- unitid
-
{"value"=>"20720", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 112", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11848366", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1949-1951", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1949/1951"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.83 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
-
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"French"}
{"value"=>"Collection in French."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Foire coloniale de Bruxelles", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles was an annual literary fair held in Brussels, Belgium, for the Belgian colonies.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of literary works, mostly folk tales, written by Congolese civil servants for the Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles. There also is also an autobiographical article by Raphael Mutombo, and a scrapbook of mounted clippings from the newspaper <span class=\"title\">L'Etoile</span> consisting of the story of Chief Samba-a-Kya-Buta, the founder of the Kinda kingdom, written by Bonaventure Makonga. Also included is a notebook of folktales of the Baluba people, with transcriptions of Baluba sayings that relate childhood retentions of elders' tales, written by Benoit Nyengele.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- arrangement
-
{"value"=>"<p>Arranged alphabetically by author's last name.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Provenance unknown.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 March 29"}
- date_start
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1949
- keydate
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1949
- date_end
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1951
- date_inclusive_start
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1949
- date_inclusive_end
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1951
- extent_statement
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0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles collection, Sc MG 112, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
-
{"value"=>"The Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles was an annual literary fair held in Brussels, Belgium, for the Belgian colonies. This collection consists of literary works, mostly folk tales, written by Congolese civil servants for the Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles. There also is also an autobiographical article by Raphael Mutombo, and a scrapbook of mounted clippings from the newspaper <span class=\"title\">L'Etoile</span> consisting of the story of Chief Samba-a-Kya-Buta, the founder of the Kinda kingdom, written by Bonaventure Makonga. Also included is a notebook of folktales of the Baluba people, with transcriptions of Baluba sayings that relate childhood retentions of elders' tales, written by Benoit Nyengele.", "generated"=>true}