- unitid
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{"value"=>"21124", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 928", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b22969851", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1845-2022", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1845/2022"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"146 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"54.21 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"=>"The Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection consists of thousands of programs, playbills, and other ephemera, spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, documenting Black theatrical, musical, and dance performances, as well as events put on by Black academic, community, religious, and political organizations."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection was compiled by Schomburg Center staff to document theatrical and musical performances and other events featuring Black performers, playwrights, composers, and other figures.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection consists of thousands of programs, playbills, and other ephemera, spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, documenting Black theatrical, musical, and dance performances, as well as events put on by Black academic, community, religious, and political organizations.</p> <p>The collection spans the globe, including programs for events based in the US, Mexico, Uruguay, Europe, and Africa. Venues in New York City, and specifically Harlem–including the Apollo Theater, the Cotton Club, and the Harlem YMCA–are especially well represented.</p> <p>The programs and playbills document performances by many legendary Black singers and musicians, including Marian Anderson, Josephine Baker, Harry Belafonte, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nina Simone, as well as famous Black dancers and choreographers, including Alvin Ailey, Katherine Dunham, Arthur Mitchell, and Eleo Pomare. The collection also includes programs for plays written by Black playwrights, such as Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, or with a predominantly Black cast, such as The Wiz. Many notable actors are featured in the collection, including Paul Robeson, James Earl Jones, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis.</p> <p>The collection also contains programs for commencements, conferences, and homecoming celebrations at HBCUs across the country; worship services and concerts held at Black churches; conventions of Black professional associations; and meetings of political organizations such as the National Urban League and NAACP. There is also extensive documentation of lectures, exhibitions, and other events put on by the Schomburg Center.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection is arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21124#c1707823'>Original Collection</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21124#c1707987'>Organization Programs</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/21124#c1708434'>Additions</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged into three series: I. Original Collection II. Organization Programs III. Additions</p> <p>The Original Collection and Additions contain primarily programs and playbills documenting theatrical, musical, and dance performances. The two series overlap in content, e.g., the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater is represented in both. The Organization Programs primarily documents events put on by organizations such as colleges and universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, and other academic, religious, community, and political groups.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Olivia Newsome</span>, <span class=\"name\">Gabriel Urena</span>, <span class=\"name\">Srishti Bungle</span>, and <span class=\"name\">Allison Hughes</span> in <span class=\"date\">2022-2023</span>.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- date_start
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1845
- keydate
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1845
- date_end
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2022
- date_inclusive_start
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1845
- date_inclusive_end
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2022
- extent_statement
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54.21 linear feet (146 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Schomburg Programs and Playbills collection, Sc MG 928, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}