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Adri fashion design business records, 1960-2007 24.5 Cubic Feet
Al Jaffee Papers, circa 1900-2019 56 linear feet
Amos Eaton papers, 1799-1841 1.00 Linear Feet
Austin Strong papers, 1890-1961 4300 items
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, commonplace books, drawings, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is a comprehensive documentation of the dramatist's career and includes manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and costume and scenic design for more than seventy of his plays and related writings; 31 diaries, commonplace books, and scrapbooks containing manuscript and typescript notes, travel sketches, original drawings, and photographs; and correspondence files including letters from Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, John Galsworthy, Booth Tarkington, and Thornton Wilder. Austin Strong's mother, Isobel Field, was the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. Consequently, the collection contains much Stevensoniana, including photographs and Isobel Field's letters from Western Samoa, where she was known as "Teuila." Also, correspondence and photographs relating to Cornwall Park, Auckland, New Zealand, which was designed by Austin Strong.
Bea Feitler papers, 1920-1981, bulk 1960-1980 7.2 Cubic Feet
Boris Vladimirovich Gerua Papers, 1904-1974 2100 items
The collection consists primarily of letters written to Gerua in the 1930s by other emigres who had formerly served as officers, such as Vladimir Kamenskiĭ and Vasiliĭ Gurko. There are also copies of letters by Gerua from the Far East at the time of the Russo-Japanese War. Also included are manuscripts by Gerua and by Nikolaĭ Rotshteĭn; sketches by Gerua of participants in the 1926 Zarubezhnyĭ Sʺezd (Congress Abroad) in Paris; and photographs.
Charles Saxon papers, 1940-1989 19 linear feet
Sketches, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, tearsheets, photographs and printed material. The collection includes more than 900 drawings and watercolors. The material covers much of Charles Saxon's professional career
Claire McCardell fashion sketches, 1931-1958 53.7 Cubic Feet
A collection of letters addressed to Russell Potter, Director of the Institute of Arts & Sciences, relating to speaking engagerents and conferences. The correspondence, dated 1930-1945, includes letters from Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Edna Ferber, Al Smith, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden, and Harold Laski. Some of the letters are of a personal nature.
Daniel Lashen student work, 1947-1950 .1 Cubic Feet
Donald Brooks papers, 1957-2003 9.2 Cubic Feet
Douglas Moore papers, 1883-2003, bulk 1907-1969 45 linear feet
Edith d'Errecalde papers, circa 1940s-1981 0.5 Cubic Feet
Edmund Blunden papers, 1922-1986 8 linear feet
Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed material of the English poet and critic, Edmund Blunden, documenting his personal and professional activity. Blunden's letters to his second wife, Sylva Norman, and his secretary, Aki Hayashi, are particularly well represented. Also included are many letters addressed to Blunden by eminent literary figures such as John Betjeman, George Orwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Spender, and Henry Williamson. Other literary correspondents are Adrian Bell, Joyce Cary, Richard Church, C. Day Lewis, Walter de la Mare, Graham Greene, H.D., William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, and Leonard Woolf. A substantial portion of the cataloged correspondence contains drawings, verse fragments and poems by Blunden which have been analyzed. Also present are eleven of Blunden's diaries, 1936-1967, which contain drafts of a number of poems. In addition, the collection contains a small number of autograph manuscripts of Edmund Blunden's literary works.
Edward J Wormley papers, circa 1908-1991 4.3 Cubic Feet
Ethel Dean papers, probably 1925 - circa 1950s 1.9 Cubic Feet
Eugene Paul Ullman papers, circa 1880-2000 8.1 Cubic Feet
Francis J. Geck papers, 1923-2001 1.9 Cubic Feet
Primarily oil portraits of 18th century literary figures. There are also engravings, and pen and ink and pencil sketches. Among the literary figures are portraits of Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle; Colley Cibber; Charles Dickens; John Evelyn; John Foxe; David Garrick; Thomas Gray; Charles Lamb; Sir Thomas More; Sir Walter Raleigh; Samuel Richardson; Richard B. Sheridan; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; William M. Thackeray; and others. There is also a portrait by Blanche Ames of George A. Plimpton. Among the artists represented in the collection are James Maubert, Frederick Sandys, and William Hogarth (attrib.)
George Macy papers, 1916-1970 13 linear feet
Letters, documents, and printed materials documenting Macy's publishing career, including that relating to the Nonesuch Press, dating from 1941 to 1960. Included also are photographs, awards, and financial papers. The correspondents include many of Macy's close friends including Peter Beilenson, William Rose Benét, Clifton Fadiman, Christopher Fry, Lillian Gish, Alec Guinness, Fritz Kredel, Frederic and Florence March, Francis Meynell, Bruce Rogers, Louis Untermeyer, Carl Van Doren, and Lynd Ward. Also, miscellaneous engravings, lithographs, and drawings.
George Santayana papers, 1880-1946 10 linear feet
Letters from Agustin Ruiz de Santayana have typescript carbon English translations. The translations are not on microfilm.
Giuseppe Zambonini papers, 1949-2013 35.5 Cubic Feet
Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942 40.1 linear feet
Harry B. Baker papers, 1891-1946 1.5 Cubic Feet
Herbert Sondheim, Inc. fashion business scrapbooks, 1923-1947 17.4 Cubic Feet
Hubert de Givenchy fashion sketches, 1980s 0.1 Cubic Feet
Ina Dell Marvin student work, 1928-1979, bulk 1928-1931 0.4 Cubic Feet
Indusco Inc. records, 1938-1985 93 linear feet
This collection includes records from the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC, 工業合作社/工业合作社), China Aid Council (CAC, 美國援華會/美国援华会), and United Service to China (USC, formerly United Relief to China/URC, 美國援華聯合會/美国援华联合会/美國援華救濟聯合會/美国援华救济联合会). The records contain correspondence of individuals who participated in the cooperative and those associated with it; typewritten reports of sub-units to the parent organization; periodicals and other publications issued in Chinese by the three regional headquarters (the early ones are probably quite rare); publications in English by these headquarters and by American committees formed to aid in the movement; mounted photographs showing the work of the cooperatives and their leaders; albums of newspaper clippings on the movement, emanating from the U.S. and abroad; maps showing locations of cooperatives; pencil sketches and watercolors of cooperatives at work; and other material concerning this important organization which was largely responsible for China's ability to feed and clothe, and care for the people during the war.
James Galanos sketches for Jimi Originals, probably 1950 0.1 Cubic Feet
James Vinton Stowell sketch of Harry Baker, circa 1916 0.1 Cubic Feet
John La Farge drawings, 1860-1899 61 drawings
61 original drawings in various media on paper.
John Weitz papers, 1945-1998 34.4 Cubic Feet
Joseph Marcella student work, 1968-2004, bulk 1968-1970 0.4 Cubic Feet
Joseph Urban papers, 1893-1998 135 linear feet
Collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.
Lucie Porges fashion design papers, 1950-2011 7.5 Cubic Feet
Lyman Martin interior decoration work and papers, 1928-1992 4.5 Cubic Feet
Manuel Rosenberg papers, 1920-1950 1 linear feet
A collection of more than 300 drawings and sketches. Notable are the 60 sheets of drawings made during his trip to Russia in the company of other western journalists. The major portion of the collection comprises the file of sketches and caricatures of leading personalities in public life and the arts made by Rosenberg from the 1920s to the 1950s, including those of Jane Addams; George Arliss; Max Baer; Theda Bara; Enrico Caruso; Feodor Chaliapin; Ina Claire; Walter Damrosch; Jack Dempsey; Elsie Janis; Beatrice Lillie; Groucho Marx; Mae Murray; Ezio Pinza; William Howard Taft; Peggy Wood; Israel Zangwill; and numerous other entertainers, sportsmen, politicians, and writers
Mariette Cassels student notebooks, probably 1930-1931 3.1 Cubic Feet
Menswear fashion sketch collection, 1995-1997 0.1 Cubic Feet
Michael Kalil papers, 1966-2004, bulk 1966-1991 34.7 Cubic Feet
Manuscripts of Mikhail I. Nilśkiĭ (probably a pseudonym), include a typescript memoir"Pobeg" (266 p.), which describes the author's experiences in Soviet labor camps. Also included are 40 short sketches, paginated consecutively, covering political prisons and camps and episodes from the lives of Soviet citizens, such as encounters with the NKVD, escape from the Nazis during World War II, and court trials.
Mildred Orrick fashion and costume sketches, circa 1928-1962 2.3 Cubic Feet
Contemporary engravings, lithographs, carte-de-visite photographs, and memorabilia; 20th century drawings and reproductions of portraits of Lincoln, his family, and his contemporaries. Among the portraits of Lincoln are a charcoal sketch by the sculptor Gutzon Borglum, lithographs by Currier and Ives, photographs by Mathew Brady and his studio. Memorabilia in the collection include bookends and sculptures, a dinner plate, a carved plaque, a reproduction of a death mask, a mourning ribbon, silk commemorative badges, and a hair ornament worn by Mrs Lincoln, in a leather-covered trinket box with the President's initials on it.