Schomburg Center For Research

Research Librariesschomburg Center for Research In Black Culture

Although you can walk in off the streets, the stacks are not accessible for browsing, and appointments for viewing film and video documents are highly encouraged.

This is strictly a research facility, so no books (or any other materials) are available for taking off the premises. No need to fret: Many documents can be photocopied for a nominal cost.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. The Center's collections first won international acclaim in 1926 when the personal collection of the distinguished Puerto Rican-born Black scholar and bibliophile,...

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a black Puerto Rican, set himself to accumulating materials about blacks in America, and his massive collection—one of the largest collections of African-American materials in the world—is housed and preserved at this research branch of the New York Public Library in the heart of Harlem. The Exhibition Hall, the Latimer/Edison Gallery, and the Reading Room host...

Background
Named in honor of the Puerto Rican-born collector-donor Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, this branch of the NYPL first blossomed (appropriately enough) during the Harlem Renaissance...

This collection is located in the heart of Harlem and within a branch of the New York Public Library . Arthur Schomburg, born in Puerto Rico, was the original collector of this compendium of information about the black experience and African slavery. The original manuscripts, photographs, paintings and other documents that comprised the collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black...