"Purchased from Mr. Charles Heartman, a book dealer, this collection consists of books, pamphlets, periodicals, maps, broadsides, documents, almanacs, lithographs, oil paintings, musical scores, clippings, cartoons, and various curios dating from 1600 to 1955. Devoted not only to the Negro in the United States, but contains information dealing with the background and development of Negro people in every section of the globe where they have lived in concentrated numbers."--Page [1.] of v.5, no. 12.