180 linear ft., 2 oversize folders, 1 microfilm reel, and 1 box (index to the collection) of material consisting of correspondence, clippings, reports, minutes, speeches, and financial records of Claude Albert Barnett, the director of the Associated Negro Press (ANP), and news releases of the ANP (1928–1964) and of the World News Service (1961–1963). Most of the collection has been microfilmed (see finding aid for details). Box 287 contains correspondence and copies of correspondence with and about African American artists including Charles Dawson, Charles Embree, Isaac Hathaway, Robert Pious, Tony Hill [ceramicist], Calvin Bailey, Edwin Harleston, and curator Alonzo Aden; a letter from Malcolm S. MacLean, Hampton Institute, to Etta Moten Barnett regarding a Fine Arts Festival (1941); catalogue for exhibitions Art of the American Negro, Tanner Art Galleries, Chicago (1940), the Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. (undated), and a Henry Jackson Lewis exhibition, South Side Community Art Center (1945); and clippings, biographical data, vita, notes, and press releases relating to artists Norman Lewis, Isaac Hathaway, Horace Pippin, Richmond Barthé, E. Simms Campbell, Hughie Lee-Smith, Elizabeth Catlett, Mrs. C. Rosenberg Foster, Eldzier Cortor, William Edmondson, and Gordon Parks.