The New School Archives And Special Collections

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 recordings 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.

The New School accounting records consist of files from the Office of the Treasurer and other administrative offices documenting the finances of the university. These include construction files, financial statements from 1930-1959, and ledgers with receipts and accounts payable dating from the 1930s-1970s.

These records were created by the dean's office of the adult education division of The New School (as of 2022, Schools of Public Engagement), and predominantly reflect the activities of two deans, William Birenbaum and Allen Austill, 1961-1979. A subset of records document the formation of New School College in the 1960s, the Institute for Retired Professionals, and the Physicians Assistant program. A number of files are restricted due to confidentiality.

The New School Alumni Relations records contains lists of alumni, reunion invitations, and promotional material.