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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.
Items in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division See More
The Hares and the Frogs fan
Historic New Orleans Collection fan
Black Folk Culture fan
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art fan
Black in America 2 fan
Ellis Funeral Homes fan
In Memory of Mr. Marion Edward Officer Sr. fan
These Americans Died for Freedom fan
Stereotypes vs. Humantypes fan
The Living Key of Seshat
Black is a Church fan
Con To' Los Hierros fan
Harlem Renaissance Day fan
Martin Luther King Jr. fan
Margaret Brezelle Jackson fan
True Dedication fan
Bible Prayers fan
Mahalia Jackson funerary fan
Untitled
Sistah Paradise Tower Of Power Crown
Organized, Confused, But Still
Weary Blues
Love Suite XII
Love Suite X
Love Suite II
Collections in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division
Middleton "Spike" Harris coin collection
278 items
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art
116 items
Michael Cummings African American Art Event Ephemera Collection
99 items
Poster Collection
85 items
Art and Artifacts Division Button Collection
59 items
Works on paper collection
48 items
Painting and Sculpture Collection
42 items
Material culture collection
25 items
Costume and textile collection
16 items
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits collection realia
5 items
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Grumet Collection
2 items
Blondiau theatre arts collection
2 items
Oxmantown Collection of West African Art
1 item