John Russo papers
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA016101
Content Description
Approximately 50 16mm films, as well as bulletins, promotional material, exhibition announcements, alumni memory books, and other ephemera, student, alumni, faculty work, and work by Russo. A small amount of biographical information, as well as a film about Russo are included (provided on DVD and tape? tbd). Includes a thumb drive with slides of student work that Russo [or his daughter?] digitized.
Dates
- 1905-2007
- Majority of material found within 1954-1981
Creator
- Russo, John J. (Person)
Extent
6.166 Cubic Feet (2 boxes, 4 oversized folders (2 OSx, 1 OSxx, 1 OSxxx), 1 tube [contents may be able to be flattened--TBD], 1 loose film can)
40 16mm Film (16mm films [number is placeholder -- update])
1 u-matic
1 Analog Recordings (super-8 film)
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use. All of the material in Series 1. have been digitized. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Conditions Governing Use
To publish material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from the New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical Note
John J. Russo (1920-2012) graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1942 and was a faculty member of the Communication Design Department beginning in 1946 when it was called Advertising Design. When Illustration became a separate department in the early 1950s, he also taught in the Illustration Department. Russo became chair of the Communication Design Department -- then called Graphic Design (it would be named Communication Design in 1972) -- during the 1970-1971 academic year and retired in 1985.
Arrangement
Organized alphabetically in 2 series: 1. Analog film and video; 2. Graphic design projects, artists' books, and other work.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Joan Russo, John Russo's daughter, in 2022.
Processing Information
2022KA06_D001:
1 mp4 file transferred from a DVD using VLC media player (Single Date: June 11, 2007)
2022KA06_D002:
1,047 JPEG files transferred from a USB drive with Teracopy (Date Range: December 13 2019 - February 07 2022)
Processing Information
Film titles are derived from the inscriptions on the film containers and/or from the reels themselves.
- Title
- Guide to the John Russo papers
- Status
- In Process
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin