Grace M. Mayer papers, 1891-1960 (bulk 1932-1958), 48 boxes (21 linear feet)

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Description is in English Descriptive Summary Creator: Grace M. Mayer (1901 - 1996) Dates: 1891-1960 (bulk 1932-1958) Abstract: The Grace Mayer Files include day-to-day external incoming and outgoing correspondence related to researching, acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and publicizing images of New York while she served as Curator of the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photography at the Museum of the City of New York; her files documenting exhibitions she organized at the Museum and as loans to other institutions; and documentation of the acquisition, appraisal, preservation, exhibition, research, and publicity of the Harry T. Peters and Gerald LeVino collections of Currier & Ives images at the Museum. Extent: 48 boxes (21 linear feet) Accession numbers: not applicable; institutional archives Language: English

Biographical Note Grace M. Mayer was born in New York City in 1901, where she was educated privately and at Columbia University. After working briefly for a physician affiliated with Mt. Sinai Hospital, she began her career at the Museum of the City of New York as a volunteer in 1930. She quickly succeeded Robert Sinclair as Curator of Prints, and headed the renamed Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photography until 1958. While at the Museum, Mayer acquired, sometimes after years of patient nurturing and polite persistence, major collections of iconic New York print and photographic images. These include works by Berenice Abbott, Jacob Riis, Currier & Ives, the Gottscho-Schleisner firm, Wurts Brothers, LOOK Magazine, and Byron and Co. The latter is the subject of her 1958 book Once Upon a City: New York from 1890 to 1910 as Photographed by Byron, and Described by Grace M. Mayer. Mayer credited her interactions with individual collectors, print dealers, gallery owners, curators, and photographers for training her in “how to use prints and how to make them speak and tell a story,” according to a 1970 oral history conducted for the Archives of American Art. She was an original member of the Print Council of America, founded in 1956, in which she represented historical and museum collecting. With her assistance, Marshall Davidson’s 1949 book, Life in America and John Kouwenhoven’s 1953 Columbia Historical Portrait of New York served as guides to the extensive New York iconography in the Museum’s collections. Through her service on the boards of organizations such as Village Art Center, whose annual photography exhibits she judged, she expanded the popularity and reach of photography as an artistic medium. Under her aegis, the Museum of the City of New York was the first major museum to exhibit photography and the works of individual, often young, photographers including Abbott, John Albok, Alexander Alland, Shirley Burden, and Todd Webb. After taking a leave of absence to work with Edward Steichen on the Museum of Modern Art’s 1957/1958 exhibition, “70 Photographers Look at New York,” she resigned from the Museum of the City of New York in 1959 to serve as Steichen’s personal assistant in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. She was named Curator in 1962. Retiring in 1968, she returned as volunteer Curator of the Edward Steichen Archive. For the rest of her life, she continued to promote photography as an art form and the careers of individual photographers, and to work on an unpublished biography of Steichen. In 1990 she received the International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for Curatorial Achievement. The Museum of the City of New York recognized her accomplishments in its 1995 exhibition “Curating New York: The Legacy of Grace M. Mayer”. She died in New York City in 1996.

Scope and Content The Grace Mayer papers include day-to-day external incoming and outgoing (in the form of carbon copies) correspondence related to her curatorial work, and a few internal memos; her files documenting exhibitions she was responsible for mounting at the Museum, or collaborated on as loans to other institutions; and documentation of the acquisition, appraisal, preservation, exhibition, research, and publicity of the Harry T. Peters and Gerald LeVino collections of Currier & Ives images. The latter include materials about the last living Currier & Ives artist, Louis Maurer.

Series I (Correspondence) and II (Exhibits) complement each other in various ways. The Correspondence files include letters to and from donors and artists, often documenting their first contact with Mayer; some artists are also represented in the Exhibit files relevant to their work. Some exhibits are mentioned only in the Correspondence files, which serve as the collection’s sole evidence of them. The Correspondence provides an overview of the variety of collectors, artists, dealers, and potential lenders and donors with whom Mayer was in contact; the Exhibit files document the particular groups or individuals associated with specific topics or collections that she exhibited. Although the collection includes Mayer’s correspondence related to the exhibit of Jacob Riis’s images (through Alexander Alland’s contemporary prints in “The Battle with the Slum” [1947]), it does not document the Museum’s acquisition of the original glass negatives from his son, Roger Williams Riis. The collection includes her extensive correspondence with Percy Byron, but no editorial material related to her 1958 publication Once Upon a City. A note on her file mentions that she removed “500 clippings” about the book to her home office. The collection also does not include any drafts or other material related to her other written output: her yearly, often droll and self-deprecating, contributions to the Museum’s Annual Report and/or Bulletin. Arrangement The collection is arranged in three series, corresponding to the arrangement of files in Mayer’s office cabinets:

I. Correspondence II. Exhibits (with an Appendix: Chronology of Exhibits) III. Currier & Ives (organized into three subseries)

III.A. Collections III.B. Exhibits III.C. Background and publicity

The original order of documents has been retained. Oversize materials have been removed to four separate oversized (OS) boxes, noted in the container lists; a removal notice is placed in an item’s original location. Series Descriptions Series I. Correspondence, 1929-1960 (bulk 1932-1958) Scope and Content Series I includes both incoming and outgoing letters and other materials showing the range of Mayer’s contacts, duties, and interests as she fulfilled the curatorial tasks of researching, acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and publicizing images of New York. Her correspondents include owners of objects seeking to appraise or sell them, potential and actual donors of materials, seekers of information about New York places or events documented in the Museum’s iconographic collections, as well as artists, collectors, gallery owners, and her fellow curators at other institutions on whom she relied for expert opinions, and vice versa.

Among the artists represented are Ludwig Bemelmans, who used images of Central Park in his murals for the Hotel Carlyle’s Bar; Charles Dana Gibson; the widow of painter Reginald Marsh; and cartoonist Bill Mauldin as well as New Yorker regulars Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, and James Thurber. Photographers include John Albok, Alexander Alland, Shirley Burden, Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, Erich Hartmann, Lewis Hine, Wayne Miller, Beecher Ogden, Edward Steichen, Todd Webb, and Anne Segy Zane. For some of these, including photographer Richard Wurts, her references for their applications to institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation are included. Her fellow curators include Peter Pollack (Art Institute of Chicago); Beaumont Newhall (George Eastman House); I. Jerome Smith (Henry Ford Museum, after serving as librarian at the Museum of the City of New York); Albert Ten Eyck Gardner and Hyatt Mayor (Metropolitan Museum of Art); Belle Da Costa Greene (Morgan Library); William Lieberman (Museum of Modern Art); Karl Kup, Frank Weitenkampf, and Arthur Carlson (New York Public Library); Carl Zigrosser (Philadelphia Museum of Art); Ala Story (Santa Barbara Museum of Art); and A. Bartlett Cowdrey (Smith Museum, after her tenure at the Old Print Shop). Mayer relied on collectors, both for loans and donations of objects and for their impassioned knowledge of and devotion to their specific areas of interest. These include Edward W. C. Arnold, whose collection was willed to the Metropolitan Museum but housed on loan at the Museum of the City of New York; Mrs. J. Insley Blair; J. Clarence Davies, whose donation of New York views in 1929 formed the basis of the Museum’s print collections; Bella Landauer; Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood; Irving S. Olds; Harry T. Peters; I. N. Phelps Stokes; Isadore Warshaw; Electra Havemeyer Webb; as well as dealers and gallery owners: Harry MacNeill Bland of the Bland Gallery, Helen Gee of Limelight Gallery, Harry Shaw Newman of the Old Print Shop, Robert Fridenberg; and book dealers Leona Rostenberg, Madeline Stern, and A. S. W. Rosenbach. Because Mayer retained carbon copies of almost all her letters (except, in a few instances, where she has noted “Ans. by card”), the series usually provides both sides of her written conversations. It also shows occasional glimmers of her famously dry humor: typed at the top of a letter from “Mrs. Marshall” regarding the possible donation of part of a photograph: “Sends in a scrap of cardboard. Is she nuts? Replied by card”; and added in pencil to a letter from James Hazen Hyde about arranging for his visit to the museum: “Came. Saw. Did not conquer.” Some early correspondence in the series was sent over the name of Museum Director Hardinge Scholle or Mayer’s predecessor Robert Sinclair; after 1957 some was sent over the name of her assistant Patricia (Patsy) Pulling. A few letters from her successor Albert K. Baragwanath postdate Mayer’s tenure at the Museum, but continue correspondence that she initiated. The letters are all in English, except for those from Albert Krebs and W. Plojoux. Series I. Arrangement The series is arranged as Mayer’s files originally were in her filing cabinets: in alphabetical order by last name of correspondent or institution. In the few instances in which the contents differed from her notation, the actual letters represented are added in brackets. Most folders contain a range of

names beginning with the three or four letters provided; some contain only correspondence with a single person or institution when it was extensive. The Kouwenhoven correspondence originally included a second folder devoted exclusively to the Museum’s 1953 exhibit celebrating the publication of his “Columbia Historical Portrait of New York”. This has been moved to Series II. Exhibits. All Mayer’s correspondence with Berenice Abbott, as well as carbons of Abbott’s letters seeking funds (encouraged by Scholle) to complete what would become “Changing New York,” is included in Series II. Exhibits. Series II. Exhibits (1891-1959; bulk 1931-1958) Scope and Content The series includes Mayer’s files specific to exhibits organized by her Department, and as loans to other institutions. A chronology of exhibits has been added as Appendix I; for exhibits of Currier & Ives materials, see Series III. The files document the range of subjects covered in the exhibits during her tenure; the eclectic donors, collectors, and other institutions from whom she sought materials and with whom she collaborated in mounting exhibits; and her background research, outreach, layout, captioning, and publicity for them. They serve as both records of specific exhibits and overall documentation of her personal style of exhibit organization and presentation. The earlier exhibits include more far-reaching historical surveys; the later ones emphasize individual artists, photographers, and collectors. The later photography exhibits highlight the medium for itself rather than solely as a method of documentation alongside prints and drawings. The correspondence includes a range of contacts as wide as in Series I, but with an emphasis on the choice of items and their display in a specific exhibit. The publicity materials document her creativity in this area, such as milliner Sally Victor’s creation of a line of hats to complement “American Counterpoint” and color schemes for the “Three Rivers” galleries, and Mayer’s meticulous currying of relationships with newspaper reporters and art critics. The catalog copy, together with the few photographs or sketches of exhibit layouts, provides documentation of her exhibits’ physical appearance. Her style of labeling by quotation is evident throughout, as well as her meticulous attention to sources and accession or loan information. This can be correlated with the correspondence in Series I to provide a complete picture of her methods and results. The Charles Dana Gibson files include correspondence with his widow (and former model), who attended the exhibit’s opening, as well as other family members who provided information and materials. The Byron files likewise include extensive information provided by Percy Byron and his relatives on the family and the firm’s history, techniques, and photographs. The New York Firsts exhibit made use of manuscript material and includes correspondence to her colleagues at the Museum of the City of New York: curator of maps and manuscripts Susan Lyman and librarian Jerome I. Smith. “The Battle with the Slum” files include exhibition-specific labels, notes, and publicity materials; the correspondence relates more widely to the Museum’s Riis holdings (permission for copies, acquisition of related publications, etc.).

The correspondence is in English; some newspaper clippings are in Yiddish and German. Mayer’s catalog notes for “Extra! Extra!” were photocopied in the early 1990s; those will be presented for reference in order to conserve the brittle originals. Series II. Arrangement The series is arranged in alphabetical order by exhibit title or general subject matter (e.g., the exhibit “Three Rivers Around Manhattan, is alphabetized by “Rivers”), or in some cases by an artist’s name (e.g., Abbott, Byron). Box 18A is a later addition to the files and contains only Riis-related correspondence and exhibit material. For exhibits with more than one all-inclusive folder, Mayer’s subdivisions include Correspondence, which is more extensive for exhibits in which she sought loaned items from numerous donors; Notes, which include her background research, often specifying sources and/or bibliographies; Publicity, including press releases, lists of invitees to openings, newspaper and magazine clippings of exhibit reviews or mentions, and Mayer’s contact with critics and reporters; and Catalogue, which describes her draft manuscript and/or final printed versions of labels used in mounting exhibits. See Appendix following container list for a chronology of exhibitions. Series III. Currier & Ives (1912-1958; bulk, 1938-1958) Scope and Content The series consists of Mayer’s files documenting the acquisition, appraisal, preservation, exhibition, research, and publicity for the two collections of Currier & Ives materials she acquired: those of Harry T. Peters (generally believed to be the most extensive in the world) and Gerald LeVino. During Peters’s lifetime, he had loaned many of the images to the Museum for exhibits and presented lantern slide talks on the collection. His correspondence with Mayer in Series I documents their extremely cordial relationship over time and complements the material in this series. After Peters’s death, his family donated the collection to the Museum. Inspired by this gift, LeVino donated to the Museum those items in his collection that were not already represented in the Peters collection. Peters had acquired many items through the Old Print Shop, and the series includes Mayer’s extensive correspondence with its owner Harry Shaw Newman. Jane Cooper Bland, wife of gallerist Harry MacNeill Bland, completed the “Manual for Collectors” of Currier & Ives in 1931 and the Blands are well-represented in the series’s correspondence. Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives artist, celebrated his centenary in 1931 with an exhibit of his work at the Old Print Shop. He died in 1932. In 1951, his daughter Eugenia Maurer Fuerstenberg (see Series I. Correspondence) donated to the Museum materials from her father including correspondence, clippings, and items apparently removed from a scrapbook. These were among Mayer’s Currier & Ives files and are included in Subseries III.C; many are identified in Mayer’s hand as part of the Fuerstenberg donation.

Series III. Arrangement

The files originally contained both Mayer’s materials and those postdating her tenure at the Museum, and were grouped together with general thematic titles. The Series now contains only material generated before her resignation and is organized into three subseries:

III.A. Collections III.B. Exhibits III.C. Background and publicity

The files are ordered by subject matter and then chronologically. A manuscript draft of sections from Harry T. Peters’s book Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People that was found with Mayer’s Currier & Ives files was removed to the Harry T. Peters Papers, which are housed separately at the Museum of the City of New York. Language of Materials Materials are in English. Access and Use The Museum of the City of New York collections must be examined on site. Appointments to examine materials must be made in advance by contacting the Archivist through e-mail at research@mcny.org. Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Rights and Reproductions Office at the Museum of the City of New York. For more information please contact:

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Administrative information Custodial information The materials in this collection were created by Grace M. Mayer in her capacity as Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photography at the Museum of the City of New York. The collection was previously held in with the curatorial files of the Museum of the City of New York. Preferred citation Title, date. Grace M. Mayer papers. Museum of the City of New York. Accession #. Processing information

The collection was processed by Celia Hartman in 2009, with additions in 2010. Slight modifications were made to the finding aid in March 2013 by Lindsay Turley, Manuscripts and Reference Archivist, to make the formatting consistent with the current Museum of the City of New York standard. Access points were added to the finding aid at this time, as well. Related material Collection of Museum of the City of New York Annual Reports. Contact research@mcny.org for more information. Related Collections in Other Repositories Museum of Modern Art The Grace Mayer Papers (28.5 linear feet of records, 20 museum cases of photographs), 1929-1997 http://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/Mayerf New York Public Library The Shirley Burden Papers (7.5 linear feet), 1947-1989 http://www.nypl.org/archives/2082 The Lloyd Morris Papers (2 Linear feet), 1944-1954 http://www.nypl.org/archives/1668 Archives of American Art Grace Mayer oral history, May 11-22, 1970 http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-grace-m-mayer-12898 Access Points Personal names:

Abbott, Berenice (1898-1991) Addams, Charles (1912-1988) Albok, John (1894-1982) Alland, Alexander (1902-1989) Baragwanath, Albert K. (1917-2006) Bemelmans, Ludwig, (1898-1962) Burden, Shirley (1909-1989) Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck (d.1967) Gee, Helen (b.1924) Gibson, Charles Dana, (1867-1944) Gottscho, Samuel (1875-1971) Hine, Lewis (1874-1940) Irvin, Rea (1881-1972) Landauer, Bella Clara, (1874-1960) Lieberman, William (1924-2005) Marsh, Reginald (1898-1954)

Maudlin, Bill (1921-2003) Maurer, Louis (1832-1932) Mayer, Grace (1901-1996) Mayor, Hyatt (1901-1980) Newhall, Beaumont (1908-1993) Pollack, Peter (1909-1978) Peters, Harry Twyford (1881-1948) Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) (1849-1914) Rosenbach, A.W.S (1876-1952) Rostenberg, Leona (1908-2005) Schleisner, William (1912-1962) Steichen, Edward (1879-1973) Victor, Sally (1905-1977) Webb, Todd (1905-2000)

Corporate names: Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Il.)

Currier & Ives George Eastman House (Rochester, N.Y.) Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI.)

Limelight (Gallery : New York, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Museum of the City of New York (New York, N.Y) New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) New York Public Library (New York, N.Y.) Old Print Shop (New York, N.Y.) Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA.) Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA.)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York, N.Y.) Topical subjects: Curatorship Photography Exhibitions Art Museums

Museum exhibits Historical museums

Geographic subjects: New York (N.Y.)

Container List Series I. Correspondence Box Folder Title Date 1 1 Aa-Ai 1941, 1959

2 Al 1938-1955 3 American F. 1955-1957 4 American Heritage 1957-1959 5 An, Ara-Arn 1935-1958 6 Arnold 1931-1949 7 Arnold 1950-1959 8 Art C – Ass, Ban, Ber 1939-1959 9 [Bes] Bif, Bib 1938-1959 10 Blair 1935-1951 11 Blak 1931-1959 12 Boa-Bol 1933-1954 13 Bom 1933-1958 2 1 Bow 1929-1958 2 [Bri] Bra 1934-1958 3 Brooklyn 1933-1958 4 Brooks 1934-1957 5 Bru 1935-1955 6 Bun 1938-1959 7 Caa 1932-1956 8 Car 1933-1958 9 Cas 1930-1958 10 Ce 1930-1957 11 Ch 1932-1957 3 1 Ci 1930-1958 2 Coa, Coh 1932-1958 3 Col 1932-1957 4 Com 1935-1957 5 Con 1932-1959 6 Coo 1933-1958 7 Cos 1938-1955 8 Cr 1931-1959 9 Cu 1932-1952 10 Daa 1931-1957 4 1 Davies 1931-1958 2 Davis 1935-1956 3 Dec 1933-1953 4 Den 1932-1957 5 Di, Do, Dr, Du 1932-1958 6 Ea 1932-1959 7 Eb 1933-1958 8 El 1930-1959 9 Ep, Fa 1932-1956 10 Fi 1929-1956

11 Fl 1929-1958 12 Fra 1929-1958 5 1 Fri 1932-1955 2 Fro 1933-1958 3 Ga 1933-1958 4 Ge, Ger 1933-1962 5 Gi 1936-1959 6 Gl 1931-1958 7 Goo 1932-1958 8 Gor 1934-1958 9 Gra 1932-1959 10 Gre 1933-1958 11 Gro 1929-1958 12 Haa 1934-1955 6 1 Hal, Han 1934-1958 2 Har 1934-1959 3 Has 1935-1958 4 Hed, Hen 1936-1957 5 Her 1940-1959 6 Hi 1930-1959 7 Ho 1933-1958 8 Hol 1938-1958 9 Hom 1933-1957 10 Hor 1932-1959 11 How 1933-1958 12 Hu, Hum, Id 1930-1959 7 1 Ins 1932-1958 2 Ir, Ja 1932-1959 3 Jae, Joh, Jol 1933-1953 4 Ju 1934-1956 5 Ka 1937-1959 6 Ke 1932-1957 7 Ki 1934-1958 8 Kl 1936-1954 9 Ko 1930-1958 10 Kouwenhoven 1952-1958 11 Kr[i] 1937-1959 8 1 Laa 1934-1958 2 Lan 1932-1959 3 Lang 1934-1958 4 Law, Lea 1934-1959 5 Lea, Lei 1932-1956 6 Li 1942-1959

7 Lil 1931-1958 8 Lip 1933-1956 9 Loc 1938-1955 10 Loo 1932-1959 11 Lu 1935-1959 9 1 McA 1932-1958 2 McG 1935-1958 3 Maa, Mad 1930-1959 4 Man 1934-1959 5 Mar 1931-1957 6 Mas 1932-1958 7 Mea 1935-1959 8 Mer 1930-1956 9 Met 1933-1958 10 Mey, Mi 1934-1958 11 Min, Mo 1931-1959 10 1 Moo 1940-1958 2 Mor 1932-1958 3 Mue 1933-1958 4 Museum B 1938-1959 5 Museum P 1929-1956 6 Nah 1930-1954 7 National B 1948-1959 8 National C, Ne 1931-1958 9 New 1935-1959 10 New York A, C 1933-1958 11 New York E 1933-1956 12 New York J 1934-1953 13 New York P 1933-1957 14 New York R 1930-1959 11 1 New York T, Ni, O’ 1932-1957 2 Oa 1932-1958 3 Ogl, Oh 1938-1957 4 Old Print (1/2) 1933-1944 5 Old Print (2/2) 1938, 1945-1958 6 Olds 1948-1959 7 Ole 1935-1959 8 Or 1942-1958 9 Pa 1949-1959 10 Par 1936-1959 12 1 Pas 1932-1958 2 Pe 1933-1959 3 Pet 1931-1956

4 Pf 1935-1958 5 Pi 1932-1959 6 Plo 1947-1958 7 Pra, Pro 1933-1958 8 Print Council 1956-1959 9 Print S 1934-1958 10 Pu, Q 1932-1958 11 Rab 1932-1958 13 1 Random 1941-1959 2 Rea 1931-1958 3 Re 1941-1959 4 Ri 1930-1958 5 Rin 1934-1958 6 Ro 1935-1959 7 Roc, Roe 1932-1959 8 Roo 1932-1958 9 Rot, Rus 1931-1958 10 Sab 1932-1958 11 Sant 1943-1959 12 Sat 1932-1959 13 Scha 1935-1956 14 1 Scho 1932-1958 2 Sea 1932-1955 3 Sh 1941-1959 4 Si 1933-1958 5 Sk 1932-1957 6 Sm 1931-1959 7 So 1936-1958 8 Sp 1934-1957 9 Sq, Sta 1933-1958 10 Ste 1932-1958 11 Sto 1929-1957 12 Stol, Str 1931-1959 15 1 Su 1938-1957 2 Ta 1947-1956 3 Tal, Th 1934-1959 4 Thacher, Thurston R. 1953-1957 5 Thor, Ti 1932-1958 6 To 1935-1959 7 Tra 1935-1956 8 Trow, Ud 1935-1957 9 Un 1936-1959 10 Univ 1933-1958

11 Va 1930-1959 12 Van K 1939-1957 16 1 Vi 1941-1959 2 Vo 1932-1957 3 Wa 1932-1959 4 Ware 1937-1958 5 Wars 1933-1958 6 Wea 1938-1958 7 Wei 1937-1959 8 Wel 1935-1957 17 1 Whi 1932-1958 2 Wi, Wik 1933-1960 3 Win 1934-1955 4 Wo 1933-1957 5 Wr 1932-1957 6 X Y Z 1933-1958 OS 1 1 Arnold: Items in the E.W.C. Arnold

Collection duplicated in the collection of MCNY

Undated

2 Cas [Layout for Central Synagogue exhibit]

[1947]

3 Ge-Gf: [Notes and draft label copy for Daguerre exhibit in Street Scenes of 1852; loan from George Eastman House]

[1952]

4 Gi [letter to Rodman Gilder] 1946 April 26 5 Grant [Description of loan item: The

Yellow Peril] Undated

6 Hal, Han [Ms. Draft letter to Jesse Halsey]

[1945]

7 Har [“Fortune” tearsheets: Hartmann] 1947 June 8 Hi [description of lithograph: Higgs] [1949] 9 Kouwenhoven, John: Notes [label copy

for Columbia Historical Portrait exhibit]

[1953]

10 Kouwenhoven, John: [Notes on citations in Columbia Historical Portrait, image sources]

[1953]

11 Maa, Mad [GMM notes on Herald Square: Macy’s]

[1938]

12 Mar [Marchand Diorama Corp.] 1939 13 Mi [draft letter to Wayne and Joan

Miller] [1956]

14 Min, Mo [AK Baragwanath notes on [1957]

“Pictorial History of the Jewish People”: Monde Publishers]

15 Mue [Ms. list of panels showing buildings to be saved: Municipal Art Society]

1952

16 Museum B [Press release “The Exact Instant”: Museum of Modern Art

[1956]

17 Print Council [Minutes, flyers] 1956-1958 18 Rea [Real Estate Board] 1952 19 [Labels for Landing of Domine

Bogardus exhibit: Thacher, Thurston] 1953

OS 4 1 Ins [Newsletters, certificate: International Institute for the Conservation of Museum Objects]

1952-1953

2 Ju [Junior Art Gallery, Louisville] 1955 3 Lil [Poster: Limelight Gallery] 1958 4 Mar [Margules exhibit notice] 1939 5 Nah [Publicity: NBC] 1959 6 Old Print Shop [Clipping] 1953 7 Olds [Clipping] 1957 8 Thacher, Thurston [Fort Jay Sentinel] 1957 Series II. Exhibits Box Folder Title Date 17 7 Abbott, Berenice: Changing New York 1931 November –

1949 March 8 Abbott, Berenice: Changing New York 1932 February –

1939 April 9 Alland, Alexander: Children of Romany in

New York 1940 December – 1941 June

10 Alland, Alexander: American Counterpoint

1943 September – 1944 June

18 1 Arnold, Mrs. Edward W.C.: Aspects of New York from the Loan Collection of

1958 May – June

2 Bailey, Vernon Howe: Intimate Sketches of New York

1934 March – September

3 Baseball: Wall labels and platform [1952] 4 Baseball: Shelf labels [1952 5 Baseball: Pillar labels, baseball contest [1952] 6 Baseball: Flimsies 1952 February –

November 7 Baseball: Notes [1952], 1955 8 Blair Bequest of Views of New York 1952 – 1953 March 9 Brewster, Anna Richards: New York 1955 June – 1957

Sketches by September 18A 1 Battle with the Slum: Correspondence A-

E 1945 May - 1959

18A 2 Battle with the Slum: Correspondence F-I 1947 May-1959 April

18A 3 Battle with the Slum: Correspondence J-N

1947 May-1959 April

18A 4 Battle with the Slum: Correspondence O-Z (including Roger Williams Riis)

1946 November – 1959 April

18A 5 Battle with the Slum: Captions and drafts [1947] 18A 6 Battle with the Slum: Labels and print

checklist [1947]

18A 7 Battle with the Slum: Publicity

1947 May -1958

19 1 Broadway Sights: Correspondence A-D 1948 February – December

2 Broadway Sights: Correspondence E-M 1947 November – 1948 October

3 Broadway Sights: Correspondence N-R 1948 January – October

4 Broadway Sights: Correspondence S-Z 1948 5 Broadway Sights: Notes [1948] 6 Broadway Sights: Catalogue 2. Wall

material [1948]

7 Broadway Sights: Catalogue 3. Case material

[1948]

8 Broadway Sights: Catalogue 4. Shelf material

[1948]

9 Broadway Sights: Catalogue 5. Shelf material

[1948]

10 Broadway Sights: Wall material [1948] 11 Broadway Sights: Publicity 1948 20 1 The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge:

Main labels 1957

2 The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge: [Labels]

1957

3 The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge: Publicity, correspondence

1956-1957

4 Burden, Shirley: Monuments of Men [includes Ellis Island, Weehawken Ferry] (Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles)

[1959]

5 Byron: Correspondence 1941-1957

6 Byron: Notes [correspondence, photo numbers, Byron biography]

1941-1958

7 Byron [Press coverage] 1949-1955 8 Byron: All Indoors [correspondence,

including notes on technique] 1953 June –July

9 Byron: All Indoors [labels, photo information]

[1953]

10 Byron: All Indoors [clippings] 1953 11 Byron: Once Upon a City: Labels [1958] 12 Byron: Once Upon a City: Layout [1958] 13 Byron: Once Upon a City: Invitation list 1958 14 Byron: Once Upon a City: Publicity 1958-1959 21 1 Byron: Out of My Files: Labels [1951] 2 Byron: Out of My Files: [Publicity] 1951 3 Cartoons: New York Through the

Looking Glass: Correspondence A-E 1933 March – 1934 February

4 Cartoons: New York Through the Looking Glass: Correspondence F-O

1933 March – 1934 January

5 Cartoons: New York Through the Looking Glass: Correspondence P-Z

1933 March – April

6 Cartoons: New York Through the Looking Glass: Notes

1933

7 Cassel, John H.: The Town in Cartoons: Correspondence

1948 June – December

8 Central Park: Centennial screen 1953 July 9 Central Park Scenes: Correspondence A-D 1933 November –

1934 May 10 Central Park Scenes: Correspondence F-K 1933 December –

1934 May 11 Central Park Scenes: Correspondence L-Z 1933 November –

1934 January 12 Central Park Scenes: [notes, image lists] 1933-1934 13 Long, Ray: Inside Central Park

1948-1953

14 Children’s Books: New York Children’s Books

Undated

15 Classical Revival Architecture in New York

[1941]

16 Columbia Historical Portrait of New York 1953 17 Coney Island: Correspondence A-C 1954 March – 1957

November 18 Coney Island: Correspondence D-L 1954 19 Coney Island: Correspondence M-R 1954 March –

September

22 1 Coney Island: Correspondence S-Z 1954 March – 1958 June

2 Coney Island: Labels (case) [1954] 3 Coney Island: Labels (frieze) [1954] 4 Coney Island: Labels (wall) [1954] 5 Coney Island: Labels (unused), release [1954 6 The Cries of New York: Correspondence 1955 February –

1956 7 The Cries of New York: Notes on Calyo,

etc. 1955-1958

8 The Cries of New York: [Auction] catalogue including those in MCNY

1953-1954

9 The Cries of New York: Catalogue [1955] 10 The Cries of New York: Labels [1955] 23 1 Croton Water: Pure and Wholesome

Water: Fayette B. Tower and the Croton Aqueduct

1942-1945

2 Crystal Palace: Correspondence A-D 1939-1941 3 Crystal Palace: Correspondence E-I 1939 January –

September 4 Crystal Palace: Correspondence J-N 1939 5 Crystal Palace: Correspondence O-R 1939 6 Crystal Palace: Correspondence S-Z 1939 7 Crystal Palace: Notes [1939] 8 Crystal Palace: Catalogue 1939 March 15 9 Crystal Palace: Publicity 1939 10 Crystal Palace screen 1953 11 Dining in Old New York:

Correspondence 1937 February – July

12 Dining in Old New York: [List of contents]

[1937]

13 Ellis Island 1957-1958 14 Albok, John: Faces of the City 1937-1944 24 1 Federal Show: New York Comes of Age:

Labels [1954]

2 Federal Show: New York Comes of Age: Labels [publicity]

[1954]

3 Federal Show: New York Comes of Age 1954 4 Fifth Avenue as it Was 1957 5 First Events in New York:

Correspondence A 1934

6 First Events in New York: Correspondence B

1934

7 First Events in New York: 1934

Correspondence C 8 First Events in New York:

Correspondence D-F 1934

9 First Events in New York: Correspondence G-J

1934

10 First Events in New York: Correspondence K-M

1934

11 First Events in New York: Correspondence N

1934

25 1 First Events in New York: Correspondence O-P

1934

2 First Events in New York: Correspondence Q-S

1934

3 First Events in New York: Correspondence T-V

1934

4 First Events in New York: Correspondence W-Z

1934

5 First Events in New York: Notes 1934 6 Frame Houses/ Vanishing New York:

Photos by Charles Von Urban [1933-1934]

7 Freeman, Don: Skitzy 1956-1958 8 Fun and Folly in New York 1943 9 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence

A-C 1950-1954

10 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence D-F

1950-1956

26 1 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence G-K

1950-1957

2 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence L-M

1950-1951

3 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence N-R

1950-1951

4 Gibson, Charles Dana: Correspondence S-Z

1950-1951

5 Gibson, Charles Dana: Notes 1945-1959 6 Gibson, Charles Dana: Catalogue [1950] 7 Gibson, Charles Dana: Catalogue [1950] 8 Gibson, Charles Dana: Book illustrations [1950] 9 Gibson, Charles Dana: Rodman Gilder’s

notes and clippings on 1891-1944

10 Gibson, Charles Dana: MCNY exhibition at the Berkshire Museum

1951

11 Gibson, Charles Dana: Publicity [photos, article lists]

1950-1951

12 Gibson, Charles Dana: Publicity [clippings]

1950

27 1 Goetz, Esther: Painting the Town 1944-1945 2 Gold Rush: Correspondence A-C 1938-1950 3 Gold Rush: Correspondence D-K 1938 4 Gold Rush: Correspondence L-N 1937-1938 5 Gold Rush: Correspondence O-R 1937-1938 6 Gold Rush: Correspondence S-Z 1937-1938 7 Gold Rush: Notes [1938] 8 Gold Rush: Catalogue 1938 9 Golinkin, J.W.: New York is Like This 1935-1936 28 1 Gottscho, Samuel H.: New York Night

Scenes – layout [1934]

2 Gottscho-Schleisner: Twenty Years of Photography by Gottscho-Schleisner

[1956]

3 Gottscho-Schleisner: Correspondence, publicity

1956

4 Hartmann, Erich: Sunday with the Bridge 1955-1959 5 Health. The People We Serve: The Work

of the New York Department of Health, photos by Bob Oliver

1954-1955

6 Hone, Philip: Correspondence A-B 1940-1941 7 Hone, Philip: Correspondence C-G 1940-1942 8 Hone, Philip: Correspondence H-L 1940-1941 9 Hone, Philip: Correspondence M-O 1940-1941 10 Hone, Philip: Correspondence P-Z 1940-1941 11 Hone, Philip: Notes [1940] 12 Hone, Philip: Catalogue [1940} 29 1 Hone, Philip: Catalogue (cases) [1940] 2 Hone, Philip: Publicity 1940 3 Housing. How New York Lives: Citizen’s

Housing and Planning Council Photo Contest Exhibit

1939

4 Housing. New Yorkers Live Here: Citizen’s Housing and Planning Council

1953

5 Interiors. Nineteenth Century New York Interior Architecture

1934

6 Webb, Todd. I See a City 1946-1947 7 Four Centuries of Italian Influences in

New York : Catalogue [publicity] 1955

8 Kirby, Rollin: Correspondence 1943-1944 9 Kirby, Rollin: Notes [1944] 10 Kirby, Rollin: Labels [1944]

11 Kirby, Rollin: Notes made by Herbert Schwartz, Jr.

[1944]

12 Marsh, Reginald 1954 13 New Yorker: Correspondence A-B 1945-1952 14 New Yorker: Correspondence C-D 1946-1953 15 New Yorker: Correspondence E-H 1945-1948 30 1 New Yorker: Correspondence I-M 1945-1959 2 New Yorker: Correspondence N-P, R-S 1945-1959 3 New Yorker: Correspondence T-Z 1945-1946 4 New Yorker: Artists and chronological

lists [New Yorker correspondence] 1945-1946

5 New Yorker: [Labels] [1946] 6 New Yorker: Publicity 1946-1958 7 News and Newspapers: Correspondence

A-B 1941-1942

8 News and Newspapers: Correspondence C-H

1941-1942

31 1 News and Newspapers: Correspondence I-L

1941-1942

2 News and Newspapers: Correspondence M

1941-1942

3 News and Newspapers: Correspondence N-O

1941-1942

4 News and Newspapers: Correspondence P-R

1941-1942

5 News and Newspapers: Correspondence S 1941-1942 6 News and Newspapers: Correspondence

T-Z 1941-1942

7 News and Newspapers: Catalogue [1941] 8 News and Newspapers: Catalogue [1941] 9 News and Newspapers: Catalogue [1941] 10 News and Newspapers: Catalogue

photocopies (1/2) undated

11 News and Newspapers: Catalogue photocopies (2/2)

undated

32 1 News and Newspapers: Publicity 1941 2 1900: Correspondence A-H 1936-1937 3 1900: Correspondence I-Z 1936 4 1900: [Notes] [1936] 5 Old New York from the Battery to

Bloomingdale [works by Eliza Greatorex] at the Rochester Museum of Arts & Sciences

[1938]

6 Parades and Processions: Correspondence 1935-1936

A-F 7 Parades and Processions: Correspondence

G-N 1935-1936

8 Parades and Processions: O-Z 1935-1936 9 Parades and Processions: Notes 1932-1934 10 Parades and Processions: Alphabetical list [1935] 11 Parades and Processions: Date list [1935] 12 Parades and Processions: Catalogue [1935] 13 Photography. Cross Section: Photographs

from the Museum’s files: Catalogue 1952

14 Photography. Cross Section: Photographs from the Museum’s files: Notes, publicity, correspondence

1952

33 1 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Correspondence A-C

1943-1953

2 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Correspondence D-G

1943, 1949

3 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Correspondence H-M

1943, 1948

4 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Correspondence N-R

1939-1959

5 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Correspondence S-Z

1943-1949

6 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Notes [Publicity]

1943-1948

7 Postcards. Wish You Were Here: Catalogue

1943

8 Puck. Pickings from Puck: Correspondence

1937

9 Puck. Pickings from Puck: Catalogue 1937 10 Puck. Pickings from Puck: Notes,

publicity 1937-1939

11 Railroads to New York: Correspondence A

1939-1940

12 Railroads to New York: Correspondence B

1939-1940

34 1 Railroads to New York: Correspondence C-E

1939-1940

2 Railroads to New York: Correspondence F-K

1939-1940

3 Railroads to New York: Correspondence L-M

1939-1940

4 Railroads to New York: Correspondence N

1939-1940

5 Railroads to New York: Correspondence O-P

1939-1940

6 Railroads to New York: Correspondence R

1939-1940

7 Railroads to New York: Correspondence S 1939-1940 8 Railroads to New York: Correspondence

T-Z 1939-1940

9 Railroads to New York: Catalogue [1939] 35 1 Railroads to New York: Publicity 1940 2 Red Cross: Correspondence American

Red Cross 1942

3 Red Cross: Correspondence A-B 1942 4 Red Cross: Correspondence C-E 1942 5 Red Cross: Correspondence G-L 1942 6 Red Cross: Correspondence M-O 1942 7 Red Cross: Correspondence P-R 1942 8 Red Cross: Correspondence S-Z 1942-1943 9 Red Cross: Notes [Publicity] 1942 10 Red Cross: Catalogue [1942] 11 Riis, Jacob A.: The Battle with the Slum

[folder only] Undated

12 Rivers: Correspondence A-F 1949 13 Rivers: Correspondence G-M 1949 14 Rivers: Correspondence N-R 1949 36 1 Rivers: Correspondence S-Z 1949 2 Rivers: Notes [1949] 3 Rivers: Notes [1949] 4 Rivers: Catalogue: Hudson River shelf

material [1949]

5 Rivers: Catalogue: East River shelf material

[1949]

6 Rivers: Catalogue: Hudson River walls [1949] 7 Rivers: Catalogue: Case material [1949] 8 Rivers: Catalogue: Case material [1949] 9 Rivers: Catalogue: Harlem River wall and

shelf material [1949]

37 1 Rivers: Catalogue: East River wall material [1949] 2 Rivers: Publicity [1949] 3 Rogers Groups: Correspondence A-F 1936-1942 4 Rogers Groups: Correspondence G-N 1936-1957 5 Rogers Groups: Correspondence O 1936 6 Rogers Groups: Offered for sale 1936-1942 7 Rogers Groups: Lists, including Currier & 1933-1950

Ives prints used in show; Notes 8 Rogers Groups: Summary of groups [1936] 9 Rogers Groups: Catalogue [1936] 10 Segy, Ann (later Ann Zane): The

Vanishing El 1952-1959

11 Skyline. The New York Skyline: Photographs by John Jay Pierrepont and Abbott Low Moffat

1943-1956

12 Skyscrapers. A City Standing Up: Watercolors of New York Skyscrapers by Living Artists

1937

13 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Show [Correspondence, item lists]

1944-1945

38 1 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Show: Labels [used in show]

[1945]

2 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Show: Labels [drafts]

[1945]

3 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Show: Labels [1945] 4 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Show: Notes,

publicity 1945

5 Statue of Liberty: Correspondence A-E 1936-1937 6 Statue of Liberty: Correspondence F-K 1936-1937 7 Statue of Liberty: Correspondence L-R 1936-1937, 1947 8 Statue of Liberty: Correspondence S-Z 1936-1937, 1943 9 Statue of Liberty: Notes [1936] 10 Statue of Liberty: Catalogue [1936] 11 Stephenson, John: Rolling Stock by John

Stephenson: Correspondence A-M 1944-1945, 1948

12 Stephenson, John: Rolling Stock by John Stephenson: Correspondence N-Z

1944-1951

39 1 Stephenson, John: Rolling Stock by John Stephenson: Notes

[1945]

2 Stephenson, John: Rolling Stock by John Stephenson – Labels

[1945]

3 Stephenson, John: Rolling Stock by John Stephenson: Invitation list

[1945]

4 Stephenson Views: Correspondence A-L 1939-1945 5 Stephenson Views: Correspondence K-Z 1939-1945 6 Stephenson Views: Notes 1941 7 Stranger in Manhattan: Correspondence

A-C 1949-1950

8 Stranger in Manhattan: Correspondence D-L

1949-1950

9 Stranger in Manhattan: Correspondence 1949-1950

M-Z 10 Stranger in Manhattan: Biographical

[notes] A-G

[1950]

11 Stranger in Manhattan: Biographical [notes] H-O

[1950]

12 Stranger in Manhattan: Biographical [notes] P-Z

[1950]

40 1 Stranger in Manhattan: [Publicity] 1950 2 Valentines [various] 1952, 1955 3 Visiting Nurse Service of New York: 60th

Anniversary Exhibit [1953]

4 Visiting Nurse Service of New York: 60th Anniversary Exhibit [Catalogue]

[1953]

5 Ward, Florence: Harlem’s Children in Wartime

1943

6 Youth in National Defense 1941 OS1 20 Baseball: Notes [1952] 21 Blair Bequest: Labels [1952] 22 Brewster, Anna Richards: Labels [1955] 23 Broadway Sights: Notes [1948] 24 Broadway Sights: Notes [city directories,

maps] [1948]

25 Broadway Sights: Labels 1948 26 Broadway Sights: Publicity 1948 27 Building the Brooklyn Bridge: Notes,

publicity [1957]

28 Byron: All Indoors [labels, photograph information]

[1953]

29 Cassel, John H.: The Town in Cartoons [labels]

[1948]

30 Central Park: Centennial screen [1953] 31 Cries of New York: Notes on Calyo [1955] 32 Crystal Palace: Notes [1939] 33 Ellis Island: Publicity [photographs of

exhibit opening; includes portraits of Burden and Mayer]

1957 December 11

34 Federal show: New York Comes of Age [labels, list of invitees to opening]

[1954]

35 Charles Dana Gibson’s New York: Catalog

[1950]

36 Gold Rush: Notes [1938] 37 Gottscho-Schleisner: Correspondence,

publicity 1956

38 Housing. New Yorkers Live Here: Labels [1953] 39 Kirby, Rollin: Notes [1944] 40 Marsh, Reginald: Notes [1954] OS 2

1 News and Newspapers. Extra! Extra! Catalogue

[1941]

2 Three Rivers Around Manhattan: Publicity [WNYC broadcast transcript]

1949 May 18

3 Three Rivers Around Manhattan: Notes – East River

[1949]

4 Stephenson, John: Invitation list, notes [Photostats, Mayer notes]

[1945, 1957]

5 Statue of Liberty [Correspondence Lyman]

1936

6 Stranger in Manhattan: [Compilation of sources, 1524-1799]

[1950]

7 Stranger in Manhattan [Compilation of sources, 1800-1833]

[1950]

8 Stranger in Manhattan [Compilation of sources, 1833-1857]

[1950]

9 Stranger in Manhattan [Compilation of sources, 1858-1902]

[1950]

10 Stranger in Manhattan [Compilation of sources, 1903-1933]

[1950]

11 Stranger in Manhattan [Compilation of sources, 1934-1950]

[1950]

12 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – walls [1950] 13 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – walls [1950] 14 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – walls [1950] OS 3

1 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – shelves, cases

[1950]

2 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – shelves, cases

[1950]

3 Stranger in Manhattan: Catalogue – shelves, cases

[1950]

OS 4

9 Charles Dana Gibson: Publicity 1950

10 New Yorker: Publicity 1946 11 News and Newspapers: Publicity 1941 12 Railroads: Publicity 1939 13 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Exhibit:

Publicity [posters] [1945]

Series III. Currier and Ives

Box Folder Subseries Title Date 40 7 A. Collections Harry T. Peters [lecture

invitation, book blurb, copy of deed of gift]

1930-1958

8 Harry T. Peters: Lecture [typed transcript annotated in Mayer’s hand]

1942

9 Harry T. Peters, Jr.: Loan lists, recent loans for exhibition

1956-1957

10 Harry T. Peters: Currier & Ives small folio [Listing by number, title, value]

1956-1958

11 Harry T. Peters: Currier & Ives medium folio [Listing by number, title, value]

1956-1958

12 Harry T. Peters: Currier & Ives large folio [Listing by number, title, value]

1956-1958

13 Harry T. Peters: Printmakers other than Currier & Ives; loans

1957

14 Harry T. Peters: Duplicates withdrawn by Mr. Peters before collection given to MCNY

1957

15 Harry T. Peters: Prints cleaned by the Old Print Shop

1957

16 Harry T. Peters: Slide lectures [list, “sporting prints”]

1957, undated

17 [List of Harry T. Peters prints with 1931 values]

[1957]

18 Gerald LeVino 1957-1958 19 Mr. LeVino’s collection [1957-1958] 41 1 B. Exhibits Exhibits at MCNY 1957-1959 2 Currier & Ives and the New

York Scene: Correspondence A-E

1938-1945

3 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Correspondence F-L

1932-1944

4 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Correspondence M-S

1938-1948

5 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Correspondence T-Z

1938-1940

6 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Notes

[1938]

7 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue

1938

8 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue

1938

9 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue

1938

10 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue

1938

11 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue

1938

12 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Catalogue – prints discarded because of lack of space

1938

42 1 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Unused labels

1938

2 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene [Print lists, glossies, general clippings]

1937-1941

3 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Publicity

1938

4 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Notes

1956

5 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Wall labels 1

1957

6 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Wall labels 2

1957

7 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: “Best 50” labels

1957

8 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Shelf labels

1957

9 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Case labels

1957

10 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Overall labels

1957

11 Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People: Voice of America broadcast [transcript, in French]

[1957]

12 Love is the Lightest: Currier & Ives Sentimentals

1958

13 A Choice Bouquet 1957-1958 14 Oh What a Charming City –

The Gerald LeVino Collection 1958

15 A Good Day’s Sport 1958 16 Through History with Currier

& Ives 1958

43 1 [Wall labels in alphabetical order by title of print]

Undated

2 [Wall label text] Undated 3 [Labels from Louis Maurer’s

work] Undated

4 C. Background and Publicity

Clippings and reprints 1930-1952

5 Louis Maurer [Correspondence on 100th birthday and other]

1912, 1931-1933, 1939, 1951-1954

6 Louis Maurer [Clippings] 1920-1932 7 Louis Maurer [Old Print Shop

Exhibit] 1931

8 Louis Maurer [Obituaries] 1932 July 9 Publications 1932-1948 10 H. I Brock draft of New York

Times articles 1939

11 Mayer and Pulling Currier & Ives lectures

1957

12 [Various notes on Currier & Ives]

Undated

13 [Alienated file cards] Undated OS 3 4 A. Collections Harry T. Peters: Currier & Ives

small folio [1956-1958]

5 B. Exhibits Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Correspondence LeVino

[1938]

6 Currier & Ives and the New York Scene [press release, clippings]

1938

7 Currier & Ives Printmakers to [1957]

the American People: Notes 8 Through History with Currier

& Ives [layout, list of invitees] [1958-1959]

9 C. Background and Publicity

Publications: “American Heritage”, “Antiques”

1952, 1957

10 Louis Maurer: Clippings, Old Print Shop exhibit

1931-1932

OS 4 14 B. Exhibits Currier & Ives and the New York Scene: Publicity [clippings]

1938

15 C. Background and Publicity

[Article on Currier & Ives prices and popularity]

1926 January 3

Appendix: Chronology of Exhibits, 1930s -1959 Exhibits in boldface are represented in Series II (Exhibits) files; others are based on information provided in Series I (Correspondence) files. Early 1930s: Historical Survey of New York from New Amsterdam to 1930s 1933 May: New York Through the Looking Glass [cartoons] 1933 December: Vanishing New York: Photographs by Charles von Urban [referred to as “Frame Houses”; photographs commissioned by J. Clarence Davies] 1934 January: Pictorial History of Central Park, 1852-1933 1934 March: New York Night Scenes – photographs by Samuel Gottscho 1934 June: Intimate Sketches of New York, by Vernon Howe Bailey 1934 September: First Events in New York 1934 December: Nineteenth Century New York Interior Architecture 1934: Photographs by Berenice Abbott 1935 December: Parades and Processions in New York 1936 February: New York is Like This - Water colors, drawings, and lithographs by Joseph Webster Golinkin 1936 May: Rogers Groups: The Nathalie Bayley Morris Collection [so-called Sculptor of the People paired with Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the People] 1936 October: Liberty Enlightening the World [50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty] 1936 December: 1900: New York at the Turn of the Century 1937 April: Dining in Old New York 1937 May: Recent Accessions 1937 June: A City Standing Up: Water Colors of New York Skyscrapers by Living Artists 1937 October: Changing New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, from the Photography Division, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration 1937 November: Pickings from Puck [from the collection of Harry Stone] 1938 September: Faces of the City [photographs by John Albok]

1938 November: Old New York from the Battery to Bloomingdale: An exhibition of original pen and ink drawings by Eliza Greatorex, loaned by the Museum of the City of New York [at the Rochester Museum of Arts & Sciences] 1938 November: Building the New York World’s Fair – photographs by Richard Wurtz 1938 December: Currier & Ives and the New York Scene 1938: New York’s Part in the Gold Rush 1939 February: Recent Accessions 1939 March: History of the New York Crystal Palace 1939 May: The Development of the Skyscraper in New York 1939 June: How New York Lives: Exhibit of Prize-Winning Photographs 1939 December: Railroads to New York 1940 December: This Man’s Town – Philip Hone’s New York 1828-1851, special exhibition based on the diary of Philip Hone 1940 The Fire Blitz, London 1941 April: Children of Romany in New York: Photographs by Alexander Alland 1941 May: Classical Revival Architecture in New York 1941 June: Youth in National Defense: The Work of the National Youth Administration for New York City and Long Island 1941 December: Extra! Extra! News in New York 1725-1900 1942 March: Stephenson Views 1942 June: For Humanity’s Sake: From Sanitary Commission to Red Cross 1942 October: Pure & Wholesome Water: Fayette B. Tower and the Croton Aqueduct 1943 March: Wish You Were Here: Postcard Views of New York 1943 March: Posters of the Allies in World War I 1943 October: Harlem’s Children in War Time: Photographs taken by Florence Ward for the American Women’s Voluntary Services War Services Photography 1943 October: American Counterpoint: Photographs of One People from Many Lands, by Alexander Alland 1943 December: Fun and Folly in New York 1944 October: New York between Two Wars: Cartoons by Rollin Kirby 1944 November: Painting the Town: Oils, water colors and drawings by Esther Goetz 1945 January: Alfred E. Smith Memorial Exhibition 1945 June: Rolling Stock by John Stephenson 1831-1904 1945: Postwar Planning 1946 January: We Cover the New Yorker: Original Cover Designs with New York Subjects 1946 September: I See a City [photographs by Todd Webb] 1946 How the Other Half Lives (Riis) 1946 America on Stone 1947 May: The Battle with the Slum: 50 prints by Alexander Alland from negatives by Jacob Riis 1947: “Oh what a charming city”: 50 pictures of the city from 1846 to the turn of the century loaned by the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Central Synagogue 1948 April: Broadway Sights 1948 October: Inside Central Park – Photographs by Ray Long 1948 November: The Town in Cartoons by John Cassel

1949 May: Three Rivers - Around the Rim of Manhattan 1949 June: Details of the City: photographs by Godfrey Frankel 1949 November: New York Half a Century Ago as Photographed by Byron 1950 April: Stranger in Manhattan 1950 November: Charles Dana Gibson’s New York 1951 June: Out of My Files: 135 photographs by Byron 1952 March: The Vanishing El [photographs by Ann Segy] 1952 April: Play Ball! A History of Baseball in New York 1952 July: Cross Section: Photographs from the Museum’s Files [in honor of the annual meeting of the Photographic Society of America held in New York in August] 1952 October: New York Street Scenes 1852 1952 December: The Blair Bequest of Views of New York: In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. Insley Blair 1953 June: New Yorkers Live Here. 1953 Photography contest sponsored by the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council 1953 June: Painting of Domine Bogardus’s landing in New Amsterdam 1953 July: Central Park Centennial (seven views) 1953 July: All Indoors: 50 photographs by Byron 1953 October: Sixty Years of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York 1953 November: Columbia Historical Portrait of New York 1954 February: Three Works by Reginald Marsh [presented to the Museum] 1954 April: Coney Island – Playground of the World 1954 November: New York Comes of Age, 1789-1825 [referred to as “Federal Show”] 1955 April: The Cries of New York 1955 June: The People We Serve, The Work of the New York City Department of Health, photographs by Bob Oliver 1955 September: New York Sketches by Anna Richards Brewster 1955 October: Four Centuries of Italian Influences in New York 1956 January: Sunday with the Bridge [photographs by Erich Hartmann] 1956 March: Skitzy: Original Drawings by Don Freeman 1956 April: The New Yorker Travels 1956 June: Twenty Years of Photography by Gottscho-Schleisner 1956 October: New York’s Skyline, photographs by John Jay Pierrepont and Abbott Low Moffat, commemorating International Museum Week 1956 Photographs by Mario Jorrin 1957 April: Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People: The Harry T. Peters Collection [on occasion of 100th anniversary of the partnership] 1957 May: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge 1957 October: Currier & Ives Winter Scenes from the Harry T. Peters Collection 1957 October: Byron photographs 1957 October: Fifth Avenue As it Was: A Special Exhibition Marking the Fifth Avenue Association’s Golden Anniversary 1957 December: Ellis Island: A Photographic Essay by S.C. Burden 1958 February: Love is the Lightest: Currier & Ives Sentimentals from the Harry T. Peters Collection

1958 March: A Choice Bouquet [Currier & Ives, coinciding with the New York Flower Show] 1958 April: Oh What a Charming City: Currier & Ives and the New York Scene – Lithographs from the Gerald LeVino Collection 1958 June: Aspects of New York: From the Loan Collection of Mrs. Edward W. C. Arnold 1958 June: A Good Day’s Sport: Currier & Ives Lithographs from the Harry T. Peters Collection 1958 September: Once Upon a City: New York from 1890 to 1910 as Photographed by Byron 1958 November: The Roaring 20s 1959 February: Through History with Currier & Ives, from the Garden of Eden to San Juan Hill; the Harry T. Peters and Other Collections Undated: New York’s Children’s Books prior to 1900