Market Place Gallery collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"21075", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Sc MG 606", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"b18547058", "type"=>"local_b"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1957-1991", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1957/1991"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Market Place Gallery collection"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.01 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}

repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The Market Place Gallery and Book Shop exhibited the artwork of black artists and also served as a salon with poetry readings. It was located at 2305 Seventh Avenue in Harlem, New York, and was owned and operated by Adele Glasgow, Marguerite Moorman and Ramona Lowe. The Market Place Gallery Collection contains financial records (1959-1964); art exhibition catalogs, invitations and flyers (1958-1990), and letters (1957-1991)."}

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Market Place Gallery (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>The Market Place Gallery and Book Shop exhibited the artwork of black artists and also served as a salon with poetry readings. It was located at 2305 Seventh Avenue in Harlem, New York, and was owned and operated by Adele Glasgow, Marguerite Moorman and Ramona Lowe. The gallery opened in 1959 and functioned for about ten years.</p> <p>Artists who exhibited their works at the gallery include Claude Clark, Ivie Jackman, Vivian Schuyler Key, Jacob Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, David Scott Brown, Lawrence Compton, Alfred Hicks, Michael Loew, James Arthur Williams, Norma Morgan, Charles White and Ernest Crichlow.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The Market Place Gallery Collection contains financial records (1959-1964); art exhibition catalogs, invitations and flyers (1958-1990), and letters (1957-1991).</p>"}

sponsor

{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}

revisiondesc

{"value"=>"This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2020 August 12"}

date_start

1957

keydate

1957

date_end

1991

date_inclusive_start

1957

date_inclusive_end

1991

extent_statement

0.01 linear feet (1 folder)

prefercite

{"value"=>"[Item], Market Place Gallery collection, Sc MG 606, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}

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