- unitid
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{"value"=>"188106", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22238508", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Carruthers 1985-67", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1983-1985", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1983/1985"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Benjamin F. Carruthers audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 video_recording", "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"=>"Benjamin F. Carruthers (1911-1985) was a college professor, translator, and an award-winning travel writer and editor. The collection contains two audio recordings and one video related to Carruthers's life and career as a travel writer, dating from 1983 to 1985."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Carruthers, Ben F.", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>College professor and translator Benjamin F. Carruthers (1911-1985) was an award-winning travel writer and editor at <span class=\"title\">Essence</span> magazine and others. He contributed travel articles to newspapers such as <span class=\"title\">The Boston Globe</span>, the <span class=\"title\">Chicago Tribune</span>, and the <span class=\"title\">New York Amsterdam News</span>. His awards included Trans World Airline's prize for best foreign travel article. He was active in professional organizations throughout his life, including the Society of American Travel Writers, serving as the organization's first Black vice president in 1976, and president in 1977.</p> <p>Carruthers earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1941, taught Spanish and French at Howard University, and is noted for his translation into English, together with Langston Hughes, of <span class=\"title\">Cuba Libré</span> (1948) by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. Additionally, he was active in organizations that supported civil rights and human rights, as social affairs officer in the Human Rights Division of the United Nations, and as public relations counsel to the National Council of Negro Women. He died on October 4, 1985.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection contains two audio recordings and one video related to Benjamin F. Carruthers's life and career as a travel writer, dating from 1983 to 1985. They are organized chronologically. The collection includes an appearance by Carruthers on a television travel magazine episode about Spain, as well as an audio recording of his memorial service.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Marcel D. Chassagne, 1985.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Benjamin F. Carruthers papers, Sc MG 433.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Benjamin F. Carruthers photograph collection, Sc Photo Benjamin F. Carruthers Collection.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Stacey Doyle Ference</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>At the time of publishing, one audio cassette is not available pending digitization.</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."}
- date_start
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1983
- keydate
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1983
- date_end
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1985
- date_inclusive_start
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1983
- date_inclusive_end
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1985
- extent_statement
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2 audio_recordings. 1 video_recording
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Benjamin F. Carruthers audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}