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Eleonora von Mendelssohn papers

Title: Eleonora von Mendelssohn papers

Eleanora Mendelssohn was a German stage actress who emigrated to America at the time of Hitler's rise to power. She was actively involved in aiding other emigres and had much contact with the German acting community in Hollywood and New York. The collection includes personal and business papers and memorabilia of Eleanora Mendelssohn and family members dating from 1880-1949. Papers reveal aspects of Mendelssohn's life, as well as problems, concerns and political tenor of the German emigre community in the United States during this period.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear feet (9 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1963 View

S. N. Behrman papers, 1912-1987

Title: S. N. Behrman papers 1912-1987

The S. N. Behrman Papers document the literary career and personal life of the playwright and essayist. The date span of the papers is 1912-1987. They include personal and professional correspondence; diaries; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets of Behrman's writings; news clippings; scrapbooks; photographs; and a few items of ephemera. The S. N. Behrman Papers are an important resource for the study of the American theatre, the Hollywood film industry, popular magazine literature and New York intellectual culture. Prominent correspondents include: Maxwell Anderson, Brooks Atkinson, Bernard Berenson, Isaiah Berlin, Edna Ferber, Felix Frankfurter, Ira Gershwin, F. Tennyson Jesse, George S. Kaufman, Joshua Logan, Sonya Levien, W. Somerset Maugham, St. Clair McKelway, Kenyon Nicholson, Cole Porter, Joseph Verner Reed, Gottfried Reinhardt, Harold Ross, Siegfried Sassoon, William Shawn, Robert E. Sherwood, Salka Viertel, Rebecca West, Katharine White, Edmund Wilson and Alexander Woollcott.

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http://archives.nypl.org/mss/248 View

Asian American Film Ephemera Collection.

Title: Asian American Film Ephemera Collection.

The Asian American Film Ephemera Collection at theHarvard Film Archive is a curated collection of ephemera, including books, pressbooks, mini-posters, and 28 one-sheet movie posters, portraying the presence and experience of Asians and Asian Americans in American film from the period of approximately 1917-2002.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 28 one sheet movie posters

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00002/catalog View

Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection.

Title: Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection.

The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection at the Harvard Film Archive consists of approximately 800,000 film stills, pressbooks, posters, and other cinema-related ephemera originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist. Just's expansive collection began in the gathering of image and source material for the annual film lexicons, the Heyne Filmlexikon and Filmjahrbuch, which he continues to publish.

ArchivalResource: 800 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00019/catalog View

George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Title: George Balanchine archive, 1924-1989 (inclusive), 1961-1983 (bulk).

Papers documenting the American career of Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine. Also includes records of the New York City Ballet (1948-1987), and records of the George Balanchine Foundation and the George Balanchine Trust (1983-1989).

ArchivalResource: 115 boxes, 1volume, and 61 videotapes (62.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01785/catalog View