- unitid
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{"value"=>"188247", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22252924", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Harris 1997-18", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1977", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1977"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Willie Thomas Harris audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 audio_recording", "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"=>"Playwright Willie Thomas Harris (d. 1989) is the author of <span class=\"title\">Harlem in Paree</span> and other plays. The collection contains one audio recording of the music from Harris's 1977 musical <span class=\"title\">Harlem in Paree</span>."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Harris, Willie Thomas", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Playwright Willie Thomas Harris (d. 1989) is the author of the musical <span class=\"title\">Harlem in Paree</span> and other plays.</p> <p>Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris attended the Art Students League in New York City from 1948 to 1949, and studied creative writing and playwriting at Columbia University from 1951 to 1955. Four of his full-length plays were produced in Los Angeles, California, in 1961, and in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1963. From 1965 to 1978, Harris lived in Paris, France, where he wrote several plays and the musical <span class=\"title\">Harlem in Paree</span> in 1977. He continued writing after returning to the US, where his play, <span class=\"title\">Not a Single Blade of Grass</span>, was produced at the 18th Street Playhouse and won the Theater of Renewal Award for Best Play in 1986. Harris died in 1989.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains one audio recording of the music from Willie Thomas Harris's 1977 musical <span class=\"title\">Harlem in Paree</span>.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Sharon Harris, 1997.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Willie Thomas Harris play scripts, Sc MG 613.</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. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</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 note updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-04-30"}
- date_start
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1977
- keydate
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1977
- date_end
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1977
- date_inclusive_start
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1977
- date_inclusive_end
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1977
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Willie Thomas Harris audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}