Schomburg Photographs and Prints subject collections: Organizations

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id: 11545
origination: N/A
date statement: 1890s-1980s
key date: 1890
identifier (local_mss): 531911
org unit: Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
call number: Sc Photo Organizations
b-number: b13049844
total components: 382
total series: 0
max depth: 2
boost queries: (none)
component layout: Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields: false
Extended Navigation: false
created: 2022-09-26 19:09:50 UTC
updated: 2024-02-07 21:31:27 UTC
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unitid: {"value"=>"531911", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc Photo Organizations", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate: {"value"=>"1890s-1980s", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1890/1989"}
unittitle: {"value"=>"Schomburg Photographs and Prints subject collections: Organizations"}
physdesc: {"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.25 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
repository: {"value"=>"Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division"}
abstract: {"value"=>"The Organzations collection, assembled by staff of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, depicts primarly African American civic, social, fraternal, professional, civil rights, and other organizations, dating from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s. The collection contains photographic prints and photomechanical reproductions."}
langmaterial: {"value"=>"English"}
scopecontent: {"value"=>"The Organzations collection depicts primarly African American civic, social, fraternal, professional, civil rights, and other organizations, dating from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s. The collection, which is strongest in its representation of social groups, civil rights groups, and fraternities and sororities, for the period covering the 1940s to the 1970s, includes single portraits and group portraits of officers and membership; views of meetings, conventions, and other assemblies; assorted luncheons, teas, dinners, and award presentations; fund raising and community service events; and parties, dances, and other social gatherings. Many of the organizations depicted are New York based; some local chapters of national organizations are represented. Some organizations, while not strictly African American in membership, either serve African Americans or emphasize the activities of members who are. Images of fraternal, labor, and political groups are limited. Among the organizations represented are the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the New York Urban League, the National Council of Negro Women, the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks of the World, the Negro Actors Guild, the Black Panther Party, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Fraternities and sororities depicted include the New York Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, and Phi Delta Kappa. Images include snapshot views of the Universal Negro Improvement Association-owned Black Star Line vessel, S.S. Booker T. Washington nee S.S. General Goethals, under sail, as well as some of her onboard passengers, during an unidentified voyage; activities surrounding the New York Baptist State Convention of the National Baptist Covention, U.S.A., meeting at the Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 21-25, 1946; participants at various National Urban League Beaux Arts Balls held in the 1940s; events sponsored by the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, including a reception for opera singer Leontyne Price at the Schomburg Center, May 19, 1985; group portraits of members of the Niagara Movement (1905 and 1907), the predecessor to the N.A.A.C.P.; and a group portrait with W.E.B. Du Bois, William Pickens and members of the N.A.A.C.P. Junior Auxiliary, in Cleveland, Ohio, July 2, 1929."}
arrangement: {"value"=>"The collection is organized alphabetically by name of organization."}
revisiondesc: {"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Jack Patterson", "date"=>"2024-02-01"}
date_start: 1890
keydate: 1890
date_end: 1989
date_inclusive_start: 1890
date_inclusive_end: 1989
extent_statement: 6.25 linear feet
prefercite: {"value"=>"Schomburg Photographs and Prints subject collections: Organizations, Photographs and Prints Division. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}

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