Introduction
Welcome to the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture! The Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books (MARB) Division is one of five divisions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. MARB preserves and provides access to unpublished manuscripts, personal papers, organizational records, rare books, sheet music, playbills, and ephemera created by and about people of African descent throughout the world, concentrating on the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Reading Room
Schomburg Center
Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
Second Floor
New York, NY 10037
Contact us via email to learn about our free Electronic Document Delivery Service.
The reading room is open to in-person research appointments at a limited capacity (6 research appointments per day), but most of our collections are accessible through our Electronic Document Delivery System.
Email a librarian or schedule a virtual research consultation with our Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books reference librarian with questions about navigating library searching tools.
Reference Librarians
Second Floor
New York, NY 10037