SEE: THE ORIGINAL SCHOMBURG COLLECTON

Wednesday, January 24th, 1:00PM, Open Archive at the Schomburg, 515 Lenox by 135th Street. Join Schomburg Center librarians and archivists featuring items from the coveted collection of archival materials. Be the first to get up close and personal with selected items and enjoy an audience Q&A with the collection’s curators.

Arturo Alphonso Schomburg was a historian, bibliophile, writer, and activist. Schomburg, a Puerto Rican of African descent dedicated his life to studying African history and collecting black-related materials from the America's, the Caribbean and Africa. His original collection forms the core of the collection found today at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: LINK

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