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Dede Emerson photographs

Call Number

PR 430

Date

2005 April-2008 January, inclusive

Creator

Emerson, Dede

Extent

.2 Linear feet in 1 document box
1.11 Gigabytes (1,694 Files, 214 Folders)

Language of Materials

The collection is primarily photographic, but text content is in English.

Abstract

The collection includes over 1,500 color photographs taken by Dede Emerson of buildings and street life as she walked in Manhattan from 215th Street to the Battery between April 24, 2005 and January 26, 2008.

Biographical / Historical

Dede Emerson was born and raised in northern Minnesota. She came to New York in the fifties to study jazz piano improvisation at Juilliard and never returned home preferring instead the stimulation of the New York scene. She enjoyed several years as a successful jazz pianist in the New York area working with her own trio or quartet. Pursuing her music career took a back seat after she took a 6-month trip around the world in 1963. The impact of seeing poverty and misery in so many of the countries she visited, brought her to the United Nations where for 30 years she concentrated her efforts as an economic development officer on bettering the lives of people in third world countries. While at the United Nations she went on over sixty missions and worked in its offices overseas. To date she has been in 91 countries.

On April 24, 2005 she began the first of her walks that would result in her walking every single block, street, nook, and cranny of Manhattan taking more than 2,000 pictures along the way of the offbeat, yet normal side of Manhattan. The end result has been her first book, "A Different Kind of Streetwalker…Manhattan by Foot, One Block at a Time" published by Booksurge in 2009.

She lives in Ossining, New York.

Source: http://www.dedeemerson.com

Scope and Contents

The collection includes over 1,500 color photographs taken by Dede Emerson of buildings and street life as she walked in Manhattan from 215th Street to the Battery between April 24, 2005 and January 26, 2008. These digital photos are in JPG digital format. Some of these photographs were used in her book, "A Different Kind of Streetwalker…Manhattan by Foot, One Block at a Time." In addition to the digital files, boxed documents include 52 6x4 color photographic prints that are glued to paper backing, with captions included on the paper, as well as a separate printed inventory list of the digital files.

Access Restrictions

Open to qualified researchers in N-YHS's Reading Room by appointment only. To schedule an appointment, contact the Print Room Librarian at printroom@nyhistory.org. The digital files can be made available online for viewing only. To arrange to receive a link to the desired photographs, contact the Print Room Librarian at printroom@nyhistory.org.

Use Restrictions

Taking images of documents from the library collections for reference purposes by using hand-held cameras and in accordance with the library's photography guidelines is encouraged. As an alternative, patrons may request up to 20 images per day from staff. Application to use images from this collection for publication should be made in writing to: Department of Rights and Reproductions, The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024-5194, rightsandrepro@nyhistory.org. Phone: (212) 873-3400 ext. 282.

Copyrights and other proprietary rights may subsist in individuals and entities other than the New-York Historical Society, in which case the patron is responsible for securing permission from those parties. For fuller information about rights and reproductions from N-YHS visit: https://www.nyhistory.org/about/rights-reproductions

Preferred Citation

The collection should be cited as: Dede Emerson photographs, PR 430, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, New-York Historical Society.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the photographer, Dede Emerson, in 2018 and 2019.

Collection processed by

Margo Padilla

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-09-05 11:23:39 -0400.
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Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

Processed by digital archivist Margo Padilla in December 2021. Digital photos were transferred off 2 CDs to permanent N-YHS storage using TeraCopy. Duplicate photos (3,971), empty folders, temporary files, and unnecessary system files were removed from the collection using TreeSize. All files were scanned for viruses and malware using ClamWin Antivirus and Malwarebytes.

Repository

New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024