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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, black bibliophile & collector : a biography / by Elinor Des Verney Sinnette.
LIBRA - Rare Z989.S36 S56 1989 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinnette, Elinor Des Verney.
- Series:
- African American life
- African American life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938.
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture--History.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Book collectors--United States--Biography.
- Book collectors.
- History.
- United States.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Librarians--United States--Biography.
- Librarians.
- African Americans--Bibliography--Methodology.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Historiography.
- Libraries--Special collections--African Americans.
- Libraries.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 262 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Distribution:
- Detroit : Co-published and distributed by Wayne State University Press.
- Other Title:
- Arthur Alfonso Schomburg.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York Public Library, 1989.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The Early Years
- Arthur Schomburg and the Research Societies
- Arthur Schomburg, Collector
- Arthur Schomburg and the Harlem Renaissance
- The Library, Harlem's Cultural Center
- Arthur Schomburg at Fisk University
- The Final Years
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "On the cover (paperbound edition) and dust jacket (cloth edition): Arthur Alfonso Schomburg as a young man ... On the cover (cloth stamping): A silhouette of Schomburg in 1913 ..."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0814321569
- 0814321577
- OCLC:
- 18559234
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