André Studios, 1930-1941

New York Public Library
Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)
Fashion design drawings--1930-1950
Women – Clothing & Dress – United States – 1930-1939
Women – Clothing & Dress – United States – 1940-1949

This digitized collection of thousands of fashion drawings and sketches produced by André Fashion Studios between 1930 and 1941 is the result of a partnership between the Picture Collection of The New York Public Library and the Special Collections & FIT Archives of the Fashion Institute of Technology Library. The partners aimed to virtually unite a collection of spectacular quality and historical significance that is physically divided among the two institutions and, as an equally important goal, to leverage open-source technologies to create a prototype of a fashion information and image portal that would provide access to costume and fashion-related resources held by various New York City educational and cultural heritage institutions.

This site is the initial realization of that broader goal, and brings into focus a group of materials that have until now been accessible mainly to researchers. The collection consists of original, hand-colored and reproduced fashion drawings from André Studios, one of a small number of competing design studios that created fashion sketches to sell to clothing manufacturers in the United States and Canada on a weekly basis. Pearl Levy Alexander and Leonard Schwartzbach were partners in André, with Pearl creating the designs and Leonard acting as the salesman. André specialized in children’s coats, and ladies coats and suits, and produced about 20 sketches a week for most of the year, beginning in 1930 and ending in the early 1970s. The site showcases the first decade of the firm’s output, up until the beginning of World War II, an oeuvre of significant proportions providing unique insight into fashion trends for women and children during the 1930s.

The collaborative digital project “André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & Sketches in the Collections of the Fashion Institute of Technology and The New York Public Library” was supported in part by funds from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) through the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases Program.

New York Public Library, Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.)

fashion illustration (image-making process)

Lesbian Herstory Archives Photo Sampler

Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation--lesbian lives.

A sampling of the photo collection of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

LHEF, inc. with the help of everybody who contributed materials through the years.

LHEF, inc

photographs, newsletters

Hadassah Bulletins and Newsletters

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
Maternal and infant welfare -- Palestine
Women in charitable work
Nursing
Public Health

The Hadassah Bulletins and Newsletters collection covers the first twenty years of publication, 1914-1933, years of tremendous growth in the organization in terms of both membership and dollars raised. Mailed initially to every chapter and later to every member, the earliest issues contain detailed information about Hadassah's first projects in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine, the formation of chapters around the United States, fundraising activities and statistics, membership educational resources, the women who served as national leaders and information of general Jewish interest. Most of this information is not available from any other source, and serves as a critical primary resource for interested researchers. Previously accessible only in fragile original printed form, the fully searchable format here makes every place name, every person and every subject easily and quickly available.

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Newsletters

Hadassah Sound Recordings

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Inc.
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Szold, Henrietta, 1860-1945
Aliyat Ha-no-ar
Jewish Agency for Israel -- Youth Aliyah Dept.
Jews, Moroccan
Halprin, Samuel W., Mrs.
Women Philanthropists
Mann, Kalman Jacob, 1912-
Universitah ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim -- Bet-ha-sefer li-refuah
Fineman, Irving, b. 1893
Public Health -- Palestine
American Zionist Medical Unit
Maternal and infant welfare
Michaelson, Isaac Chesar, 1903-
Ophthalmology -- Africa
Jacobson, Charlotte
Jews -- Soviet Union
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Hospitals -- Israel
Scopus, Mount -- site
Hadassah Medical Organization
Arab-Israeli conflict 1967-

The Hadassah Sound Recordings collection covers the years 1949 to 1978. These recordings, originally on reel-to-reel tape, were produced by Hadassah to document groundbreakings, building dedications and other milestone events, and to capture in oral histories the details of many other Hadassah events. The information contained within these recordings connects the immediacy of the sound files with related documentation of Hadassah programs, of great interest to researchers, contained within text documents, photographs, articles and other materials elsewhere in the Hadassah archives.

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

Sound Recordings

Documenting the Gilded Age: New York City Exhibitions at the Turn of the 20th Century

Brooklyn Museum. Library and Archives.
Frick Art Reference Library.
Art--Exhibitions.
Exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
Exhibitions--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
Art galleries, Commercial--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.
American Watercolor Society
Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Century Association (New York, N.Y.)
Colony Club (New York, N.Y.)
Cottier Gallery
Lotos Club (New York, N.Y.)
Montross Gallery
National Association of Portrait Painters (U.S.)
New York Etching Club
Salmagundi Club
Union League Club (New York, N.Y.)

Collection of digital surrogates of exhibition catalogs from New York city associations, clubs, galleries and societies from 1875 to 1931.

New York Art Resources Consortium

Brooklyn Museum. Libaries and Archives.
Frick Art Reference Library.

Exhibition catalogs
Pamphlets

Bank Street Publications

Bank Street College of Education
New York. Bureau of Educational Experiments
Education
English language -- rhetoric
Children -- language
Teachers
Play
Social sciences -- Study and teaching
Geography -- Study and teaching
Teachers -- training of
First year teachers -- supervision of
Elementary school teachers -- New York (State) -- New York
Student teaching

Currently contains early publications by faculty members including issues of 69 Bank Street, an early Bureau of Educational Experiments journal, and Children...Here and Now.

Bank Street College of Education

Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 1878-1967
Johnson, Harriet Merrill, 1867-1934
Biber, Barbara, 1903-1993
Stanton, Jessie
Lewis, Claudia, 1907-
Snyder, Agnes, 1885-
Winsor, Charlotte Biber

Periodicals
Pamphlets

Lucy Sprague Mitchell

Bank Street College of Education
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 1878-1967

Lucy Sprague Mitchell was the principle founder of the Bureau of Educational Experiments and first acting president of Bank Street College. She served the College from its inception in 1916 until 1955. She was involved in all aspects of Bank Street, including serving as acting president, Working Council chair, member and chair of the Board of Trustees, researcher and teacher. This collection contains a small sample of photographs, documents and original sketches and maps that may be found in the Lucy Sprague Mitchell Collection in the Bank Street College Archives.

Bank Street College of Education

Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 1878-1967

National maps
Climatic maps
Mineral resources maps
Relief maps
World maps
Black-and-white photographs
Typescripts
Preliminary sketches

Awarding of life fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art to General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 2, 1946, New York City

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Eisenhower, Mamie Doud, 1896-1979
Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994
Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956
Redmond, Roland Livingston, 1892-1982
Spellman, Francis, 1889-1967
Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
Art treasures in war -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

General Dwight D. Eisenhower was made an honorary fellow for life of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in recognition of his efforts to save art treasures overseas during World War II. Captioned photographs of the ceremony, including those of General and Mrs. Eisenhower, Thomas J. Watson, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roland L. Redmond and Francis Henry Taylor. Sound recordings of the addresses delivered at the ceremony by Roland L. Redmond, Francis Henry Taylor, General Eisenhower, as well as a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, sung by Mme. Jarmila Novotná, and the invocation by Cardinal Spellman.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Taylor, Francis Henry, 1903-1957
Watson, Thomas John, 1874-1956

Sound recordings
Photographs

Design Digitized: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library’s Rare Books, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Rare books
Illustrated books--15th and 16th centuries
Illustrated books--17th century
Illustrated books--18th century
Illustrated books--19th century
Illustrated books--20th century
Decorative Arts
Pattern Books
Decoration and Ornament
Interior Decoration
Domestic Architecture
Architecture
Design
Trade Catalogs
Country Homes
Fashion
Costume
Children's Illustrated Books

Design Digitized includes highlights spanning five centuries from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library’s rare books collection. Over twenty-five of their largest, rarest, and most fragile titles covering architecture, design, and the decorative arts are now accessible in their entirety. Also included are examples from their World’s Fair, trade catalog, and children’s illustrated books special collections.

Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

rare books

The Mount Sinai Archives Image Database

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Medical Students
Medical Education -- history
Nursing Students
Education, Nursing -- history
Medical Staff, Hospital
Faculty, Medical
Hospital Buildings -- New York City

The Mount Sinai Archives Image Database contains images that relate to the various Mount Sinai organizations: The Mount Sinai Hospital (chartered 1852), The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing (1881-1971) and Mount Sinai School of Medicine (chartered 1963). Most of these images were taken for official purposes: annual reports, Nursing school bulletins and reports, yearbooks, etc. There are also photographic portraits of members of our administration, faculty and staff.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)
Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.). School of Nursing
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

aerial photographs
black-and-white-photographs
color photographs
copy prints
digital images
documents
group portraits
photographs
picture postcards
portraits
studio portraits