The collection consists of the records of university seminars in various fields for each academic year since their establishment. A typical file will include minutes of the meetings, but there may also be supporting documentation such as correspondence, reports, or copies of papers presented at a meeting.
The Institute of Current World Affairs records document the history of the ICWA, its sister organization, the American Universities Field Staff, and its founders, Charles and John Crane. Documents include first-hand reports authored by Fellows and field staff, correspondence, minutes, planning documents, subject files, financial records, publications, and photographs.
Of special note are a number of photographs of OKM taken by Ira Cohen, including a portrait of the infant OKM, and a striking photography of Ira Cohen with a hawk taken by OKM. There is a photograph of the legendary reclusive yogi Chatral Rinpoche, as well as other Dozgchens, and photographs of Angus MacLise with Gerard Malanga, Petra Vogt, Cohen et al.
This subseries includes materials related to Angus MacLise's activities as a publisher and editor, across a range of different projects and imprints that he originated and worked on. The bulk of the subseries comprises publications, prints, and other material released by Bardo Matrix, which was founded by Jon Chick, Dana Young and others as a psychedelic light show in Boulder, Colorado in the late 1960s. Chick and Young followed the hippie trail to Kathmandu in 1969, where Chick established the Spirit Catcher bookstore on the notorious Freak Street, which became a hub for Western expatriates and artists. Following their own arrivals in Nepal, MacLise and Ira Cohen worked with Chick to expand Bardo Matrix into a dynamic imprint for publishing their own writing as well as that of their friends and colleagues. This resulted in a series of pamphlets, prints, books, and broadsides, printed in limited editions on local handmade craft paper, including the Starstreams series under which book-length works by MacLise, Cohen, Diane di Prima, Paul Bowles, Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso, and others all appeared between 1974 and 1979. (Cohen's term for their copious activities undertaken during this period, including their close collaborations with local craftsmen, was "the great rice paper adventure.") While many items in this are final, published items, there are also proofs, galleys, and alternate editions represented in the subseries, along with documentation of the day-to-day operations of the press, the bookstore, and the scenes that formed around them. This subseries also notably includes a complete issue no. 9 of Phyllis Johnson's Aspen magazine, co-guest-edited by Angus and Hetty MacLise, and material related to Ting Pa, the literary periodical and Bardo Matrix offshoot that MacLise edited and published while living in Nepal. Finally, there are a number of documents and samples related to Himalayan Paper Inc., the handmade paper import-export company that MacLise was working on at the time of his death. The subseries also includes several hundred large-format prints and woodcuts related to said publications.
Writers represented in the correspondence files are Margaret Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, George Antheil, Djuna Barnes, Clive Bell, Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Ford Madox Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Hughes, Eugene Jolas, Archibald MacLeish, H.L. Mencken, Henry Miller, Adrienne Monnier, Man Ray, Elmer Rice, Jules Romains, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Allen Tate, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Penn Warren, and Edmund Wilson. Galantiere's best known work as a translator was that of the writings of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and the collection contains in addition to correspondence, twelve manuscripts, all bearing the author's and the translator's corrections. He also wrote extensively on economic subjects and current history, and these files and manuscripts are present in the collection. Galantiere wrote plays in his own name and adapted Jean Anouilh's ANTIGONE for Katharine Cornell in 1946, and there are materials relating to these works.
This collection primarily contains original and reprographic architectural records, photographs, correspondence and personal and professional records related to the design, construction, and ownership of the Haus Cramer in Dahlem, Berlin, Germany, designed by German architect Hermann Muthesius in 1911-1913 for Hans and Gertrud Cramer, with later additions by Muthesius and other architects. A significant portion of the collection also documents the Cramer family's efforts to obtain restitution after World War II for the seizure of the house in the 1930s. Also included are records documenting the restoration and reuse, an effort led by noted architectural historian Julius Poesner.
Includes Information Bulletin on Restitution Developments and a copy of the Reichsgesetzblatt concerning the expatriation of the German Jews
Current results range from 1784 to 2012