Abstract

Eleanor S. (McMillen) Brown (1890-1991) was a graduate of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design), who founded the interior design firm McMillen Inc. This collection consists of biographical materials, photographs, press clippings, and correspondence donated by her grandson, Michael McMillen.

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Includes several slides of Eleanor Brown throughout her life which were used in the 1998 presentation by Michael McMillen to the Mary Institute in St. Louis. Also includes several portraits of Brown, a photographic portrait of Frank Alvah Parsons, photographs of Eleanor with her husband Archibald Brown, and photograph of Eleanor Brown and Parsons School of Design president Van Day Truex.

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This poster title is devised from a note affixed to its back side. The poster is a print of a photograph, probably depicting an artist putting up a poster onto the ABC No Rio building at 125 Delancey Street in New York, likely as part of The Real Estate Show organized by the gallery in 1980. The poster was formerly folded and there are acid paper discolorations on it.

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This poster probably appeared on the back cover of Red Rag magazine. There is a photograph of Adam Purple's "Garden of Eden" on the reverse side.

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Poster depicting a melting mask, the artwork of Andrew Vickery. The poster announces an exhibition of images related to the climate crisis, on view in the Event Cafe of The New School's University Center (63 Fifth Avenue).

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Poster created to accompany the protests against the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.

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Business card for Hanoi Gallery in Vietnam that sold paintings and old propaganda posters. Title is devised from the business name on the card. The card may have been attached to a package.

Scope and Contents Photograph of the artwork of Rodrigo Sanz, signed by the artist, of a suited man consuming the world while having dinner in front of the television. The man is believed to be Oliver Laurence North, a United States National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, although the illustration also resembles United States President Ronald Reagan. Both Reagan and North were involved in the political scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, the political scandal of facilitating the...