Gifts valued at $1,000 and more, from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011
Vaganova Exercises
The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts includes notes from Frank Sinatra, Jerome Robbins, Fred Astaire, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; over a hundred digitized photographs spanning Baryshnikov’s career; and excerpts of film and video footage, including rehearsal sessions with George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Merce Cunningham, and Martha Graham. This video, Vaganova Exerercises, features excerpts from a Vaganova Technique training film by Teja Kremke, circa 1965.
The Henry W. and
Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature Angelica Garnett. 93 unpublished letters and postcards to Richard Lipsett. 1978–2009.
Bequest of Richard Lipsett
Jack Kerouac. 32 autograph and typed letters, signed, and two typed postcards, signed, to John Clellon Holmes. Gift of Alfred Hirsch
Samuel Menashe Archive. Manuscripts and notebooks of poetry and journals, with correspondence and related material. Late 1940s–2010. With two cartons of books annotated by Menashe and inscribed to him by notable poets and authors. Gift of Samuel Menashe
Manuscripts & Archives Division
Martin Duberman Papers. Additional papers of historian Martin Duberman spanning more than 25 years of his career as a historian, college professor, and gay-rights advocate. The collection contains his extensive correspondence covering the years of his pioneering research and publishing in gay history, his tenure at Lehman College, records concerning the founding and operation of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, research materials including interviews conducted in the preparation of his biography The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein, as well as photographs, scrapbooks, audio, and videocassettes documenting all facets of his work. These papers complement those acquired by the Division between 1993 and 1998 (50 linear feet), which include personal and professional correspondence, organizational and topical files, manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of his writings, teaching files, recorded interviews, photographs, films, and memorabilia documenting his personal and professional life from childhood through 1979. Gift of Martin Duberman
Genevieve Taggard Papers. Additional papers of American poet and literary critic Genevieve Taggard (1894–1948) consisting of literary manuscripts and hundreds of letters, chiefly 1920s–1940s, to and from family, friends, publishers, and fellow journalists and writers on the literary left, such as Joe Freeman, Mike Gold, and others associated with the magazines the Liberator and the New Masses. These papers complement the 16 linear feet of material acquired by the Division in 1952 and 1973, which includes correspondence with many important figures in 20th-century American literature, personal friends, family, and academic colleagues, as well as research materials and drafts of an Emily Dickinson biography and other writings. Gift of Judith Benét Richardson
Elizabeth Wade White Papers. Nine linear feet. Elizabeth Wade White (1906–1994) was the author of Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse, the standard biography of America's first published poet. Her papers contain letters, notes, brochures, theater programs, and other written materials documenting her varied literary and reform interests and deep friendships. The collection is an addition to the 22 letters from Katie Powys to Elizabeth Wade White, 1938–1954, already held in the Manuscripts Division. Gift of Peter Haring Judd
Rare Book Division Herbert Robinson English Civil War Collection. A bequest from the estate of noted New York City bibliophile and collector Herbert Robinson, this collection comprises approximately 850 printed books, pamphlets, and broadsides from the period of the English Civil War (1642–1651). Bequest of the Estate of Herbert Robinson
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
Frédéric Brenner. Diaspora: Homelands in Exile. 60 gelatin silver prints, 1979–2001, various dimensions. Gift of Gary Davis
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Injured Soldiers and Marines, 2006. 17 digital archival pigment prints, 16 x 20 inches. Printed 2010, number two from an edition of five. Gift of Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Supermodels, 2009. 10 Ilfochrome prints, 11 x 14 inches. Printed 2010, number two from an edition of 10. Gift of Isca Greenfield-Sanders
The NYPL for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Jerome Robbins Dance Division Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive. This collection of papers and videotapes documents Mikhail Baryshnikov’s multifaceted American career and includes nearly 600 videotapes documenting his ballet years, solo projects, commercial projects, and seminal work with White Oak Dance Project from 1990 to 2002. This archive also includes 10 boxes of paper materials, including press clippings, photographs, programs, scrapbooks, and touring documentation. Gift of Mikhail Baryshnikov
Richard Beard Collection. Richard Beard was a dancer who began with Ballet International in 1944 and worked at that time with Bronislava Nijinska and Leonide Massine. Later, he worked with Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, and George Balanchine. Beard was a well-known collector, and his collection contains 19th-century lithographs, books, souvenir programs, catalogs, posters, videotapes, and theatrical drawings, including three by Alexandre Benois, one by Eugene Berman, and eight by Pavel Tchelitchew. There is also a Berman miniature set-design stage model for Bach Concerto/Concerto Barocco (1941). Bequest of Richard Park Beard
Yvonne Patterson/William Dollar Archive. The collection contains manuscripts, notebooks, teaching and choreographic notes, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, and moving-image materials that document the artists Yvonne Patterson and William Dollar. Patterson, an original cast member of Balanchine’s Serenade, died in November 4, 2010 at the age of 100. Born in Australia, she moved to New York in her teens. Along with her husband, the dancer and choreographer William Dollar, she was an early student at the School of American Ballet. The couple joined American Ballet, a predecessor of New York City Ballet, originating roles in works such as Balanchine’s Jeu de Cartes (1937), in which Dollar played the Joker and Patterson the Ten of Hearts. Later, they performed with Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas and other ensembles and staged Dollar’s ballets around the world. They eventually settled in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, where Dollar died in 1986. Patterson taught at the Rock School into her late 90s. Bequest of Yvonne Patterson
Donald Saddler Collection. This collection documents the 70-year career of Donald Saddler in correspondence, work notes, contracts, photographs, original designs, lithographs, film, and video. Saddler was an original member of the American Ballet Theater. He later starred in such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes. He also choreographed on Broadway and for films such as April in Paris, Young at Heart, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Radio Days. Gift of Donald Saddler
Billy Rose Theatre Division Algonquin Round Table photographs and interview recordings used in the production of The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. Aviva Slesin won an Academy Award for this documentary and has deeded the Library the royalties earned by this popular film after her death. Included are rare photographs of Round Table members and “satellite” personalities. Gift of Aviva Slesin
Elia Kazan’s directing notes and script for A Streetcar named Desire, 1947. Original notes recorded daily during rehearsals of the play preserved and donated by Kazan’s assistant, Mary Boehlert Katz. Included are Kazan’s script and Hume Cronyn’s notes about his wife Jessica Tandy’s performance. Gift of Mary Boehlert Katz
Marius Sznajderman set and costume designs. Set and costume designs by Marius Sznajderman for early 1950s productions of Circle in the Square, augmenting the records of the company held in the Theatre Division. The collection also includes French art theater scenic art from the early 1950s and a notebook by the design master and Columbia professor J. Woodman Thompson. The collection provides unique artistic documentation of some of the formative productions mounted in Circle in the Square’s original Sheridan Square home by founder José Quintero, including Yerma (1952) by Federico García Lorca, staged by José Quintero with Geraldine Page. The gift includes the copyright to the designs. Gift of Marius Sznajdermann
