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KA. Kellen Design Archives Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: KA

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Lorraine Fox offprints, transparencies, and tear sheets

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0015-01
Summary

Lorraine Fox (1922-1976) began her career in commercial illustration in the 1940s, becoming one of the most celebrated female illustrators of the mid-20th century. The collection, spanning the final decade of Fox's life, includes proofs, transparencies and tear sheets of album covers, book illustrations, greeting cards, and advertisements. Fox taught at Parsons School of Design from 1965 until shortly before her death in 1976.

Dates: 1964 - 1976

Lucie Porges fashion design papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0139-01
Summary

The Lucie Porges fashion design papers include biographical materials, fashion sketches, fashion illustrations and fashion photographs, and teaching records. It is of a primarily professional nature, with little documentation of Porges's personal life. The primary activities documented are Porges's fashion design work for Pauline Trigère and her teaching activities at Parsons School of Design.

Dates: 1950 - 2011

Luis Rey student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0116
Summary

Luis Rey graduated from the Interior Design Department of Parsons School of Design in 1967. The collection consists of student projects, primarily in the form of drawings and plans, executed by Rey for his courses between 1964 and 1967.

Dates: 1964 - 1967

Lyman Martin interior decoration work and papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0031-01
Summary

Lyman Martin (1908-2003) graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1939 and joined Thedlow, an interior decoration firm. At Thedlow, Martin created interiors and watercolor renderings, and designed rugs and murals. In 1969, Martin became president of Thedlow, remaining until its closure in 1979. The collection includes student work, interior drawings, a travel diary, floorplans, photographs, clippings, and exhibition files.

Dates: 1928 - 1992

Margaret Hodge Company project files

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0049
Summary

After graduating from Parsons School of Design in 1945, Margaret Hodge became director of fashion marketing at Vogue, and in 1967 formed her own fashion publicity firm. Hodge led various marketing campaigns integrating the fashion of Hollywood films. The collection mainly consists of Hollywood promotional material, including publicity photographs, press kits, announcements and tear sheets. Most of the material was produced from 1962 to 1976.

Dates: 1945 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1976

Margaret Lange student notebook

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0050
Abstract

Margaret Louise Lange's notebook, produced while a student of Costume Design and Illustration at Parsons School of Design, 1938-1939, includes lecture notes, sketches, color studies and fashion clippings.

Dates: 1938 - 1939

Margaret McKay Tee papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0094-01
Abstract

Margaret McKay Tee (1882-1955) came to New York from Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1902 to attend Cooper Union. Frank Alvah Parsons later hired Tee as a student instructor at the New York School of Art. After returning to Colorado, Tee carried on a correspondence with Parsons. Tee's papers include letters from Parsons, photographs of Tee's paintings, and an autobiographical essay relating Tee’s upbringing and her experiences as a young art student.

Dates: 1908 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1908 - 1924

Margaret Schmid Hartelius student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0079
Summary

Consists of two illustrations completed by Margaret Schmid (1922-2001) for an advertising design course at Parsons School of Design. After graduating in 1947. Schmid, whose name changed when she married Paul Hartelius, Jr., went on to a successful fifty-year career as an illustrator and children's book author.

Dates: 1946 - 1947

Margaret Susan Daniell papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0127
Summary

The Margaret Susan Daniell papers consist of biographical materials, a student notebook and drawings from her education at Parsons School of Design in the late 1920s, and two photographs. Daniell (1907-1998) studied fashion design at Parsons and later worked at Paramount Studios.

Dates: circa 1928-2011; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1929

Margery S. Knight sketchbooks

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0028
Summary

Margery Knight (1906-1994) taught figure drawing and fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design from 1946 to 1969. The twelve sketchbooks in this collection, dating from the 1950s to 1980, contain rapid figure and fashion sketches, lecture notes, and anatomy studies.

Dates: circa 1951-1980