Guide to the George Amberg and Robert Gessner Papers 1913-1978 (Bulk 1940-1970) MC199

The George Amberg and Robert Gessner Papers contains the personal and professional papers of George Amberg and Robert Gessner. The bulk of the collection was created by Gessner. The collection documents the development of University film education, the formation of The Society of Cinematologists, and Gessner's career as a screenwriter, novelist, and poet. Amberg's work at New York University, the University of Minnesota, and the Minneapolis School of Art is also documented.

Guide to the Andiron Club of New York City 1907-1982 (Bulk 1930-1955) MC 19

The collection documents the operation of the Club since its founding. Included are correspondence with members and visiting speakers; minutes of Council and general meetings; curricula vitae and lists of the membership; financial records; photographs; publications; and reprints.

Guide to Beverly Sprague Allen Literary Manuscripts and Lecture Notes, 1912-1934 MC 8

Collection contains manuscripts and lecture notes of Allen, Beverly Sprague (1881-1935). Allen was a literary scholar who held numerous teaching positions before coming to New York University (1914-1934) where he taught a number of courses for the English department. During the First World War, he taught at L'Ecole Militaire de Artilerie in France. He was also was widely published, and manuscripts for some part of this work is included in this collection.

Guide to the Ralph E. Pickett Papers 1954-1980 MSS 52

The papers are primarily typewritten manuscripts of Pickett's unpublished fiction. There are also some handwritten notes and outlines which have been interfiled with the fiction to which it refers.

Inventory to the Records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities 1965-1984 (RG 21.1)

In 1965 the New York State Board of Regents awarded New York State University the funds to create an Albert Schweitzer chair in the Humanities as part of a state-wide attempt to improve higher learning. Several chairs, five of which were designated by the State Legislature as the Albert Schweitzer Chair and five as the Albert Einstein Chair in Science, were intended to attract the world's most renowned scholars to New York State's higher educational community. The inventory to the Records of the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities chronicles the records of this position from 1965-1984. The recipients of the additional chairs were City University of New York, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Fordham University, however such chairs are not recorded in this inventory.

Guide to the Ralph Adimari Papers 1931-1970 (Bulk 1957-1963) MSS 28A

Ralph T. Adimari (1902-1970) was an editor, researcher, and historian of the dime novel, a class of popular fiction that thrived in the mid to late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. The Ralph Adimari Papers contain records of Adimari's research, including correspondence, notebooks, clippings, photographs, and ephemera.

Guide to the James Beard Papers 1919-1985 (Bulk 1965-1981) MSS 139

This small collection of materials related to the noted cookbook author and food industry consultant James Beard includes selected correspondence, clippings, photographs, and personal effects.

Guide to the William J. Benners Papers 1850-1940 (Bulk 1880-1920) MSS 28B

William J. Benners, (1863-1940), was a writer, publisher, and historian of dime novels, a class of popular fiction that flourished in the mid to late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. The William J. Benners Papers consist of letters to Benners from family members, various authors, and publishers, fragments of dime novel manuscripts, several research and accounting notebooks, and miscellany such as scrapbooks and photos. The collection includes material on and belonging to Benners gathered by Ralph Adimari during Adimari's extensive research on the history of the dime novel. It also includes some personal papers of dime novel authors Charles Garvice and Emma A. B. Sharkey (pseud. Mrs. E. Burke Collins), and publisher Frank Tousey.

Guide to the Papers of Abby Weed Grey 1922-1978 MC 151

The Abby Weed Grey Papers span the years 1922-1978, with the bulk of the material covering the period 1960-1974. The papers document Mrs. Grey's world travels, published and unpublished works, and her collection and exhibiting of art.

Guide to the Love Magazine Archive 1965-1968 (Bulk 1966-1967) Acc. #00.17; MSS. #17

The Love Magazine Archive consists of correspondence with and manuscripts sent to Love's editor, Al Young. The collection includes original poetry, fiction and plays from noted underground writers of the time.

Guide to the Ralph E. Pickett Papers 1954-1980 MSS 52

The papers are primarily typewritten manuscripts of Pickett's unpublished fiction. There are also some handwritten notes and outlines which have been interfiled with the fiction to which it refers.

Guide to the Margaret Strickland Papers 1880-1970 MSS 77

The Margaret Strickland Papers are a diverse collection of materials featuring the original typescripts of Strickland's biographical works, novels, plays, short stories, and short non-fiction works, as well as correspondence, hand-written and illustrated magazines, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Guide to the Andrew Haswell Green Collection 1843-1911

The collection includes materials by planner and preservationist Andrew Haswell Green and others documenting Green's career and service to New York City. The materials in this collection form the basis for John Foord's 1913 Life and Public Services of Andrew Haswell Green.

My Own Magazine Archive 1963-1965 MSS #18

The My Own Magazine Archive contains correspondence and submissions made to the editor, Jeff Nuttall. Submissions included are manuscripts from William Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg. This collection also incorporates The Moving Times, a magazine edited by William Burroughs.

Guide to the David Trinidad Papers ca. 1970-2002 MSS 106

Born in California in 1953, David Trinidad is a poet and teacher. He studied under Ann Stanford, Allen Ginsberg and Joan Larkin, and early in his career, he was the editor and publisher of Sherwood Press which published titles by such poets as: Dennis Cooper, Amy Gerstler, Tim Dlugos, and Alice Notley. Trinidad's own books of poems include: Pavane (1981); Monday, Monday (1985); Living Doll (1986); November (1987); Three Stories (1988); A Taste of Honey, with Bob Flanagan (1990); Answer Song (1994); Plasticville, (2000). He has been associated with the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California and has an M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College. Currently Director of the Graduate Poetry Program at Columbia College in Chicago, he was previously on the Core Faculty of the M.F.A. Program at the New School in Manhattan. He has also taught at Princeton, Rutgers, and Antioch (Los Angeles).

Guide to the Henry Barnard Papers 1765-1935 (Bulk 1830-1899) MSS 33

The Henry Barnard Papers of Fales Library holds a substantial portion of the manuscript materials collected and authored by Henry Barnard (1811-1900), a nineteenth century educationalist and prominent member of the Common School Reform movement. He joined with many of his era's most respected educators in advocating the improvement of public education in the United States, a pursuit which dominated his career as a scholar, orator, and politician. Barnard was particularly involved in expanding the literature describing the history, practice, and theories of education and teaching; over the course of his life he wrote extensively on these subjects and established multiple periodicals dedicated to them, including the American Journal of Education. The collection at Fales Library is composed primarily of correspondence, much of which is of a routine business nature, but also includes some of Barnard's diaries, draft versions of articles published in his journals, and images of Barnard's correspondents. It also contains typed transcripts of Barnard's letters prepared by the donor of the collection, Will Monroe, notes regarding the genealogy of the Barnard family, clippings that discuss Barnard's life or the subject of education, and some of Monroe's own correspondence.

James Reuel Smith Springs and Wells Photograph Collection 1897-1901 PR 062

The James Reuel Smith Springs and Wells Photograph Collection comprises 17 boxes (seven of glass and acetate negatives) of visual and written material pertaining to Smith's book Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City, at the End of the Nineteenth Century, published by the New-York Historical Society in 1938.

Guide to the Caspar F. Goodrich Collection 1862-1933

The collection includes official correspondence, notes and texts of lectures Admiral Goodrich delivered while an instructor at the Naval War College, other writings including the edited manuscript of his memoirs, extracts from the diary of his grandfather Captain James Goodrich, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the Spanish-American War.

Guide to the Records of the Naval History Society 1907-1943(bulk 1909-1936)

The collection includes records of the Society's financial, membership, library, and manuscript collecting and publishing activities, as well as general correspondence.

Guide to the Naval History Society Collection,1721-1995 (bulk 1781-1936)

The collection consists of 53 separate collections, many named for renowned naval officers or vessels, documenting both military engagements and routine shipboard experience on naval and some commercial vessels, as well as naval design and the education of officers. The collections include correspondence, letter books, journals and diaries, lectures, essays, account books, biographical writings, genealogical information, scrapbooks, orders, notes, articles and clippings, photographs, manuscripts, and ships' logs, as well as the organizational records and correspondence of the Naval History Society itself.