- unitid
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{"value"=>"20773", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 136", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1957-1981", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1957/1981"}
{"value"=>"1970-1981", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1970/1981"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Naomi Sims papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6.0 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"=>"Naomi Sims was one of the top African American fashion models of the 1960s and 1970s. The Naomi Sims papers include typescripts and research materials for books written by Sims, including <span class=\"title\">All About Health and Beauty for the Black Woman</span> (1976), <span class=\"title\">How To Be a Top Model</span> (1979), <span class=\"title\">All About Hair Care for the Black Woman</span> (1982), and <span class=\"title\">All About Success for the Black Woman</span> (1982). Also, some personal and business files including contracts for television shows, records from the Ford Agency, material on speeches and panel discussions, news clippings, and fan mail."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sims, Naomi, 1948-2009", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"Naomi Sims (1948-2009) was one of the top African American fashion models of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Oxford, Mississippi, she spent much of her childhood in Pittsburgh, then moved to New York after high school, where she studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology and New York University. While in college, she became interested in modeling and approached agencies, but was initially rejected due to her dark skin. In 1967, she was featured in the fashion supplement of <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, which she parlayed into a deal for representation with model-turned-agent Wilhemina Cooper. She had quick success, landing a spot in an AT&T commercial and covers of <span class=\"title\">Ladies' Home Journal</span> (November 1968; she was the first Black model to appear on the cover) and <span class=\"title\">Life</span> magazine (October 1969). She also achieved success as a runway model for designers such as Halston, Teal Traina, Fernando Sanchez, and Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. In 1973, she started a business designing wigs for Black women, the Naomi Sims Collection, which eventually came to encompass cosmetics and fragrances as well. She also wrote several books on modelling, health, beauty, and business aimed at Black women. In 1972, she married Michael Findlay, a Manhattan-based art dealer (the marriage ended in divorce in 1991). They had one son, Bob. Sims died in Newark, New Jersey, in 2009."}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Naomi Sims papers include typescripts and research materials for books written by Sims, including <span class=\"title\">All About Health and Beauty for the Black Woman</span> (1976), <span class=\"title\">How To Be a Top Model</span> (1979), <span class=\"title\">All About Hair Care for the Black Woman</span> (1982) and <span class=\"title\">All About Success for the Black Woman</span> (1982). There are also personal and business files including correspondence, contracts for television shows, records from the Ford Agency, material on speeches and panel discussions, news clippings, and fan mail.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift, Sims, Naomi/Findlay, Michael, 1981</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints division.</p> <p>Audio and moving image materials transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound (MIRS) Division. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection stored offsite.</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_e5ea23746deb3943c089d6f0cc807f38", "value"=>"<p>Watson, Linda. \"Naomi Sims: Model and entrepreneur who led the way for black women in the fashion industry,\" <span class=\"title\">The Independent</span>, August 22, 2009.</p> <p>Wilson, Eric. \"Naomi Sims, a Pioneering Cover Girl, is Dead at 61,\" <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>, August 4, 2009.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"}
- date_start
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1957
- keydate
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1957
- date_end
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1981
- date_inclusive_start
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1957
- date_inclusive_end
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1981
- date_bulk_start
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1970
- date_bulk_end
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1981
- extent_statement
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6.0 linear feet (6 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Naomi Sims papers, Sc MG 136, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}