Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Content
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
- Linking Entry Complexity Note
Collection Access
Claude A. Barnett broadsides collection
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Claude A. Barnett broadsides collection
- Dates
- ca 1930-1959
- Identifier
- 1980.0213 part
- Size
- 17 broadsides.
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Primarily includes items relating to African Americans and associated events in Chicago and the United States. Events include the American Negro Exposition (1940 : Chicago, Ill.), the death of Edgar Brown (1954), the NAACP Annual Freedom Fund dinner (1959 : Chicago, Ill.), and concerts by singer Etta Moten (Mrs. Claude A. Barnett) ca. 1949-1959. Includes 2 U.S. government posters from World War II showing African Americans. One advertisement for war bonds shows a baby, and the other honors Dorie Miller for action at Pearl Harbor in 1942. Other advertising material relates to the National Negro Insurance Association (ca. 1930) and films about African American progress. Also includes a few pieces of political ephemera calling for the re-election of President Hoover (1932), and calling for discrimination in voting in Texas elections (ca. 1940-1949). One item relates to the Illinois Civil Rights Law (ca. 1948).
Conditions for Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the archives for more information on licensing and permissions for use and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Etta Moten Barnett, 1979 (1980.0213).1980.0213.Indexed Terms
- Barnett, Etta Moten -- 1901-2004 -- Portraits
- Brown, Edgar -- Portraits
- Hoover, Herbert -- 1874-1964 -- Portraits
- Miller, Dorie -- Portraits
- American Negro Insurance Association
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Military service
- Civil liberties -- Illinois
- Discrimination -- Texas
- Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Motion pictures -- United States
- African American women singers -- United States
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Exhibitions
- War bonds & funds -- United States -- 1940-1949
- Broadsides
- Posters
- Prints
Linking Entry Complexity Note
Forms part of the Claude A. Barnett collection of visual materials (1980.0213).