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NA. New School Personal and Subject-Specific Papers

 Record Group
Identifier: NA

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Frieda Wunderlich papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0002-01
Summary

Frieda Wunderlich (1884-1965) was a member of the University-in-Exile (also known as the Graduate Faculty, and later as the New School for Social Research). A professor, public official and editor of an anti-Nazi magazine in her native Germany, Wunderlich came to the New School in 1933 and continued her social and economic research while teaching into the 1950s. The collection consists of files and topically-themed notebooks.

Dates: circa 1912-1960s

Hiram Halle home movies of annual barbecue for University in Exile at Pound Ridge

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0008-01
Abstract

The collection comprises two home movies made during the annual fall barbecue Halle held for members of the University in Exile and their families, as well as New School staff, on Halle's property in Pound Ridge, New York, in Poundridge, Westchester County.

Dates: probably 1935, 1937

Ingrith Deyrup diaries and paintings

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0013-01
Summary

Ingrith Deyrup (1919-2004) was a daughter of Alvin Johnson, president of the New School from 1922-1946. The collection consists of a diary that Ingrith kept as a teenager, as well as six small landscape paintings. The diaries provide an intimate look at the life of a New York family deeply immersed in the cultural, artistic, and social life of Manhattan in the 1930s, through the eyes of the 15 and 16-year old Ingrith.

Dates: 1934 - 1935

Jeffrey Goldfarb papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0016-01
Overview This collection consists of the papers of Jeffrey Goldfarb, the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at The New School. The collection contains teaching files; materials relating to Goldfarb's work in Poland; correspondence; and manuscripts for Goldfarb's published books. Also included are manuscripts of papers delivered at conferences, book reviews, prospectuses, and materials relating to Goldfarb's studies at the University of Chicago. Also found herein are materials...
Dates: 1953-2015; Majority of material found within 1976-2000

Jo Townson collection of Mobilization papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0021-01
Abstract This collection consists of material created and assembled by New School alumna Jo Townson in the course of her activism with the Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice in the mid-1990s. The Mobilization was a student-led protest movement at The New School during the 1996-1997 academic year. The materials include Mobilization fliers, pamphlets, and meeting notes, as well as material collected by the Mobilization. This material includes papers from the...
Dates: 1987 - 1997

John R. Everett papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0017-01
Summary

The collection consists of John Everett's work from his positions at Hollins College, City University of New York, Encyclopedia Britannica, and The New School for Social Research. Contents include correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, reports and statements. Of special interest may be materials related to the New School’s 1970 student occupation, and Everett's writings opposing desegregation and the 1968 student protests.

Dates: 1944 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1982

Jonathan F. Fanton papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0027-01
Abstract

Jonathan F. Fanton (1943 - ) was the president of The New School from 1982 until 1999. This collection contains material documenting his career as a university and charitable foundation administrator at Yale University, the University of Chicago, The New School, Human Rights Watch, the MacArthur Foundation, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and other organizations.

Dates: 1934-2018; Majority of material found within 1965-2018

Mark Schmidt collection of Mobilization materials

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0020-01
Abstract

Mark Schmidt is an alumnus of Eugene Lang College at The New School who took part in the Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice. The Mobilization was a campus movement during the 1996-1997 school year that protested the firing of Professor M. Jacqui Alexander, an Afro-Carribbean feminist scholar and Graduate Faculty member. This small collection of materials, assembled by Schmidt, includes photographs and a video.

Dates: 1996-1997

Maurice Edwards papers documenting the work of graphologist Klara G. Roman

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0010-01
Abstract

This collection primarily consists of correspondence, articles, and proofs related to the publication of graphologist and New School faculty member Klara Roman's (1881-1962) book, Encyclopedia of the Written Word. The materials were assembled by actor, director, and author Maurice Edwards (1922-2020) in his capacity as Roman's assistant and posthumous co-editor (with Rose Wolfson). The files also hold items related to Edwards's theater career.

Dates: 1949 - 1973

Michele Alexander collection on the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0024-01
Abstract

The Michele Alexander collection on the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women (ITCW) consists of reports, ephemera, clippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting this event, held in Brussels, March 4-8, 1976. The ITCW consisted of personal testimony, the presentation of reports by various national committees, and workshops on problems and potential solutions, discrimination against women worldwide, and gender-based violence.

Dates: 1972-1976