African American miscellany collection
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Scope and Content Note
African American miscellany is an artificially created collection that contains items related to African American history and culture. The collection includes scrapbooks, minute books, correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and sound recordings. Also included is printed material created by white people about African Americans. Some biographical information concerning the materials in this collection may be found in the collection file maintained by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Other general materials relating to African Americans may be found in the African American sheet music collection, the African American cinema collection and the African American photographs collection.
Dates
- 1835-2017
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Restrictions on Access
Special restrictions apply: Use copies have not been made for some audiovisual material in this collection. Researchers must contact the Rose Library in advance for access to this material.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.
Extent
63.74 Linear Feet (23 boxes; 2 oversized papers box and 2 oversized papers folders (OP); 26 bound volumes (BV); 19 oversized bound volumes (OBV); and 1 AV Master)
Abstract
Artificially created collection containing non-printed items related to African American history and culture.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by record type.
Source
Purchase 2005, with subsequent additions.
Related Materials in This Repository
Printed material relating to African American history and culture is located in the Black Print Culture collection.
General
Control level 4
General
File name: afammiscellany1032.doc
Processing
Elizabeth Russey, December 6, 2005.
Control level 4
File name: afammiscellany1032.doc
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- African American college students. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African American women. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Civil rights. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Politics and government. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Religion. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Social life and customs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans--Societies, etc. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Georgia--Race relations. Subject Source: Geonames
- Photographs. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Scrapbooks. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Slave records. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sound recordings. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Southern States--Race relations. Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Title
- African American miscellany collection, 1835-2017
- Author
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
- Date
- March 18, 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Repository