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- Creator
- Delaney, Henry Beard
- Call number
- Sc MG 597
- Physical description
- 1 linear foot (1 flat box)
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Reverend Henry Beard Delaney scrapbook, Sc MG 597, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Advance notice required. Request access to this collection.
Reverend Henry Beard Delaney was born into slavery in Georgia. He would go on to become head of St. Augustine's School in Raleigh, North Carolina and a consecrated Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Church. Rev. Delaney was the father of Judge Hubert Delaney and the Delaney sisters, Dr. A. Elizabeth (Bessie) and Sarah (Sadie), along with 7 other children. The Reverend Henry Beard Delaney scrapbook, 1881-1908, contains newspapers and magazine clippings on or by the black clergy as well as Delaney; report cards for Delaney during his time as a student at St. Augustine; the Reverend's membership card to the Excelsior Lodge and miscellaneous letters to Delaney from various sources.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Unknown Donor, November, 1996
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor