Helen Faith Keane fashion merchandising files
Online Access
Available digital items: https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/collections/KA012101
Summary
Helen Faith Keane (née Kahn) Reichert (1901-2011) was a professor at the New York University School of Retailing from approximately 1946 until 1977. The files consist of clippings, course materials, handwritten notes on fashion press, print publications of a vocational nature by other merchandising educators, and programs and invitations for fashion shows.
Dates
- 1926 - 1996
Creator
- Keane, Helen Faith (Person)
- New York University. Institute of Retail Management (Host institution, Organization)
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists of clippings, course materials for Keane's classes at New York University's Institute of Retail Management, handwritten notes on fashion press, print publications of a vocational nature by other merchandising educators, and programs and invitations for fashion shows. Many of the clippings as well as other printed materials are heavily annotated by Keane, often emphatically and contrarily. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1970s, although the vocational publications were mostly published in the 1950s into the 1960s. The collection does not comprehensively document Keane's career, nor does it document Keane's personal life.
Conditions Governing Access
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. Please contact: archivist@newschool.edu.
Biographical Note
Helen Faith Keane (née Kahn) Reichert (1901-2011) was a professor at the New York University School of Retailing, which later became the Institute of Retail Management, from approximately 1946 until 1977. Keane, who used her maiden name professionally, was an expert on fashion merchandising and a certified psychologist. She hosted a network television program in 1951, The Helen Faith Keane Show...For Your Information. Additionally, she served for over a decade as the director of the Fashion Group's "Career Course."
Keane was a 1925 graduate of Cornell University and a 1931 graduate of Teacher's College, Columbia University. In addition to her career in academia, she worked in the fashion industry as a copywriter.
Helen Faith Keane Reichert died in 2011. She and her centenarian siblings were frequent subjects of medical and psychological research into human longevity.
Organization and Arrangement
Organized in 3 series: 1. Clippings and ephemera, 1957-1996 2. Publications, 1926-1969 3. Research and teaching materials, 1970s-1995
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Internal transfer from Adam and Sophie Gimbel Design Library, Parsons The New School for Design, 2008. Prior custodial history is unknown.
- Advertising -- Fashion (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings files (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Clothing and dress -- United States (Subject) (Places) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Costume -- History (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Costume -- United States -- 20th century -- Pictorial works (Subject) (Places) (Temporal) (Type of Material) Subject Source: Local sources
- Fashion -- Forecasting (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fashion -- Vocational guidance (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fashion merchandising (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fashion shows (Subject) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Invitations (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publications (Type of Material) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Title
- Guide to the Helen Faith Keane fashion merchandising files
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- New School Archives and Special Collections Staff
- Date
- November 23, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English