Subjects include: Peggy Bacon (American artist, printmaker, New School guest lecturer)Thomas Hart BentonLadislas Czettel (Hungarian-born costume designer, New School guest lecturer)Hanns Eisler (Austrian-born composer, New School instructor)Yasuo KuniyoshiErwin Piscator (German-born theater director, founder of the Dramatic Workshop at the New School)"A Southern Tragedy: A Photo-Document by Eliot Elisofon Based on the Book These Are Our Lives," exhibition at the New School (1940)United American Artists, second annual exhibition at the New School (1940)Rockefeller Foundation grant funding to the New School for music in film production (1940)Stanley William Hayter (British-born printmaker, New School faculty)Alexander Alland (Russian-born photographer): press regarding documentary photograph exhibition...

Subjects include: Thomas Hart BentonThe Bombshell Group (artists collective): art exhibition at New SchoolAlexey Brodovitch (Russian-born photographer and designer, New School instructor)Henry Cowell Robert Goffin, (Belgian lawyer, author, New School instructor)Varian M. Fry (American journalist; formed rescue network in Vichy France that aided anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany, worked on behalf of New School)Otto Klemperer (German-born conductor, New School instructor)Hans Kohn (Czechoslovakian-born philosopher and historian, New School instructor)Alfonso Umaña (Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez, Colombian-born texile and visual artist, New School instructor)Universidad en...

Subjects include:

Max Ascoli

Fritz Lehmann (German-born social scientist, New School instructor)

Funding campaign led by Alvin Johnson for University in Exile (1940)

Graduate Faculty of the New School

Refugee scholars (term used in national and local press for Univeristy in Exile faculty)

Hans Simons

University in Exile

George Gray Zabriskie: sale of 23 Gramercy Park residence to Max Ascoli

Subjects include:

Henri Bonnet (French politician, French ambassador to United States from 1944 to 1954, New School instructor)

Charles Boyer (French-born actor, founder of the French Research Foundation, New School guest speaker)

École Libre des Hautes Études

Henri Focillon (President of the École Libre des Hautes Études)

Jacques Maritain (French philosopher and political thinker, École Libre des Hautes Études instructor)

Subjects include: Max AscoliBooklet, "To the Living Spirit." Contains a comprehensive list of New School lecturers; enrollment statistics 1919-1942Arthur Feiler (German-born economist, New School instructor)Hans Ernest Fried (Austrian-born journalist, New School instructor)Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the New School for Social ResearchHiram Halle (American businessman, co-founder of the University in Exile)Horace M. KallenErnst Kris (Austrian psychoanalyst and art historian, New School instructor)Nazi propagandaFernando de los RiosHans Simons...