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Exploring Dance Collections at the Schomburg Center: Home

This research guide aims to give researchers an introduction to some of the dance collections that are housed across multiple departments within the Schomburg Center for Research in Black culture

Welcome

Cotton Club marquee and front entrance, Harlem, New York,

Front entrance the infamous Cotton Club. Harlem, New York, ca. 1920s

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7673ca48-2ca2-6a64-e040-e00a18067b00

Welcome to the "Exploring Dance Collections at the Schomburg Center" research guide!

This guide is meant to serve as an introduction to the vast collections that pertain to dance that are housed at the Schomburg Center as well as an introduction to conducting research related to dance at the Schomburg Center.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is made up of distinct divisions that are separated by format. On this resource guide you can find materials from the following divisions

  • Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books 
  • Jean Blackwell Huston Research and Refence 
  • Photographs and Prints 
  • Moving Image and Recorded Sound 

There is also materials related to other New York Public Library resources. 

Art and Artifacts Division

 

still image of men and woman dancing closely in pairs

The Savoy

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. (1935 - 1943). The Savoy Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ca36da0-d56d-0131-172b-58d385a7bbd0

The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.