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Manuel Rosenberg papers, 1920-1950
1 linear feetA collection of more than 300 drawings and sketches. Notable are the 60 sheets of drawings made during his trip to Russia in the company of other western journalists. The major portion of the collection comprises the file of sketches and caricatures of leading personalities in public life and the arts made by Rosenberg from the 1920s to the 1950s, including those of Jane Addams; George Arliss; Max Baer; Theda Bara; Enrico Caruso; Feodor Chaliapin; Ina Claire; Walter Damrosch; Jack Dempsey; Elsie Janis; Beatrice Lillie; Groucho Marx; Mae Murray; Ezio Pinza; William Howard Taft; Peggy Wood; Israel Zangwill; and numerous other entertainers, sportsmen, politicians, and writers
Mort Drucker collection, 1970s-2000s
1 Linear FeetThis collection includes prints, proofs, a logbook of jobs, the 1961 MAD Checklist, and a small amount of correspondence and original art.
Mort Gerberg collection, 9999
72 linear feetHis archives contain tens of thousands of original sketches (indexed), original comic strip art, daily records, idea notebooks, early childhood artwork, and much more.
Mort Meskin Art collection, 1941-2007
27 linear feetThe collection displays the diverse artistic venues that a comics artist pursued in order to make a living. For more on Meskin, see the book From shadow to light: the life and art of Mort Meskin: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/7982354.
Peter Kuper art, 9999
0.1 linear feetThe original art for Peter Kuper's biographical comic on Harvey Kurtzman, drawn for the book Masterful marks: cartoonists who changed the world (Simon & Schuster, 2014), edited by Monte Beauchamp. This Kurtzman bio connects to the Kurtzman material in the Kitchen Sink Press archives.
Robert Minor papers, 1907-1952
15000 itemsManuscripts comprising notes, speeches, and articles, covering a wide range of social and political subjects and giving an extensive history of the Communist Party. Many of the manuscripts relate to his work as a theoretical writer for the Communist Party and the DAILY WORKER (New York). Subjects covered include the Garvey movement in 1924 and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the early 1930s; the re-orientation of the Communist Party in 1945-1947 with respect to the South and the Negro question generally (Minor became the Party's Southern representative in that period); the Party's general policies in the early 1930s and 1941-1942 when Minor was acting secretary in the absence of Earl Browder, and relating to the Party's policy toward the war following the German attack on the Soviet Union; postwar changes in the Party; the "Agrarian Movement;" and the Communist trials of 1949-1953. The extensive clipping file covers the entire domestic political scene and reflects the whole of Minor's career. These date from 1907 to his death, and contain considerable material on the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Also, numerous pamphlets and ephemera relating to the Communist Party.
Rockwell Kent papers, 1885-1970
59 linear feetRoger Taft Comics Collection, 1946-2007
1 linear footA collection of a veriety of comics, including Mad Magazine and Zap, as well as individual artists, including R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson.
R. Robert Pollak Comic Art collection, 1977-1993
1 linear feetA small collection of original comic art, by Fran Matera, Fred Lasswell, Fett, Gus Ariola, and Irwin Hasen, to be used as a teaching collection. More items are expected.
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