Summary

This collection consists of course catalogs from The New School, including continuing education courses, Eugene Lang College, the Dramatic Workshop of The New School, New School Art Workshops and the New School for Social Research, formerly known as the Graduate Faculty.

Summary

The New School Publicity Scrapbook collection consists of fifty-seven scrapbooks compiled for internal administrative use between 1919, when The New School was founded, through 1953. The scrapbooks include newspaper articles and editorials, and administrative documents and correspondence, course catalogs--or Bulletins--weekly supplemental pamphlets (also called Bulletins), ephemera, promotional materials, and invitations to New School events.

Newspaper clipping content includes political and cultural news of the day as it pertained to people and events affiliated with The New School, New School curricula, notable public speaking engagements at The New School, news about guest lecturers, faculty, students and alumni.

Subjects include: Includes: New School course schedules and promotional materials--Thorsten Veblen--Modernist Art exhibition at the New School (1931)--Alvin Johnson (Swedish language)--Thomas Hart Benton murals--Copy of a letter from Albert Einstein to Dr.Jacob Billikopf (1941)--Copy of a letter from Abel Cruz Santos, Consul General of Columbia to Dr.Alvin Johnson (1940).Alfred Adler (Austrian psychoanalyst, New School instructor)Thomas Hart BentonAaron Copland (American composer, New School instructor)Correspondence: Abel Cruz Santos (Consul General of Colombia) to Alvin JohnsonCorrespondence: Albert Einstein to Jacob Billikopf (Russian émigré labor leader, philanthropist)Henry CowellClarence Darrow (American lawyer, New School guest lecturer)José Clemente...

Subjects include: "Jazz Age" article with quotes from F.Scott Fitzgerald and George Gershwin--motion picture studies at the New School--Arthur Weiser (architect)--Alvin Johnson and Adult Education--Camillo Egas exhibition--"Causes of the Depression" editorial--John Martin Dance Course--Joseph Jastrow--Frank Lloyd Wright--Waldo Frank--Nicholas Slominsky--Soviet School of Expression puppet shows--Francis Anne Ballard--Leon Theremin--Henry Cowell and the Rhythmicon--Radio City Music Hall murals controversy (student protests over the use of foreign artists).Henry Cowell and Leon Theremin: co-invention of the RhythmiconCamilo Egas (Equadorian-born painter, New School Director of Art beginning in 1935)Waldo Frank (American novelist, social critic, New School instructor)Joseph Jastrow (Polish-born...

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Includes: Henry Cowell lectures and demonstrations---Anita Block--Marioinette festival--Judith Litante--"From Sun to Sun" Zora Neal Hurston concert--Dessoff Choirs--"Psychoanalysis and the Child", Fritz Wittels--G.A. Borghese--Gan Kolski suicide

Anita Block (co-founder, editor of the New York Call 1919-1923, drama critic, New School guest lecturer)

G.A. Borghese (Giuseppe Antonio Borghese; Italian writer, literary critic, New School instructor)

Henry Cowell

Gan Kolski (Polish-born printmaker): exhibition at New School; suicide in New York City in 1932

Zora Neal Hurston (African American anthropologist, author): New School performance of her African American folk music program, "From Sun to Sun"

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The American Artists Congress (founded in February 1936 as part of the popular front of the Communist Party to unite graphic artists in projects to combat the spread of fascism): meetings held at New School

Henry Cowell

Arthur Garfield Hayes, (American lawyer, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, New School guest lecturer)

Inaugural live radio broadcast: "Forum of the Air on Contemporary Issues," collaboration between WHN and New School

Max Lerner (American journalist, New School instructor)

New York Folk Festival Council: performances at New School

José Clemente Orozco

United Neighborhood Houses WPA theatre project (sponsored by New School)