Countee Cullen Regional Branch Library (New York, N.Y.) records, 1919-1969.

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Countee Cullen Regional Branch Library (New York, N.Y.) records, 1919-1969.

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Correspondence, annual reports, news clippings, flyers, printed material, administrative files and program related material, 1950s, and a scrapbook. Much of the collection relates to the North Manhattan Project, a federally funded outreach program housed at the library. Information about Mrs. Dorothy R. Homer, first African-American librarian at the Countee Cullen branch, 1942-1968, is also included as well as records about several organizations which met in the library's meeting rooms.

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Countee Cullen Regional Branch Library (New York, N.Y.)

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Branch library of the New York Public Library located in Harlem. From the description of Countee Cullen Regional Branch Library (New York, N.Y.) records, 1919-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486302 ...

North Manhattan Project.

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Homer, Dorothy R

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