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Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Record Unit 324

Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Public Programs

Records, 1976-1982

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Public Programs
Title:Records
Dates:1976-1982
Quantity:8.5 cu. ft. (17 document boxes)
Collection:Record Unit 324
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

These records document the activities of the Program Coordinator and the development and administration of the Office from the fall semester of 1976 to the fall semester of 1982. Included is correspondence with organizers for travel programs, speakers, instructors, performers, guides, vendors and registrants; syllabi, course descriptions and teaching aids; student profile and program evaluation forms; contracts with course leaders; photographs and biographical information for selected instructors; newspaper and magazine articles concerning various programs; fiscal records for course supplies; transcripts of some lectures; program guides and agendas; and staff notes and memoranda.

Historical Note

The Office of the Program Coordinator, a unit of the Education Division, develops programs for the general public that deal with various aspects of the decorative arts. Included in each semester's offerings are lecture series, tours, workshops, weekend seminars, luncheon lectures, and an assortment of special programs for young people. Funding is provided in part by registration fees, and in part through the contributions of private foundations and corporations.

Jane Clark served as program coordinator from the beginning semester in 1976 to 1978, when she was succeeded by Jennifer Jarvis. Since 1979, the position has been shared by Jarvis and Susan Yelavich.

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Introduction

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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Descriptive Entry

These records document the activities of the program coordinator and the development and administration of the Office from the fall semester of 1976 to the fall semester of 1982. Included is correspondence with organizers for travel programs, speakers, instructors, performers, guides, vendors and registrants; syllabi, course descriptions, and teaching aids; student profile and program evaluation forms; contracts with course leaders; photographs and biographical information for selected instructors; newspaper and magazine articles concerning various programs; fiscal records for course supplies; transcripts of some lectures; program guides and agendas; and staff notes and memoranda.

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This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 324, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Public Programs, Records

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Container List

Series 1

PROGRAMS, 1976-1982. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY SEMESTER.

Box 1

Fall 1976

Administrative Records

Folder 1 Thank yous to Fall instructors

Box 1 of 17

Classes

Folder 2 American Decorative Arts

Box 1 of 17

Folder 3 Art Nouveau. Includes biographical material on Martin Eidelberg.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 4 Calligraphy

Box 1 of 17

Folder 5 Decorative Motifs in Chinese Arts. Includes biographical material on Joan M. Hartman.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 6 English Country Houses

Box 1 of 17

Folder 7 The Evolving Chair. Includes biographical material on Nicos Zographos.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 8 History of Costume. Includes a letter from Dean Robert Gutman to S. Dillon Ripley concerning recruitment of teachers for a seminar in product design.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 9 Perception and Communication

Box 1 of 17

Folder 10 The Place of Silver (1500-1900)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 11 Stage Design

Box 1 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 12 Cloisonne (Louise Parish). Includes biographical material on Parish.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 13 Enameling (Mary Megee)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 14 Paper Marbling (Deborah Evetts)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 15 Stitchery (Kristina Friberg). Includes biographical material, newsclippings, and press releases on Friberg.

Box 1 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 16 Decorative Arts Repair Clinic. Includes biographical material on Steven A. Leon

Box 1 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folders 17-18 Collecting Antiques

Box 1 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 19 Textile Design (Hans Krondahl). Includes biographical material on Krondahl.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 20 Versailles

Box 1 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 21 American Indian Design (Demetri Bove). Includes biographical material on Bove.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 22 Banners (Norman Lalberte)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 23 Bread Sculpting (Marion Weiss)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 24 Children's Workshop (Linda Maddox)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 25 Designing Furniture (Jerry Lefrances)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 26 Early American Crafts. Includes biographical material on Janet F. Hoffman.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 27 For the Eyes

Box 1 of 17

Folder 28 Performing Arts (Ann Cohen Puppets)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 29 Performing Arts (Future Puppeteer Ideas). Includes background material on Dragon Marionettes.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 30 Performing Arts (Jerry Hartnett Puppets). Includes background material on Hartnett and the Marionette Musicale.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 31 Performing Arts (Jo Humphrey Puppets)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 32 Performing Arts (Poko Puppets, Lary Engler)

Box 1 of 17

Folder 33 Performing Arts (Rod Young Puppets). Includes biographical material, newsclippings, and magazine articles on Rod Young.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 34 When Is a Chair a Chair?

Box 1 of 17

Winter 1977

Administrative Records

Folder 35 Community Trust (1977-1978). Includes programs and funding reports.

Box 1 of 17

Folder 36 Deposed Courses

Box 1 of 17

Folder 37 Thank yous to Winter instructors

Box 1 of 17

Classes

Folder 38 American Folk Art

Box 1 of 17

Folder 39 Antique Auction Mart

Box 1 of 17

Folders 40-41 Calligraphy

Box 1 of 17

Folder 42 Cities in Perspective

Box 1 of 17

Box 2

Folder 1 Graphic Art (Rex Pickering). Includes biographical material on Rex Pickering.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 2 Industrial Design

Box 2 of 17

Folder 3 Japanese Print. Includes biographical material on Barbara Brennan Ford.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 4 Northern Renaissance

Box 2 of 17

Folder 5 Victoriana

Box 2 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 6 Basketry. Includes biographical material and photograph of Sandra Corrie Newman

Box 2 of 17

Folder 7 Decoupage

Box 2 of 17

Folder 8 Instant Furniture. Includes biographical material on Peter S. Stanberg

Box 2 of 17

Folder 9 Stained Glass. Includes biographical material and photographs of Jack Cushon and Theresa E. Sweeney.

Box 2 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 10 Luncheon Talks on Decorating

Box 2 of 17

Folder 11 Second Luncheon Lecture (Interior Design)

Box 2 of 17

Tours

Folder 12 Washington, D.C., tour

Box 2 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 13 Ceramic Art. Correspondence with American Crafts Council includes biographical material on Garth Clark.

Box 2 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 14 The Five Senses Touch

Box 2 of 17

Folder 15 The Shaping of New York. Includes biographical material on Samuel R. Mozes.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 16 Young People's Crafts. Includes biographical material on Janet F. Hoffman.

Box 2 of 17

Spring 1977

Administrative Records

Folder 17 Bus and Expenses. Includes invoices for supplies and bus trips.

Box 2 of 17

Classes

Folder 18 African Art. Includes transcript of graduate and undergraduate causes of the instructor, Rachel H. Kemper.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 19 American Architecture and Public Art. Includes biographical material on Robert E. Jensen.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 20 Calligraphy. Includes biographical material on Donald Kung.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 21 Carpets. Includes biographical material on Jack Soskin.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 22 French Decorative Arts. Includes transcript of one lecture in the series.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 23 Landscape Gardening

Box 2 of 17

Folder 24 Palladio

Box 2 of 17

Folder 25 Regency. Includes biographical material and magazine articles by and about Mitzi Cunliffe.

Box 2 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 26 Japanese Flower Arranging. Includes biographical material on Josephine McTage; and clippings from New York (magazine), Spring 1977, on gardens.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 27 Raku

Box 2 of 17

Folder 28 Tie Dye

Box 2 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 29 Tools. Includes photographs of outdoor demonstrations.

Box 2 of 17

Folder 30 Two Hundred Years of American Architecture

Box 2 of 17

Folder 31 Weaving With Sheep. Includes biographical material on Ruth Katz and Albertje Koopman Haynes.

Box 2 of 17

Box 3

Special Series

Folder 1 Flower Design

Box 3 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 2 The Five Senses Touch

Box 3 of 17

Folder 3 Kite Building and Flying. Includes biographical material on Paul Garber, and the December 1976 issue of "Art to Zoo" (newsletter).

Box 3 of 17

Folder 4 Puff the Magic Dragon

Box 3 of 17

Summer 1977

Administrative Records

Folder 5 Accounting

Box 3 of 17

Classes

Folders 6-7 Collectibles. Includes biographical material on Dennis Doordan.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 8 The Question of Style. Includes biographical material and newsclippings on Mary McFadden.

Box 3 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 9 Crafts

Box 3 of 17

Folder 10 Drawing. Includes biographical material on Lee Dejasu.

Box 3 of 17

Fall 1977

Classes

Folder 11 Architecture and the Arts. Includes biographical material on Brent Brolin.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 12 Art Deco

Box 3 of 17

Folder 13 Decorative Arts (from the Industrial Revolution to 1930)

Box 3 of 17

Folder 14 Decorative Motifs in Islamic Design

Box 3 of 17

Folder 15 Design in the Ancient World. Includes biographical material on Ellen Davis, Karen Sydney Rubinson, and Jeffrey Ruesch.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 16 Interior Design in Italy. Includes biographical material on Laura Tampieri Neagle.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 17 Native North American Design Traditions

Box 3 of 17

Folder 18 Perception and Expression

Box 3 of 17

Folder 19 Porcelain

Box 3 of 17

Folder 20 Revival Styles in 19th-Century America

Box 3 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 21 Bookbinding. Includes biographical material on Richard Minsky.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 22 Christmas Ornaments Workshop. Includes biographical material on Helga Orthofer.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 23 Marquetry workshop. Includes biographical material on Allen Fitchett and a copy of Constantine's Wood Catalog/Yearbook 1977.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 24 Quilting Workshop. Includes biographical material on Carter Houck.

Box 3 of 17

Folder 25 Screen Printing. Includes biographical material on Bill Baily.

Box 3 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folders 26-27 Furniture Repair

Box 3 of 17

Folder 28 Porcelain Repair

Box 3 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 29 Fashion Luncheons

Box 3 of 17

Box 4

Special Series

Folder 1 Fabric Houses. Includes background information on Quadrille Fabrics from articles in the June 18 and October 7, 1975, issues of Home Furnishings Daily.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 2 Masters of the Decorative Arts

Box 4 of 17

Folder 3 The Subway

Box 4 of 17

Tours

Folder 4 Bronx Art Deco Tour

Box 4 of 17

Folder 5 Virginia Tour

Box 4 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 6 Design in the American Southwest

Box 4 of 17

Folder 7 Living with the Past

Box 4 of 17

Folder 8 Patrons/Collectors. Includes curriculum vitae of Robert H. Luck.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 9 Relief Printing. Includes biographical material on Karen Ellen Wenig and invitations to an exhibition on April 26, 1977, and a reception, November 22, 1977, by the artist.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 10 Resources

Box 4 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 11 Color, Line, and Form

Box 4 of 17

Folder 12 Explorations

Box 4 of 17

Folder 13 Drop In

Box 4 of 17

Winter 1978

Classes

Folder 14 American Architecture

Box 4 of 17

Folder 15 American Furniture Styles. Includes a publication from the New York School of Interior Design, English and American Period Styles.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 16 Arts and Crafts Movement. Includes information on the William Morris Society in the New York City area.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 17 Chinoiserie

Box 4 of 17

Folder 18 Classical Architecture

Box 4 of 17

Folder 19 Collectibles. Includes September 1977 issue of The New York Antique Almanac.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 20 Glass. Includes biographical material on Paul E. Doros.

Box 4 of 17

Folder 21 Medieval Architecture and Minor Arts

Box 4 of 17

Folder 22 Prints: Technique and History

Box 4 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 23 Craft Workshop

Box 4 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 24 Repair Workshops

Box 4 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 25 Antiques Luncheon

Box 4 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 26 Wagner Series

Box 4 of 17

Special Series

Folder 27 Rug Bazaar. Includes a copy of Kilim by Oriental Carpet Manufactures.

Box 4 of 17

Box 5

Folder 1 Shop Talks

Box 5 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 2 Early Americans

Box 5 of 17

Folder 3 Master Drawings

Box 5 of 17

Folder 4 More Than Meets the Eye

Box 5 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 5 Circus Arts. Includes photographs of the class.

Box 5 of 17

Folder 6 Mystery Book Illustrations

Box 5 of 17

Folder 7 Readings

Box 5 of 17

Folder 8 Start from Scratch

Box 5 of 17

Folder 9 Theatre Improvisation

Box 5 of 17

Spring 1978

Classes

Folder 10 Embroidery

Box 5 of 17

Folder 11 French Provincial

Box 5 of 17

Folder 12 Gothic Revival

Box 5 of 17

Folder 13 Great Auctions

Box 5 of 17

Folder 14 History of Furniture Styles. Includes biographical material on Jackie Miesel.

Box 5 of 17

Folder 15 Landscape. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth B. MacDougal and David Harris Engel; and an issue of "American Society of Landscape Architects" (newsletter).

Box 5 of 17

Folder 16 New York Historical Interiors

Box 5 of 17

Folder 17 Venice and Florence

Box 5 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 18 Repair/Textiles

Box 5 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 19 Paper Day. Includes biographical material on Toyce Anderson, Glen Tunstull, Michael Shall, Alexander Catlin Twining, and Spiros M. Zakas; photographs of Anderson, Tunstull, and Zakas; and historical information on the "Origami Center of America."

Box 5 of 17

Special Series

Folder 20 Interior Designers

Box 5 of 17

Folder 21 Rug Bazaar

Box 5 of 17

Folder 22 Visits to Artists' studios. Includes biographical material on William Compely and Christo Javacheff.

Box 5 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 23 Garden Weekend. Includes excerpts from articles in Landscape Architecture, July 1975, and the April 1977, edition of the New Jersey Monthly on JSL Greentree; and Greentree's design plans for landscaping Montvale, New Jersey.

Box 5 of 17

Folder 24 Grand Tour

Box 5 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 25 Boats and Kites. Includes biographical material on Robin Lehren.

Box 5 of 17

Folder 26 Creating a Circus

Box 5 of 17

Summer 1978

Administrative Records

Folder 27 Summer Programs 1978. Includes some material fruit the Spring of 1978.

Box 5 of 17

Folder 28 Summer Contracts

Box 5 of 17

Box 6

Folder 1 Summer Time. Includes proposed plans for the summer semester.

Box 6 of 17

Classes

Folder 2 Tastemakers. Includes an article by Diana Vreeland on "The 70's Style" in The New York Times, August 1977.

Box 6 of 17

Folder 3 Victoriana; The Age of Victoria

Box 6 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 4 It'll be a Stitch. Includes biographical material and photographs of Charles Bain.

Box 6 of 17

Folder 5 Victorian Beadwork. Includes prints of Victorian bead-work.

Box 6 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 6 Summer Crafts Repair Clinic. Includes material from the Spring of 1978; and biographical material on Ita Aber, May Fry, and Juliette Hamelecourt.

Box 6 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 7 Young People's Classes

Box 6 of 17

Fall 1978

Administrative Records

Folders 8-9 Fall Semester - General. Includes copies of the Fall Programs schedule.

Box 6 of 17

Classes

Folder 10 American Architecture

Box 6 of 17

Folder 11 Art of the Indian Subcontinent. Includes biographical material on Marilyn T. Grayburn.

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Folder 12 Baroque and Rococo

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Folder 13 Book Arts

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Folder 14 Great English Country Houses

Box 6 of 17

Folder 15 Historic Preservation. Includes biographical material on Jeanne H. Watson; a copy of The Newark Museum Quarterly, Fall 1976; historical information on Rambusch Studios; and a clipping from the New York Times, August 1978, on restoration

Box 6 of 17

Folder 16 Neo-Classicism

Box 6 of 17

Box 7

Folder 1 State of the Crafts. Includes biographical material on Jacqueline Springwater; historical information on the "New York Experimental Glass Workshop"; copies of African Artists in America; and an article in The New Yorker (magazine), September 1978, entitled "Crafts in the City: A Guide to Courses, Shops, and Galleries" by Roberta Intrater and Jacqueline Springwater.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 2 20th-Century Ornamentation. Includes biographical material on Collin Forbes, Dona Guimaraes, Mark Hampton, and Patricia Oleszko; and a photograph of Oleszko.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 3 Wiener Werkstaette

Box 7 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 4 Crafts - Repair. Includes biographical material on Ita Aber and Ann Golob.

Box 7 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 5 American Antiques Luncheon

Box 7 of 17

Special Series

Folder 6 Artists' Post Cards. Includes loan agreements between collectors and the Cooper-Hewitt.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 7 Corporate Design

Box 7 of 17

Folder 8 The Influence of Non-Western Religion on Art and Design. Includes an article "Zen Temple" from Tokyo (magazine), September 1, 1977.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 9 Russian Decorative Arts

Box 7 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 10 Collectibles

Box 7 of 17

Folder 11 Grand Chateaux

Box 7 of 17

Folder 12 Interior Design

Box 7 of 17

Folder 13 Masterworks of the Islamic Near East

Box 7 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 14 Drawing and Design

Box 7 of 17

Folder 15 How They are Made

Box 7 of 17

Winter 1979

Administrative Records

Folder 16 Calendar 1979

Box 7 of 17

Folder 17 Equipment Needs Forms

Box 7 of 17

Folder 18 Fund Raising Proposal Programs (1979-1980)

Box 7 of 17

Folder 19 Programs (winter 1979)

Box 7 of 17

Classes

Folders 20-21 English Antiques

Box 7 of 17

Folder 22 Domestic Art

Box 7 of 17

Folder 23 German Architecture. Includes biographical material on Henry Wollman.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 24 Great Cities

Box 7 of 17

Folder 25 Great Rulers and Their Decorative Arts. Includes biographical material on Eleanor G. Sims.

Box 7 of 17

Folder 26 Hudson River School

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Folder 27 Renaissance

Box 7 of 17

Folder 28 Theatre Design

Box 7 of 17

Box 8

Folder 1 Woven Textiles

Box 8 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 2 Book and Paper Repair Clinic

Box 8 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 3 Interior Design

Box 8 of 17

Special Series

Folder 4 Porcelain

Box 8 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 5 American Homes

Box 8 of 17

Folder 6 Frank Lloyd Wright

Box 8 of 17

Folder 7 Ludwig Seminar

Box 8 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 8 Children's Winter Classes. Includes biographical material on Alexander L. Neblett.

Box 8 of 17

Folder 9 Performing Arts

Box 8 of 17

Folder 10 Performing Arts (Magic)

Box 8 of 17

Spring 1979

Classes

Folder 11 American Decorative Arts

Box 8 of 17

Folder 12 Auctions

Box 8 of 17

Folder 13 Chinese Art

Box 8 of 17

Folder 14 Classical Architecture

Box 8 of 17

Folder 15 Design of the Twenties and Thirties. Includes biographical material on Jeffry L. Merkle

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Folder 16 French 18th Century

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Folder 17 Japanese Architecture

Box 8 of 17

Folder 18 Japanese Craft Tradition

Box 8 of 17

Folder 19 Japanese Prints

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Folder 20 Oriental Carpet Critiques

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Folder 21 Pre-Columbian Architecture. Includes biographical material on Clara Lipson.

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Folder 22 Rugs

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Folder 23 Seafaring/Oceanography and Exploration. Includes a copy of Sea History by the National Maritime Historical Society, Summer 1979.

Box 8 of 17

Craft Workshops

Folder 24 Craft Workshop

Box 8 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 25 Performing Arts

Box 8 of 17

Folder 26 Crafts Visits. Includes biographical material on Michele Lester and Mary Ann Scherr.

Box 8 of 17

Folder 27 Interior Design on a Budget

Box 8 of 17

Folder 28 Trends in Design

Box 8 of 17

Tours

Folder 29 Art Deco Interiors

Box 8 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 30 Bonzai, Ikebana, and Japanese Gardens. Includes a catalogue, "The New York Botanical Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York Combined Education Program," Spring 1977.

Box 8 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 31 Children's classes. Includes biographical material on Kathleen E. Ferguson and Linda Margolin

Box 8 of 17

Box 9

Summer 1979

Craft Workshops

Folder 1 Craft Workshops

Box 9 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 2 Repair Clinic

Box 9 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 3 Films/Urban Open Spaces. Includes film catalogues from the University of California Extension Media Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

Box 9 of 17

Folder 4 Summer Symposium

Box 9 of 17

Special Series

Folder 5 Fantastic Architecture

Box 9 of 17

Folder 6 Oasis in the City

Box 9 of 17

Tours

Folder 7 Urban Murals. Includes biographical material on Jay Rosenblum.

Box 9 of 17

Folders 8-9 Wave Hill. Includes photographs.

Box 9 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 10 Children's Classes

Box 9 of 17

Fall 1979

Administrative Record

Folder 11 Programs - Fall 1979

Box 9 of 17

Classes

Folder 12 African Art. Includes a copy of Africa, A Brief History of Ancient and Medieval Africa by R. H. Kemper.

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Folder 13 American Folk Art

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Folder 14 Archaeology and Film

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Folder 15 Glass

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Folder 16 History of Technology. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth Hitz and Judith Marci Gutman.

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Folder 17 Native American

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Folder 18 Natural History. Includes articles and newsclippings on Sidney Horenstein.

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Folder 19 Reform Movements

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Folder 20 Spaceflight Lectures. Includes biographical material on Frederick C. Durant III and Fred Wallace Haise, Jr.

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Folder 21 20th Century American Painting

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Craft Workshops

Folder 22 Craft Workshop

Box 9 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 23 Repair Clinics

Box 9 of 17

Luncheon Lectures

Folder 24 Collecting Antiques Luncheon

Box 9 of 17

Special Programs

Folder 25 Poetry Reading Series

Box 9 of 17

Box 10

Tours

Folder 1 Sleepy Hollow Restoration Tour

Box 10 of 17

Folder 2 Sunday Field Trips

Box 10 of 17

Weekend Seminars

Folder 3 Gems and Minerals

Box 10 of 17

Folders 4-5 Stage Design

Box 10 of 17

Young People's Programs

Folder 6 Children's Classes. Includes biographical material on the instructor, Savannah; and a copy of the NASA film catalog, July 1977.

Box 10 of 17

Folder 7 Performing Arts

Box 10 of 17

Winter 1980

Administrative Records

Folder 8 Brochure Copy

Box 10 of 17

Folder 9 Programs and Memos (Fall 1979 and winter 1980)

Box 10 of 17

Classes

Folder 10 Archaeology. Includes letters of reference for Clara Lipson from staff members of the Cooper-Hewitt.

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Folder 11 Art Deco. Includes biographical material on Helen Amy Harrison.

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Folder 12 English Architecture and the Decorative Arts

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Folder 13 From Iberia to Modern Spain. Includes biographical material on Jerrilyn Denise Dodds.

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Folder 14 Furniture. Includes biographical material on Elizabeth Stillinger.

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Folder 15 Gothic - 12th Century

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Folder 16 Himalayan. Includes an excerpt from Alexandra David-Neel's Adventures in Tibet, Fact or Fiction by Braham Norwick.

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Folder 17 Interiors

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Folder 18 Needlework

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Folder 19 Prints. Includes biographical material an Frederick den Broeder.

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Craft Workshops

Folder 20 Crafts

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Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 21 Repair Clinic

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Luncheon Lectures

Folder 22 Chinese Luncheon Lecture

Box 10 of 17

Special Programs

Folders 23-24 "Door". Includes photographs, press releases, and excerpts from articles on the production of "Door" at the Cooper-Hewitt.

Box 10 of 17

Folder 25 19th Century Furniture. Includes biographical material on Page Talbot, Marilyn Johnson Bordes, Peter L. L. Strickland, Jan Seidler, and Ed Polk Douglas.

Box 10 of 17

Special Series

Folder 26 Antiques Visits

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Weekend Seminars

Folder 27 Design and Energy. Includes newspaper clippings of "The Architect's Role in Saving Energy"; an issue of Popular Science, October 1979; and a copy of Solar Heated Buildings Survey, 12th edition, March 3, 1976.

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Folder 28 Southern Antiques

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Box 11

Young People's Programs

Folder 1 Children's Performing Arts. Includes background material on Elizabeth Albot and the Kaleidoscope Dancers.

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Folder 2 Teens - Design. Includes biographical material on Margit Echols.

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Folder 3 Winter Children's classes

Box 11 of 17

Spring 1980

Classes

Folder 4 Artists as Designers

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Folder 5 Ceramics of the East

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Folders 6-7 Changing Metropolis. Includes biographical material on Richard M. Rosan.

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Folder 8 18th- and 19th-Century Fashion. Includes biographical material on Maureen Conner.

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Folder 9 Greek and Roman Architecture

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Folder 10 Image of America in landscape. Includes biographical material on Via Wynroth.

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Folder 11 Interior Design: Renaissance through Baroque. Includes biographical material on Joyce Geary Volk.

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Folder 12 New England Architecture

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Folder 13 Trends in Design

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Craft Workshops

Folder 14 Non-Woven Fiber and Fabrics Craft Workshops. Includes biographical material on Shery De Leon, Arlene Minter, and Ellen Weilbord; and a copy of Beyond Tapestry by Joan Livingston.

Box 11 of 17

Decorative Arts Repair Clinics

Folder 15 Furniture Finishers Repair Clinic

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Special Programs

Folder 16 Americana Day

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Folder 17 Ceramic Symposium

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Special Series

Folder 18 Talks with Flower Designers

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Tours

Folder 19 Barnes Tour. Includes historical material on the Barnes Foundation.

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Folder 20 Charleston Tour

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Weekend Seminars

Folder 21 Brownstone Revival. Includes a copy of The Old House Journal, volume 8, May 1980.

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Young People's Programs

Folder 22 Classes for Young People. Includes biographical material on Diana Rolls.

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Folder 23 Performing Arts for Young People. Includes biographical material on Jehan Clements, David Marquis, and Lea Wallace; and photographs of Clements.

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Summer 1980

Administrative Records

Folder 24 Summer Programs - 1980

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Craft Workshops

Folder 25 Summer Crafts - 1980. Includes biographical material on Cecily Barth Firestein; and a copy of Step by Step Decoupage by Dee Davis and Dee Frenkel.

Box 11 of 17

Special Programs

Folders 26-27 Performing Arts. Includes an article on Stuart Davis in Courier, April 23, 1979; background information on the Harvard/Radcliffe Dance Co.; and articles from the New Yorker (magazine), May 9, 1977, The New York Times, April 27, 1977 and July 2, 1978, The New York Post, April 26, 1977, and The Record, May 19, 1978, on The Federal Music Society.

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Box 12

Special Series

Folder 1 Victoriana Moderne: The Modern Movement in American Architecture

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Tours

Folder 2 Victoriana Moderne: Walking Tour

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Folder 3 Yale/New Haven Tour

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Young People's Programs

Folder 4 Young People

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Fall 1980

Classes

Folder 5 American Decorative Arts

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Folder 6 Art Nouveau

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Folder 7 Development of the American Home in the 20th Century. Includes articles on design from Interior Design, May 1978, Architectural Record, May 1980, Design Dialogue and Progressive Architecture, April 1980.

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Folders 8-9 Drawings

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Folder 10 18th- and 19th-Century European Interiors

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Folder 11 Frank Lloyd Wright. Includes an account of Edgar Tafel's life and his association with Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Folder 12 Georgian England

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Folder 13 Guatemalan Folk Aft Class

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Folder 14 Italian Decorative Arts

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Folders 15-16 New York Cultural Center: New York, The Arts in the Eighties. Includes published edition of roundtable discussion on New York City by Touche Ross and transcripts of four lectures given by New York art, dance, literature, and theater critics.

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Folder 17 Palladio

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Folder 18 Pre-Columbian

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Folder 19 Silver

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Folder 20 Wallpaper

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Craft Workshops

Folder 21 Erica Wilson Workshop

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Folder 22 Fall Craft Workshops. Includes biographical material on Keyomi Iwata and Ruth Ann Greenhill.

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Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 23 Repair Clinic

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Luncheon Lectures

Folder 24 China Trade

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Special Series

Folder 1 Visits to Fabric Houses

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Tours

Folder 2 Atlantic City

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Weekend Seminars

Folder 3 American Cut Glass. Includes biographical material on Estelle Sinclaire Farrar.

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Folder 4 Lofts

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Young People's Programs

Folder 5 Classes for Young People. Includes biographical material on Amy Trompetter; and historical information on the Blackbird Press.

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Winter 1981

Classes

Folder 6 American Architecture

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Folder 7 American 19th-Century Furniture

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Folder 8 Arts and Crafts Movement. Includes a copy of The Furniture of Gustav Stickley, by Carol Lorraine Bohdan and Todd Mitchel Volpe; and an article, "American Art Pottery" by Robert W. Blasberg and Todd M. Volpe in Nineteenth Century, Summer 1979.

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Folder 9 Chinese Painting

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Folder 10 Constructivism

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Folder 11 Egyptian Culture

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Folder 12 Italian Interiors

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Folder 13 Jewelry

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Folder 14 Rome

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Folder 15 Spanish Architecture and Decorative Arts

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Folder 16 Textiles

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Craft Workshops

Folder 17 Crafts. Includes biographical material on Enrique Espinoza and a copy of "Treatise on 19th-Century Theorem Painting as Practiced Today," Ruth Ann Greenhill.

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Decorative Arts Repair Clinics

Folder 18 Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

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Luncheon Lectures

Folder 19 Folk Art

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Special Programs

Folder 20 Architecture Symposium. Includes biographical material on Michael Graves.

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Folder 21 Innovative Furniture Symposium

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Special Series

Folder 22 Furniture Designer Visits

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Weekend Seminars

Folder 23 Buddhist Art

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Folder 24 19th-Century Symposium with Paul Bernet and Victorian Society

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Young People's Programs

Folder 25 Young People. Includes biographical material on Jay Wright; and a newsclipping from the New York Daily News, January 22, 1981, on young people's courses at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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Spring 1981

Administrative Records

Folder 26 Programs

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Classes

Folder 1 Ceramics/Pottery

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Folder 2 German Stage and Film Design

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Folder 3 Japanese Architecture. Includes some correspondence with Fall 1982 instructors.

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Folder 4 Landscape Architecture

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Folder 5 McKim, Mead and White. Includes biographical material on Richard Guy Wilson.

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Folder 6 Miniatures. Includes biographical material on Tom and Gloria Warner and a treatise on "Minituria" by The International Guild of Miniature Artisans.

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Folder 7 Splendors of Moghol India

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Folder 8 20th-Century Fashion. Includes a transcript of Maureen Connor's lecture, "Form Follows Fashion," published in Art Forum, December 1979.

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Folder 9 20th-Century Interiors

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Craft Workshops

Folder 10 Crafts. Includes biographical material on Martin Baroshian and Leigh Alice Hubler.

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Decorative Arts Repair Clinic

Folder 11 Repair clinic

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Special Programs

Folder 12 Spring Symposium (Industrial Design). Includes a transcript of the symposium.

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Young People's Programs

Folder 13 Spring Workshops. Includes biographical material on Denise Gonzales.

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Summer 1981

Classes

Folder 14 Giverny. Includes a clipping, "Design Notebook", from The New York Times, August 1980; and a copy of A Visit to Giverny by Gerald Van Der Kemp.

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Craft Workshops

Folder 15 Summer Crafts

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Special Programs

Folder 16 Animation Festival

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Folder 17 Floral Demonstrations

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Tours

Folder 18 Circle Line Tour

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Folder 19 Mystic Seaport. Includes historical material on the Mystic Seaport Museum.

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Folder 20 New York Botanical Garden Tour

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Folder 21 Yale Museums

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Young People's Programs

Folder 22 Young People

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Fall 1981

Classes

Folder 1 Book Arts

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Folders 2-3 Cities. Includes biographical material on Barry Commoner; an article in the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, September 3, 1980, on architectural education; a draft of work in process entitled "City Building Education for the American Bar Association" by Doreen Nelson; and a copy of Synergy, a publication of The Center for City Building Educational Programs, Winter/Spring 1979.

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Folder 4 European Interiors

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Folder 5 Gothic Architecture

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Folder 6 History of Graphic Art

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Folder 7 Islamic Art and Architecture

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Folder 8 Quilts. Includes biographical material on Judith Reiter Weissman.

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Folder 9 Rugs. Includes biographical material on Walter B. Denny, Parvis Nemati, Sarah B. Shermill; and a photograph of Nemati.

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Folder 10 Silver

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Craft Workshops

Folder 11 Crafts. Includes biographical material on Kay Radcliffe.

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Luncheon Lectures

Folder 12 Continuing Trends in Interior Design

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Special Programs

Folder 13 Book Day

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Folder 14 Symposium on Graphic Design

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Weekend Seminars

Folder 15 Harris/Late Victorian Architecture

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Classes

Folder 16 Artists as Designers. Includes biographical material on Rony Cohen.

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Folder 17 Chinese Ceramics

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Folder 18 Jewelry

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Folder 19 Miniatures. Includes a copy of Creating the Miniature Room Setting by Dusty Boynton

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Folder 20 Robert Adams

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Craft Workshops

Folder 1 Crafts/Rugs. Includes biographical material on Sally Clark Carty and Gundrun M. H. Kohleo.

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Special Programs

Folder 2 Architecture Symposium

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Folders 3-4 Films - Architecture. Includes a copy of French Short Films (catalogue).

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Folder 5 Royal Oak Symposium

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Classes

Folder 6 The Golden Age of Naples

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Folder 7 Great Gardens

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Folder 8 Majolica/English Ceramics

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Folder 9 New York Modern

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Folder 10 Regional American Furniture Styles

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Craft Workshops

Folder 11 Spring Crafts. Includes biographical material on Henry Pomerance.

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Luncheon Lectures

Folder 12 English Country Homes

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Special Programs

Folder 13 Films

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Folder 14 Industrial Design

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Tours

Folder 15 Auction Tour

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Folder 16 Robert Adam Tour

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Folder 17 Soho Tour

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Young People's Programs

Folder 18 Classes for Young People

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Administrative Records

Folder 19 Programs and Workshops

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Classes

Folder 20 American Folk Art

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Folder 21 American Landscape

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Special Programs

Folder 22 Russell Lynes, More than Meets the Eye

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Folder 23 Summer Dance Concerts. Includes biographical material on Eric Barnes, Scott Caywood, Alice Farly, Deborah Gladster, Pamela Harling, Rachel Harms, Tamar Kotoske, and Morocco; and photographs of Caywood Gladstein.

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Fall 1982

Classes

Folder 24 Rugs I and II. Includes correspondence from the Winter 1983 session.

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Craft Workshops

Folder 25 Lace Workshops. Includes biographical material on Michael Sinclair, Gunnel Teitel, and Joanne Segal Brandford.

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Special Programs

Folders 1-8 Scandinavian Symposium. Includes correspondence with the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum; biographical material on lecturers Per Mollerup, Jens Nielsen, Guy-Christer Lonngren, Stefan Snaebyornsson, Knut Yran, Carl Christiansson, Lennart Lindkvist, Tapio Heikki Perrainen, and Estelle Rosenlow; photographs of Perrainen, Yran, Rosenlow, and an unidentified individual; press releases; and transmittal reports.

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Special Series

Folder 9 Artists' Talks. Includes biographical material on Seymour Chwast and Paul Davis.

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Series 2

CORRESPONDENCE, 1979-1981. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

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Folders 10-11 Correspondence 1979. Includes biographical material on Roberta Dervis Klein, Bruce Linden, and Otto Kallir.

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Folder 12 Correspondence 1980

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Folder 13 Correspondence 1981. Includes biographical material on Susan Allan; and canceled checks.

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