LibGuides: Harlem Renaissance: Exhibit

MU Archives & Special Collections Online Exhibit

African American Studies
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Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1946.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1932.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1932.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1935.

Photograph by Cal Van Vechten, 1936.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1940.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1946.

Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1949.

Color by Countee Cullen
Call Number: PS3505.U287 C6 1925

Publication Date: 1925
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 H828x 1971

Publication Date: 1971

Also available as an e-Book.
If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 H558x 1945

Publication Date: 1945
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 L373x 1928

Publication Date: 1928
Scottsboro Limited by Langston Hughes, with illustrations by Prentiss Taylor
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 H839x 1932

Publication Date: 1932
Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes, with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer
Call Number: PS3515.U274 S5

Publication Date: 1942
The Black Christ & Other Poems by Countee Cullen, with decorations by Charles Cullen
Call Number: PS3505.U287 B6 1929

Publication Date: 1929
The New Negro: An Interpretation by edited by Alain Locke; book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 N49x 1925

Publication Date: 1925
The Story of the American Negro by Ina Corinne Brown
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 B76x 1936

Publication Date: 1936
Women Builders by Saide Iola Daniel
Call Number: Special Collections -- Rare Books -- LC Z1033.A84 V36 D36x 1931

Publication Date: 1931