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Melville and Frances Herskovits

The Melville and Frances Herskovits Papers: Melville Herskovits Library, Northwestern University (NU) – https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/6/resources/20 – and

Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture (SC) – https://archives.nypl.org/scm/21226.

The Brazil fieldnotes and Frances’ Bahia notebook: Schomburg Center.

Photographs: Schomburg Center and Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (NMAfA, SI) – https://africa.si.edu/research/eliot-elisofon-photographic-archives/.

Correspondence and reports relating to grant applications for Brazil: Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) – https://rockarch.org/ – and the Book and Manuscript Library (especially the CC archive) of Columbia University (CU) – https://library.columbia.edu/libraries/rbml.html.

Franklin Frazier

E. F. Frazier’s Papers: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Research, Howard University (MS) – https://msrc.howard.edu/

There are scattered documents on Frazier also at the Schomburg Center (SC).

The UNESCO Archive in Paris is the repository of the correspondence and reports relating to Frazier’s engagement with UNESCOhttps://atom.archives.unesco.org/

Lorenzo Dow Turner

Lorenzo Dow Turner’s Papers: Melville Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University (NU) – https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/4/resources/851 and the Anacostia Community Museum – https://anacostia.si.edu/collection/archives/sova-acma-06-017, which also has his photographs and part of his recordings.

Complete collection of Turner’s recordings: Archive of Traditional Music, University of Indiana at Blomington (IN) – https://libraries.indiana.edu/dow-turner.

Some documents are also at the Schomburg Center (SC).

The research also includes material from the Museu da Astronomia e Ciências Afrins (MAST), Rio de Janeiro – www.mast.br; the Arthur Ramos archive at the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro; the Archives of the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro – https://antigo.bn.gov.br/explore/colecoes/arquivo-arthur-ramos; the archive of the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences (FFCH) at UFBA, Bahia; and the archives of the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros at USP, São Paulo – https://www.ieb.usp.br/.

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