The travelers guide: hotels, apartments, rooms, meals, garage accommodations, etc. for colored travelers in 300 cities, 48 states, 2 provinces in the United States and Canada

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Description: This travel guide is related to NYPL's collection of The Green Book, an annual guidebook published from the 1930s through the 1960s that listed hotels, restaurants, bars, and other establishments that were safe and welcoming for African-American travelers. The Green Books have also been digitized and are available online at NYPL's Digital Collections site.
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1931; Place: Philadelphia; Publisher: Hackley & Harrison
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc Rare Per-T (Travelers guide)
Topics: Hotels -- United States; Hotels -- Canada; African Americans -- Recreation; African Americans -- Segregation; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- United States; Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Canada; African Americans -- Travel
Genres: Directories; Guidebooks
Notes: Reproduction: Photocopy. Emerson, N.J. : Ocker & Trapp, Inc. for The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2004.
Physical Description: Extent: V. ; 24 cm.
Type of Resource: Text; Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: 40462961; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13931586; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e088efa0-c014-0136-98ef-7b90cc6cd4ed

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