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Collection of Countee Cullen and Sydonia Byrd Randolph materials, 1923-1963 : manuscripts and photographs.

BIB_ID
437488
Accession number
MA 23626.1-17
Display Date
Indianapolis, Oberlin, New York, and other locations, 1923-1963.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Twentieth-Century Literature Fund, 2020.
Description
17 items ; various sizes
Notes
One of the portrait photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.17) is housed separately from the rest of the collection.
Provenance
Purchased from Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books, September 2020.
Summary
A collection of materials related to Countee Cullen and Sydonia Byrd Randolph, including: an autograph manuscript signed of the poem "Advice to a Proud Lady" (MA 23626.1); a letter and an envelope associated with Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.2-3); eleven photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph and members of her family (MA 23626.4-15); and two portrait photographs of Sydonia Byrd Randolph (MA 23626.16-17).