Author: Elinor Des Verney SinnettePublisher:
ISBN: 9780882582092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Black Bibliophiles and Collectors
Author: Elinor Des Verney SinnettePublisher:
ISBN: 9780882582092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Black Bibliophiles and Collectors
Author: Elinor Des Verney SinnettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Chronicles the development of noted private and public black collectors and collections, and investigates the state of contemporary collecting. Also discusses black-related memorabilia as collectibles and material culture, and offers suggestions for establishing and preserving private collections. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, Black Bibliophile & Collector
Author: Elinor Des Verney SinnettePublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321577
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A biography of the pioneering collector whose work laid the foundation for the study of black history and culture.
Black Bibliophiles and Collectors
Author: Elinor Des Verney SinnettePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Scattered and Fugitive Things
Author: Laura HeltonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559542
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic archives. In building these institutions and amassing abundant archival material, they also reshaped Black public culture, animating inquiry into the nature and meaning of Black history. Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south. Laura E. Helton chronicles the work of six key figures: bibliophile Arturo Schomburg, scrapbook maker Alexander Gumby, librarians Virginia Lee and Vivian Harsh, curator Dorothy Porter, and historian L. D. Reddick. Drawing on overlooked sources such as book lists and card catalogs, she reveals the risks collectors took to create Black archives. This book also explores the social life of collecting, highlighting the communities that used these collections from the South Side of Chicago to Roanoke, Virginia. In each case, Helton argues, archiving was alive in the present, a site of intellectual experiment, creative abundance, and political possibility. Offering new ways to understand Black intellectual and literary history, Scattered and Fugitive Things reveals Black collecting as a radical critical tradition that reimagines past, present, and future.
Legacy
Author: Thomas C. BattlePublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426200069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Showcasing the treasures of Howard University's Moorland Springarn Research Center.
A Gentle Madness
Author: Nicholas A. BasbanesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780979949159
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
The Story Collector
Author: Kristin O'Donnell TubbPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250143810
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
"For every book lover who fantasized about getting locked in the library overnight,The Story Collectoris a dream come true!"—New York Times-bestselling author Alan Gratz In the tradition of E. L. Konisburg, this middle-grade mystery adventure is inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library. The Story Collector by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb is a middle-grade historical fiction inspired by the real life of Viviani Fedeler. Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart, except the ones her father keeps locked. When Viviani becomes convinced that the library is haunted, new girl Merit Mubarak makes fun of her. So Viviani decides to play a harmless little prank, roping her older brothers and best friend Eva to help out. But what begins as a joke quickly gets out of hand, and soon Viviani and her friends have to solve two big mysteries: Is the Library truly haunted? And what happened to the expensive new stamp collection? It's up to Viviani, Eva, and Merit (reluctantly) to find out.
More Black Memorabilia
Author: Jan LindenbergerPublisher: Schiffer Book for Woodcarvers
ISBN: 9780764308499
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Black memorabilia is still one of the hottest areas of collecting today. Hundreds of kitchen items, wall pockets, mammy memos, salt and peppers, cookie jars, advertising, household goods, and ephemera depicting black people are shown in hundreds of color photos with price guide included.
More Black Memorabilia
Author: Jan LindenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description