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The Collection of China's spring 1989 democracy movement (六四前后中国民主运动资料汇集) documents the legacy of the democracy movement in China during 1989 as well as events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Incident and its aftermath, dating from 1988 to 1997, and with the bulk of the materials dating from 1989 to 1990. The collection holds the originals and the photocopies of over 300 ephemeral posters, leaflet/handbills, newsletters, open letters, and petitions created and distributed in 1989, including those issued by the Peking Workers Autonomous Association (北京工人自治联合会), student groups from various universities, the "Hunger Strike Newsletter" and other unofficial news bulletins, intellectuals' petitions to the government, cartoons, and poetry. The collection also comprises over 200 photographs depicting demonstration banners, big character posters, petitions and letters to the leaders. The collection also contains 15 eye-witness reports by Asians and Westerners, reports of human rights organizations, as well as books, miscellaneous news magazine articles and newspaper clippings. Related materials in the collection also include Spring 1989 issues of the banned intellectuals' journal "Eastern Record"; 147 slides of work shown at the Peking National Gallery's avant-garde exhibition; and a video tape of interviews with artists and performance art at the February 5, 1989 opening of that exhibition. Other items are several VHS, audiocassettes, floppy disks, fragments of wall posters, a T-shirt, and commemorative envelopes. A large fabric banner prepared by Chinese students at the University of Michigan which was sent to Peking where it was displayed at Tiananmen Square in May 1989 and later returned to the U.S., is also included in the collection.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence, photographs, project records, architectural drawings, legal documents, periodicals, news clippings and exhibition materials. The material held in this collection relates to architectural projects for Edgar J. Kaufmann by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the bulk of the material relates to Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. The collection documents the professional and personal relationship between the Kaufmann family and Wright, from the 1930s until the years preceding Wright's death in 1959.

Art--Audio--Book Mock-up--Ephemera--Mixed--Moving Images--Music Scores--Original Papers--Photos--Printed--Sketches and prints for postcards--Art--Memorabilia.

The most substantial part of the collection is the extensive correspondence between Nien Cheng and June Rose Garrott (originals have been scanned onto discs). There are letters; WWW print-outs; email print-outs; artwork; audio cassettes; VHS tapes; DVDs; CDs; photographs; a scroll; a fan; printed ephemera; books; and a bust of Lao She.

Two large binders of interview transcripts with participants in the program, and accompanying photographs. Interviewees: Ernst Gombrich, Judy Marle, Mark Whitney, Arata Isozaki, Taka Iimura, J. J. Brody, Anita Thatcher, Michael Wilson, Ken McMullen, Clyde Syddall, Jerrilyn Dodds, Edin Velez, Barry Bergdoll and Nadine Descendre, Robin Cormack, Adrian Maben, Keith Griffiths and the Quay Brothers, Roger Cardinal, Stephen Murray, Richard Greenburg, David Hockney, Phillip Haas, Richard Brilliant, Robert Rosen and Andrea Simon, Cecil Gould, Bill Cran, John Pinto, and Richard Rogers and Corey Shaff. The interviews were conducted by Janet Sternburg. The binder also includes a final transcript of "Art on Film, Film on Art." The collection also includes two copies of the "Art on Film, Film on Art" video guide published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust.