African Americans and Performing Arts in Macon

Georgia:

Georgia Music Hall of Fame

Middle Georgia Archives

• Afro-American Cultural Project records, 1978-1979.
• Grand Opera House collection.
• Linwood Cemetery record book, 1894-1956.
• Macon City Auditorium collection.

African American Theaters

Florida:

Black Archives Collection

• Lyric Theater records.

Indiana:

Indiana Historical Society

• Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919. Collection of papers, 1911-1979.

Virginia:

Valentine Museum

• Somma, Charles. Papers of Charles Somma, 1920-1936.

African American Vaudeville and Theater

Connecticut:

Yale University

• Photographs of Prominent African Americans

Georgia:

Emory University

• Larkin, John. Scrapbook, ca. 1914-1932.

New York:

Columbia University

• Freeman, H. Lawrence. H. Lawrence Freeman papers, 1870-1954.

New York Public Library

• Handy, W.C. W.C. Handy collection, 1914-1954.
• Negro Actors Guild of America. Negro Actors Guild of America photograph collection.
• Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975. Leigh Rollin Whipper Photograph Collection.
• Whipper, Leigh Rollin. Leigh Rollin Whipper 1861-1963.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

• Armstead-Johnson Foundation for Theater Research records, 1974-1994.
• Freeman, Kenn, 1917-1991. Kenn Freeman papers, 1930-1988.
• Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson miscellaneous theater collections, 1831-1993.
• Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc. Negro Actors Guild of America records, 1904-1982, 1937-1982 (bulk).
• Roley, Ida. Ida Roley collection, 1923-1963.

North Carolina:

Duke University

• African American theater and minstrel show advertisements, 1888 and n.d.

Cinema for African American Audiences (Race Films)

Georgia:

Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

• Black cinema photograph collection.
• Hollywood colored studios photograph negative collection.

Emory University

• African American cinema collection, 1907-2001.

California:

Autry Museum of Western Heritage Research Center

• Norman, Richard E. Scripts, title scenarios and postcards, [1915?-1923].

University of California Los Angeles

• Johnson, George P., 1885-1977. Collector of Negro film history oral history transcript, 1970.
• _____. George P. Johnson Negro film collection, 1916-1977. Finding aid available online: http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5s2006kz

District of Columbia:

Library of Congress

• Black Films: Paper print collection. Finding aid available online: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/blckfilm.html.
• Whipper, Leigh R. Papers, 1864-1965.

Indiana:

Black Film Center/Archive (Indiana University)

• Richard E. Norman collection.

Lilly Library (Indiana University)

• Norman, R. E. manuscripts, 1912-1954. Finding aid available online: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/subfile/normanreinv.html.

New York:

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

• Black films collection, 1939-1984 (bulk 1967-1984).

Texas:

Southern Methodist University

• G. William Jones film and video collection.