Found 41 collections related to Photographs

William Lines Hubbard (1867-1951) was a music and theater critic in Chicago and San Diego. His collection primarily consists of diaries and personal papers written by himself and his parents, as well as photographs and miscellaneous published material.his father William Riley Hubbard, and his mother Augusta Hubbard. less

Sydney H. Schanberg (1934-2016) was an American journalist and war correspondent who spent fifty years writing extensively on international affairs, politics, New York City, corporate excess, and the mass media. He was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his work covering the Cambodian Civil War; his experience in Cambodia, along with the photojournalist Dith Pran, was later dramatized in the 1984 film, The Killing Fields. The Sydney H. Schanberg papers span 1895 to 2016, covering all aspects of his professional career, in addition to personal files and correspondence. The collection is represented through drafts, notes, cables, notebooks, photographs, clippings and research, and audio and moving image recordings. less

Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) was an American poet who started seriously writing poetry in her forties. The Amy Clampitt papers include drafts of her work in various stages of completion, related correspondence, and material from her times as writer-in-residence at various institutions. The collection also has extensive personal materials, such as correspondence, family papers, photographs, and material from Clampitt's education. less

Joan Didion (1934-2021) and John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003) were writers closely associated with the New Journalism movement who wrote novels, essays, long-form nonfiction, and screenplays. Didion and Dunne's papers date from the 1840s through 2022 (bulk dates 1950s-2010s) and chronicle their literary and screenwriting careers through correspondence, publishing files, notes for writing projects, photographs, and research files. The papers also include objects from their home lives, certificates and awards, personal and family ephemera, and artwork. less

Elie de Galard Terraube (1876-1956) was a French captain in the Armée du Levant during the 1920s and 1930s. Captain Elie de Galard Terraube's French collection on the Arabian horses of Syria and the art of horse training, dating from around 1899 to 1936, chronicles French horsemanship chiefly during the interwar period, with attention paid to Syrian horses used by the Armée. The collection contains manuscripts, military reports, correspondence, photographs, sketches, and watercolor paintings. less

Mischa Mischakoff (1895-1981), a Ukrainian American, was a renowned violinist and concertmaster for several symphony orchestras including the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. The collection, dated from 1895 to 2011, mostly focuses on Mischakoff's career in the United States with several symphony orchestras in the United States after he emigrated from Russia in 1922. The files include correspondence, certificates, contracts, correspondence, memorabilia, music scores, photographs, posters, programs, and sound recordings. less

Marion and Clarissa Cumbo were a Black married couple based in New York City who worked as musicians and arts fundraisers. The collection, dated from the 1890s to the 1980s, contains photographs depicting the Cumbos' music careers, their work with Symphony of the New World and Triad Productions, and their families and friends. less

Otto Luening (1900-1996) was a noted American composer, teacher, conductor, and flutist. A pioneer in the use of recorded and electronic sound in composition, he also co-founded the American Music Center and the recording label Composers Recordings Inc. The Otto Luening papers, dating from 1800 to 2019, document Luening's life; his career as composer, pedagogue, performer, and conductor; and his family history through professional and personal files, scores, audio and video recordings, and family papers. less

Éva Gauthier (1885-1958) was a Canadian-American vocalist best known for her performances of contemporary music and her associations with George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, and other composers. The Éva Gauthier papers, dating from 1899 to 1960, document the singer's life and career through correspondence; photographs; writings; programs and publicity material; scrapbooks; published scores; clippings; a short film; and business and legal records. The bulk of the collection consists of Gauthier's collection of published scores. less

Lesley Gore (1946-2015) was an American popular singer and songwriter who had major hit singles in the early to mid-1960s, including the songs "It's My Party," "You Don't Own Me," "Judy's Turn To Cry," "Maybe I Know," and "She's A Fool," among others. The Lesley Gore papers, dating from 1900 to 2017 (bulk dates from 1946 onward), document her life and career through audio and moving image recordings; notated music and lyrics; personal files of photographs, writings, clippings, posters, and scrapbooks; and business files. less

Barnard Hughes (1915-2006) and Helen Stenborg (1925-2011) were prolific stage and screen actors. Hughes was best known for his award-winning turn as the titular character in Da, and Stenborg performed extensively with the Circle Repertory Company. Their papers date from the 1880s to 2011, and chronicle their professional careers and personal collecting interests through posters, programs, photographs, correspondence, engravings, scripts, manuscripts, and award trophies. The collection also contains theater memorabilia that Hughes inherited from Thelma Chandler, a stage manager. The Chandler memorabilia includes correspondence from Margaret Webster, the American director, producer, and actress. less

John Simon (1925-2019) was an American theater, film, literary, and music critic. The John Simon papers document his life and career through drafts of his criticism, dating from the 1960s to 2016, as well as correspondence and clippings regarding responses to his work from the press, the public, colleagues, and individuals whose work he was reviewing. The collection also contains audio and video recording of Simon's media appearances and lectures, and material related to Simon's education, personal life, and family. less

Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924-2017) was a Black scientist, educator, and advocate for Black women entering the scientific field. The collection holds prints, slides, negatives, and scrapbooks that illustrate her professional life, family, and friends. Images date from the 1890s to the 2010s, documenting Cobb's family history, research, educational career, and travel. less

Bill Gunn (1934-1989) was a Black writer, actor, and director. The Bill Gunn photographs collection primarily contains pictures of his family, from the 1880s through 1989, as well as some photos related to his career. Bill Gunn's mother, Louise Gunn, compiled most of the photographs in the collection, which depict her career, friends, family, and community engagement. less

Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (1810-1886) was an American author and associate editor of the magazine Ladies Companion. She published over twenty-five historical romances and domestic novels. Collection contains correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photograph. Correspondence includes Stephens's letters, 1829-1882, to her daughter; general correspondence, 1830-1847; and letters, 1936-1937, regarding Stephens. Writings consist of manuscripts of poems, novels, dramas, and articles. Also, page proofs, printed materials, and photograph of Stephens. less

Jonathan Ned Katz (1938 - ) is an independent historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. His father, Bernard Katz (1901-1970), an artist and designer who worked in advertising, was an independent historian of African-American history and jazz music. Jonathan Katz's mother, Phyllis Brownstone Katz, was a magazine editor and co-founder of the Jane Street Community Garden. The Jonathan Ned Katz papers reflect his life and career as an historian, author, LGBTQ rights advocate, teacher, and textile designer. They most heavily document Katz's research and writings on LGBTQ history and activism, and encompass his personal life, family, friends, and the LGBTQ liberation movement. The collection also contains the papers of his parents, Bernard Katz and Phyllis Brownstone Katz. less

Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) was an experimental sound artist, musician, and composer best known for her site-specific sound installation work and audio research. Amacher's collection dates from the 1890s to 2009 (bulk dates 1960s-2009), and contains her working files, as well as sound and video recordings related to her installations, music compositions, and sound research. The collection details the entirety of Amacher's five-decade music career, illustrating her creative process, research methods, and expansive musical output. less

Maria Karnilova (1920-2001) was an American dancer and actress whose career spanned seven decades in ballet, opera, and Broadway. The Maria Karnilova papers contain materials from 1840 to 2003 (bulk 1938-1993) that document her career, including articles, correspondence, programs, photographs, scripts, sheet music, ballet slippers, audio and video recordings, and film. less

Charles Weidman (1901-1975) was a modern dancer, choreographer, and educator. He founded several dance companies and was seminal to the modern dance movement in the United States. He continued to teach and perform until he died in New York City in 1975. The collection dates from the late 1800s, but the bulk of materials are from the 1940s to 1975. The collection contains photographs of Weidman's performances, primarily in the Expression of Two Arts Theatre, and papers related to his close collaborator, artist Mikhail Santaro. less

The La Meri photographs consist of photographic material collected by La Meri throughout her career as a dancer, teacher, writer, and student of dance from India and other cultures. Spanning 1898 to the 1980s, the photographs reveal La Meri's professional and personal life. less

The Agnes de Mille photographs, dating from the 1860s to the 1980s, chronicle her professional career as a dancer, choreographer, director, writer, and arts advocate. The photographs also recount de Mille's personal life and the members of the de Mille, George, Prude, and Foy families. less

The Denishawn photographs and scrapbooks, dating from 1875 to the 1960s, consist mainly of prints of the Denishawn company and school, as well as professional and candid prints of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. The collection also contains some photographs of the construction of Jacob's Pillow, and Shawn's company, Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. less

The Humphrey-Weidman Company was founded by the choreographers, dancers, and teachers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. The Humphrey-Weidman photographs contain prints of performances by both the company and the founders, as well as images of dancers and other individuals affiliated with Humphrey and Weidman. less

Louis Horst was a composer, teacher, and writer who was music director for both the Denishawn and Martha Graham companies. Horst's collection holds photographs of him, as well as the dancers, dance performances, and dance companies with whom he was affiliated. less

Marion Morgan was a dance instructor, choreographer, and founder of the Marion Morgan Dancers. Her collection consists entirely of photographs, most of which depict the films on which she worked as a choreographer. There are also some personal photographs, and shots of her dance troupe. less

The City Club of New York was founded in 1892 by Edmund Kelly as a men's club to promote effective and honest government in New York City. The collection dates from 1892 to 2004, and consists mainly of records from the early years of the organization, as well as the latter part of the 20th century. The files contain addressees, articles, correspondence, memoranda, memorabilia, meeting minutes, reports, and audio and video recordings. less