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Avery Drawings & Archives

John M. Johansen architectural drawings and papers, 1939-2007

1,423 drawings
John Maclane Johansen received his architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1942 where he studied under Walter Gropius. He worked under Marcel Breuer and at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before opening his own private office in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he became known as one of the Harvard Five. He later formed a partnership with Ashok Bhavnani. Major projects include the Oklahoma (Mummers) Theater in Oklahoma City; the Goddard Library at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts; the Charles Center Theater Building (Mechanic Theater) in Baltimore, the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland, and the Island House and Rivercross apartments on Roosevelt Island, which he completed with Bhavnani. Johansen also designed numerous private residences in Connecticut and New York, and a series of conceptual projects such as the Leapfrog City project and the "Moon Module" house. The collection largely documents Johansen's professional career, and includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, photographs, negatives, professional papers, publications, reference files, and one scale model.
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C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003

102 Linear Feet
This collection of records document the institutional history of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, established in 1978. Under the directorship of professor and renowned composer Chou Wen-chung, the Center is a not-for-profit organization that connected arts professionals from the US and China through a spectrum of curated programs, conferences, and research trips. Bulk dated between 1977 and 2003, materials in this collection consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, printed materials, as well as audiovisual items. The collection serves as important material evidence that help to tell the recent history of cultural communications among individuals and organizations across the Pacific.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

Taliesin Associated Architects projects in Iran : architectural drawings and records, 1968-1980

8 document boxes
This collection is composed primarily of the projects (built or unbuilt) that Taliesin Associated Architects (TAA) conducted in Iran in collaboration with Nezam Amery and his office NAKK spanning from 1965 to 1979. The collection includes final and working project drawings, correspondences, contracts, estimates, calculation, photographs, and additional papers. It also includes records of litigation after 1979 in the United States Courts. While the time of the projects overlaps, the series are arranged chronologically based on the dates each contract was signed.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Robert Wilson papers, 1969-2000

148 linear feet

Correspondence, outlines, scripts, production notes, technical materials, story boards, contracts, posters, programs, announcements, recordings, reviews, and other printed materials relating to all aspects of Robert Wilson's theater works, opera, films, artwork and video productions. There are files for all of Wilson's theatrical performances, the most extensive of which is the CIVIL warS. Also included are the files of the Byrd Hoffman Foundation.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Center for Research on Women records, 1962-2020

57 Linear Feet
This collection consists of records from the Barnard Center for Research on Women, formerly known as the Barnard Women's Center. It includes bylaws; director's and financial reports; correspondence; Executive Committee minutes; planning and publicity materials for and recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist Conference, career workshops and other events; and administrative materials related to women's studies courses, the Women's Center Resource Collection, the Women's Counseling Project, and other projects and publications.
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BC13-58_SFAudio_339, The Scholar and the Feminist XXII (Our Families: A Feminist Response to the Family Value Debate): Afternoon Workshop 17, 1996-10-19 Box 46

Women's Experimental Theater and Roberta Sklar, Theatre Director; formerly Associate Professor of
Performing Studies at New York University; former co-artistic director of The Women's Experimental Theater at

Paper presented by Sondra Segal, playwright, poet, essayist; former Co-Artistic Director of The Women's Experimental Theater and Roberta Sklar, Theatre Director; formerly Associate Professor of Performing Studies at New York University; former co-artistic director of The Women's Experimental Theater at the Scholar and Feminist Conference at Barnard College. Papers presented or name of session: "Lesbian Parenting: Radical or Retrograde?".

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2018
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1987-1996
Columbia University Archives

Milton M. Smith papers, 1925-1983 [Bulk 1950s-1970s]

0.42 linear feet

This collection consists of correspondence, photographs and an unpublished manuscript by Professor Milton Smith titled Ready or Not. This manuscript includes Smith's personal recollections of theater at Columbia and the150 plays produced by the Morningside Players and the Columbia Theater Associates from 1927 to 1958, staged first in Earl Hall and then in the Brander Matthews Theater. He was working on it at the time of his death in 1981. The correspondence includes letters to and from Smith, in particular his correspondence with Helen Pond and Herbet Senn. There is also correspondence between Nancy Smith (Milton's daughter) and Herbert Senn after her father's death. The papers also include planning documents and correspondence concerning a memorial event for Smith which was arranged in 1982.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Stella Bloch Hanau Scrapbook, 1903-1913

3.15 Linear Feet
This collection consists of the scrapbook and three diaries of Barnard alumna Stella Bloch Hanau. The scrapbook and diaries were created by Bloch preceding, during, and after her years as a Barnard College student. Most material is pertinent to Barnard College, but some is from her time at Wadleigh High School.
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