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Random House publications, 1897-1980, bulk 1940s-1970s
6700 itemsThis record colocates books received in conjunction with the Random House records.
Amos Vogel papers, 1896-2001, bulk 1960-1990
68 linear feetCounterculture and Avant-Garde, 1920-1972 Box 109, Folder 10
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- Counterculture and Avant-Garde, 1920-1972
Counterculture and Avant-Garde, 1935-1970 Box 108, Folder 5
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- Counterculture and Avant-Garde, 1935-1970
New Press records, 1992-2014, bulk 1993-2011
99 linear feetWorsley, Peter. Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture, 1996-1999 Box 34, Folder 4
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- Worsley, Peter. Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture, 1996-1999
Marshall Berman papers, 1940-2013
47.5 linear feetThe collection includes drafts of his work, professional and personal correspondence, emails (both digital and in hard copy), notebooks, dream journals, heavily annotated books, lecture notes, teaching materials, photographs and ephemera. Several RBML collections already contain correspondence with Berman. For scholars, this collection will provide important new insights into the thought and work of a leading late-20th-century New York City intellectual. An important segment of the Marshall Berman papers consists of digital materials connected with his more recent work as a writer, scholar, and teacher. The files are currently stored on his home computer.
Culture and Counterculture: Symposium on Radical Perspectives, CUNY, 1982 Box 14, Folder 4
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- Culture and Counterculture: Symposium on Radical Perspectives, CUNY, 1982
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Notes and conference materials
Clippings: Jews (1 of 3), 1970s-1980s Box 8, Folder 6
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- and countercultural NYC Jewish paper
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Clippings pertaining to American Jewry, especially black-Jewish relations; also an interesting piece, from March 1971, that he co-authored with Leonard Kriegel at CCNY, entitled "New Morning for American Jews," about the need to reintegrate Jewish spiritual life and culture with the currents of contemporary experience, and for the purpose of establishing a Jewish Studies department at CCNY; includes correspondence with an ultra-orthodox student; includes a copy of the first issue of Brooklyn Bridge, a radical and countercultural NYC Jewish paper
Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991
200 linear feetThe Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.
Museum of Television and Radio Pacifica Radio and the Counterculture seminar, 1996 November 7 Box 261, Folder 13
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- Museum of Television and Radio Pacifica Radio and the Counterculture seminar, 1996 November 7
Subseries VI.1: Individual correspondence and subject files, 1941-2008, bulk circa 1960s-1990s
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- guests on Radio Unnameable or were otherwise significant figures in the counterculture movements with
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Subseries VI.1 contains letters from and printed ephemera related to individuals who appeared as guests on Radio Unnameable or were otherwise significant figures in the counterculture movements with which Bob Fass was associated. Many, including Richard Elman, Abbie Hoffman, and Paul Krassner, were also Fass's personal friends. (Manuscripts by Elman, Krassner, and Gerd Stern, among others, are located in Subseries VI.3.) There are also slides and a small number of photographs documenting protests against the Vietnam War, the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, and nuclear armaments, as well as musical performances including the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals. Finally, the subseries contains subject files containing mostly printed ephemera related to Fass's political and artistic affiliations and interests. These include the Youth International Party (Yippies), various political assassination and conspiracy theories, Manhattan tenant and squatter organizing efforts, and the Greenwich Village folk music scene.
Series VI: Papers, photographs, and slides, 1941-circa 2010s, bulk circa 1960s-1990s
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- , and Greenwich Village counterculture more broadly. Boxes 127-131 contain slides, Boxes 249 and 309
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Series VI contains correspondence, printed ephemera, newsletters and zines, manuscripts, and photographs and slides created or collected by Bob Fass throughout his life and career. Many of the materials in Series VI relate to recordings in the first five series of the collection. For example, photographs of the February 1967 Fly-In—recordings of which can be found in Series I.1—are included in Series VI. Other materials in the series document Bob Fass's political and musical interests, personal life, and Greenwich Village counterculture more broadly. Boxes 127-131 contain slides, Boxes 249 and 309 contain photographs, and Boxes 266 and 293-296 contain oversized materials. Photographic prints are generally black and white, while slides are in full color.
Angus and Hetty MacLise papers, 1950s-2010
15.5 linear feetSeries II: Hetty MacLise, 1950s-2010
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- in various countercultural scenes and movements), and the three decades by which she survived him
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Series II: Hetty MacLise includes writing, artwork, and correspondence produced by, and legal documents, ephemera, and photographs of or belonging to, Hetty MacLise. The series covers her early life in England and then on the hippie trail, the span of her relationship with Angus (and the couple's adventures in various countercultural scenes and movements), and the three decades by which she survived him. Some material relating to Angus' and Hetty's son, Ossian, can also be found in this series.
Series III: Friends, Associates, and Other Material Not Directly Related to the MacLises, 1960s-2010
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- . The bulk of this series concerns the photographer, poet, countercultural touchstone, and friend of the
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This series gathers material by and related to figures who in many, though not all, cases do appear elsewhere in the archive, but where said material has little or no discernible connection to the MacLises. The bulk of this series concerns the photographer, poet, countercultural touchstone, and friend of the MacLises, Ira Cohen, whose own subseries includes writing (published and draft texts), art and design work, correspondence, interviews, legal documents, and ephemera. Of particular interest are his photographs, many of Cohen's then-partner Petra Vogt as well as of William S. Burroughs and his circle, but perhaps most notable are those from Cohen's famous "Mylar Chamber." The chamber was a small theatre in Cohen's loft in which he photographed and filmed the reflections of various sitters and performers in sheets of Mylar––a stretched silvery plastic developed in the 1950s––that were attached to hinged boards, producing quintessentially hallucinogenic images. Jimi Hendrix, who Cohen also photographed in this manner, observed of the effect: "Looking at your pictures is like looking through butterfly wings." (Mylar photographs by Cohen of Angus and Hetty MacLise can be found in their respective "Photographs" subseries.) Figures other than Cohen are grouped in Subseries III.2, and listed by name where that name is known. Some prominent and recurring figures include Petra Vogt, Vali Myers, Piero Heliczer, Jack Smith, Roberto Francisco Valenza, Adrian Brooks, and Dana Young. That subseries also includes a number of works, texts, and documents by unidentified artists, as well as ephemera related to other avant-garde communities, networks, and scenes.