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Schomburg Clipping File Research Guide: How to Use

Accessing the Clipping Files Indexes

Print copies of the Schomburg Clipping File Indexes for Parts I and Parts II are held at the reference desk in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division and may be consulted upon request. 

Remote researchers may view the index to Part I of the Clipping File Index here and the index to Part II may be viewed here

Below are the "How To Use" page from Part I of the Clipping File, an example of how clippings are listed in the index, and select clippings from the "Zora Neale Hurston" clipping file.

How To Use the Index and Zora Neale Hurston clipping file entry

How To Use the Index

How to Use the Index

Zora Neale Hurston Clipping File

Zora Neal Hurston Clipping File

Sample clippings from the Zora Neale Hurston File