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...

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American Artists Congress Second Annual Meeting: held at New School

Artist's Union-Federal Art Project: art exhibition at New School

Joseph Jastrow (Professor of Psychology, New School)

Thomas Hart Benton

José Clemente Orozco

Thomas Mann, "Freud, Goethe, Wagner" essays delivered as lectures at the New School, April 1937

Gorham Munson (American literary critic, New School instructor)

Promotional pamphlet: The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science

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Includes: University in Exile; Dance performance reviews--Slyvia Chen debut; numerous clippings of "The Dance" news column from the New York Times

University in Exile

Emil Lederer (Bohemian-born economist and sociologist, New School instructor)

Fernando de los Rios (Spanish-born Socialist theorist, New School instructor)

Hans Simons

Frieda Wunderlich

Subjects include: Peggy Bacon (American artist, printmaker, New School guest lecturer)Thomas Hart BentonLadislas Czettel (Hungarian-born costume designer, New School guest lecturer)Hanns Eisler (Austrian-born composer, New School instructor)Yasuo KuniyoshiErwin Piscator (German-born theater director, founder of the Dramatic Workshop at the New School)"A Southern Tragedy: A Photo-Document by Eliot Elisofon Based on the Book These Are Our Lives," exhibition at the New School (1940)United American Artists, second annual exhibition at the New School (1940)Rockefeller Foundation grant funding to the New School for music in film production (1940)Stanley William Hayter (British-born printmaker, New School faculty)Alexander Alland (Russian-born photographer): press regarding documentary photograph exhibition...

Subjects include: Berenice Abbott Alvin Corporation (relief project chartered by Alvin Johnson, 1939)Roger N. Baldwin (Director of American Civil Liberties Union, New School instructor)Thomas Hart BentonThe Cradle Will Rock (dramatic production): New Theatre League/Flatbush Players production at New SchoolChang Shun Hsin (Chinese émigré painter): art exhibition at New SchoolUnited American Sculptors Union: 1939 exhibition at the New School (affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations)University in ExileWorks Progress Administration (WPA): concert series held at New SchoolPaul Zucker (Art historian, New School...