Papers of Leonard P. Hirsch, founder of Federal GLOBE, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employee advocacy group for the federal government. Hirsch was also the founder of the Smithsonian Institution's chapter of Federal GLOBE. Papers include organizational material as well as newsletters, educational, and lobbying materials. There is a small amount of personal material for Hirsch and his husband Kristian Fauchald.

Papers, 1959-1987, of Elizabeth Gordon, editor of the periodical, House Beautiful from 1941-1964, mostly related to her research for the August and September 1960 issues of House Beautiful regarding the Japanese aesthetic concept of "shibui", and the subsequent travelling "shibui exhibition" from 1961-1964. Included are correspondence, some photocopies, 1959-1963; notes; drafts for articles and lectures; printed material including magazine and newspaper clippings, 1959-1987; 2 books, and exhibition announcements; drawings of paper and foil art; a photo album containing photos of exhibition installations; and photographs, slides, color transparencies, and lantern slides depicting people, sites, and objects reflecting the "shibui" aesthetic.

Records found here document research for, and publication of, four books by Germain Seligman. His 1969 edition, Roger de La Fresnaye, with a Catalogue Raisonné, received awards and was highly lauded by art scholars and curators. This work follows from an earlier 1945 monograph on the artist that Seligman wrote, but the 1969 version added more detai...

The papers of filmmaker and art historian Judith Wechsler measure 17.4 linear feet and consist of film production material from several of Wechsler's documentary films released between 1989 and 1994. Most of the collection consists of sound recordings and motion picture film. Notable content includes interviews with Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, David Hockney, Philip Pearlstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Jo Spence, Yolanda Sonnabend, Dominique de Menil, Walter Hopps, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan, as well as footage of artists working in their studios. Production elements found include original sound recordings, original camera negative outtakes, work print picture and soundtrack, trims, various pre-print master material, and video copies of completed works.

The Warshaw Collection consists of approximately 1,150 cubic feet of material currently contained in approximately 2,050 vertical document boxes, approximately 326 flat oversize boxes, 34 map case drawers of oversize materials, 56 volumes of photographic photo prints, 17 boxes of 4 x 5 color transparencies and black and white photonegatives, 11 box...

This collection is the result of a year-long study of Campbell's "Red and White" Soups advertising and marketing, supported in part by a grant from the Campbell Soup Company. Thirty-one oral history interviews were conducted by Dr. Barbara Griffith for the project, and a variety of related materials were gathered by the Center for Advertising History staff. The objective of the project was to create a collection that provides documentation, in print and media, of the history and development of advertising for Campbell's Red and White Soups in the decades following World War II.

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 1 reads, "Blue pamphlet. "Composition of Ancient Persian Artifacts". Spectrographic metallographic analysis by Lucius Pitkin. Inc. N.Y., Objects probably from prehistoric finds at Nihavand or Harsin."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 2 reads, "Similar pamphlet from same firm, 1938: "Observations of the Nature of some ancient Persian iron" (dagger and bracelet). Folder also contains letter from "British Museum (1936) regarding analysis of glazes on two fragments from Nihavand; also a letter from the Chemical Laboratory o...

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 1 reads, "Letter to Dr. C.H. Becker (founder of the Journal of Islamic Studies, Der Islam, and subsequently Minister of Education for Prussia). From Tehran (Zarganda, German Summer Legation), July 22, 1923. Herzfeld gives summary of trip London-Baghdad and on to Tehran via Paikuli...

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 2 reads, "Letter to Dr. Becker from Tehran, Sept.30, 1923. Explanation of withdrawal of permission to go to Afghanistan (accused of being Bolshevik or British agent); Parsis offered money for trip and Herzfeld asked for 1000 pounds stlg.; mentions results of trip from Basra to Teh...

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 3 reads, "Letter from N.S.Nyberg, Cairo (Matarieh), April 10, 1924. Long letter on decipherment of certain Pahlavi words and about Avroman documents, which Herzfeld sent him better copies and photographs. Comments "Wenn es nun endlich über Iran zu tagen beginn, so ist das zum alle...

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 4 reads, "Letter from Nyberg, Uppsala, Nov.18, 1926. Thanks Herzfeld for Reisebericht (ZDMG) and congratulates on new Pahlavi inscriptions (quotation in No. 3 is from this letter)."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 5 reads, "Letter to Dr. Becker from German Legation, Tehran, March 30, 1928. Reviews significance of Kartīr inscriptions and prehistoric pottery from Persepolis. Writes of house, library and collections as foundation for German Institute in Persia and of lectures and teaching; arr...

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 6 reads, "Letter to Excellenz Schmidt-Ott (Deutsche Notgemeinschaft, Berlin) from Basra-Karrachi, Feb.26, 1929. Thanks for funds for Sistan Expedition and describes trip with Reza Shah from Khurramabad to Ahwaz; and his own trip from Tehran enroute to Sistan."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 3, letter 7 reads, "Letter from Minister Becker, Berlin, Dec.30, 1929. Comments on financial difficulties in Germany and changes in Ministries and Faculties.."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 4 reads, "Large mounted print. Stolze photo. Naqsh-i Rustam, Sasanian combats."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 5 reads, "Large mounted print. Stolze photo. Naqsh-i Rajab, Shāpūr investiture."

- In Finding Aid, Joseph Upton's caption for N-126, folder 6 reads, "Large mounted print. Aleppo, Bab Antakiya."

An interview of Robert Ebendorf conducted 2004 April 16-18, by Tacey Rosolowski, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in Greenville, N.C.

An interview of Marek Cecula conducted 2009 May 19-20, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Cecula's studio, in New York, New York.

The papers of New York and California based interior designer, architect, collector and painter Lockwood de Forest measure 3.8 linear feet and date from 1858 to 1980, bulk dates 1870 to 1930. The collection includes correspondence, writings, diaries, journals, exhibition files, personal business records, printed material, sketchbooks, drawings, and photographs.