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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [Harlem Rent Parties] FORM C Text of Interview Unedited STATE New York NAVE OF WORKER Frank Byrd ADDRESS 224 W 135th St New York City DATE August 23 1938 SUBJECT HARLPX RENT PARTIES FOLKLOBE NEW...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [Harlem Rent Parties] fact since the great war time migratory influx of colored labor Despite these eXhorbitant rents apartments and furnished rooms however dingy were in great demand Harlem property owners for the most part...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [Harlem Rent Parties] accommodations are worse The Spanish seem to require even leas privacy than their American cousins A three or four room apartment often houses ten or twelve people Parents invariably have the two...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [Harlem Rent Parties] 4 elephant on the hands of many landlors iamediately took an upward swing The majority of landlords were delighted but those white property owners who made their homes in Harlem were panicstricken...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [Harlem Rent Parties] family and hundreds of apartment tenants opened wide their doors went the originators of the idea one better in fact by having a party every Saturday night instead of once a month...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [Harlem Rent Parties] 6 more illegitimate activities that catered primarily to the desire of travelling salesmen pullman porters inter state truck drivers other transients for some place to stop and amuse themselves Additional business could...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [Harlem Rent Parties] ROY and SADIEtS 228 West 126 St Sat Night May 12th Therell be plenty of pig feet An lots of gin Jus ring the bell An come on in They were careful...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [Harlem Rent Parties] they go along finding it difficult perhats to express the full intensity of their emotions through a mere arrangement no matter haw well written But the thing that makes the houserent party...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [Harlem Rent Parties] part of the evening but before the night is over they are all happily sweating and laughing together in the best of spirits Everything they do is free and easy typical of...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [Harlem Rent Parties] 10 became definitely a thing of the past It was too dangerous to try to sell whiskey after it became legal With its passing went one of the most colorful eras that...
- Contributor: Byrd, Frank
- Date: 1939-03-22