Harlem on My Mind Book
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Schoener, Allon
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content: Harlem on My Mind exhibition records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 2; 0.3 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-2007,
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.schoallo, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Harlem on My Mind book files consist of correspondence and documents including: New Press, invoices, outline, payments, permissions, royalty statements, notes and writings. Correspondence documents the challenges of publishing several editions with different publishers over three decades, and includes book contracts from Random House and Dell Publishing (Delacorte Press). There is correspondence with Random House and Grove Press regarding disputed ownership rights to Harlem on My Mind. Among the notable correspondents are Thomas Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and photographer James Van Der Zee, known for his portraits of African-American New Yorkers.