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Collection of prints by eighteen British artists of the 1960s and 1970s

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0095-01
Abstract

The collection consists of work by eighteen artists who worked in the printmaking medium in Great Britain in the 1960s and 70s. Includes work by David Annesley, Patrick Caulfield, Pierre Celice, Bernard Cohen, Elisabeth Frink, Patrick Heron, Gordon House, John Hoyland, Patrick Hughes, Liliane Lijn, Kim Lim, Kenneth Martin, Nicholas Monro, Tom Phillips, Patrick Procktor, William Scott, Colin Self, and William Turnbull.

Dates: 1966 - 1979

Constance P. Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0057-01
Abstract

Constance P. Brown attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1913 to 1917, and worked as secretary to Frank Alvah Parsons in the teens or 1920s. The collection consists of correspondence from Parsons to Brown, faculty announcements, school circulars, interior decoration class rolls, clippings from 1913-1934, and correspondence with Parsons School of Design Alumni Association.

Dates: 1913 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1934

Conversations about Women event recordings

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-07-02-35
Abstract

Conversations about Women was an ongoing lecture series held at The New School, focusing on biographical and autobiographical writing about women. Historian and New School women’s studies professor Gina Luria Walker moderated the panels and lectures. The collection is comprised almost entirely of audio recordings, with one set of video recordings documenting Changing Health: Women's History.

Dates: 1993-1995

Conversations with Actors event recordings

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-07-02-34
Abstract

Theater critic and biographer Martin Gottfriend organized and moderated the event series, “Conversations with Actors,” at The New School every semester from Summer 1991 through Spring 1994. Each session featured group interviews with well-known actors, especially New York City-based stage actors. The collection consists of audio recordings of the interviews.

Dates: circa 1991-1994

Cory Benett Bloomingdale's shopping bag collection

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0149-01
Summary

The collection consists of over one hundred shopping bags, primarily produced by Bloomingdale's department store and acquired by Cory Benett, a Bloomingdale's employee, for his personal enjoyment. The mostly paper bags feature art and design work by major designers, artists, and photographers of the late 1970s through the early 1990s. The collection also contains a small number of bags from other retailers.

Dates: 1975-1999

Countdown to Eternity: Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s

 Item
Identifier: KA-0097-01
Abstract

This collection consists of an introductory booklet to Benedict J. Fernandez's portfolio of photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr., taken in the last year of King's life, Countdown to Eternity: Photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960's. Fernandez was founder of the photography program at Parsons School of Design, serving as chair from 1981-1994.

Dates: 1989

Dan Arje papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0001-01
Summary

Dan Arje (1923-1993) was a designer and display director for Bonwit Teller. The collection primarily consists of albums of photographs and news clippings about Arje's displays, and correspondence regarding his decorating work for the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including decoration of the White House Christmas tree. Also present are materials about Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's designer Gene Moore.

Dates: 1949 - 1981

Daniel Lashen student work

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0053-01
Summary

Interior design sketches and detail studies from Daniel Lashen's studies at Parsons School of Design in New York and in Italy. Lashen graduated from Parsons in 1950.

Dates: 1947 - 1950

David C. Levy records

 Record Group
Identifier: PC-01-04-01
Abstract David Corcos Levy served as dean of Parsons School of Design from 1970 until 1989. The bulk of these records were generated between 1970 and 1984, after the merger of Parsons and the New School for Social Research, and consist of memos, correspondence, reports, and subject files related to Levy's administrative tenure. Correspondents include a range of New School and Parsons administrators, including New School president John R. Everett. Categories and subjects represented...
Dates: 1949 - 1992, undated

David Hahn École Libre papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0031-01
Abstract

The collection contains administrative documents, letters of support, remarks, photographs, and ephemera gathered by David Hahn, business manager of the École Libre des Hautes Études.

Dates: 1942; 1953