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Camille Taylor collection of Black Music Caucus Gospel Choir Competitions recordings, circa 1975 -- 2009
21 linear feetIncludes recordings and photo albums of elementary, middle, high school, and college gospel choir competitions sponsored by the Black Music Caucus between the late 1970s and 2009, with the bulk dating from 1986 through 2009. Audiovisual media is on DVDs, audiocassettes, and VHS tapes located in Boxes 1-15. There are many duplicates, especially DVDs. Photo albums and paper files are also included in Boxes 16-21 of the collection.
Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008
495 linear feetGordon Bunshaft architectural drawings and papers, 1909-1990, bulk 1950-1979
20 linear feetHoward "Stretch" Johnson papers, 1923-2011, bulk 1980-2000
5 linear feetI. I. Rabi papers, 1908-1998, bulk circa 1940s-1980s
24 linear feetThe bulk of the collection relates to awards, honorary degrees, and other honors bestowed on I. I. Rabi during the latter half of his career. It contains correspondence, manuscript drafts, pamphlets, lectures, articles, interviews, reports, panel discussions, transcripts, books, and conference materials about Rabi's work. Includes photographs, VHS recordings, audiocassettes, scrapbooks, and press clippings related to his career. Subjects include science, atomic energy and weapons, peace, education, NATO, history, government, world affairs, and honors. Also includes awards, honorary degrees, certificates, medals, and other memorabilia. In addition, correspondence regarding his estate, the awards established in his honor, and related memorials. These were the materials that I.I. Rabi's widow, Helen Newmark Rabi, did not donate to the Library of Congress but kept as her own mementos.
Joseph Kraft papers, 1950-1986
47 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, research materals, lectures, speeches, galley proofs, news releases, appointment diaries, photographs, printed materials, audio and video cassettes. The correspondence consists of letters from editors and publishers as well as a selected group of letters from readers reacting to his columns and articles. Among these letters are one or two each from Joseph Alsop, Warren E. Burger, J. William Fulbright, John Kenneth Galbraith and Hubert H. Humphrey. The manuscripts, with corrections, notes and research materials are for his numerous contributions to periodicals, such as the "Letters from.." series in The New Yorker, radio and television scripts, interviews with prominent government officials, such as George Shultz, lectures, speeches, ideas and proposals for books, and an extensive file for his unpublished history of the investment firm, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. There is a set of news releases for his column, "Washington Insight" 1965-1984 and for his Los Angeles Times column, 1980-1985. The printed materials include newspaper clippings, articles by Kraft in foreign periodicals and some books from his library. The audio and video cassettes contain interviews with presidents and prime ministers as well as radio and television broadcasts on which Kraft appeared.
Maryse Condé papers, 1979-2012
2.5 linear feetRichard Brick and Geri Ashur collection, 1968-2014, bulk 1975-2005
43 Linear FeetWhitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Foundation records, 1971-1991
38 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials. The Foundation's correspondence files consist of letters from different organizations and foundations, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change, The NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the YWCA. Also included in this collection are community dialogues on race relations (1974-1975); proposed dialogues (1979) on such subjects as the Boy Scouts of America, Columbia University, and the National Council of Christians and Jews; and files on the Whitney M. Young Fellows Retreat Conferences (1980-1984). The collection contains many files on Ed Wilson's bust of Young (1991), including contracts and agreements, records of payments to Wilson, documents concerning the bust's placement in various locations, correspondence with Wilson (1983-1991), and miscellaneous photographs and pictures. The contributions files contain annual listings of contributions and records of contributions from the National Urban League, assorted organizations, corporations, individuals, foundations, and Philip Morris.