- unitid
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{"value"=>"20628", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc MG 328", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b11543693", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1927-1986", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1927/1986"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Bob Howard papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.04 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"=>"Howard, Bob, 1906-1986", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Bob Howard, pianist, comedian, actor of the Broadway stage and on his own radio show, was the first African American performer to have a regularly scheduled television program. Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, as Howard Joyner, he attended and dropped out of Howard University Medical School and later enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music. During his early years in vaudeville, he was the piano playing member of Joyner and Hopkins (Morris Hopkins was a dancer).</p> <p>In 1943, Howard appeared on Broadway in <span class=\"title\">Early to Bed</span>. He also worked in radio from 1938 to 1975, with his own programs on WEAF, WCBS, and WHN. He was the first Black performer on television, with his own 15 minute show on CBS from July 1948 to December 1951. His film credits include <span class=\"title\">Howard's House Party</span>, <span class=\"title\">Junction 88</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Stars on Parade</span>. Howard's career took him to Europe and Japan, and across the United States. He continued playing the piano and singing at various nightclubs and restaurants until his death in 1986.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Bob Howard papers consist of numerous programs for dinner engagements, benefits, and other performances; three scrapbooks of news clippings; and lyrics, musical scores, and arrangements by Howard and his wife, Ruth (Joyner) Howard. Other material includes biographical information, correspondence, contracts and correspondence with his agent, broadsides, handouts and announcements, notices in guidebooks and magazines, feature stories in magazines, and miscellaneous radio, television, and performance material.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Sylvia Blish and Veora Joyner Smith, November 1989.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> Transferred to the Art and Artifacts Division: artwork.</p> <p>Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio and moving image materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.</p> <p>Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Accessioned by Barbara Mathe, February 1990.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark.", "date"=>"2021 October 27"}
- date_start
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1927
- keydate
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1927
- date_end
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1986
- date_inclusive_start
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1927
- date_inclusive_end
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1986
- extent_statement
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1.04 linear feet (3 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Bob Howard papers, Sc MG 328, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>" The Bob Howard papers consist of numerous programs for dinner engagements, benefits, and other performances; three scrapbooks of news clippings; and lyrics, musical scores, and arrangements by Howard and his wife, Ruth (Joyner) Howard. Other material includes biographical information, correspondence, contracts and correspondence with his agent, broadsides, handouts and announcements, notices in guidebooks and magazines, feature stories in magazines, and miscellaneous radio, television, and performance material.", "generated"=>true}