Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 6397
80.41 linear feet (170 boxes, 7 oversize folders)
Barbara Gittings (1932-2007) and Kay Tobin Lahusen (1930-) were gay civil rights pioneers and partners for nearly forty-six years. The collection contains their personal and professional papers, photographs by Lahusen created in the course of...
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Barbara Gittings (1932-2007) and Kay Tobin Lahusen (1930-) were gay civil rights pioneers and partners for nearly forty-six years. The collection contains their personal and professional papers, photographs by Lahusen created in the course of forty-five years of gay rights activism, and the extensive collection of materials they gathered and preserved to document the movement. The collection also includes Gittings' extensive correspondence with fellow activists, most notably Frank Kameny, records of her editorial work on
The Ladder, interviews conducted for Lahusen's book,
The Gay Crusaders, and organizational files from their work in such organizations as the Daughters of Bilitis and several other early homophile groups; the Gay Task Force of the American Library Association; the Gay Activists Alliance; and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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Silverstein, Charles
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 26970
2.92 linear feet (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
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...
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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.
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Katz, Jonathan, 1938-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1621
80.83 linear feet (189 boxes, 20 tubes, 1 item). 2.9 gigabytes (490 computer files)
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...
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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.
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Schanberg, Sydney H. (Sydney Hillel), 1934-2016
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 24889
118.82 linear feet (275 boxes, 10 tubes, 13 oversize folders). 1.8 gigabytes (940 computer files)
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...
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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.
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Stein, Jean
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 24576
122.13 linear feet (282 boxes, 4 volumes). 1,380 audio recordings. 42 video recordings
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 more
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.
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Marcantonio, Vito, 1902-1954
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1871
81.33 linear feet (84 boxes)
Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), American radical congressman, New York City lawyer and politician, was a protege of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. He made his political debut in 1924 when he managed LaGuardia's campaign for reelection to Congress. In 1934,...
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Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), American radical congressman, New York City lawyer and politician, was a protege of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. He made his political debut in 1924 when he managed LaGuardia's campaign for reelection to Congress. In 1934, Marcantonio ran successfully as a Republican for LaGuardia's East Harlem seat in Congress, a constituency he would represent for seven terms, six of them consecutively. The bulk of the papers reflects Marcantonio's activities as a lawyer and congressman and includes correspondence, congressional papers, research files, photographs, and sound recordings.
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Woodside, Migs
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186106
9.0 linear feet (24 boxes). 78.8 megabytes (60 computer files)
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...
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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.
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Citizens for a Quieter City
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 552
36.0 linear feet (36 boxes, 1 container). 68 audio_recordings. 19 video_recordings
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...
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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.
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East Village Eye, Inc.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186237
12.96 linear feet (39 boxes). 17.6 gigabytes (9 computer files)
The
East Village Eye was a periodical that covered art and culture in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded by Leonard Abrams in 1979, the
Eye published seventy-two issues...
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The
East Village Eye was a periodical that covered art and culture in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded by Leonard Abrams in 1979, the
Eye published seventy-two issues until it ceased publication in 1987. The collection contains photographs and original artwork printed in the magazine, the administrative papers created by the company, editors' files, events related to the magazine, the entire run of issues of the
Eye, and a set of other independent publications collected by Leonard Abrams.
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Finer, Joel J., 1938-2018
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186665
0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)
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...
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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.
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de Galard Terraube, Elie, 1876-1956
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186352
0.25 linear feet (1 box)
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...
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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.
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Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186407
0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
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...
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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.
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Moses, Robert, 1888-1981
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2071
189.92 linear feet (430 boxes, 66 volumes)
Robert Moses (1888-1981) was an American public official and urban planner who played a major role in the development of the New York Metropolitan area and New York State in the 20th century. The Robert Moses papers span 1907 to 1980, covering...
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Robert Moses (1888-1981) was an American public official and urban planner who played a major role in the development of the New York Metropolitan area and New York State in the 20th century. The Robert Moses papers span 1907 to 1980, covering Moses' professional life leading public authorities. The papers detail the development of highways, bridges, tunnels, parks, infrastructure, and housing throughout New York City and State. The collection consists of correspondence and memoranda, drafts, published writing, reports, maps and designs, clippings, printed matter, press releases, speeches, and photographs.
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Wolfe, Tom
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 22833
98.03 linear feet (236 boxes, 1 volume, 4 oversize folders, 8 audio files)
Tom Wolfe is an American author and journalist known for such works as
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,
The Right Stuff, and
The Bonfire of the Vanities. He is a...
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Tom Wolfe is an American author and journalist known for such works as
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,
The Right Stuff, and
The Bonfire of the Vanities. He is a pioneer of the New Journalism and has been an outspoken advocate for the revival of social realism in American fiction. The Tom Wolfe papers, dated 1930 to 2016, comprehensively document Wolfe's career, providing insight into his writing process and the development of his signature style; the professional relationships he maintained with editors, writers, and cultural critics; his social life in New York City; and readers' responses to his published work. The collection includes draft manuscripts, outlines, research files, correspondence, lectures, photographs, and drawings.
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Israel, Marvin
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 24896
12.17 linear feet (33 boxes, 4 tubes, 14 oversize folders). 37.0 megabytes (16 computer files)
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...
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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.
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Donaldson, Stephen, 1946-1996
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 824
8.67 linear feet (22 boxes). 8 audio recordings
Stephen Donaldson was a writer, editor, and activist noted for his advocacy and writing on gay and bisexual politics, the sexual assault of incarcerated men, Indian religions, and punk rock music. Donaldson's papers document his varied career and...
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Stephen Donaldson was a writer, editor, and activist noted for his advocacy and writing on gay and bisexual politics, the sexual assault of incarcerated men, Indian religions, and punk rock music. Donaldson's papers document his varied career and personal history through manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and files for the unpublished
Concise Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. The collection addresses Donaldson's involvement in gay and bisexual rights activism, prison reform, and counter-cultural movements from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Didion, Joan
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 186276
146.68 linear feet (336 boxes, 5 oversize folders, 1 tube). 9.8 megabytes (201 computer files). 52 audio recordings. 19 video recordings
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...
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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.
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