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Children's Television Workshop collection, 1968-1972
0.21 Linear FeetIncluded are Reports of Five Seminars on the early development of children (1968-1972), A History and Review of the First Year of Sesame Street (1970), and the first seven issues of "Sesame Street Magazine."
Anne Thaxter Eaton papers, 1917-1969
6 linear feetManuscripts of Eaton's poetry anthologies for children, and other works on children's literature, many articles, book reviews, papers, reports, and lecture notes.
Clifton Fadiman papers, 1966-1970
1.5 linear feetWalter Farley Papers, 1933-1993, bulk 1935-1970
21 linear feetTibor Gergely papers and drawings, 1935-1977
9 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, drawings, watercolors, sketches, proofs, and printed materials. The collection includes original watercolor, pen-and-ink, and pencil illustrations for fifty books by various authors, beginning with Georges Duplaix's TOPSY TURVY CIRCUS (1940), and continuing with Golden Book's Scuffy the Tugboat & Tootles the Train by Gertrude Crampton; Duplaix's The Merry Shipwreck; Kipling's The Jungle Books, and the artist's dummy for The Wheel on the Chimney by Margaret Wise Brown, a Caldecott Honor book. Also included are illustrations for nineteen books by Gergely; advertising and commercial art of the 1940s, political cartoons and carricatures from the 1930s 1940s in Europe and America; designs for greeting cards, posters, and record jackets; and eighteen watercolor drawings for NEW YORKER covers, many of which were published in the 1940s. A selection of manuscripts, correspondence, and printed materials is also included in the collection.
Alice Isabel Hazeltine papers, 1890-1935
0.83 linear feetNed Edward Hoopes papers, 1959-1984
4 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and other printed materials. Included are the unpublished manuscripts of his biographies of Charles Laughton and of Viola Heise Bodenschatz, 1883-1967, a suspected Nazi sympathizer, and notes for his biography of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. There is cataloged correspondence from Philip Cortelyou Johnson and Sir Angus Wilson.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell papers, 1878-1967
34 boxesMitchell's corrected manuscripts and correspondence and notes pertaining to them. Personal correspondence, including some with her husband, Wesley Clair Mitchell, forms only a small part of the collection. Also, notes and letters related to various projects in which she was involved and two boxes of photographs and drawings.
Arthur Rackham papers, 1904-1967
21 boxesThe collection contains 26 letters by Rackham and nine Christmas cards either specially designed by him or incorporating designs made for his books. Letters to Rackham's biographer, Derek Hudson, from Winifred Wheeler, daughter of Walter Freeman, a friend who started Rackham on his commercial career. The manuscript notebooks, galley proofs, and a printed copy of Hudson's ARTHUR RACKHAM: HIS LIFE AND WORK are included. Also, notes, drafts, and miscellaneous material relating to the Arthur Rackham catalog published by the Friends of Columbia University Libraries in 1967. In addition, the library has a collection of 413 Rackham drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings, 30 sketch books, and about 400 printed books and ephemera.