- unitid
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{"value"=>"21048", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 131", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11848352", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1886-1973", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1886/1973"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Ira Aldridge Society records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.88 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"=>"Interracial organization devoted to the discovery and promotion of talented black artists and educating people on the contributions of black artists to the performing arts. Constitution and bylaws, financial and legal documents, financial reports, correspondence to private individuals as well as government institutions, news clippings, and other printed material relating to the Society. Also, Aldridge family papers consisting of copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates, and correspondence to and from Ira Aldridge and other family members."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Ira Aldridge Society", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Interracial organization devoted to the discovery and promotion of talented black artists and educating people on the contributions of black artists to the performing arts.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Ira Aldridge Society records consist of constitution and bylaws, financial and legal documents, financial reports, correspondence to private individuals as well as government institutions, news clippings, and other printed material relating to the Society. Of particular interest is a script by Ossie Davis titled, \"Curtain Call, Mr. Aldridge, Sir.\" The Aldridge family papers consisting of copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates, and correspondence to and from Ira Aldridge and other family members. The scrapbook has been disbound and includes photocopies of articles and playbills featuring <span class=\"title\">The African Roscious</span>, <span class=\"title\">Othello</span>, <span class=\"title\">Macbeth</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Slave, Obi, the Ethiopian</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Death of Christophe</span>, and a booklet <span class=\"title\">Ira Aldridge, American Negro Tragedian and Taras Shevchenko, Poet of the Ukraine: Story of a Friendship</span>, published by Marie Trommer, 1939.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift, Smith, Hughie Lee and unknown donor, 09/09/81</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Diana Lachatanere; updated by Barrye Brown, 2020.</p>"}
- date_start
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1886
- keydate
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1886
- date_end
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1973
- date_inclusive_start
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1886
- date_inclusive_end
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1973
- extent_statement
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1.88 linear feet (4 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Ira Aldridge Society records, Sc MG 131, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}