The legacy of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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- Name
- Fontanez-Fleming, Angela (Film producer)
- Colon, Miriam (Narrator)
- Delano, Jack (Contributor,Former owner)
- Title
- The legacy of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- Other Titles
- Legacy of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (24)
- Abstract
- A biography of bibliophile and historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Schomburg, a Puerto Rican of mixed German and African descent dedicated his life to studying African history and collecting black-related materials from the America's, the Caribbean and Africa. His collection forms the core of the collection found today at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research center of the New York Public Library. Includes dramatized scenes from his life and comments on the man by his son and others who knew him.
- Collection Name
- Jack and Irene Delano papers
- Archival Context
- Series I: Audiovisual. Subseries I.1: Film and Video. Box no. AV 3
- Subjects
- Historians; Historians--Biography; African Americans and libraries; African Americans--Library resources; African Americans; Puerto Ricans; Puerto Ricans--Biography; Puerto Rico; Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Format
- video recordings
- Genre
- Documentary films; Biographical films
- Origin Information
- New York (N.Y.)
- Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 1 video file (30 minutes)
- Note
- Original format: VHS
- Note (Credits)
- Written by Pablo Figueroa, based on original script by Jack Delano ; Producer director, Lou de Lemos
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/49a5-b962