- unitid
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{"value"=>"21084", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 529", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1938-1942", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1938/1942"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Buster Miller scrapbooks"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.46 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"=>"Grover C. \"Buster\" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included \"Sports Parade\" and \"Sports of the Age.\" In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor. Buster Miller Scrapbooks (5 volumes) contain mostly clippings about blacks in sports, particularly Negro National League (baseball), boxing, tennis, collegiate athletics and football, 1938-1942. Also included are ticket stubs, correspondence with college athletic departments regarding black student athletes, writings including several write-ups on Black jockeys and a compilation of important American racing stakes won by Black jockeys, and printed matter."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Miller, Buster", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Grover C. \"Buster\" Miller was a sports reporter who worked for The New York Age and whose columns included \"Sports Parade\" and \"Sports of the Age.\" In 1938, he was credited as a guest columnist and from 1939 onwards as the sports editor.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Buster Miller scrapbooks contain mostly clippings about blacks in sports, particularly Negro National League (baseball), boxing, tennis, collegiate athletics and football, 1938-1942. Also included are ticket stubs, correspondence with college athletic departments regarding black student athletes, writings including several write-ups on Black jockeys and a compilation of important American racing stakes won by Black jockeys, and printed matter.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"This finding aid was updated by Allison Hughes.", "date"=>"2022 February 18"}
- date_start
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1938
- keydate
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1938
- date_end
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1942
- date_inclusive_start
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1938
- date_inclusive_end
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1942
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Buster Miller scrapbooks, Sc MG 529, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}