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SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context
VIAFrevised2015-09-18machineCPF merge programMerge v2.0revised2016-08-10T03:40:52machineSNAC EAC-CPF ParserBulk ingest into SNAC Databaserevised2016-08-10T03:40:52humanSystem Service (system@localhost)created2024-03-28machineSNAC EAC-CPF SerializerSNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPFpersonRevson, Charles, 1906-1975presumedRevson, CharlespresumedRevson, Charles H.presumedレブロンpresumed1906-10-111975-08-24Jewish Theological Seminary of America. General Files.Swanson, Gloria.Revson, Charles, 1906-1975Swanson, Gloria. Papers. Series III. Business Interests, 1921-1982.Swanson, Gloria.Albino, Richard.Aponte, Laura.Berggren, John L.Bowker, Virginia.Bredin, Lewis L.Dalty, Leon T.di Grandi, Gino.di Trepuzzi, Lida.Dufty, William.Engel, Iphigenia.Ganz, Joseph.Jaffe, William B.Karniol, Leopold.Kobler, Richard.Kratky, Anton.Larson, Clifford M.Luria, Herbert.MacRobert, Frederick H.Neumann, Leopold.Reeder, Gabriel.Revson, Charles, 1906-1975.Rosen, Arthur.Rosen, Carl.Schirmer, Gustave.Schlee, George.Seiler, Anne R.Simioni, Sergio.Solomon, Leonard J.Sommers, Nathan I.Aldon Rug Mills.Dalty & Associates.Forged Carbides, Inc.Gloria Swanson Enterprises, Inc.Gloria Swanson Products Corporation.Glory B Enterprises.Haley Corporation.Lindenhurst Manufacturing Co. (Lindenhurst, N.Y.)Multiprises, Inc.Puritan Dress Company.Puritan Fashions Corporation.Sheffield Hosiery Mills, Inc.Swanson-Dufty Enterprises, Inc.Vegetable Products, Inc.Papers. Series III. Business Interests, 1921-1982.76 boxes (32 linear feet).This series is comprised of the records of Miss Swanson's various commercial investments and ventures, 1921-1982, which supplemented, and at times substituted for, income derived from her career as an actress. These included cosmetics, a fashion line, hosiery, an inventions and patents company, investments, merchandising ventures, organic foods, perfume, product endorsements, travel, and writing projects. The largest subseries contains the records (correspondence, contracts, legal and financial records, patents and patent applications, drawings, blueprints, samples, brochures, photographs, and clippings) of Multiprises, Inc., 1937-1951. This company financed and exploited various inventions by four World War II refugee inventors from Austria and Germany, namely Leopold Karniol, Richard Kobler, Anton Kratky, and Leopold Neumann. Chief among their successes was the Kratky process of producing hard carbide tools and tips out of cemented carbides. The records of Forged Carbides, Inc., ca. 1939-1942, reflect the manufacture and practical application of this invention. Karniol's process for the manufacture of plastic buttons was successfully exploited through an agreement with the Lindenhurst Manufacturing Company of New Jersey. There are also substantial files on acoustical inventions of Leopold Neumann, such as recordings for the blind, and dictating machine equipment. The rest of these records deal with various ideas and inventions, both solicited and unsolicited, from a number of persons, including such inventors as Joseph Ganz and even Miss Swanson herself. Types of ideas and inventions represented include appliances, automobiles, chemicals, clothing, film-related, household objects, industrial processes, implements, machinery, medicines, and musical instruments, to list a few of the categories. There are also a number of war-related inventions, such as airplane devices, bombs, coding machines, guns, and submarine devices. The Writing Projects subseries includes correspondence, manuscripts (holograph and typescript, many with corrections), pre-publication states (setting copy, galleys, proofs), clippings, contracts and other legal documents, financial information, printed material, research materials, photographs, and publicity materials accumulated during the writing and publication of various articles, autobiographical sketches, books, columns, poems, and speeches, ca. 1921-1981. The largest portion of this subseries is devoted to the preparation, publication, and response to Swanson's candid 1980 autobiography, Swanson on Swanson. Clippings, contracts, correspondence, dress labels, fashion sketches, financial information, maps, photographs, promotional materials, and tour schedules evidence Miss Swanson's business activities in the commercial fashion world, ca. 1940-1982. Her fruitful and long lived association with Puritan Dress Company (later Puritan Fashions Corp.), ca. 1951-1982 dominates this subseries. She promoted a line of Gloria Swanson "Forever Young" fashions largely through arduous tours to department stores where she made personal appearances and conducted fashion shows. Also included are the records of Gloria Swanson Enterprises, Inc., 1959-1977, and Swanson-Dufty Enterprises, Inc., 1977-1981, which were used for a variety of projects. These included the exploitation of film copyrights, scripts, and other properties owned by Swanson, as well as her services as performer or for personal appearances. Husband William Dufty was also involved in the latter venture, and there is information on a number of his writing projects, most notably Sugar Blues. The remainder of this series includes papers of other commercial associations: cosmetics (Essence of Nature Cosmetics, manufactured by Vegetable Products, Inc.), hosiery (Sheffield Hosiery Mills, Inc.), organic food (Gloria Swanson Products Corp.), product endorsements (Aldon Rug Mills), and travel (Haley Corporation), among others. EnglishFrenchGermanItalianHarry Ransom Humanities Research CenterJewish Theological Seminary of America. General Files. Records, 1902-1972. 1940-1972 (bulk).Jewish Theological Seminary of America. General Files.Records, 1902-1972. 1940-1972 (bulk).365 linear ft.The General Files of the Jewish Theological Seminary, which served as the Seminary's central filing system, consist principally of the correspondence of the president/chancellor (the title changed from president to chancellor in 1951). Some correspondence of vice-chancellors and other. top administrators is also included. Since the bulk of this material dates from 1940-1972, the years Dr. Louis Finkelstein (1895-1992), headed the Seminary, the General Files chiefly document his administration. There is, though, a significant amount of material from the 1930s, some from the 1920s, and a scattering going back to 1902. These earlier files cover, if thinly, the administrations of Solomon Schechter and Cyrus Adler. Records dating from the Seminary's founding in 1886 until its reorganization in 1902 have not been found in these files. Material in the General Files is mainly correspondence, both letters received and carbons of outgoing letters. The files also contain a variety of other types of documents, such as: minutes, reports, press releases, texts of speeches and lectures, clippings, reprints of articles, programs, invitations, guest lists, photographs, and audio tapes. Correspondents include: members of the Seminary's boards of directors and overseers; faculty members, administrators, students, and staff; administrators of institutions and programs affiliated with the Seminary (such as the American Jewish History Center, the "Eternal Light" radio program, the Jewish Museum, the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research, and the University of Judaism); participants in the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion and the Institute for Religious and Social Studies; recipients of honorary degrees; rabbis; clergypeople of other faiths; Dr. Finkelstein's academic colleagues; contributors to his book "The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion" (published between 1949 and 1971); representatives of many Jewish communal, religious, cultural, educational, and political organizations; politicians and other public figures; Israeli government officials; administrators of neighboring academic institutions on Morningside Heights, particularly Columbia University; community organizations, particularly Morningside Heights, Inc.; and an occasional member of the public writing to ask a question about Jewish law or custom. These files document Seminary administrative and academic matters, and during Louis Finkelstein's administration they also reflect his role as a prominent American Jew, one who was occasionally called upon to act as a spokesman or representative of American Jews as a whole. Dr. Finkelstein's work as an author and editor, particularly the preparation of his "The Jews..." is documented here. Of particular note are extensive (in some years making up approximately one quarter of the General Files) files documenting the Institute for Religious and Social Studies and the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion - programs fostering intergroup relations founded at the Seminary in 1938 and 1940, respectively. Included is correspondence with participants and with people invited to participate. Copies of Conference papers and transcripts of Institute talks are also included. Participants in the Conference and Institute were often prominent people from a wide ran. ge of fields. As a result, there are letters here from W.H. Auden, Mary McLeod Bethune, Franz Boas, Van Wyck Brooks, T.S. Eliot, Nels Ferre, Aldous Huxley, Jacques Lipchitz, Alain Locke, Thomas Mann, Margaret Mead, Reinhold Niebuhr, I.I. Rabi, Bertrand Russell, Bayard Rustin, Delmore Schwartz, Ben Shahn, Harlow Shapley, Paul Tillich, and many others. Also of note is correspondence with Frieda Schiff Warburg, daughter of Jacob Schiff and a Seminary board member. From 1944, when she donated her Fifth Avenue house to the Seminary for use as the Jewish Museum, until her death in 1958, the files contain her correspondence with Louis Finkelstein and other Seminary administrators, notably Jessica Feingold. This correspondence provides a view into the donation of the Warburg house and its transformation into the Jewish Museum. FrenchGermanHebrewYiddishOcean County College Library, OCC Library