interest are images from the Civil Rights era including Richmond sit-ins, the Poor People's March, the Virginia Union University Freedom march, arrest of protestors at Thalhimers Department store, Governor Lindsay Almond and the school integration crisis of 1959 and Ku Klux Klan rallies. Images of University of Virginia and Charlottesville interest include Cabell Hall concerts; Colgate Darden, William F. "Bull" Halsey, John Lloyd Newcomb, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; a Lawn garden; and Harry Truman at Monticello. Other images of interest include an American Independent party convention; fires, explosions and other disasters including a brewery explosion and fire, Harlem, 1937 and the Merchant's Cold Storage Warehouse explosion, Richmond, 1958; Hurricane Hazel, 1954 and the Hurrican Camille flood, 1969; Byrd airport; Cabell Hall (U. Va.) concert, 1940; a Davis Cup Tennis tournament; the annual Mattaponi and Pamunkey thanksgiving tribute; a 1960 Republican rally; nuclear ships at Hampton Roads; Naval Reserve Cruise to Haiti; the NASA space radiation effects laboratory at Hampton; an ICBM at Dahlgren; a NASA lunar landing simulator; a prefabricated dome at Virginia Beach, 1957, designed by Buckminster Fuller; a "Wingless Wonder" airplane, 1957; the Constellation airplane crash wreckage; the U.S.S. Loesser, the U.S.S. Savannah, the U.S.S. Long Beach, the U.S.S. Enterprise, and the U.S.C.G. Eagle; Davis Cup Tennis Tournament; a Young Democrat Club meeting; Tobacco Bowl games; movie making in Colonial Williamsburg; a heart transplant patient; an ecumenical service; Union Station, Washington, D.C.; the Yale School of Architecture; and images of Nazi art. There are also images from Appomattox, Jamestown, Norfolk, Petersburg, Washington, D. C., and Williamsburg,

ArchivalResource: 2733 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647985590 View

Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture AR. 2001. 020., 1980-2003., 1950-2003.

Title: Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture 1980-2003. 1950-2003.

Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture is an eclectic collection of artifacts and documents reflecting a half-century of African American cultural history.

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http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/aushc/00014/00014-P.html View

Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive)

Title: The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers 1879-1975 (inclusive)

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the African-American musician, writer, actor, and educator J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954).

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0021 View

Anderson, Richard N. Photographic negatives, 1936-1960.

Title: Photographic negatives, 1936-1960.

Most of the photographs are of buildings in downtown Richmond. There are also panoramic views; scenes of a 1942 parade and a 1940 beauty pageant; Barry Goldwater and a 1960 Republican rally; a J. Lindsay Almond press conference; the Indians' annual Thanksgiving tribute; and Bill Robinson.

ArchivalResource: 282 items : photographs and transparencies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793571 View

Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993

Title: Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections 1831-1993

The Helen Armstead-Johnson Miscellaneous Theater Collections (HAJMTC) are formed by over two hundred file-folder level collections (1 to 3 file folders per personality/event). The collections contain information dating from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century documenting early dramatic actors, minstrel shows, vaudeville, musical revues, 1920s and 30s Broadway productions, the protest dramas of the 1940s and 50s, plays that came out of the Black Arts Movement of the late 60s and 70s, and theatrical productions of the 1980s and 90s. In addition to actors, playwrights, singers, musicians, and dancers (classical and popular) (e.g. Ira Frederick Aldridge, Eubie Blake and Katherine Dunham), and the productions they appeared in, there are collections for poets, and visual and plastic artists. There are eighteen collections documenting performers of the 19th century; twenty-nine collections covering the period 1900-1919; thirty-seven collections document the 1940s-1950s; and eleven collections for the 1980s and 1990s. The bulk of the collections cover the two most productive periods for black theater: ninety-two collections for the 1920s through the 1930s, and ninety collections representative of the Black Arts Movement.

ArchivalResource: 15.7 lin. ft. (46 hollinger boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21884 View

Grand Street Boy's Club (New York, N.Y.). A pre-birthday party given [for] Bill Robinson : April 3, 1938 by Grand Street Boys Club of New York [scrapbook].

Title: A pre-birthday party given [for] Bill Robinson : April 3, 1938 by Grand Street Boys Club of New York [scrapbook]. [1938]

Scrapbook from a 60th birthday party given for Bill "Bojangles" Robinson by the Grand Street Boys Club of New York. Includes birthday greetings in the form of letters and telegrams from friends and family, including notable politicians and celebrities such as Fiorello LaGuardia, Shirley Temple, Walter Winchell, the Nicholas Brothers, and Joe Louis. Also includes the program and menu from the party, and four photographic prints of Robinson from 1904.

ArchivalResource: [52] p. : photos, 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62693951 View

Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

Title: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection

More than 300 reels of 16mm black and white and color film, silent and sound, fiction and documentary motion picture film documenting jazz and related musical performances, social and popular dance styles and performances, jazz musicians, performance locales, and documentation of African-American popular culture. A list of featured performers in the collection is shown below. The films are frequently compilations produced by Smith for lectures.

ArchivalResource: 30 Cubic feet (352 film reels , 16 mm)

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep85baeb0e0-8e94-4ce0-8c80-7f25800ee24a View

Mitgang, N. R. Bojangles / by N.R. Mitgang.

Title: Bojangles / by N.R. Mitgang. [1975?]

ArchivalResource: 83 leaves ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62698505 View

Schmidt, Ed. (Edward T.). Mr. Rickey calls a meeting : script, 1990, March / by Ed Schmidt.

Title: Mr. Rickey calls a meeting : script, 1990, March / by Ed Schmidt. 1990, c1989.

A dramatized account of a meeting organized by Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The invited guests include heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson. Rickey wants their backing when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the major league's first African American ballplayer. The men discuss the integration of baseball, racial equality, and their own struggles with segregation in the United States.

ArchivalResource: Processed : 1 folder ; (80 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671648692 View

Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon papers

Title: Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon papers

The Walter White and Poppy Cannon Papers document the careers and lives of Walter White and Poppy Cannon. The Papers contain correspondence, writings, other papers, and photographs documenting Walter White's career as the Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and as a writer. Poppy Cannon's career as an editor, writer, and publicity consultant is also documented in the Papers.

ArchivalResource: 20.85 linear feet (44 boxes)

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/974 View

Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949. Autograph card signed : [n.p.], [194-?].

Title: Autograph card signed : [n.p.], [194-?].

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 8 x 11.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270904716 View

Mitgang, N. R. Bo / by N. R. Mitgang, 1976.

Title: Bo / by N. R. Mitgang, 1976.

Typescript, dated Aug. 19, 1976.

ArchivalResource: [1], 87 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/764506230 View

Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954. The John Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

Title: The John Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

The John Rosamond Johnson Papers document Johnson's varied career as a composer, actor, vaudeville performer, and administrator. The Papers contain sketches, manuscript scores, and published editions of Johnson's musical compositions and arrangements. The correspondence includes letters to and from Johnson and family members, musicians, writers, and political figures. Johnson's life and work are further documented by: programs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements; diaries and scrapbooks; photographs; business and financial records; and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122548810 View

Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk).

Title: Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk).

The Negro Actors Guild (NAG) records document the functions and activities of this professional organization. The collection is divided into six series and ten subseries.

ArchivalResource: 20.8 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615787 View

Anderson, Richard N. Photographic negatives by Richard N. Anderson, 1937-1970.

Title: Photographic negatives by Richard N. Anderson, 1937-1970.

Subjects include press conferences of Mills Godwin and Linwood Holton, visits by dignitaries including Bill Robinson, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Eugene McCarthy, Allen Ellender, Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, Indira Gandhi, and George Wallace; Virginia politicians J. Lindsay Almond, Harry F. Byrd Sr. & Jr., and Clarence Townes; a Young Democrat Club meeting; Virginia election coverage by WRVA; movie making in Colonial Williamsburg; and Richmond integration sit-ins. Other subjects include Ku Klux Klan rallies; freedom marches; Richmond railroads; fires in Richmond and Harlem; Nazi art; a heart transplant patient; the SRE laboratory, Hampton; and ICBM at Dalgren, a naval reserve cruise to Haiti; a joint faith service, and the Yale School of Architecture.

ArchivalResource: 618 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793686 View

Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982

Title: Negro Actors Guild of America records 1904-1982 1937-1982

The Negro Actors Guild (NAG) records document the functions and activities of this professional organization. The collection is divided into six series and ten subseries.

ArchivalResource: 20.8 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20746 View

Jackson, Frederick, 1886-1953. Stormy weather : continuity and dialogue taken from the screen / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; screen play by Frederick Jackson and Ted Koehler ; produced by William Le Baron ; directed by Andrew Stone.

Title: Stormy weather : continuity and dialogue taken from the screen / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation ; screen play by Frederick Jackson and Ted Koehler ; produced by William Le Baron ; directed by Andrew Stone. 1943 June 1.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62698548 View

Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954. The J. Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

Title: The J. Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers document Johnson's varied career as a composer, actor, vaudeville performer, and administrator. The Papers contain sketches, manuscript scores, and published editions of Johnson's musical compositions and arrangements. The correspondence includes letters to and from Johnson and family members, musicians, writers, and political figures. Johnson's life and work are further documented by: programs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements; diaries and scrapbooks; photographs; business and financial records; and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702190373 View

Prentiss Taylor papers

Title: Prentiss Taylor papers

The collection measures 20.8 linear feet, dates from 1885 to 1991 (bulk dates 1908-1986) and documents the career of Harlem Renaissance lithographer, teacher, and painter Prentiss Taylor. The collection consists primarily of subject/correspondence files (circa 16 ft.), reflecting Prentiss' career as a lithographer and painter, his association with figures prominent in the Harlem Renaissance, notably Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes, his activities as president of the Society of Washington Printmakers and other art organizations, his work in art therapy treating mental illness, and his teaching position at American University. The subject files contain mostly correspondence, but many include photographs and printed material. Also included are biographical, financial, legal and printed material; several hundred photographs; notes and writings; sketchbooks, drawings and a few prints by Taylor; and scrapbooks dating from 1885-1956.The Langston Hughes files contain photocopies of letters from Hughes, greeting cards, ten original photographs of Hughes, and an autographed card printed with Hughes' poem, <emph render="italic">The Negro Speaks of Rivers</emph>. In addition, there is a contract between Hughes and Taylor, witnessed by Carl Van Vechten, forming the Golden Stair Press, through which many of Hughes' poems were printed with illustrations by Taylor. A rare edition of their first publication, <emph render="italic">The Negro Mother</emph>, is found here. Also found in this file is a 1932 final copy of <emph render="italic">Scottsboro Limited</emph>, another collaborative effort between Taylor and Hughes that focused on a case where nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women. The collection contains extensive correspondence about Taylor's lithograph of the same title and the printing of the publication. Other rare Harlem Renaissance publications found within Taylor's papers include <emph render="italic">Golden Stair Broadsides</emph>, <emph render="italic">Opportunity Journal of Negro Life</emph>, <emph render="italic">The Rebel Poet</emph>, and <emph render="italic">Eight Who Lie in the Death House</emph>, several of which were also illustrated by Taylor.Prentiss Taylor's long association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the Harlem Renaissance stemmed from his early friendship with Carl Van Vechten. Taylor's papers contain correspondence with Van Vechten, autographed copies of Van Vechten's booklets, and numerous photographs of notable Harlem Renaissance figures, many taken by Van Vechten, including Zora Neale Hurston, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Paul Robeson, and many others. Also found are period photographs of Charleston, South Carolina and Harlem street scenes.95 letters from Rachel Field, 75 letters from Langston Hughes, 3 letters from Armin Landeck, 46 letters from Josephine Pinckney, 1 letter from Gertrude Stein, 7 letters from Alice B. Toklas, 1 postcard from Mark Van Doren, and 25 letters from Carl Van Vechten are photocopies. Originals of the Hughes and Toklas letters are located at the Yale University Library. Location of the remaining original letters are unknown.The Prentiss Taylor papers offer researchers insight into the rich cultural documentation of the Harlem Renaissance and the development of twentieth-century printmaking as an American fine art.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f818b565-3f0c-457b-8712-7eb5d7b4a257 View