[Miscellaneous memorabilia of Charles W. Chesnutt, from the exhibition at Cleveland Public Library, June 19-July 18, 1958]. [1900-1958]
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Cleveland Public Library
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The Art and Architecture Vertical File has been maintained throughout the 20th century by the librarians of the Fine Arts Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Like most vertical files, the librarians focused on maintaining clippings that related to the subject matter of the department, but there were also tangential clippings kept by the librarians related to various antiquities. Vertical files throughout history were kept by librarians as a reference resource of ...
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...
