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{"value"=>"MssCol 22985", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1906-2009", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1906/2009"}
{"value"=>"1980-2008", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1980/2008"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Jim Carroll papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"54 boxes, 9 oversize folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"25.5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"108 computer files", "unit"=>"computer_files"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"25.48 megabytes", "unit"=>"megabytes"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"90 audio recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"8 moving image recordings", "unit"=>"moving_image_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. Carroll is known for his published diaries of youth and early adulthood and as vocalist and songwriter for the Jim Carroll Band. The Jim Carroll papers date from 1906 to 2009, and contain notes, manuscripts, sound and video recordings, printed matter, correspondence, photographs, personal memorabilia, and Carroll's personal library. The collection documents his work across artistic media, with an emphasis on his music, fiction, and poetry after 1980."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Carroll, Jim, 1950-2009", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. He was born in New York City on August 1, 1949 to Thomas J. Carroll and Agnes Carroll (née Coyle). Growing up, he primarily attended Catholic schools, graduating from Trinity School in 1968. While in school, Carroll was a star basketball player; he also began using heroin. He documented his teenage years in his book <span class=\"title\">The Basketball Diaries</span>, first published in 1978.</p> <p>As a teenager, Carroll attended readings at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, where he associated with poets such as Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Bill Berkson, and Allen Ginsberg. He published his first book of poetry, <span class=\"title\">Organic Trains</span>, in 1967. By 1969, his poems had been published in literary magazines such as <span class=\"title\">The Paris Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">Adventures in Poetry</span>, and the Poetry Project's <span class=\"title\">The World</span>.</p> <p>During the 1960s and early 1970s, Carroll was active in New York City's Lower East Side arts scene. He was friends with musicians and artists such as Patti Smith and Larry Rivers, worked at Andy Warhol's Factory, and was a habitué of Max's Kansas City. He described these experiences, and his experiences living with heroin addiction, in <span class=\"title\">Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973</span> (1987).</p> <p>In 1973, Carroll sought treatment for heroin addiction. The following year, he moved to Bolinas, California, where he met Rosemary Klemfuss. The two were married in 1978. They divorced ten years later.</p> <p>Carroll's career as a rock musician began in 1978, when he appeared with Patti Smith in concert. He formed the Jim Carroll Band, a punk/new wave band whose founding members consisted of Brian Linsley, Steve Linsley, Terrell Winn, and Wayne Woods, with Carroll as lead singer and lyricist. Later members included composer-guitarists John Tiven and Lenny Kaye. The Jim Carroll Band's first album, <span class=\"title\">Catholic Boy</span>, was released in 1980 by Rolling Stones Records. The band went on to release two more albums, <span class=\"title\">Dry Dreams</span> (1982) and <span class=\"title\">I Write Your Name</span> (1984), before dissolving in 1984.</p> <p>Carroll continued to write lyrics and collaborate with musicians through the 1980s and 1990s. He wrote lyrics for Boz Scaggs and Blue Öyster Cult, and performed spoken word with accompaniment by musicians such as Kaye and Allen Lanier. He released a spoken word album, <span class=\"title\">Praying Mantis</span>, in 1991. His 1998 album <span class=\"title\">Pools of Mercury</span> included spoken word and songs written with Anton Sanko, Erik Sanko, Robert Roth, and others. In 1995, <span class=\"title\">The Basketball Diaries</span> and Carroll's short story, \"Curtis's Charm,\" were both adapted to film.</p> <p>Carroll's books of poetry include <span class=\"title\">Living at the Movies</span> (1973), <span class=\"title\">The Book of Nods</span> (1986), <span class=\"title\">Fear of Dreaming</span> (1993), and <span class=\"title\">Void of Course</span> (1998). At the time of his death in 2009, he was in the final stages of writing a novel, <span class=\"title\">The Petting Zoo</span>, which he had been working on since the 1980s. The novel was published in 2010.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Jim Carroll papers (1906-2009, bulk 1980-2008) document his work as a writer and musician, with an emphasis on his music career, fiction, and poetry after 1980. These papers are not a good source for material related to his writing of <span class=\"title\">The Basketball Diaries</span> or his early poetry.</p> <p>Carroll's creative output is represented by notes, writings, and audio and video recordings. His personal life and business dealings are documented through correspondence, financial and legal records, photographs, clippings, printed matter, artwork, and personal memorabilia. The collection includes books from Carroll's personal library, many of which have his annotations and notes.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jim Carroll papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/22985#c1847076'>Series I: Creative Output</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1972-2009</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4.17 linear feet (10 boxes). 22.9 megabytes (106 computer files). 90 audio recordings. 8 moving image recordings</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Carroll's creative output is represented by notes, draft writings, and recordings. Manuscripts and notes in the collection show Carroll's writing process from fragmentary notes and drafts to completed works. His poetry and music are represented by draft verses, studio recordings of songs in various stages of completion, and recordings of live performances.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/22985#c1847200'>Series II: Personal Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1930s-2009</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4.03 linear feet (10 boxes, 9 oversize folders, 3 containers). 401.1 kilobytes (2 computer files)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Personal papers document Carroll's personal life and business dealings through correspondence, financial and legal records, photographs, a scrapbook, writings and artwork by others, clippings and writings about Carroll, printed matter, and memorabilia. Personal papers also include a World War II diary that belonged to Carroll's father, Thomas J. Carroll.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/22985#c1847242'>Series III: The Jim Carroll Library</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1906-2008</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>13.17 linear feet (32 boxes)</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Carroll's personal library contains books that he annotated, books that were inscribed to him, and various editions of his own works. For the most part, the books in Carroll's library are lightly annotated, with markings on only a few pages. In addition to annotations, the books contain notes unrelated to the content of the book themselves, including drafts of poems. Some books include Carroll's ownership marks with dates, the earliest of which is dated 1969.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased from the Estate of Jim Carroll, 2014.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Kit Fluker</span> in <span class=\"date\">2015</span>.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Direct licensing requests to the Estate's authorized representative, Rosemary Carroll, Esq: c/o Carroll, Guido & Groffman, LLP, 5 Columbus Circle, 20th floor, New York, New York 10019, Phone: 212-759-2300, Fax: 212-759-9556</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Revised by Matthew Snyder,", "date"=>"2020"}
- date_start
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1906
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1906
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2009
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1906
- date_inclusive_end
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2009
- date_bulk_start
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1980
- date_bulk_end
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2008
- extent_statement
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25.5 linear feet (54 boxes, 9 oversize folders). 25.48 megabytes (108 computer files). 90 audio recordings. 8 moving image recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Jim Carroll papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}