Request Box 47 Folder 01
Box 47 Folder 01
Columbia University [1 of 2], 1932-1935
Contains clippings from the Columbia Daily Spectator and the New York Times related to Rothstein's student activities and accomplishments, chemistry grades, an art history paper on the depiction of depth perception, a 1933 photograph of the Columbia University Camera Club.
Request Box 49 Folder 01
Box 49 Folder 01
Columbia University [2 of 2], 1932-1935
Contains one signed 11 x 14 photograph entitled "Frosh-Soph Rush" (1932)
Request Box 47 Folder 2 to 5
Box 47 Folder 2 to 5
Correspondence, Family and Friends, 1945-1984
Includes letters written to friends during military service in China and India, with transcriptions made in 2000 for John Peterson, as well as birthday and greeting cards, postcards, and letters from Grace Rothstein and children.
Request Box 47 Folder 6
Box 47 Folder 6
Correspondence, FSA Photographers
Personal letters and postcards from Phil Brown, Roy Stryker, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott.
Request Box 47 Folder 7 to 9
Box 47 Folder 7 to 9
Military activities, 1940-1946
First folder contains military orders, travel documents, and other official memoranda related to Rothstein's service in China and India. Second folder contains material related to applications, appointments, resumes and CV, and honorable discharge. Third folder contains photocopies of above listed documents.
Request Box 47 Folder 10
Box 47 Folder 10
Miscellaneous personal material, undated
Includes notes on Russian language, shirt tags and blank postcards for "Jump" clothing company, list of personal belongings, name card and business card, unidentified pencil sketch, possibly of Rothstein (maker unknown), reminiscences written upon the death of Dorothea Lange, and short essay titled "In the Green Hills, Far Away" (author unknown, possibly Rothstein).
Request Box 47 Folder 11
Box 47 Folder 11
Photographs, Early Years, ca. 1910s-1940s
12 items : Photographs of Rothstein during childhood and early adulthood, some with family member. Includes photograph of Rothstein's parents.
Request Box 49 Folder 2
Box 49 Folder 2
Photographs, Early Years [oversize], ca. 1910s-1940s
Request Box 47 Folder 12
Box 47 Folder 12
Photographs, Exhibitions, 1978-1980
69 items, including 38 negatives : Openings and events in Paramus, N.J., Parakapas Gallery (Bronxville, NY), and Rizzoli Gallery (New York, NY) with articles enclosed.
Request Box 47 Folder 13
Box 47 Folder 13
Photographs, FSA Party, 1977
60 items, including 10 negatives : Taken at a party held at Rothstein's New Rochelle residence on May 14, 1977. Includes series of group photographs of Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Carl Mydans, Jack Delano, and John Vachon.
Request Box 49 Folder 3
Box 49 Folder 3
Photographs, FSA Party [oversize], 1977
1 item : Taken at a party held at Rothstein's New Rochelle residence on May 14, 1977.
Request Box 47 Folder 14
Box 47 Folder 14
Photographs, FSA Years, 1935-1942, 1978
59 items, including 7 negatives : Rothstein and other Farm Security Administration staff on various assignments. Includes photographs of Roy Stryker, John Vachon, Marion Post Wolcott, and others. With ten photographs and contact prints from Rothstein's 1978 trip to visit Darrell Coble and family in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
Request Box 47 Folder 15
Box 47 Folder 15
Photographs, Military, between 1940 and 1946
53 items : Military service in China and India, also includes pictures of Rothstein in uniform in New York.
Request Box 47 Folder 16 to 17
Box 47 Folder 16 to 17
Photographs, Photographers, 1940-1982
96 items, including 4 negatives : Rothstein pictured with various photographers at events over the years, including Ansel Adams, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Beaumont Newhall, Roy Stryker, John Vachon, Edward Weston, and Marion Post Wolcott, among others. Third folder contains two 11 x 14 photographs and is located in flat print box.
Request Box 49 Folder 4
Box 49 Folder 4
Photographs, Photographers [oversize], 1940-1982
Request Box 47 Folder 18
Box 47 Folder 18
Photographs, Rothstein, ca. 1940-1985
255 items, including 25 negatives : Portraits, publicity photographs, passport photographs, and other images featuring Rothstein as individual subject.
Request Box 49 Folder 5
Box 49 Folder 5
Photographs, Rothstein [oversize], ca. 1940-1985
Request Box 48 Folder 1 to 6
Box 48 Folder 1 to 6
Photographs, Rothstein with other people, ca. 1940s-1985
517 items, including 19 negatives : Business trips and professional travel, exhibition openings, family vacations and holidays, behind-the-scenes at photo-shoots and assignments, LOOK and Parade offices and events. Majority of images are undated.
Request Box 49 Folder 6
Box 49 Folder 6
Photographs, Rothstein with other people [oversize], ca. 1940s-1985
Request Box 48 Folder 7
Box 48 Folder 7
Photographs, Utah, 1985, 1985
19 items : Contains photographs of Rothstein during "Working together: a Utah portfolio" project.
Request Box 48 Folder 8
Box 48 Folder 8
Scrapbooks, 1935-1950s
2 items : Contains photographs from Rothstein's graduation from Columbia College, his years as an FSA photographer, military service, and travels to Europe. Some photographs missing from the first scrapbook.
Request Box 48 Folder 9
Box 48 Folder 9
Slides, 1960-1981
28 items : Two views of Rothstein with unidentified companion (1960s), one view of a surgical procedure taken forLOOK magazine (1960), two views of an unidentified political convention (1978 or 1980?), four views of Rothstein taken during trip to visit Darrell Coble and family in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (1978), eight interior and exterior of Rothstein's house in New Rochelle, New York, taken for insurance purposes (1981), and eleven views of an unidentified exhibition opening (1981).
Request Box 50
Box 50
Proof print box, undated
Assorted 4 x 5 snapshots.
