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Josephine Baker Collection

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 108

Scope and Contents: The Josephine Baker Collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and printed material documenting the life and career of Josephine Baker between 1929 and 1968. Evidence of Baker's career as a performer can be found in her correspondence with managers and producers, clippings from her performances, and pamphlets and brochures from concerts. There is correspondence and printed material regarding her appearances in Argentina in 1947 and 1952 and in Canada...

Dates: 1929-1968

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Brian Murray du Toit collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1839

Overview: The collection consists of copies of speeches, public statements, press releases, memoranda, letters, church records, personal journals, travel documents, family photographs, kinship charts, field notes, manuscripts and related materials on the Inkatha Freedom Party and descendants of the Boers who left South Africa following the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. The collection also includes materials on the Afrikaner Broederbond and the Dutch Reformed Church. Du Toit has used these materials in...

Dates: 1902-1996

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Lawrence Gordon collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1557

Overview: The collection is comprised of thirteen scrapbooks compiled by Lawrence Gordon of Durban, South Africa, an engineer and collector of Africana. The scrapbooks are filled with clippings primarily of political cartoons from South African and English newspapers and journals. The clippings are arranged in loose chronological order and they cover a variety of subjects.

Dates: 1959-1984

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Kenya collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1523

Overview: The collection consists of reports, printed material, and ephemera relating to the political, economic, and social conditions in Kenya. Also included are photographs.

Dates: 1901-2000s

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Libya collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1526

Overview: The collection consists of printed material relating to the history and current political and economic conditions in Libya.

Dates: 1943-1988

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Djibril Tamsir Niane audiorecordings documenting Guinean oral traditions

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Call Number: MS 1935

Overview: The Djibril Tamsir Niane audiorecordings comprise an oral history of Guinea. The recordings (reel-to-reel audiotapes) were made by noted Guinean scholar Djibril Tamsir Niane, primarily from 1969 to 1971. Included in the collection are field recordings of interviews, oral histories, epic tradition and musical performances, and ceremonies of several ethnic groups, particularly the Baga and Maninka, in several languages. The recordings are the only significant body of audio historical data on...

Dates: Circa 1960-1980

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

North African Jewish manuscript collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1825

Overview: The collection includes manuscripts from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. It consists of legal documents concerning such issues as marriage, divorce, property, inheritance, and business dealings of all kinds. In addition, there are manuscripts of poetry, liturgy, mystical texts, folk customs and beliefs, homilies and more. They are in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Spanish, Arabic, French, Spanish and Italian and date from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Dates: 1714-circa 2000, bulk 1800-1950

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Pamphlet collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 1351

Overview: A collection of pamphlets from African, South American, Latin American, Asian, European, and North American countries which include material relating to politics, economics, social conditions, agriculture, legal topics, religious activities, history, government operations, education, and other areas. The collection is particularly strong in the area of African materials, with several nations represented.

Dates: 1570-1990, bulk 1945-1982

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Postcards and printed ephemera documenting the Italian occupation of Ethiopia

Collection

Call Number: MS 1898

Overview: The collection comprises primarily postcards, most of a racist propaganda nature; several press photographs; and printed ephemera depicting the Italian wars in Ethiopia, as well as present day Somalia and Eritrea. Included are materials relating to the First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895 to 1896) and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War or the Second Italo-Ethiopian War which lasted from October 1935 to May 1936, with the occupation lasting until 1941. The result was the annexation of Ethiopia into...

Dates: 1895-1950

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Postcards documenting the German occupation of East Africa

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Call Number: MS 1899

Overview: The collection consists of forty-eight black and white postcards from the Belgian Propoganda Ministry following the invasion of German East Africa in 1917. Although German forces in German East Africa were never defeated, the postcards show 'Occupied' German East Africa.

Dates: 1917-1918

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 1768

Overview: The papers consist of photocopies of United Nations documents used in the writing of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar's memoirs, Pilgrimage for Peace: A Secretary-General's Memoir. His biography recounts his two terms as United Nations Secretary-General, focusing on those issues and countries with which he had the largest personal involvement.

Dates: 1980-1992, 1980-1992

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives