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Vera List Center for Art and Politics records

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-02-27-01
Abstract

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research institute affiliated with The New School that supports artists, hosts events, organizes exhibitions, and publishes books focused on culture and politics. The Vera List Center records include program files containing planning documents and promotional material, as well as publication and administrative files.

Dates: circa 1953 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1990-2019

Vera Zolberg papers

 Collection
Identifier: NA-0018-01
Summary

Vera Zolberg (1932-2016) was a professor of sociology at The New School. This collection of Zolberg's papers includes manuscript drafts of Zolberg's books, articles, essays and reviews; correspondence; research files; departmental administrative documents; and biographical ephemera.

Dates: 1952-2015

Victor Hammer collection

 Collection
Identifier: MP-0009-01
Summary

Music manuscripts and books collected by Victor Hammer, including a copy of Ein Beitrag zur Ornamentik by Heinrich Schenker, musical sketches and three books of lute tablature, correspondence of Carolyn Reading Hammer with Clifford Wurfel and Robert Lang of the University of California at Riverside Library, a drawing of Hans Weisse by Victor Hammer, and manuscripts of compositions by Hans Weisse, with dedications to Victor Hammer.

Dates: 1927 - 1981

Violet Holsinger Mueller papers

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0129-01
Summary

Violet Holsinger Mueller (1907-2003) studied fashion design at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) from 1926 through 1929. She worked as an interior designer for Stix, Baer & Fuller, a St. Louis-based department store, and founded her own design consultancy in Belleville, Illinois. Her papers include personal materials, and documentation created during her studies at Parsons and her design career.

Dates: 1926 - 2010

Vital Vogue: A Biosocial Perspective on Fashion exhibition documentation

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0169-01
Abstract This collection contains physical and born-digital photographs, a sketchbook, a publication, and ephemera documenting Otto von Busch's exhibition, Vital Vogue: A Biosocial Perspective on Fashion, held in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries of The New School, New York between March 16 and April 8, 2018, and inspired by Wilhelm Reich’s lectures at The New School for Social Research in 1940. As of 2024, Otto von Busch is Professor of Integrated Design at...
Dates: 2018

Wall Street and the Economy conference recordings

 Record Group
Identifier: NS-07-02-54
Abstract

The New School hosted the long-running annual conference, “Wall Street and the Economy," from 1967 until 1990. The conference participants were both individual and institutional investors in financial markets, and consisted of panel discussions aimed at providing economic forecasts for the coming year. The collection consists of sound recordings from the earlier years of the conference.

Dates: circa 1965-1975

Walter Damrosch collection of scores

 Collection
Identifier: MP-0028-01
Abstract

Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer associated with opera and with early radio broadcasts of classical music. This collection contains scores collected and/or used by Damrosch, including his own piano arrangement of a Franz Liszt composition.

Dates: 1924-1953

Walter Stein illustrations

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0040-01
Summary

Painter and illustrator Walter Stein (1924-1981) taught at Parsons School of Design from 1973 until his death. The collection consists of Stein's matted original watercolor illustrations, primarily depicting animals and plants, for the book, For Love of Her: Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1974.

Dates: 1972 - 1978

William Frawley fashion sketches

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0088
Summary

Contains eight watercolor sketches by Frawley, who graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1983 and returned as an instructor from 1989 to 1996. Frawley is known for his illustrations in Parsons classmate Isaac Mizrahi's The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel.

Dates: before 2000

William Merritt Chase etchings "Keying Up--the Court Jester" and "Spanish Peasant"

 Collection
Identifier: KA-0080
Abstract

American artist and founder of Parsons School of Design William Merritt Chase (1848-1916) etched the two works comprising this collection, "Keying Up--the Court Jester" (1879) and "Spanish Peasant" (circa 1881).

Dates: 1879, circa 1881