- unitid
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{"value"=>"20739", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 536", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11868600", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1941-1984", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1941/1984"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Mabel Mercer collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.33 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>"}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Mercer, Mabel, 1900-1984", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Mabel Mercer (1900-1984) was a singer, song stylist, and night club entertainer. Born in England in 1900 to a Black musician father, Benjamin Mercer, and a white English vaudevillian mother, Emily Wadham Stonehouse, Mercer started her show business career at the age of fourteen. She joined a song and dance act with her mother and aunt in Europe. Later, in the 1920s, she appeared in Lew Leslie's <span class=\"title\">Blackbirds</span> in London, as part of a vocal trio. Around this time, Mercer started studying singing, with aspirations of becoming a concert singer. In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a successful night club singer in Paris, appearing at Ada \"Bricktop\" Smith's Bricktop's. She made her first appearance in the U.S. in 1938 and settled here in 1941, after marrying singer Kelsey Pharr, a member of the Delta Rhythm Boys. Mercer became an American citizen in 1952, where she was known as one of the most popular supper club singers for many years.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mabel Mercer collection consists of articles, correspondence, interviews and profiles, publicity flyers, programs, and a scrapbook.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Pearl Lemert, June 1986.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Berlena Robinson, October 1986.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Mabel Mercer papers, Sc MG 341, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 August 10"}
- date_start
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1941
- keydate
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1941
- date_end
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1984
- date_inclusive_start
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1941
- date_inclusive_end
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1984
- extent_statement
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0.33 linear feet (2 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Mabel Mercer collection, Sc MG 536, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Mabel Mercer (1900-1984) was a singer, song stylist, and night club entertainer. Born in England in 1900 to a Black musician father, Benjamin Mercer, and a white English vaudevillian mother, Emily Wadham Stonehouse, Mercer started her show business career at the age of fourteen. She joined a song and dance act with her mother and aunt in Europe. Later, in the 1920s, she appeared in Lew Leslie's <span class=\"title\">Blackbirds</span> in London, as part of a vocal trio. Around this time, Mercer started studying singing, with aspirations of becoming a concert singer. In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a successful night club singer in Paris, appearing at Ada \"Bricktop\" Smith's Bricktop's. She made her first appearance in the U.S. in 1938 and settled here in 1941, after marrying singer Kelsey Pharr, a member of the Delta Rhythm Boys. Mercer became an American citizen in 1952, where she was known as one of the most popular supper club singers for many years. The Mabel Mercer collection consists of articles, correspondence, interviews and profiles, publicity flyers, programs, and a scrapbook.", "generated"=>true}