![]() ![]() Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills, will house the Mayme A. Mason on New Year’s Day 1845, in copy of Poems of Felicia Hemans (Philadelphia, 1845).” Robert Morris: Lawyer and Activist. “Inscription from Robert Morris, Jr., to Catharine H. Mason Morris preserved and donated his library. Boston College held an exhibition of the collection, and they published a history of Robert Morris with an annotated catalogue. Burns Library at Boston College holds the only known extant, antebellum, African American-owned library, originally belonging to the lawyer and activist Robert Morris. The Beinecke Library at Yale University has Dorothy Porter Wesley’s papers. Wesley was curator and bibliographer at the Moorland Foundation (now Moorland-Spingarn Center) at Howard University from (1930-1973). Blockson Afro-American Collection.Īfrican American Research Library and Cultural Center, Broward County, Florida received the personal collection of librarian, bibliophile, and collector, Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995) from her daughter in 2001. Blockson African-Americana and the African Diaspora collection. Blockson also donated to the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Pennsylvania State University, now the Charles L. Part of the collection is the online archive, William Still: An African American Abolitionist, which has biographies of several Philadelphia bibliophiles associated with the Banneker Institute and the American Negro Historical Society, like Robert Mara Adger. ![]() Blockson is now the collection’s curator emeritus. Blockson’s collection, donated in 1984, and materials acquired since. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University grew from Charles L. Another excellent starting point is the Schomburg Center’s Black Bookstore Research Guide (described below).Ĭharles L. If you are interested in a general reading list for African American special collections, Cheryl Beredo, curator at the Schomburg Center, and Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center (and, as of January 2021, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture), have posted the reading list for their Rare Book School course “Developing and Interpreting African American Special Collections” online. Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1990), has many helpful articles and references to prominent Black book collectors and booksellers. The book, Black bibliophiles and collectors: preservers of Black history, ed. Latimer, reference librarian of the collection, in left background.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. “View of researchers using the Schomburg Collection, when it was the 135th Street Branch Library Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints, as it looked in 1938, with Catherine A. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. It is organized thereafter by the name of collecting institution in alphabetical order. Please contact Librarian, Meghan Constantinou, guide begins with a section dedicated to two of the most influential Black bibliophiles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Charles Blockson and Dorothy Porter Wesley. If you are aware of additional sources not mentioned, we would love to learn about them. We encourage people interested in learning more about the rich history of Black collectors in the United States to explore these resources, as we address the absences in our own collection. ![]() At the same time, we acknowledge that our own efforts documenting this history have been inadequate. In this post, the Grolier Club Library highlights libraries with strong collections relating to Black American book collectors and collecting. ![]()
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