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Collection — Container: Items 1-48
Identifier: 749
Scope and Contents
The NOLA Hip Hop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs, a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University, in 2012. The goal of Hobbs’ project is to add to the growing body of documentation of hip hop and bounce oral histories in New Orleans, Louisiana, in order to highlight the music's role as an important community art form. With the assistance of videographer Dick Darby and production assistant Colin Meneghini, Hobbs conducted a series of videotaped interviews with hip hop and bounce artists and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 2012-2014; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/2013
Collection
Identifier: 749-1
Content Description
The NOLA Hip-hop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs, a Ph.D. student at Tulane University, as part of her dissertation research in 2012. The goal of Hobbs’ project is to document hip-hop in New Orleans, Louisiana, both as a musical and community art form. Hobbs’ research includes a series of video interviews with hip-hop artists in New Orleans, which form the basis for this collection. Additional interviews will be added as they are completed, as will ephemeral material such as flyers,...
Dates:
Other: 2015
Collection
Identifier: 642
Content Description
The collection consists of research materials Dr. Josephine Susannah Norton developed during trips to the West Indies, Ghana, and while working on her thesis at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. The collection is rich with documentation on languages, folklore, and music from the Caribbean and West Africa. Research materials regarding African American dialects and language are also extensively covered in the collection. Slides from her trips to Ghana and...
Dates:
Other: 1940-2003
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 766
Scope and Contents
The Gerald Norwood Collection on Booker T. Washington consists of three letters from Washington to journalist and author Ralph Delahaye Paine, a set of newspaper clippings from the New-York Weekly Tribune Review pertaining to Washington and Tuskegee Institute, and other ephemera related to Washington. A portion of the collection centers on Washington's writing and publication of the book Working with the Hands, which was...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-1956; Other: Date acquired: 12/30/2014
Collection
Identifier: 328
Content Description
Notes to Our Friends was an occasional publication of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries. The records include information on the UCBHM's Puerto Rican, Appalachian, and Native American ministries and consists of research notes, correspondence, and collected printed items.
Dates:
Other: 1937-1979
Collection
Identifier: 2476
Content Description
The records include reports, ephemera, news clippings, photographs, and invoices from the organization. Invoices date from 1888 to 1926 and reflect the operations of A. J. Oakes, the Oakes Coal Company, and Oakes Lumber Yard.
Dates:
Other: 1888-1996
Collection
Identifier: 2253
Content Description
This collection of interviews contains six tape recordings of the Odyssey Through Literature radio program, which was produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State University. This collection includes recoded broadcasts of Dennis Brutus; Kashim Tala on the oral literature of Cameroon; Ali Haji Papa Bunko Susso and Nakoyo Susso on the role of the griot in Africa; J. M. Coetzee; and Chaim Potok.
Dates:
1989
Collection
Identifier: 277
Content Description
The Office of Church Building of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries provided financial support to United Church of Christ schools and church congregations. The majority of the records reflect the work of the American Congregational Union, later known as the Congregational Church Building Society. The collection includes documents from the Congregational Church Building Society, as well as the Evangelical and Reformed Churches. The records of the organization document its...
Dates:
Other: 1862-1983
Collection
Identifier: 527
Content Description
Calvin J. Ogden Sr. worked in the areas of housing and planning in Chicago, New Orleans, and the District of Columbia. He served as Acting Executive Director and Housing Bond Adminstrator for the District of Columbia Housing Financing Agency, and as a Planning Associate for the City of Chicago. In New Orleans, Ogden was a Housing Development Consultant for the city and the Community Improvement Agency. He served as Land Development Consultant to the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, and the...
Dates:
Other: 1960-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 278
Content Description
The papers of long-time Amistad supporter and travel agent Bettye Oldham reflect her church and civic activities. Formats include correspondence, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and travel brochures and document Tougaloo College, church and civic activities, the Urban League, Cincinnati Union Baptist Church, the Cincinnati Chapter of Friends of Amistad, and the Ohio Governor's Committee on the Status of Women.
Dates:
Other: 1965-1996
