New School photograph collection
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/NS040101.
Abstract
This collection primarily consists of photographs of New School students, faculty, administrators, buildings, class sessions, student life, and events. While the photographs span the period between 1933 and 1984, most of the photographs are concentrated between the 1940s and the 1970s.
Dates
- 1920s - 1990s
- Majority of material found within 1944 - 1977
Creator
- Moore, Peter, 1932-1993 (Photographer, Person)
- New School (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
- New School University (Organization)
- Seligson, Stanley (Photographer, Person)
- Turnley, Laima (Photographer, Person)
Extent
11.1 Cubic Feet (29 boxes, 2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
This collection is a compilation of several groups of photographs transferred to the archives over several years, primarily by The New School's Fogelman Library and President's Office. Photographs depict class sessions, students, faculty, buildings, guest speakers and events, and many were clearly intended for use in New School bulletins and promotional materials. Some have been heavily marked up for publication. Also included are press photographs of guest speakers furnished to The New School by the speakers' representatives. Photographers, when identified, are indicated in the folder title.
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research use. Please contact archivist@newschool.edu for appointment.
Use Restrictions
To publish images of material from this collection, permission must be obtained in writing from The New School Archives and Special Collections. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject in 15 series: 1. Board of Trustees; 2. Buildings and campus; Series 3. Class sessions; Series 4. Commencement; Series 5. Convocations; Series 6. Course and programs; Series 7. Events; Series 8. Exhibitions; Series 9. Faculty, administrators, guest speakers and performers; Series 10. Faculty; Series 11. Institute for Retired Professionals; Series 12. New School Associates; Series 13. Presidents; Series 14. Special Lectures; Series 15. Guest speakers and performers.
Custodial History
While the origin of many of the photographs in this collection is not certain, the photographs in several of the series, especially Courses and Programs and Guest Speakers and Performers, bear evidence of having been compiled or created for use in the New School course catalogs and/or for New School promotional publications and event publicity.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Most of the photographs in the General series of this collection were transferred from the New School's Raymond Fogelman Library in 2009, along with materials related to the New School Art Center. Other photographs in the collection were transferred from Fogelman Library in 2012. Most of the photographs dating from the 1990s and 2000s in the Board of Trustees series were transferred to the New School Archives from the Office of the President in 2015. A small number of prints and contact sheets depicting New School for Social Research faculty members and events were transferred to the New School Archives from the division in 2017 and incorporated into this collection.
- Art -- Study and teaching (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art in universities and colleges (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College buildings -- New York (State) (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- College students -- United States -- Conduct of life (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Commencement ceremonies (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Johnson, Alvin Saunders, 1874-1971 (Depicted)
- New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997). Graduate Faculty
- Photographs (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Press kits (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publicity (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Students -- Social life and customs (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Universities and colleges -- Departments (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the New School photograph collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- February 23, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- March 20, 2018: New School Archives staff expanded collection inventory to accommodate recent additions.