Carl Marzani photographs [graphic]. 1938-1990.

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Carl Marzani photographs [graphic]. 1938-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60951748

The collection consists of eleven black and white and color portraits and snapshots of Carl Marzani, his first wife, Edith Eisner (aka Edith Emerson), and his second wife, Charlotte Pomerantz, from the middle/late 1930s through the late 1980s. It also contains three newspaper and magazine clippings illustrated with photographs of Carl and Edith Marzani or Carl Marzani. The first two concern the Marzanis round-the-world hitch-hiking journey during 1938, the second is a portrait of Carl Marzani from U.S. News and World Report, in March 1990.

11 photoprints : b&w, col. ; 8 x 10 or smaller.

New-York Historical Society

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Pomerantz, Charlotte

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Charlotte Pomerantz was born July 24, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. She married Carl Marzani, a writer in 1966. They have two children. Ms. Pomerantz received a B.A. Degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a writer, but also has worked as a salesperson, waitress, researcher, copy editor, and editor. Ms. Pomerantz is the winner of several awards and distinctions for her children's books. Her contributions to children's literature include witty picture books, insight into other cultures, and poet...

Emerson, Edith

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Marzani, Carla

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Carl Marzani (1912-1994), an Italian-American immigrant radical, was a writer, editor, publisher, and also produced political documentary films. During the late 1930s he received a degree at Oxford University, joined the anarchist Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War to fight against the fascists, hitch-hiked around the world with his first wife, Edith, and then served briefly as a Communist Party, USA, organizer on New York City's Lower East Side. During World War II, he worked in the Un...