- unitid
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{"value"=>"186693", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22257937", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Pittman 2006-27", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1980-2000", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1980/2000", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Sample Pittman moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_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"=>"Sample Noel Pittman (1925-2004) collected artifacts related to Black history, enslavement, and race relations in the United States, and was a professor and administrator at Borough of Manhattan Community College. The collection contains three videos related to Pittman's collecting activities."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Pittman, Sample Noel, 1925-2004", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Sample Noel Pittman (1925-2004) collected artifacts related to Black history, enslavement, and race relations in the United States, including shackles, branding irons, prints, paintings, figurines, and documents. His research focus was the history and imagery of Black Americans, especially in the antebellum South, as well as on coins, paper currency, and medals. Pittman developed his collection with the goal of creating a national slavery museum in New York City.</p> <p>Pittman earned a PhD in educational sociology in 1973. In the 1970s, he was an associate professor and associate dean of administration at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) of the City University of New York. Pittman died in 2004.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains three videos related to Pittman's collecting activities dating from circa 1980 to 2000. They are organized alphabetically by title.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Nicholas Pittman, 2006.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Sample Pittman Papers, Sc MG 766.</p> <p>The following commercial media was transferred to the MIRS Audio collection: <span class=\"title\">A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story</span> by Elaine Brown; <span class=\"title\">My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.</span> by Coretta Scott King; <span class=\"title\">My American Journey</span> by Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico; <span class=\"title\">Pride: The Charley Pride Story</span> by Charley Pride with Jim Henderson; and <span class=\"title\">I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions</span> by O.J. Simpson.</p> <p>The following commercial media was transferred to the MIRS Video collection: <span class=\"title\">Sister Act</span> (1992); <span class=\"title\">Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit</span> (1993); and <span class=\"title\">Tiger Woods: Son, Hero, and Champion</span> (1997).</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\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist; and <span class=\"name\">Shola Lynch</span>, curator. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Ethnic Notions</span> (1986) (441605) is also available in the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division under Sc Visual DVD-1889.</p> <p>See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for titles by Sample Pittman.</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"=>"Extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-22"}
- date_start
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1980
- keydate
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1980
- date_end
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2000
- date_inclusive_start
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1980
- date_inclusive_end
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2000
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Sample Pittman moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}