- unitid
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{"value"=>"21079", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 623", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1912 - 1953", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1912/1953"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Claude McKay collection : additions"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1/2 archival box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".15 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- 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"=>"Claude McKay, born in Jamaica, is known as one of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance, and authored several published and unpublished poems and novels. The Claude McKay collection (additions) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, a galley, and related printed material."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"McKay, Claude, 1890-1948", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Claude McKay was born in Jamaica, West Indies, on September 15, 1889. He grew up and attended high school in Jamaica. In 1912, he came to the United States as a student and attended both the Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State Agricultural College, where he studied agriculture. McKay began his writing career as he travelled about the United States working as a Pullman porter and dock hand.</p> <p>Known as one of the major artists of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay was the author of many published and unpublished novels, manuscripts, and poems. He counted among his works: <span class=\"title\">Banana Bottom</span>, <span class=\"title\">Banjo</span>, <span class=\"title\">Harlem Glory</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Note to Harlem</span>. After many years as a self-identified Communist, McKay became a practicing Catholic in 1942.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Claude McKay collection (additions) consists of correspondence, manuscripts, a galley, and related printed material. The correspondence includes letters from McKay to Simon Williamson, which trace the development of their friendship and its dissolution; and letters to Ruth Raphael, which discuss McKay's health, writings, and conversion to Catholicism. The general correspondence folder contains letters about \"Bambara\" magazine, a literary endeavor proposed during the Harlem Renaissance. McKay was to be the editor of the publication, with A. A. Schomburg as sponsor and Harold Jackman as treasurer. Manuscripts include a poem by McKay, with editorial notes, entitled <span class=\"title\">Note to Harlem</span>; a corrected typescript of <span class=\"title\">My Greenhills of Jamaica</span>; and the galley for the book, <span class=\"title\">Selected Poems of Claude McKay</span>, which was published after his death. The introduction of this last work was written by John Dewey, with a biographical sketch by Max Eastman. The news clippings are mostly obituaries and matters relating to the distribution of his literary papers. Finally, there are McKay's signed contracts for <span class=\"title\">Banana Bottom</span>, with Harper and Brothers, 1931, and \"Personal Recollections and Autobiography\", with Lee Furman, Inc., 1936, which was later published as <span class=\"title\">A Long Way from Home.</span></p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift, various sources, various dates.</p>"}
- date_start
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1912
- keydate
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1912
- date_end
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1953
- date_inclusive_start
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1912
- date_inclusive_end
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1953
- extent_statement
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.15 linear feet (1/2 archival box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Claude McKay collection : additions, Sc MG 623, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}