The New School Archives And Special Collections

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During the fall 2025 semester, Eugene Lang College students of Alhena Katsof’s Practicing Curating course curated an exhibition featuring silk panels that replicated the fresco murals by José Clemente Orozco entitled, A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood. The collection includes programs, posters, zines, and images of events held while the exhibition was on display.  

Abstract The collection consists of five photograph albums and three scrapbooks compiled by the designer, style arbiter, and Parsons School of Design administrator and president Van Day Truex (1904-1979). Truex's travels and social interactions are documented in the albums' captioned photographs, while scrapbooks chronicle his design and artistic successes. One scrapbook, annotated by Parsons faculty member Stanley Barrows, documents Truex's apartments and the home of his predecessor as president of...

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research institute affiliated with The New School that supports artists, hosts events, organizes exhibitions, and publishes books focused on culture and politics. The Vera List Center records include program files containing planning documents and promotional material, as well as publication and administrative files.

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Vera Zolberg (1932-2016) was a professor of sociology at The New School. This collection of Zolberg's papers includes manuscript drafts of Zolberg's books, articles, essays and reviews; correspondence; research files; departmental administrative documents; and biographical ephemera.

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Music manuscripts and books collected by Victor Hammer, including a copy of Ein Beitrag zur Ornamentik by Heinrich Schenker, musical sketches and three books of lute tablature, correspondence of Carolyn Reading Hammer with Clifford Wurfel and Robert Lang of the University of California at Riverside Library, a drawing of Hans Weisse by Victor Hammer, and manuscripts of compositions by Hans Weisse, with dedications to Victor Hammer.

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Violet Holsinger Mueller (1907-2003) studied fashion design at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1926 through 1929. She worked as an interior designer for Stix, Baer & Fuller, a St. Louis-based department store, and founded her own design consultancy in Belleville, Illinois. Her papers include personal materials, and documentation created during her studies at Parsons and her design career.

Abstract This collection contains physical and born-digital photographs, a sketchbook, a publication, and ephemera documenting Otto von Busch's exhibition, Vital Vogue: A Biosocial Perspective on Fashion, held in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of The New School, New York between March 16 and April 8, 2018, and inspired by Wilhelm Reich’s lectures at The New School for Social Research in 1940. As of 2024, Otto von Busch is Professor of Integrated Design at...

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The New School hosted the long-running annual conference, “Wall Street and the Economy," from 1967 until 1990. The conference participants were both individual and institutional investors in financial markets, and consisted of panel discussions aimed at providing economic forecasts for the coming year. The collection consists of sound recordings from the earlier years of the conference.

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Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer associated with opera and with early radio broadcasts of classical music. This collection contains scores collected and/or used by Damrosch, including his own piano arrangement of a Franz Liszt composition.

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Painter and illustrator Walter Stein (1924-1981) taught at Parsons School of Design from 1973 until his death. The collection consists of Stein's matted original watercolor illustrations, primarily depicting animals and plants, for the book, For Love of Her: Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1974.