Papers, 1818-1986 (bulk 1945-1975).

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Papers, 1818-1986 (bulk 1945-1975).

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Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches and lectures, reports, research notes, patient case files, psychiatric tests, transcripts of court proceedings, biographical information, newspaper clippings, drawings, photographs, and other materials, relating chiefly to Wertham's career as psychiatrist, author, and lecturer. Topics include abused children, censorship, civil rights, the physiological effects of drugs, freedom of speech, juvenile delinquency, pornography, race relations and racism, sex crimes, violence, including that in comic books, mass media, motion pictures, and television, and violent crime. Includes materials relating to Wertham's testimony as an expert witness in desegregation cases; his work with the Lafargue Clinic, a psychiatric clinic for African Americans, and the Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center for sexually maladjusted individuals, both in New York, N.Y.; and his art collection, particularly paintings by El Lissitzky. Also includes notes, drafts, and related materials for Wertham's major works, including Seduction of the innocent (1954); patient case file, correspondence, and writings by or about Wertham's patient, psychoanalyst Horace Westlake Frink, and correspondence between Frink and Sigmund Freud; and correspondence, writings, and other papers relating to Wertham's mentors, Emil Kraepelin and Adolf Meyer, and his Lafargue associate, Hilde Mosse. Correspondents include Taylor Caldwell, Emil A. Gutheil, Langston Hughes, Ernest Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey, Ida Macalpine, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Ella Winter, and Richard Wright.

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Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941

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Russian architect and designer, El Lissitzky became an important representative of the Russian avant-garde to the West through friendships with artists such as Lázló Moholy-Nagy and Kurt Schwitters. Lissitzky worked on an array of typographical, theater, furniture and exhibition designs, and advocated a synthesis of architecture, painting and sculpture. From the description of El Lissitzky letters and photographs, 1911-1941. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83441007 ...

Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981

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Psychiatrist. From the description of Fredric Wertham papers, 1818-1986 (bulk 1945-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983190 Psychiatrist and author. From the description of Papers, 1818-1986 (bulk 1945-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31816483 Biographical Note 1895, Mar. 20 Born, Friedrich Ignatz Wertheimer to Sigmund and Mathilde We...

Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958

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Psychoanalyst. From the description of Papers of Ernest Jones, 1921-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84455589 ...

Winter, Ella, 1898-1980

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Writer. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart. From the description of Papers, 1913-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122622286 ...

MacAlpine, Ida

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred C. Kinsey, most famous for his work on human sexual behavior, was a world authority on gallflies, also known as Cynipidae or gall wasps. Kinsey began his entomological studies in 1917, eventually traveling to 54 locations in 36 states, and accumula...

Caldwell, Taylor, 1900-1985

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British-born author of over 39 novels who lived most of her life in the Buffalo area; 1939 graduate of University of Buffalo. From the description of Great lion of God : typescript and galley proofs, 1970. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34178324 ...

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173 German author. From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913 From the description...

Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)

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The first mental health clinic in Harlem, Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by the well-known psychiatrist Frederic Wertham and others, to provide low cost treatment to a primarily black population. The clinic was housed at St. Philip's Church until its closing in 1959. From the description of Lafargue Clinic records, 1946-1981 (bulk 1946-1958). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517443 Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by the well-known psychiatrist Fredric ...

Gutheil, Emil Arthur, 1899-1959

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Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.)

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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

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Austrian neurologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Vienna, to an unidentified recipient, 1932 Aug. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870831 Eisler was the secretary of the Sigmund Freud archive in New York City; Urban was a professor in Mainz, Germany, who was editing a volume of materials on the reception of psychoanalysis. From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werfel and Adolf Klarmann, 1926, 1970-1971. (University of Pennsy...

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005

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American playwright and novelist. From the description of Collection, 1936-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34363746 From the description of Manuscripts, 1952-1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122412075 From the description of Arthur Miller collection, 1936-1979. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 66895316 Arthur Miller, playwright. From the description of The crucible : screen...

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...