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Arthur Schomburg: a major builder of Afro-Caribbean and African American institutional life

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

  • Scene from the Broadway production of the American Negro Theatre's "Anna Lucasta," featuring (left to right) Canada Lee, Hilda Simms, Alice Childress and Alvin Childress
  • Publicity photograph of poet, publisher and performance artist Assotto Saint, circa 1991
  • Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne Rollin Whipper
  • Portrait of Black Woman Holding White Child
  • Banquet in honor of Charles D.B. King, Secretary of State and President-elect of Liberia, held at Anderson's Assembly Rooms, in New York City, on September 22, 1919. In attendance are bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg, journalist John E. Bruce and writer Maritcha Lyons.
  • Saint John's Methodist Church Sexton, Peter Williams, 1801
  • Funeral procession for a Ku Klux Klan member, held in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York, 1920s.
  • Elease Perkins (second from left) with other teachers at the Harlem Academy
  • W.C. Handy with his wife Irma Louise Logan, and Dizzy Gillespie and an unidentified man
  • Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth
  • Farm workers studying corn crop
  • Boy with bowl
  • Portrait of a man wearing patterned bowtie
  • Portrait of a woman, Bahia, Brazil
  • Benguela/ Angola/ Congo/ Monjolo
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Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection [graphic]

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Arthur Schomburg

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Title
Arthur Schomburg: a major builder of Afro-Caribbean and African American institutional life
Collection

Arthur Alfonso Schomburg collection [graphic]

Personal photographs

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1896 (Approximate)
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Arthur Alfonso Schomburg Collection
Topics
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Caribbean Americans
African American civic leaders
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
Collectors and collecting
Puerto Ricans
African American political activists
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Arthur Schomburg Photograph Collection; Accession: SC-CN-97-0101
Content: Negative of portrait of Arthur Schomburg.
Physical Description
Extent: 20 x 25 cm
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG00-F13
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15024738
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): aa355b60-ad11-013e-e367-0242ac110004
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1896: Created
  • 2026: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Arthur Schomburg" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ac1e0b0-b0fd-013e-72fd-0242ac110002

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Arthur Schomburg" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ac1e0b0-b0fd-013e-72fd-0242ac110002

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1896). Arthur Schomburg Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ac1e0b0-b0fd-013e-72fd-0242ac110002

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ac1e0b0-b0fd-013e-72fd-0242ac110002 | title= (still image) Arthur Schomburg, (1896)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=September 18, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Arthur Schomburg