Series 11: Oversized Materials, 1940-1995

This box contains one manuscript (cross-listed between Box 1 and Box 2) and three photographs (cross-listed in Box 13), as well as three audio/visual items pertaining to Colter’s literary career, which are listed in chronological order below for the first time.

Box 14:

Night Studies galley, 1-125 (pp. 1-249), published 1979, 6 November 1978

Box 14:

Night Studies galley, 126-249 (pp. 250-499), published 1979, 6 November 1978

Box 14:

Night Studies galley, 250-389 (pp. 500-778), published 1979, 6 November 1978

Box 14

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Colter 001:

Cyrus Colter photograph portrait, mid-1960s [?]

Box 14

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Colter 005:

Cyrus Colter photograph portrait (in uniform), 1940s

Box 14

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Colter 020:

Mary Elizabeth Colter (sister) wedding photograph portrait (Scurlock, Washington D.C.), [n.d.]

Box 14:

Audio Cassette: Cyrus Colter lecturing in class taught by Professor John Knoepfle at Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois at Springfield) [?], recorded by G. Crawford, 21 March 1973

Box 14:

Audio Cassette: "A Chance Meeting" audio dramatization by Yuri Rasovsky, aired on Chicago Radio Theater (WFMT), 1976

Box 14:

Video Cassette: Cyrus Colter program at Carter G. Woodson Regional Library (Chicago Public Library), 20 May 1995

Series 12: Memorabilia, 1927-1999

Box 15:

Contains: graduation robes; medals, degrees and certificates; travel brochures and keepsakes; and a signed copy of The Near-Johannesburg Boy by Gwendolyn Brooks.