Subjects include: Max AscoliCharles A. BeardThomas Hart BentonBrochures, courses: New School concerts and lecturesMinna Citron (American printmaker, exhibited at New School)Horace B. Davis (labor historian, activist, New School instructor)Caroline O'Day (American politician, first female Democrat elected to Congress, New School guest lecturer )Camilo Egas Robert Frost (American poet, New School guest lecturer)J.B.S. Haldane (British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, New School guest lecturer)Richard Neutra (Viennese-born architect, New School...

Subjects include:

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)

Subjects include:

Administrative document (typewritten): "Discussion of the position and policy of the New School for Social Research"

American Artists Congress: formation of, and events held at New School

Thomas Hart Benton

José Clemente Orozco

Promotional booklet: 66 West 12th Street building (includes list of Board of Directors, Instructors, and Lecturers, 1919-1930)

WPA Harlem Hospital mural controversy: New School student protests

Subjects include:

Thomas Hart Benton

Anita Block

Fritz Eichenburg (German-born illustrator, New School instructor)

Robert Frost: lecture series at the New School

Alexander Goldenweiser (Russian-born anthropologist and sociologist, New School instructor)

Horace M. Kallen

Harry Allen Overstreet (Chair, Philosophy Department at City College of New York, New School instructor)

James Harvey Robinson (American historian and educator, co-founder and first director of New School)

Charles W. Smith (American printmaker, New School instructor)

66 West 12th Street building

Subjects include: Emilo Amero (Mexican-born artist, New School instructor)Artists’ Union (established in New York City in 1934. Advocated for more positions within the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP), better pay and working conditions): meetings held at New SchoolJoseph Blumenthal (American typographer, bookmaker, co-founder of the Spiral Press, New School instructor)Aaron Copland (American composer, New School instructor)Camilo EgasNew York Folk Festival CouncilYasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese-born painter, New School instructor)"The Ten" (Whitney Museum Dissenters, a nine-member artists group comprised of Joseph Solman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Schanker, Yankel Kufeld, Lee Gatch, Ben Zion, Loius Harris, M. Rothkowitz, and Adolph Gottlieb): New School exhibitionAlexander Woollcott (American literary and...