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{"value"=>"<p>The Publishing Files in Series II, which date from 1976 to 2014, address the administrative workings of the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span>. The material is in the following order: Corporate Records, Correspondence, Financial, Columns, Printing Files, Research and Reporting, Fundraising Parties, and Photographs of Staff behind the scenes.</p> <p>Corporate Records contain the <span class=\"title\">Eye's</span> Minutes and Bylaws, a stock certificate book and transfer ledger, Incorporation of the company along with ownership documentation, a city map of the location of the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> offices, and the company's corporate seal stamp.</p> <p>Correspondence files hold a welcome letter from the Manhattan Borough President, and letters between and to editorial staff.</p> <p>This series' Financial files contain documentation of the initial funding of the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span>, future investment plans, records of the magazine's circulation figures, and advertising revenues. Files related to the general day to day operations costs, receipts, and company bank records are also here.</p> <p>Files related to the various Columns in the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> (primarily the arts section) include the overall general guidelines for editors, research, editor notes, and announcements received by the magazine. After the general guidelines the files are arranged alphabetically. The documents related to the art column include editors' notes (primarily Allan More) and submissions from <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> staff and readers. Several promotional items, such as gallery announcements and press releases, were sent to the editors. The other regular columns represented here are the classified section and the original photographs and letters from readers worldwide called, <span class=\"title\">Far Away Eye</span>. These files also hold papers and notes related to the horoscope section, poetry, theater, and film columns.</p> <p>Printing files include 35mm slides of each issue's cover, various logo designs, as well as accompanying instructions for printers. These are arranged alphabetically.</p> <p>Research and Reporting files contain Abrams' reporting notebook, where he kept notes of story ideas. There are also eight of Abrams' personal and professional date books and pocket calendars dating from 1979 to 1985, from while he was working at the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span>. Abrams' various press credentials are also included.</p> <p>The Fundraising Parties materials consist of invitations and fliers used to advertise fundraising events during the run of the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span>, as well as after 1987. In 2014 a mini-symposium, \"How Hip Hop Came Downtown,\" featured Leonard Abrams, Fab 5 Freddy, Michael Holmna, and Yazmin Ramirez in disucussion. Abrams also gave a presentation in 2016 as part of an exhibition of <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> materials titled It's All True: The <span class=\"title\">East Village Eye</span> Show. The 2016 issue of the <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> also served as the exhibition's catalogue.</p> <p>Behind the scenes photographs of Leonard Abrams and other <span class=\"title\">Eye</span> contributors depict staff working in the office, as well as at various parties and fundraisers for the publication. One staff party was held at Abrams' mother's home, in upstate New York. Most of these images are undated.</p>"}