- unitid
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{"value"=>"181306", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 683", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1810-1957", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1810/1957"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Kurt Fisher Haitian collection (additions)"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.04 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"This collection contains additional Haitian historical documents from the collector Kurt Fisher, an archaeologist and scholar of Haitian history and culture."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"French"}
{"value"=>"Most of the material is in French."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fisher, Kurt A., 1908-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p> Kurt Fisher, an archaeologist and scholar of Haitian history and culture, was born in Vienna, in 1908, into a long-established family of art collectors and antique dealers. While a student, he became interested in West Indian history and wrote a thesis on Henry Christophe. In 1938, after completing his studies in archaeology at the University of Vienna, he emigrated to Haiti where he pursued his studies in Precolumbian archaeology. From 1941-1949, Fisher was the assistant director of the Bureau of Ethnology of Haiti. Married to a Haitian woman of social prominence, Fisher continued his lifelong interest in collecting, amassing a large and important set of military miniatures as well as source materials relating to Haiti, herein described.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection contains additional Haitian historical documents from Kurt Fisher. It complements the initial Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, also held in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Divsion. This collection consists mostly of diplomatic correspondence, government papers, and the papers of General Francois St. Surin Manigat.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Kurt Fisher Haitian collection (additions) is arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/181306#c1592282'>Diplomatic correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1856-1956</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Diplomatic correspondence pertains to Haiti's relations with the Dominican Republic, the United States, France, and other countries. Correspondents include Ebenezer Bassett, Louis Joseph Janvier, Thomas Madiou, and Stephen Preston. Also included are materials related to the Maunder claim, by which England sought to seize the island of Tortuga from Haiti in the 1870s; complaints by the German representative about negative stories in the Haitian press about Germany in 1940; complaints and measures involving Syrian merchants illegally engaged in the retail trade; and various documents related to the immigration status of foreign nationals in Haiti, the trades in which they engaged, police actions against them, and the protestations of their governments.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/181306#c1592304'>Government papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1810-1957</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Government papers series comprises a file of autographed letters from Haitian heads of state ranging from 1810-1955; one 1816 financial ledger from the period of Henri Christophe's reign; a letter copybook from Haitian statesman Beaubrun Ardouin (1845-1846); legislative correspondence and a letter copybook from the Haitian Senate (1883-1884); and other government papers, including contracts and customs documents indicative of Haiti's import and export trade. The remainder of this series concerns various presidential administrations, including the \"Ephemeral Governments\" period of 1912-1915, and the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915-1934. Also included are documents of the Patriotic Union, an organization of Haitian intellectuals opposed to the U.S. occupation, and correspondence of its national coordinator, Perceval Thoby.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/181306#c1592322'>St. Surin Manigat, Francois</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1883-1898</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of personal letters; correspondence related to the military campaign led by General Manigat against the Liberal insurrection of 1883; documents relating to Manigat's own insurgency against the Hyppolite government in 1892; and Manigat's diplomatic correspondence from 1897-1898.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged into 3 series: I. Diplomatic correspondence; II. Government papers; and III. St. Surin Manigat, Francois.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchase from University Place Book Store, 1983, and Mrs. Kurt Fisher, August 2000.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Jeanne Aline manumission document transferred to the Haiti miscellaneous collection, Sc MG 119, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Andre Elizee, January 2001.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Eugene Maximilien Haitian collection, Sc Micro R-3702, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p> <p>Kurt Fisher Haitian collection, Sc Micro R-2228, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p>"}
- date_start
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1810
- keydate
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1810
- date_end
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1957
- date_inclusive_start
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1810
- date_inclusive_end
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1957
- extent_statement
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2.04 linear feet (4 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Kurt Fisher Haitian collection (additions), Sc MG 683, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}