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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks papers
Collection
Identifier: 066
Scope and Contents
The Olivia Ward Bush-Banks papers consist primarily of the published and unpublished fiction of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, teacher, poet, playwright, socialite, historian, and activist. The materials, both in hand script and typescript, include drafts and final copies. Several of the poems, plays, and stories were subsequently published in The Collected Works of Olivia Ward Bush-Banks by The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women...
Dates:
Created: 1907-1941; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
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Ida Cullen Cooper papers
Collection — Container: Audiotapes
Identifier: 102
Scope and Contents
The Ida Cullen Cooper papers date from 1928 to 1986 and consist mainly of materials that reflect Cooper's marriage to poet Countee Cullen late in his life and Cooper's efforts to promote his legacy following the poet's death. A smaller amount of material reflects Cooper's own personal life, including items related to her interest in African American and African art. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, new clippings, invitations and programs, publications, financial records,...
Dates:
Created: 1928-1986; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1971
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Countée Cullen papers
Collection — Container: Drawing of Cullen
Identifier: 111
Scope and Contents
The papers of poet and playwright Countee Cullen document his personal and professional lives, as well as his relations with leading writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance era. Among the papers, which measure 11.9 linear feet, are correspondence; accounts, records, documents, legal papers, and certificates; a fragmentary diary (1928); teaching plan books and other teaching records; writings, including, articles, a book review, letters to editors, juvenile novels, plays, poems, a...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1947; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 240
Scope and Contents
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection documents the life of Jimmie Daniels and his career as a a nightclub host and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1950s and 1960s. The collection measures 1.75 linear feet and is comprised mainly of photographs from circa 1870s-1970s. Many of the photographs are from Daniels' years at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village during the 1950s. Additional items include musical scores, invitations, postcards, and...
Dates:
Created: 1870s-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1930s-1960s; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1987
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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- Cullen, Countée, 1903-1946 2
- Cullen, Ida Mae Roberson 2
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 2
- Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989 1
- Bennett, Gwendolyn, 1902-1981 1
- Bontemps, Arna (Arna Wendell), 1902-1973 1
- Bricktop, 1894-1984 1
- Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944 1
- Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968 1
- Cullen, Charles, 1889 1
- Cullen, Frederick Asbury, 1868-1946 1
- Daniels, Jimmie (James Lesley), 1908-1984 1
- Dodson, Owen, 1914-1983 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
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- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
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- Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956 1
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 1
- Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954 1
- Madsen, Rex 1
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948 1
- Musser, Benjamin Francis, 1889-1951 1
- West, Dorothy, 1907-1998 1
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