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Mahalia Jackson : queen of gospel song / by Jean Gay Cornell ; illustrated by Victor Mays.

Text

Champaign, Ill. : Garrard Pub. Co., [1974]

1974

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Jackson, M. (Cornell, J. Mahalia Jackson)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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FormatBook/TextCall numberReCAP 19-22118Item locationOffsite
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L'âme de Billie Holiday / Marc-Édouard Nabe.

Text

Paris : Denoël, c1986.

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 87-30Item locationOffsite

Take you higher : the Tina Turner experience / Chris Welch.

Text

London : W.H. Allen, 1986.

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc F 90-9Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Nights in Birdland : jazz photographs, 1954-1960 / Carole Reiff, with an essay by Jack Kerouac.

Text

New York : Simon & Schuster, c1987.

1987

4 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 12-324Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black visions '88 : lady legends in jazz, February 1-March 11, 1988 / [James Briggs Murray, exhibition curator].

Text

New York : [Mayor's Office of Minority Affairs, 1988]

1988

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 02-130Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Art F 97-40Item locationSchomburg Center - Art & Artifacts

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Hazel Scott remembers / directed by Peter Pontillo.

Moving image

New York : WPIX-TV, 1980-05.

1980

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-178Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Black news (New York, N.Y.). Profile--Sherry Winston [videorecording] / WNEW-TV, New York ; producer, Robert E. Martin ; director, Chet Lishawa.

Moving image

New York : WNEW-TV, 1981-02.

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-951Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Libba Cotten, an interview and presentation ceremony/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.

Moving image

New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.

1985

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1437 Disc 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1437 Disc 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Reba Paeff Mirsky, May 25, 1902, November 22, 1966.

Text

New York : A.E. Mirsky, 1967.

1967

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 91-450Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Minnie Brown portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<192-?>

1920-1929

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Brown, MinnieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Ada Brown portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<195-?>

1950-1959

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Brown, AdaItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Anne Wiggins Brown portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1930?-1949?>

1930-1949

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Brown, Ann WigginsItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Natalie Hinderas portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1954?-1965?>

1954-1965

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Hinderas, NatalieItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Maud Cuney-Hare portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1900?-1920?>

1900-1920

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Cuney-Hare, MaudItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Hazel Harrison portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1930?-1935?>

1930-1935

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Harrison, HazelItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Elizabeth Cotten portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1977?-1985?>

1977-1985

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Cotten, ElizabethItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Bobbi Humphrey portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1970?-1989?>

1970-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Humphrey, BobbiItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Nora Holt portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

[1934?]-1970.

1934-1970

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Holt, NoraItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Eva Jessye portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1934?-1969?>

1934-1969

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Jessye, EvaItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Alice Coltrane portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1970?-1984?>

1970-1984

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Coltrane, AliceItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Lillian Morris LeMon portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<192-?>

1920-1929

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo LeMon, Lillian MorrisItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Mary Lou Williams portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1944?-1980?>

1944-1980

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Philippa Schuyler portrait collection [graphic].

Still image

<1937?-1990?>

1937-1990

5 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Schuyler, Philippa folder 5Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Schuyler, Philippa folder 4Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Schuyler, Philippa folder 3Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

TV gospel time [motion picture] / Allied Television Productions, inc. ; Amherst Productions, inc.

Moving image

United States : I.C.S., 1962-1966.

1962-1966

54 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-723 Show #033Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-722 Show #039Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-721 Show #016Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Black women composers : a century of piano music (1893-1990) / Helen Walker-Hill, editor.

Notated music

Bryn Mawr, Pa. : Hildegard Publishing Company, c1992.

1992

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberSc F 01-642Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberJNF 93-10Item locationOffsite

Thursday's child.

Text

New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [c1956]

1956

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Kitt (Kitt, E. Thursday's child. 1956)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MEC (Kitt) (Kitt, E. Thursday's child)Item locationOffsite

Jazz lives : 100 portraits in jazz / Gene Lees ; photographs by John Reeves.

Text

Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, cop. 1992.

1992

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 12-325Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMF 93-1372Item locationOffsite

Blue : a novel / by Denise Ohio.

Text

Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson, c1993.

1993

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 94-24156Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Big star fallin' mama : five women in Black music / Hettie Jones ; foreword by Nelson George.

Text

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 95-144Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Oral history interview with Mother Palmer, 21 January 1986/ interviewed by Victor Smythe.

Moving image

1986

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatVHSCall numberSc Visual VRA-73Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatVHSCall numberSc Visual DVD-1522Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Women of the Calabash [clippings]

Text

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MGZRItem locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

Composition in black and white : the life of Philippa Schuyler / Kathryn Talalay.

Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

1995

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 95-836Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 96-10Item locationOffsite

Isabele Taliaferro Spiller : Harlem music educator, 1925-1958 / by Phyllis Wynn Anderson.

Text

1988.

1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 96-162Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Blueswomen : profiles of 37 early performers, with an anthology of lyrics, 1920-1945 / Anna Stong Bourgeois.

Text

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1996.

1996

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 96-712Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 96-564Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Don't block the blessings : revelations of a lifetime / Patti LaBelle with Laura B. Randolph.

Text

New York : Riverhead Books, 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 96-811Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The blossoms of jazz : a novel of Black female jazz musicians in the 1930s / by Shannon Richards-Slaughter.

Text

1990.

1990

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 97-612Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Oral history interview with Abbey Lincoln.

Moving image

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.

1996-918

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual VRA-178Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatDVDCall numberSc Visual DVD-1062Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

How I got over : Clara Ward and the world-famous Ward Singers / Willa Ward-Royster ; as told to Toni Rose ; foreword by Horace Clarence Boyer.

Text

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

1997

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 97-692Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 97-745Item locationOffsite

Etta Moten Barnett collection.

Audio

1941-1983.

1955-1974

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatSpoken word recordingCall numberSc MIRS Barnett 1993Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Body and soul: die grossen Sängerinnen des Jazz.

Text

Zürich : Conzett & Huber, [1992]

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc G 98-112Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Elizabeth Cotten with Mike Seeger.

Moving image

[s.l.] : Vestapol Productions ; Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, distributor, p1994.

1994

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatVHSCall numberSc Visual VRA-538Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

Black women in American bands and orchestras / D. Antoinette Handy.

Text

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.

1998

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-789Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-151Item locationOffsite

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