Art and Artists

The bulk of the Claflin collection is from the years 1927-1934, the period in which she received her graduate degrees and began to teach at Vassar College as an associate professor and later as a full professor. While the collection itself is mainly made up of correspondence, it also contains an eclectic selection of material, including: various drafts of her doctoral thesis, newspaper clippings concerning her career, programs of exhibits, class notes and assorted miscellanea.

Manuscripts, galley proofs, and notes for , as well as other writings and Faxon biographical material.

Syllabi, course outlines, notes, journals, collected offprints, and photocopies of academic manuscripts.

Collection includes correspondence,
subject files, research notes and associated correspondence. Files hold typescripts,
manuscripts and drafts. Journals and diaries include poetry and sketches. Press
clippings document reviews of Márquez’s writings. Collection also includes some
photographic documentation relating to Márquez’s personal and professional life.
Personal papers contain some correspondence, academic administrative papers, as well
as family genealogy documentation.

Fourteen albums of poster stamps, arranged roughly alphabetically by country, with a final volume at the end with the stamps of Ludwig Hohlwein. Also includes two volumes of matchbox labels.

A set of correpondence to and from various artists, art collectors and art dealers. Correspondents include Elias Magoon and John Britton.

6 of Beisinghoff's art pieces inspired by Christa Wolf’s

The E. E. Cummings Collection includes 2 pencil sketches.

Photographic prints, negatives, contact sheets, and ephemera relating to Eric Lindbloom's photography of the Hudson River Valley of New York State.

The Eugene A. Carroll Papers document Carroll's academic career as an art historian, curator, writer, as well as his involvement as executor of the William K. Rose estate. The papers contain professional and personal correspondence and include letters documenting Carroll's relationship with his partner, William K. Rose, during the 1960s. The W.K. Rose material also includes photographic prints, travel journals, a limited volume of subject files and writings by Rose, and one audio tape interview. The Carroll Papers contain subject files, including teaching and research reference materials, travel files, datebooks, writings by Carroll, correspondence with colleagues, friends, and Rose, as well as a limited volume of correspondence from Carroll to his parents. Holdings also include journals, photographic prints, and documentation regarding the management of the Rose estate and Vassar's W.K. Rose fellowship.

Typescripts, illustrations, and proof copy of her book published in 1976; three chapters from an unpublished autobiography; and a bibliography of her work.

The collection contains botanical illustrator Jeanne Russell Janish's original paleontology drawings from a class at Stanford University and her original drawings for by Roxana Ferris (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970). Also included are two oil paint sketches by Janish of Vassar College's Chapel and Library and Chapel.

Sketches of faculty members and campus scenes and sketchbooks produced throughout Rubenstein's career at Vassar, and two copies of his film "Time Painting."

The Margaret Miller Papers include correspondence with visual and literary artists as well as photographs and an art booklet. Correspondents include Elizabeth Bishop, Lloyd Frankenberg, Loren McIver, and Frani Blough.

Correspondence, artworks, sketchbooks, writings, journals, diaries, drawings, print proofs, photogrpahs, and printed materials documenting the life and career of illustrator Marguerite Davis.

Portraits of George Bernard Shaw, as well as photographs, framed materials, notes, and memorabilia relating to Shaw.

Lecture notes, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, research materials documenting the academic career of Pamela Askew.

Artificial collection of portraits of significant figures in history, literature and the arts.

Collection of printed illustrations
of Oxford and Oxfordshire.

The Priscilla Morgan Papers document the career and collaborative efforts of a New York-based international arts administrator, producer and emissary of arts and culture. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, travel files, maps, and photograph albums.