Guide to the Norman "Buddy" Baker Collection ca. 1958-1998 MSS 158

The Norman "Buddy" Baker Collection chronicles the career of Norman "Buddy" Baker in his roles as composer, orchestrator, conductor, and musical director with Walt Disney Studios from the mid 1950s to the 1980s. The bulk of the collection consists of autograph, typed, and photocopied music scores, sketches, lead sheets, musical breakdowns and parts from music composed for Walt Disney theatrical, television, and theme park productions.

Guide to the Serpent's Tail/High Risk Archives ca. 1990-1997 MSS 86

High Risk Books was founded in New York City in 1993 by Ira Silverberg as an imprint of Serpent's Tail Press in London. Dedicated to publishing challenging, innovative, and progressive literature, High Risk Books transcended the traditional boundaries of publishing to provoke and inspire a new generation of writers and readers. While connected by a certain subversive impulse, authors as diverse as William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Tim Dlugos, Diamanda Galas, Robert Glary Indiana, June Jordan, Cookie Mueller, Lynne Tillman, Pagan Kennedy, John Giorno, Sapphire and many others are published by High Risk. As a small press, High Risk played a crucial role in providing a space for writers, many just beginning their careers, who would otherwise have found it difficult to get published in mainstream houses. In January 1997, High Risk Books ceased operation due to disagreements with the Serpent's Tail office in London. Serpent's Tail Press continues to publish from the United Kingdom.

Guide to the Ron Kolm Papers ca. 1970-2003 MSS 79

Ron Kolm is a writer, editor, artist, promoter, has been the de facto archivist and an enduring member of the Soho and East Village arts scene from ca. 1975 to the present day. During this period, he has been involved with several independent bookstores, small magazines, performance spaces, and the outsider art scene. Kolm continues to be heavily involved in avant garde work, serving as a main organizer of The Unbearables, a loosely organized group of downtown writers and artists, perhaps best known for their protests against mainstream notions of "good" or "bad" literature and art. Through his work, Kolm has collected over 6000 items that comprise this collection. Items include: signed first editions and chapbooks by authors such as Kathy Acker, Lynne Tillman, Gary Indiana, Spaulding Gray, Patrick McGrath, Harry Mathews, Hal Sirowitz, Max Blagg, Janice Eidus, Constance DeJong, David Wojnarowicz, among many others; as well as: complete runs of Between C and D, Red Tape, Zone, The Portable Lower East Side, Beat, Vox, and The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side, among others.

Guide to the Heather Lewis Papers 1965-2002 (Bulk 1980-1999) MSS 132

The Heather Lewis Papers reflect Heather Lewis's writing career including her manuscripts, publishing contracts, correspondence and financial information. In addition, the collection includes a great deal of information relating to Heather Lewis's personal life including journals, photographs, and personal correspondence. The collection reflects the connections between Lewis's career as a writer and her personal life and presents the author as a complex whole.

Guide to the Redtape Archive ca. 1972-1992 (Bulk 1982-1992) MSS 88

Redtape, edited and published by Michael Carter, was an East Village "zine" which throughout its run espoused innovative visual and literary expression while encouraging interplay between those two forms. The magazine, featuring comics, poetry, fiction, graphic art, and photography, provided a venue for both established and emerging writers and artists of the downtown scene. The collection includes a complete run of the magazine, mock-up copies and gallows, original art work, copies of art work, photographs, manuscripts and related correspondence, newspaper clippings, posters and flyers for readings, benefit parties and other events organized by Redtape participants.

Guide to the Targ Editions Archive 1953-1994 (Bulk 1979-1985) MSS 149

In 1979 book editor William Targ founded Targ Editions, a one-man operation that published books by contemporary authors, poets, and playwrights. There are twenty-five Targ Editions volumes, each a limited edition produced by letter press. Targ Editions includes work by Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Tennessee Williams, and Ray Bradbury. The Targ Editions Archive documents the publication of the Targ Editions books, through correspondence with authors, agents, printers, records of financial transactions, order requests from book sellers and collectors, press clippings and book reviews, and production materials such as manuscripts, paper samples, unbound signatures, and author photographs.

Guide to the Bob Witz Papers/Appearances Magazine ca. 1980-1996 MSS 80

Appearances Magazine is a small arts magazine first published in the East Village during the 1980s. Bob Witz, the editor, is also an artist, writer and sculptor who lives in New York.

Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers (Miscellaneous) 1906-1965 Tamiment 132.05

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a leading Irish-American Communist, socialist, feminist, labor organizer, orator, and campaigner for civil liberties. The collection contains correspondence, a scrapbook of clippings covering her speaking tours of 1915-16, published and unpublished writings about women, materials relating to the Communist Party’s litigation contesting the McCarran Act and Smith, and a poem about Carlo Tresca.

Guide to the Records of the Puerto Rico Project 1943-1951 (Bulk 1947-1949) RG 3

The Puerto Rico Project was a comprehensive study conducted by Dr. Julian H. Steward and a select team of anthropologists between 1947 and 1949. The collection includes correspondence, minutes, interviews, reports, journal accounts, fieldwork reports, printed matter, manuscripts, thesis, maps, and ephemera.

Guide to the Second Aeon Archive 1967-1974 Second Aeon Archive

The Second Aeon Archive is comprised of all the correspondence and manuscript material that created Second Aeon's issues, such as: magazine layouts, page proofs, letters to the editor, illustration layouts, and original manuscripts.

Guide to the Arthur Kopit Papers 1950-1998 MSS 141

Personal and professional papers of Arthur L. Kopit, a major playwright on and off Broadway beginning in the 1960s. Professional materials include significant documentation of all his major works beginning with "Oh Dad, Poor Dad... " and continuing through "Phantom". Records include research materials, notes, drafts and completed versions of produced and unproduced plays, screenplays, teleplays, novels, and story treatments. Personal materials include correspondence, financial documents, photographs, ephemera and materials generated by Kopit's parents, wife, and children.

Guide to the Joe Campbell Collection of Dorothy Dean Letters 1964-1987 MSS 222

The Joe Campbell Collection of Dorothy Dean Letters contains 46 letters written to Joe Campbell. Of the 46, 42 were written by Dorothy Dean; the other four were written by various friends of Campbell after Dean's death. The letters are dated from 1964-1987.

Guide to the Ed Smith Papers 1974-2005 (Bulk 1978-2004) MSS 177

Ed Smith was a poet, active in the 1980's in the scene centered around the Beyond Baroque/Literary Arts Center in Los Angeles. His papers cover the period 1978-2005, when Smith lived in Los Angeles and New York City. The materials include, but are not limited to, journals, notebooks, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, flyers, photographs, monographs and periodicals.