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Robert Adams papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-4150
Scope and Contents: The collection documents the life and career of American photographer Robert Adams, including photographs, correspondence, clippings, writings, posters, printed material, born digital material, and audiovisual material. Photographs include landscape photographs throughout the western United States, portraits, family photographs, and photographs of Adams’s exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad. Also present are posters for Adams’s exhibitions, reviews of...
Dates: circa 1880-2018, bulk 1950-2018

American Life collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 748
Overview: An artificial collection of correspondence, advertisements, brochures, broadsides, newspapers, magazines, posters, programs, printed material, and miscellanea relating to American life and culture, ca.1824-1952.
Dates: 1824-1952

Yehuda Amichai papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 572
Overview: The Yehuda Amichai Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, journals, photographs, printed material, audio-visual and other materials documenting the life and work of Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.
Dates: 1929-2007

Eve Arnold papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 611
Overview: The Eve Arnold Papers contains her photographs, contact sheets, negatives, slides, transparencies, diaries, film production files, correspondence, writings by and about Arnold, printed materials, and ephemera that document her career as a member of the Magnum Photos cooperative. In addition, the collection contains audiovisual materials including motion picture film, videocassettes, sound recordings, and computer media.
Dates: 1950-2005

Marcel-Louis Baugniet collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 900
Overview: The collection includes material designed by Baugniet including original drawings for advertisements and other ephemera, printed versions of advertisements and sheet music, posters and ephemera related to Baugniet's exhibitions, and a periodical featuring an article on his wife Akarova.
Dates: 1922-1936

Roberta Bayley photographs and papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1603
Overview: The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, diaries, personal papers, scrapbooks, artwork, professional papers, printed materials, posters, a t-shirt, audiovisual materials, and computer media documenting the work and life of American photographer Roberta Bayley and the punk rock music and culture that emerged from downtown New York in the 1970s. Photographs by Bayley include black and white negatives, color negatives, color slides and transparencies, black and white proofs, vintage...
Dates: 1950-2019

Douglas Joseph Bennet papers

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Call Number: MS 1433
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, notes, printed material, and clippings which document Douglas Bennet's service as an official in the Office of Price Administration and his role as adviser and personal friend of Chester Bowles. The papers include numerous letters between Bennet and Bowles as well as Bowles's correspondence with others. Subject files relate to Bennet and Bowles's work in OPA, Connecticut politics, and India.
Dates: 1941-1977

Gianni Bertini papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 970
Overview: The collection consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, posters, visual poetry, artwork, writings, audiovisual materials, and electronic media documenting the life and work of Gianni Bertini. Correspondence includes letters from artists, galleries, and others. Notable correspondents include P. A. Benoit, Jean-Franc?ois Bory, Henri Chopin, Jacqueline de Jong, Jean Dubuffet, Jean-Clarence Lambert, Sarenco, and Serge Vandercam. Artwork includes examples of MEC-Art (mechanical artwork),...
Dates: 1946-2010

Lee Breuer papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1392
Content Description: This collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, posters, puppets, printed material, personal papers, realia, and other materials created by or relating to the life and work of Lee Breuer.
Dates: 1920-2020

Henri Chopin papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 868
Overview: The Henri Chopin Papers document the work and life of French avant-garde poet and musician Henri Chopin. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, subject files, writings relating to various publications, artwork, writings of others, photographs, audiovisual materials, and posters spanning the years 1948 to 2009.
Dates: 1948-2009, bulk 1960-2007

Crawford Theater collection

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Call Number: MS 1387
Overview: The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.
Dates: 1663-1992

Tom and Judy Dawson Collection of Playing Card Ephemera

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1608
Scope and Contents: This collection contains playing card-related material collected by Tom and Judy Dawson over 35 years. Its focus is on the playing card industry but also explores the popular culture of playing card imagery and its social impact. A highlight of the Dawsons' collection is early standard American and Canadian playing cards and ephemera related to the cards and their makers. Ephemera includes sample books, billheads, correspondence, advertising materials, trade cards, calendars, invitations,...
Dates: 1650-2014

Dimension records

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Call Number: YCGL MSS 29
Overview: The Dimension Records document the creation and publication of Dimension by its founder and editor, A. Leslie Willson. The collection contains subject files concerning authors and translators of German literature; drafts of writings and translations published in Dimension; drafts and proofs for Dimension, including most issues in volumes 1-19 and several special issues; subscription and other business records for Dimension; writings and translations of A. Leslie Willson; a small amount of...
Dates: 1962-2007, bulk 1968-1994

Richard Erdoes papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2609
Overview: Correspondence, writings, audio and moving image recordings, photographic materials, subject files, printed ephemera, art work, and other materials created or collected by Richard Erdoes (1912-2008), author of more than a dozen books about American Indian life. The collection primarily documents Erdoes's activities between 1968 and 1999, and is useful for the study of his writing process and research interests, specifically his work with American Indian individuals and communities. His papers...
Dates: 1920-2008, bulk 1965-1998

Haim Gamzu Collection of Israeli Theater

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1426
Overview: The Haim Gamzu Collection of Israeli Theater includes production programs, newspaper clippings and other printed material; production photographs; and posters. The material documents the development of theatrical production in Israel from the 1920s through the 1950s. Theaters represented include Habimah, Hamatateh, Ohel, Te'atron ha-Kameri shel Tel-Aviv, and others. Additional material includes photographs and printed material about Israeli actor Ari Kutai, and caricature drawings of...
Dates: 1921-1958

German poster and postcard collection

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Call Number: MS 1810
Overview: The German Poster and Postcard Collection consists of approximately 2400 posters and 150 postcards from East and West Germany depicting countercultural, political, and propaganda themes from the 1970s to 1990. A small number of newspapers and pamphlets are included in the collection.
Dates: 1970-1990

Ghana collection

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Call Number: MS 1519
Overview: The collection consists of correspondence, printed material, writings, photographs, ephemera, and posters relating to the history of the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) and the current political, economic, and social conditions.
Dates: 1877-2012

Witold Gombrowicz archive

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Call Number: GEN MSS 515
Overview: The archive consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, audiovisual material and memorabilia documenting Gombrowicz's life and literary activity chiefly during the last two decades of his life (1949-69).Series I, Correspondence, contains personal and professional correspondence. There is correspondence with family, Polish and European literary and cultural figures, other Polish emigres, and Latin American friends and writers. There is considerable correspondence...
Dates: 1902-1998

Henry Samuel Hacker collection

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Call Number: MS 1612
Overview: The collection comprises printed material, including books, posters, postcards, and related ephemera, that pertain to the country of Germany, its people, history, and culture. The bulk of the material relates to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (Nazi Party). The majority of items cover the years 1927 to 1947.
Dates: 1927-2001, bulk 1927-1947

Lance Hidy Collection

 Collection
Call Number: AOB 44
Overview: The Lance Hidy Collection documents the process of book design and illustration through correspondence, proofs, and other ephemera. Of particular note is the documentation of Losing Things at Mr. Mudd’s, the first children’s picture book to be created on the computer. The collection also contains a good representation of poster designs.
Dates: 1967-1991