Found 11 collections related to Photographs

Citizens for a Quieter City was a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the reduction of urban noise. Founded by Robert Alex Baron, its objectives were to develop information about the injurious effect of noise; research methods of controlling and reducing it; and educate the public on the importance of its abatement. The Citizens for a Quieter City records (1950-1980) document the work of the organization through correspondence with government and private sector officials; sound and video recordings; meeting minutes; records of noise complaints; scrapbooks; financial records; posters; and published research and information on noise pollution. The collection also holds the records of the Upper Sixth Avenue Noise Abatement Association and Robert Alex Baron's files regarding his job as general manager of Theatre Tours. 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

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

Marvin Israel (1924-1984) was a New York City-based photographer, painter, and graphic designer. Throughout his career, Israel balanced his personal art practice with a commitment to nurturing other influential photographers. In particular, he designed a number of important photography exhibitions and monographs for other photographers. The collection includes his own work, his wife and friends' artwork, and documentation of his design work. less

Jean Stein (1934-2017) was an American author, oral historian, editor, and philanthropist. She worked as an editor at The Paris Review, under George Plimpton, and co-edited the literary and visual arts magazine Grand Street with Walter Hopps. She was married to William vanden Heuvel and Torsten Wiesel. The Jean Stein papers (1916-2016) document Stein's career and life. The works most extensively represented are Stein's oral history biography of the American actress and Andy Warhol muse, Edie Sedgwick, Edie: An American Biography, (1982); and the oral history West of Eden: An American Place, which focused on five families and individuals Stein considered essential to the history of Los Angeles. Personal files, which include letters Stein received from novelist William Faulkner, document Stein's childhood of wealth and privilege as a the daughter of talent agent and MCA founder, Jules Stein; and her adult life as a member of New York's intellectual elite. less

Joel J. Finer was a lawyer who served as defense attorney for Timothy Leary, a psychologist and psychedelic drugs advocate, after Leary's 1966 conviction for marijuana possession. The Joel J. Finer papers related to the defense of Dr. Timothy Leary consist of correspondence, legal documents, research files, and a few photographs collected by Finer during his work to appeal Leary's conviction. 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

The collection holds a letter from the American author Truman Capote, explaining the subtext of his short story, "Miriam," to reader Katherine Warner. There is also a black and white photograph, probably of Warner, around the time the letter was written in 1945. less