- unitid
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{"value"=>"21086", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 513", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b18438698", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"calendar"=>"gregorian", "certainty"=>"approximate", "era"=>"ce", "type"=>"inclusive", "value"=>"1957--[ca. 1988]"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Mordecai P. Montgomery collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.21 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"=>"Montgomery, Mordecai Philip, 1880-1956", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Mordecai Philip Montgomery was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of New York. Montgomery, born in 1880 in Fayette, Alabama, worked as a Pullman porter, then for the Works Progress Administration, and in his later years, as a messenger in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He died in 1956 in New York City.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Mordecai P. Montgomery Collection consists principally of an unpublished manuscript, \"Shining in Death\", authored by Montgomery, about a Canadian Black man and his struggle to become an actor in New York; the time period is from the second half of the nineteenth century until the Depression. The collection also includes a folder of letters and a reminiscence by Edward P. Gottlieb, the donor, regarding Montgomery. The letters are from Gottlieb to a publisher/editor and to author Toni Morrison, seeking to get the manuscript read and published following Montgomery's death.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Edward P. Gottlieb, November 1993.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Diana Lachatanere, November 1993.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2022 February 3"}
- extent_statement
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0.21 linear feet (1 box)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Mordecai P. Montgomery collection, Sc MG 513, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Mordecai Philip Montgomery was a long-time member of the Socialist Party of New York. Montgomery, born in 1880 in Fayette, Alabama, worked as a Pullman porter, then for the Works Progress Administration, and in his later years, as a messenger in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. He died in 1956 in New York City. The Mordecai P. Montgomery Collection consists principally of an unpublished manuscript, \"Shining in Death\", authored by Montgomery, about a Canadian Black man and his struggle to become an actor in New York; the time period is from the second half of the nineteenth century until the Depression. The collection also includes a folder of letters and a reminiscence by Edward P. Gottlieb, the donor, regarding Montgomery. The letters are from Gottlieb to a publisher/editor and to author Toni Morrison, seeking to get the manuscript read and published following Montgomery's death.", "generated"=>true}