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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, a document, a subject file, printed materials and scrapbooks of Tarydina. The correspondence includes letters from Rodion Berezov, Georgiĭ Grebenshchikov, Olǵa Spesivt︠s︡eva, Aleksandra Tolstai︠a︡ and I︠A︡kov T︠S︡vibak. While most of the manuscripts are Tarydina's own, there is an essay by Natalii︠a︡ Logunova, and a copy of one by Maksimilian Voloshin about Tarydina's father, General Nikandr Marks. There are several dozen photographs that chronicle emigre theatrical events she produced during the 1940's in New York in collaboration with her husband, I︠A︡kov Shigorin. There is a 1917 contract with the Bolśhoĭ Letniĭ Teatr and a subject file concerning Tarydina's father. The clippings and scrapbooks relate to Tarydina's theatrical career at the Moscow Malyĭ Theater, in Odessa and in New York as well as to her essays published in the emigre press.

Correspondence, documents, scrapbooks, and notes, drafts, and manuscripts of De Vinne's books, essays, and articles on printing. The collection contains much documentation relating to the Typothetae of the City of New York.

Books, correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and photographs of Thomas S. Jones. Correspondents include literary figures. Manuscripts of automatic writing are included. Photographs, 1894-1931, include portraits of Jones and others, views of his various homes, and of European travels, particularly his visit to Glastonbury Abbey in England, 1922.

Scrapbooks of mounted newspaper clippings relating to the Civil War and the Reconstruction period, taken chiefly from contemporary New York papers, are arranged generally in a chronological sequence and entitled THE GREAT REBELLION (98 v.); ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT REBELLION consists of précis of the newspaper articles and refer to larger group by volume and page number (24 v.); INDEX refers to the ENCYCLOPEDIA by volume and page number and is arranged in large subject groupings as by state (4 v.); and GUIDE TO THE INDEX has subjects and individual names arranged alphabetically and refers to the INDEX by volume and page number (1 v.).

The Union Settlement Association Records document a century of the settlement's activities, and provide a unique view of the first wave of the settlement movement in America. They document social conditions, demographic change, political activity, philanthropy and social work in East Harlem with a strong emphasis on the urban renewal period of the 1950s and '60s. The records include: annual reports, board minutes and committee files, headworker and executive director files, program reports, community organization files, and visual materials such as photographs, maps and architectural drawings.