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Chase, Ilka, 1905-1978. Papers, 1850-1977; bulk (1916-1977).

Title: Papers, 1850-1977; bulk (1916-1977).

The Ilka Chase Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, scripts, scrapbooks and other material related to the career of Ilka Chase.

ArchivalResource: 13 lin. ft. (20 boxes, 20 scrapbooks).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615910 View

Herbert Matter papers, ca. 1937-1984

Title: Herbert Matter papers ca. 1937-1984

Original artwork, photographs, letters, manuscripts, process materials, memorabilia, negatives, transparencies, film, printed material, and working equipment.

ArchivalResource: ca. 310 linear feet

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4p3021rd View

Matter, Herbert, 1907-1984. Herbert Matter papers, circa 1937-1984.

Title: Herbert Matter papers, circa 1937-1984.

The collection represents the photography and graphic design career of Herbert Matter, his commercial and personal work. This includes original artwork (collages, sketches), photographs (predominately black and white prints, contact prints, working prints), manuscripts, process materials (paste-ups, proof sheets), memorabilia, negatives, transparencies, slides, 16mm motion picture film, printed material, and working equipment. There is considerable correspondence with particularly noteworthy letters from Gregory Ain, John Cage, John Entenza, Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes, Isamu Noguchi, Irving Penn, and Brett Weston among others.

ArchivalResource: circa 350 linear feet (467 containers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863387 View

Sims, Irene Sickel, 1887-1980. Irene Sickel Sims diary, 1916-1967, bulk 1916-1917.

Title: Irene Sickel Sims diary, 1916-1967, bulk 1916-1917.

Collection comprises Sims handwritten diary (about 280 pages). She her first entry is on 13 July 1916, but on 19 July she copied in entries she had made for 27-30 June. She then made regular entries until 29 June 1917, with a the final entry dated 18 November 1917, when Sims explained that the hiatus resulted from her breaking an arm during a horseback ride in June. Sims wrote in detail about her work relationships and duties, including business lunches and dinners, salary negotiations, interactions colleagues and superiors, attendance at conferences, as well as her meetings with John Wanamaker and Condé Nast She was delighted when business associates were willing to treat her as they would a man and when she had evidence of their respect. In fact, she was courted by other companies and outlined their negotiations. She also stressed the importance of reading and high culture to her work and private life, and provided numerous quotes along with reports on her reading habits, as well as her attendance at public performances of all kinds, and included extensive notes on lectures made by John Cowper Powys and Sir Ernest Shackleton. In regard to her private life, she expressed concern about the customs of the men she dated and that they might consider her "old fashioned." Later she came to revel in her conservatism. Includes three clippings laid in. There is a note written in 1967 regarding the discovery of a key to unlock the volume. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (0.3 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775014140 View

Swanson, Gloria. Papers. Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983.

Title: Papers. Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983.

Nearly all of Miss Swanson's sixty-six motion pictures, 1914-1975, are represented by film stills and other materials. This collection does include some of Swanson's film holdings, though most were acquired by George Eastman House in 1967. Coverage is sparsest for her beginnings at Essanay Studios, Sennett/Keystone Studios, and Triangle Company. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp./Paramount Pictures period, 1919-1926, is more comprehensively documented with groups of stills and scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, contracts, and publicity items. The substantial correspondence, financial, legal, and production records of the United Artists years, 1925-1933, occupy forty boxes, yet only meagre files for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Fox Films, and Columbia Pictures Corp. represent Swanson's career for the remainder of the 1930s. Records of the scattered later films with RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corp., Warner Brothers, Titanus-Lux Films, and Universal City Studios, Inc. complete this subseries. Of these, the fullest records exist for Swanson's famous appearance in Paramount's Sunset Boulevard in 1950. Also represented is Swanson's involvement in other entertainment branches, which extended to radio (1927-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Show, 1951), television (1944-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Hour broadcast during the "stone age" of television in 1948), and theatre (1937-1977, including three Broadway productions, Twentieth Century, Nina, and Butterflies Are Free). Correspondents in this series include Steve Allen, Eve Arden, Richard Banks, Vilma Banky, Beverly Bayne, Pierre A. Bedard, Francesca Bertini, Virginia Bowker, Walter Byron, James Card (George Eastman House), Richard Chamberlain, Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Chatterton, Dick Clark, Lenore J. Coffee, George Cukor, André Daven, Cecil B. DeMille, E. B. Derr, Marlene Dietrich, Allan Dwan, Ralph Edwards, Laurence Eyre, Douglas Fairbanks, José Ferrer, Blanche Friderici, Eva Gabor, Elinor Glyn, Samuel Goldwyn, Edmund Goulding, D. W. Griffith, Richard Griffith (Museum of Modern Art), Texas Guinan, Helen Hayes, Will H. Hays, Edith Head, Lance Heath, Hedda Hopper, René Hubert, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Arthur W. Kelley, Harold J. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Henri de La Falaise, Rod LaRocque, Jesse L. Lasky, Viola Lawrence, Evelyn Laye, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alan Jay Lerner, Mervyn LeRoy, Josephine Lovett, Clare Marafioti, Frances Marion, Somerset Maugham, Louis B. Mayer, Thomas A. Moore, Edward R. Murrow, Conrad Nagel, Condé Nast, Bertram S. Nayfack, Marshall Neilan, Dennis F. O'Brien, Albert Parker, Mary Pickford, ZaSu Pitts, Harry Poppe, Joseph M. Schenck, Clinton J. Scollard, Ted Shawn, Aaron Spelling, Charles E. Sullivan, Ed Sullivan, Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Irving G. Thalberg, Jack Valenti, Erich Von Stroheim, Irving R. Wakoff, Raoul Walsh, Jack Warner, Billy Wilder, Lois Wilson, Adolph Zukor, and others. The work of numerous writers (Gertrude Behanna, Lenore J. Coffee, James Ashmore Creelman, Laura Hope Crews, Delmer Daves, William Dufty, Laurence Eyre, Allan Jay Friedman, Leonard Gershe, Forrest Halsey, Ben Hecht, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Harold J. Kennedy, Alan Jay Lerner, Josephine Lovett, Clare Boothe Luce, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frances Marion, Richard Matheson, Preston Sturges, Erich Von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and others), photographers (Ernest A. Bachrach, Edward O. Bagley, Russell Ball, Marcus Blechman, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Harold Carter, William Eglinton, Eliot Elisofon, Ellen Graham, G. L. Manuel Frères, Donald Biddle Keyes, Jack Mitchell, Nickolas Muray, Alexander Phillips, Melbourne Spurr, Edward Steichen), and lyricists and composers (most notably Edmund Goulding, Dickson Hughes, Elsie Janis, Franz Lehar, Dorothy Parker, Richard Stapley, and Vincent Youmans) is included in this collection. Also included in this series are career-related materials from actors' groups, film and television organizations, libraries, museums, and universities. The largest group of files included here center around the later records of Queen Kelly, 1956-1985, documenting ownership, copyright, domestic and foreign showings, television rights, use in documentary films, etc. Also included are files containing repository agreements and correspondence concerning Miss Swanson's personal film collection at the Museum of Modern Art (ca. 1944-1967) and George Eastman House (1967-1982).

ArchivalResource: 118 boxes (49 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122419032 View

Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Letters to Wayne Gard. New York, NY. 1932-1933.

Title: Letters to Wayne Gard. New York, NY. 1932-1933.

1) Concerning the political climate. 1932 Oct. 31. 2) Regarding some articles by John Carter; concerning Conde Nast. 1932 Nov. 21. 3) Asking Gard to check the proofs of his Nicholas Marray Butler article. 1933 Jan. 16.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148540808 View

Nast, Condé, 1873-1942. Correspondence file, 1925-1926, from Boni & Liveright.

Title: Correspondence file, 1925-1926, from Boni & Liveright.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (15 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155878001 View