- unitid
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{"value"=>"21006", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 312", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b15591061", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1873-1926", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1873/1926"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Fisher family papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".63 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 Fisher family papers touch on five members of the Fisher family: the siblings Rudolph (1897-1934), Pearl, and Joseph, and their father, John Wesley, and mother, Glendora Williamson. Rudolph Fisher was a Harlem Renaissance author best known for his novels, <span class=\"title\">The Walls of Jericho</span> (1928) and <span class=\"title\">The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem</span> (1932). The bulk of the material relates to his sister, Pearl, a teacher who was educated at the College Preparatory School in Fall River, Mass., and taught at P.S. 23 in Manhattan and the Colored Teachers Training School in Baltimore, MD."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fisher, Rudolph, 1897-1934", "type"=>"persname"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Fisher family papers touch on five members of the Fisher family: the siblings Rudolph (1897-1934), Pearl, and Joseph, and their father, John Wesley, and mother, Glendora Williamson.</p> <p>Rudolph Fisher's papers consist of his short story \"City of Refuge\" and a graduation program from his alma mater, Brown University. Among Pearl Fisher's papers are class notes, an essay, test papers, a year book for the Colored Teachers Training School, and a program for the Scribbler, a poets' club, which she belonged to, along with May Miller (poet and playwright), the daughter of Kelly Miller, Professor at Howard University.</p> <p>There are a number of letters from Joseph to his mother concerning his financial and personal problems. Receipts for the Macedonia Church in Providence, R.I., are the only documentation in the collection related to Rev. John Wesley Fisher.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Edgecombe Tenants Association in 1988.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Mamie Gumbs</span>, <span class=\"date\">1994</span>.</p><p>Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division. Finding aid edited and adapted to digital form by <span class=\"name\">Kay Menick</span> in <span class=\"date\">2016</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>All reproduction requests subject to limitations noted in divisional policies.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Information on copyright available from repository.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Allison Hughes", "date"=>"2022 August 2"}
- date_start
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1873
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1873
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1926
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1873
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1926
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Fisher family papers, Sc MG 312, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}