Central Africa Project collection

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unitid

{"value"=>"Sc MG 441", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"20567", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Central Africa Project collection"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1920]-1980", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1920/1980"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"135 lin. ft."}], "supress_display"=>true}

repository

{"value"=>"Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, N.Y. 10037."}

date_inclusive_start

1920

date_inclusive_end

1980

origination

{"value"=>"Central Africa Project", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Informational resource organization which supports multi-disciplinary research on modern French-speaking Central Africa consisting of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

arrangement

{"value"=>"Collection organized into two series: I Belgium Colonial Administration in Rwanda and Urundi, 1930s-1050s; and II Subject File/Printed Matter"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Correspondence, telegrams, minutes, annual reports, financial records, personnel records of bureaucrats in administrative units, and associated documents of the local Belgian colonial administration in the Rwandi-Urundi territory and its relationship with the government of Belgium. Information pertains to the administration of the colony, elections, agriculture, taxes, education, and the role of the United Nations in the administration, ca. 1920-1961. Bulk of the collection consists of printed matter including press packets and publications. Printed matter relates to the Belgian colonial administration and the United Nations trusteeship in the Congo and the Rwandi-Urundi territory, 1927-1961; the Mouvement National Congolais, 1959-1961; and the Republic of Burundi, 1957-1977; as well as other social, political, economic, and cultural subjects. Also, reports, journals, periodicals, press clippings, and miscellaneous material related to the Belgian Congo-Zaire, the Rwandi-Urundi territory and the republics of Rwanda and Burundi, and Africa in general.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"SCM 87-66"}

{"date"=>"1984", "source"=>"Central Africa Project Consortium", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Central Africa Project Consortium, 1984"}

langmaterial_code

fre

eng

keydate

1920

prefercite

{"value"=>"Central Africa Project collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Informational resource organization which supports multi-disciplinary research on modern French-speaking Central Africa consisting of Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi. Correspondence, telegrams, minutes, annual reports, financial records, personnel records of bureaucrats in administrative units, and associated documents of the local Belgian colonial administration in the Rwandi-Urundi territory and its relationship with the government of Belgium. Information pertains to the administration of the colony, elections, agriculture, taxes, education, and the role of the United Nations in the administration, ca. 1920-1961. Bulk of the collection consists of printed matter including press packets and publications. Printed matter relates to the Belgian colonial administration and the United Nations trusteeship in the Congo and the Rwandi-Urundi territory, 1927-1961; the Mouvement National Congolais, 1959-1961; and the Republic of Burundi, 1957-1977; as well as other social, political, economic, and cultural subjects. Also, reports, journals, periodicals, press clippings, and miscellaneous material related to the Belgian Congo-Zaire, the Rwandi-Urundi territory and the republics of Rwanda and Burundi, and Africa in general.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

135 linear feet

date_start

1920

date_end

1980

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