- unitid
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{"value"=>"24462", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22243569", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Spence 1994-45", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1972-1991", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1972/1991", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Eulalie Spence audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Born in Nevis, West Indies, Eulalie Spence was a writer, teacher, director, actress, and playwright. The collection consists of two audio recordings including a short interview with Spence."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Born in 1894 in Nevis, West Indies, Eulalie Spence was a writer, teacher, director, actress, and playwright. She and her family moved to New York City in 1902. Spence was among the pioneer playwrights during the Harlem Renaissance and wrote fourteen plays, five of which were published: <em>Episode</em> (1928); <em>Fool's Errand</em> (1927); <em>Her</em> (1927); <em>The Hunch</em> (1927); and <em>Undertow</em> (1927). She wrote only one three act play, <em>The Whipping</em> (1934), which was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film. Several of Spence's plays won awards and she is considered one of the most experienced women playwrights of the first half of the twentieth century.</p> <p>Spence died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1981.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of two audio recordings including an interview with Spence and a radio program discussing Black women playwrights before the 1950s. They are arranged chronologically.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Patricia C. Hart, March 1994.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Eulalie Spence papers, Sc MG 552.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2024</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Black female playwrights : an anthology of plays before 1950, Sc E 96-677.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Item extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Ornella U. Baganizi.", "date"=>"2026-04-28"}
- date_start
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1972
- keydate
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1972
- date_end
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1991
- date_inclusive_start
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1972
- date_inclusive_end
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1991
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Eulalie Spence audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}