Papers, 1910-1978.

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Papers, 1910-1978.

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Correspondence; biographical papers including chronologies and family papers; exhibition files containing brochures, announcements, press releases, installation views and instructions, lists, and posters; writings and interviews including incomplete drafts of articles, fiction, poetry, and plays; photographic essay project files containing background research material, correspondence, expense records, writings, and layouts; activity files containing correspondence, memoranda, articles, newsletters, announcements, brochures, and lecture notes and transcripts; financial records; audio tapes and sound recordings, many of which are jazz sessions recorded in Smith's New York City loft and featuring musicians such as Thelonious Monk; Smith's art work including acrylic and oil paintings, sketchbooks, and drawings in various media; artifacts and memorabilia; and photographic materials including negatives, contact sheets, work prints, and black and white and color transparencies; together with photographs, negatives, contact sheets, and transparencies, taken by Smith's mother, Nettie Lee Smith. Includes material relating to Smith's first employment as a photographer for Newsweek, his subsequent free-lance work; wartime career as staff photographer for Life; involvement with the Photo League; exhibitions of his work; efforts to publish Sensorium, a magazine of photography; and his Minamata project documenting mercury poisoning in Japan.

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Monk, Thelonious Sphere, 1917-1982

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Thelonious Sphere Monk (/θəˈloʊniəs/, October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington. Monk's compositions and improvisations feature dissonances and angular melodic twi...

Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978

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Photo-League

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