- unitid
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{"value"=>"21143", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 534", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1926-1949", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1926/1949"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Louis Sharp scrapbook"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 box", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.25 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"=>"Louis R. Sharp, African-American singer and actor graduated from the University of Kansas, where he sang with the University quartet. Moving to California in 1926, he studied voice with Theodore Ricardo, and settled in Harlem in the 1930s. A tenor, Sharp performed in concerts and recitals, singing in six languages. In 1931 Hall Johnson hired Sharp as a choral member of <span class=\"title\">The Green Pastures</span> in which he also played Cain. He had a major role as Toussaint L'Ouverture in the 1938 Federal Theatre Project's production of <span class=\"title\">Haiti</span> opposite Canada Lee's Christophe. Sharp was also in the original Broadway cast of such productions as <span class=\"title\">Conjur Man Dies</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mamba's Daughters</span>, <span class=\"title\">Cabin in the Sky</span>, <span class=\"title\">South Pacific</span>, <span class=\"title\">St. Louis Woman</span>, <span class=\"title\">Finian's Rainbow</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Set My People Free</span>. The Louis Sharp scrapbooks are comprised of two volumes. The first (1926-1946) contains news clippings and programs regarding Sharp's career, initially as a tenor performing in concerts, later as a singer and actor in <span class=\"title\">Finian's Rainbow</span> and in Broadway's <span class=\"title\">St. Louis Woman</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Haiti</span>, among other productions. There are several congratulatory letters and telegrams, including from Cab Calloway. The second scrapbook (1942-1947) consists of news clippings about African-American sports figures such as boxer Joe Louis and baseball player Jackie Robinson."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sharp, Louis, 1901-1976", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Louis R. Sharp, African-American singer and actor graduated from the University of Kansas, where he sang with the University quartet. Moving to California in 1926, he studied voice with Theodore Ricardo, and settled in Harlem in the 1930s. A tenor, Sharp performed in concerts and recitals, singing in six languages. In 1931 Hall Johnson hired Sharp as a choral member of <span class=\"title\">The Green Pastures</span> in which he also played Cain. He had a major role as Toussaint L'Ouverture in the 1938 Federal Theatre Project's production of <span class=\"title\">Haiti</span> opposite Canada Lee's Christophe. Sharp was also in the original Broadway cast of such productions as <span class=\"title\">Conjur Man Dies</span>, <span class=\"title\">Mamba's Daughters</span>, <span class=\"title\">Cabin in the Sky</span>, <span class=\"title\">South Pacific</span>, <span class=\"title\">St. Louis Woman</span>, <span class=\"title\">Finian's Rainbow</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Set My People Free</span>.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Louis Sharp scrapbooks are comprised of two volumes. The first (1926-1946) contains news clippings and programs regarding Sharp's career, initially as a tenor performing in concerts, later as a singer and actor in <span class=\"title\">Finian's Rainbow</span> and in Broadway's <span class=\"title\">St. Louis Woman</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Haiti</span>, among other productions. There are several congratulatory letters and telegrams, including from Cab Calloway. The second scrapbook (1942-1947) consists of news clippings about African-American sports figures such as boxer Joe Louis and baseball player Jackie Robinson.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift, Bobby Sharp, April 1980</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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1926
- keydate
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1926
- date_end
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1949
- date_inclusive_start
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1926
- date_inclusive_end
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1949
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Louis Sharp scrapbook, Sc MG 534, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}