The New School Archives And Special Collections

Miriam Kartch (1924-) was a longtime faculty member of Mannes School of Music, starting under Clara Damrosch Mannes in 1945 and retiring in 2015. This collection consists of administrative documents and notes from Kartch’s tenure at Mannes, most dating from the 1970s to 1990s.

Audio and video recordings, 1999-2007, of the New York summer program of the Missouri School of Journalism, held at The New School. The program formally launched in 2000 through a partnership established by Mary Kay Blakely of the Missouri School of Journalism. The program provided students with internships, professional experience and a multimedia course of study in New York City.

This collection mainly consists of Mokuba New York showroom press books, catalogues and color cards, all featuring the company's ribbon, trim and lace products. To a lesser extent, it contains documentation of the showroom's opening in 1999. The showroom, located at 137 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018, permanently closed in early 2020.

The papers of M.S. Handler, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and United Press Association, among other news outlets, includes correspondence, photographs, draft writings, research files, and press clippings. The records date from the early 1920s through 1981, with the bulk created between 1942 and 1969.

The New School in cooperation with the New York City bookstore, Murder Ink, hosted a public lecture series between 1993 and 1995 devoted to discussions and readings by popular writers of mystery and crime fiction. The collection consists of audio recordings from the series.

Between 1988 and 1990, The New School hosted an interview series, "Musicians on Music," organized and moderated by music critic Joan Thomson Kretschmer. The collection consists of analog audio and video tapes documenting Kretschmer and her guests at the university, including classical music conductors, singers, and performers.

The work of illustrators Naiad and Walter Einsel appeared in numerous publications from the 1950s to the 1990s. This collection includes personal papers, slides and photographs, original sketches, and samples of their professional work, as well as teaching materials from their courses on illustration.

The New School hosted the National Book Awards Finalist Readings from 1998 until 2019. This collection of audiovisual recordings documents nominated finalists reading their work at the university the night before the awards ceremony.

The scrapbook, compiled by Nellie Lane Woodruff (1867-circa 1944), contains ephemera about opera singer Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929). It appears from the contents of the scrapbook that Lehmann and Woodruff were acquaintances, if not friends. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, programs, and other ephemera documenting Lehmann's professional singing career at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Bayreuth Festival, and at other venues.

New Musicians at The New School was a classical music concert series offered by the New School for Social Research from 1985 to 1993. The collection consists of audio recordings of some of these concerts.