Found 22 collections related to Photographs

Charles Silverstein is an American therapist, gay activist, and writer. This collection consists of paper materials and photographs with special emphasis on the movement to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and Silverstein's books and general academic research and notes. less

Joanne Carson (1931-2015) was an American model, flight attendant, and television host who was close friends with Truman Capote. Capote (1924-1984) was an American author and frequent house guest at Carson's Bel Air, California home. The Joanne Carson papers related to Truman Capote primarily consist of manuscripts, notes, and ephemera Capote left behind in Carson's house when he died there, as well as manuscripts written by Carson and candid photographs of Capote, Carson, and their friends. 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

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

Lucy Sante (1954-) is a Belgian-born American writer and artist known for her nonfiction writing as well as work in filmmaking, poetry, collage, and graphic design. Sante's papers detail her creative output throughout her literary and artistic career. The collection includes Sante's writing, lectures, interviews, research, correspondence, photographs, visual works, and personal ephemera. 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

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

The Economic Club of New York is a nonpartisan and nonprofit membership organization that promotes the study and discussion of social, economic, and political questions. The Club's records document its meetings through audio and moving image recordings, transcripts, photographs, and programs. less

The Rikers Public Memory Project (RPMP) documents and preserves the experiences of those who have been directly impacted by Rikers Island jail complex, and supports the campaign to close the facilities. The Rikers Public Memory Project oral history collection comprises eighty-nine oral history interviews conducted between 2018 and 2021 with formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. In addition to the audio recordings, the collection also holds transcripts and photographs. 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

Lawrence David Mass, a co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, is a physician and writer living in New York City. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, 1966-1995, notes, drafts, outlines, and published copies of his books, essays, and reviews, topical files, personal press clippings, photographs, audio and videotapes, and ephemera reflecting Mass's work as a writer and gay activist. less

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. 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

Migs Woodside is an expert in substance abuse and the founder and President of the Children of Alcoholics Foundation. She was married to William S. Woodside, CEO of American Can Company. Her papers, dating from the 1960s to 2020, chronicle her work as the founder and president of the Children of Alcoholics Foundation; as the wife of the CEO of a major American corporation; and as a consultant to committees and organizations concerned with alcohol and drug abuse. less

Regina Kellerman (1923-2009) was an architectural historian who served as an early director of research for the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission, and later become the founder and first director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. Her pioneering research, both in New York and the Netherlands, led to her correctly identifying the location of New York City's first City Hall, a conclusion borne out by the subsequent excavation of the site during the early 1970s. The collection covers Kellerman's career as an architectural historian and preservationist and includes correspondence, reports and notes, architectural drawings and plans, and photographs and slides which she generated and gathered in the course of her investigation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods located in New York City and the surrounding area. less