{"value"=>"<p>The writings consist of manuscript and typescript drafts of autobiographical writings and of essays on miscellaneous subjects including American jazz, William Shakespeare, and on black regiments in the Spanish-American War. The autobiographical writings include Mr. Katz's reminiscences of his boyhood in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where he encountered theatrical and vaudeville personalities; and humorous accounts of tricks and gags played by office-mates upon one another when business was slack in the advertising field during the \"middle years\" of the Great Depression.</p>"}