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Edward Albee Collection
Collection
Identifier: Edward Albee Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily comprises advertisements, newspaper clippings, catalogs, plays, television and theater scripts, anthologies, and other ephemera primarily playbills and programs. The advertisements, clippings, and ephemera primarily come from plays performed in the Northeast and New York City during the 1960s-1970s. The collection includes the play The Sandbox in an undated typescript copy, signed and dated 1983 by Albee. Also present in the collection is a television typescript of...
Dates:
1959 - 1993
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Saul David Alinsky Collection
Collection
Identifier: Saul David Alinsky Collection
Abstract
Saul David Alinsky; a well-known sociologist, community organizer, and writer, who penned the highly influential text Rules for Radicals (1971), was born in Chicago in 1909 to Russian Orthodox parents. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1930 where he focused his studies on juveniles in the inner cities and improving conditions for the inner city poor. Alinsky became highly influential among the counterculture protesters in the 1960s. He died in 1972. This collection contains...
Dates:
1930 - 1972
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
George Stephanopoulos Collection of Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLM-2018-006
Abstract
This collection of photographs was acquired between 2005-2015 by George Stephanopoulos, the prominent journalist, political commentator, and former Democratic campaign advisor to Bill Clinton in 1992. The collection includes photographs by prominent photographers from the United States and Europe, as well as 19th century Italy. Stephanopoulos collected political photographs from a range of photographers: from Burt Glinn, who covered national politics during the 1950s and 1960s; to...
Dates:
1860 - 2006
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections