Research Catalog
Town Hall, Inc. records
- Title
- Town Hall, Inc. records, 1895-1955, bulk (1940-1955)
- Author
- Town Hall, Inc.
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 3013 Box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 3013 Box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 3013 Box 2 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- 284 linear feet (286 boxes, 6 volumes, 12 sound recordings, 1 other item )
- Summary
- Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, financial records, transcripts, publicity materials, photographs, and scrapbooks of newsclippings concerning the League for Political Education and Town Hall, Inc.
- Uniform Title
- America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Lectures and lecturing
- Town Hall, Inc
- Scrapbooks
- Auditoriums > New York (State) > New York
- United States > Politics and government > 1901-1953
- Radio addresses, debates, etc
- World politics > 1945-1955
- World politics > 1900-1945
- Radio broadcasting
- Sound recordings
- Social problems
- Television broadcasting
- Concerts > New York (State) > New York
- Women > Suffrage
- Photoprints
- Genre/Form
- Photoprints.
- Scrapbooks.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Additional records of musical programs held at Town Hall are located in the Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Sound recordings, 1938-1949, from a series of lectures at Town Hall on mental health issues are described separately.
- Access (note)
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Source (note)
- The Town Hall (N.Y.U.)
- Biography (note)
- Town Hall was founded in 1894 by six prominent suffragists under the name League for Political Education to continue the struggle for women's rights by raising political consciousness. Robert Ely was director of the League from 1907 to 1937. The Town Hall building, erected with funds raised by public subscription, was opened in 1921 as "a meeting place, clearing house for ideas, forum, lyceum, concert hall, school, and college." In 1935 George Denny, associate director of the League and later president, created America's Town Meeting of the Air, a radio program to foster discussion of political, social and economic concerns. The name of the institution was changed in 1938 to The Town Hall, Inc. and in 1956 it became affiliated with New York University.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 3013
- OCLC
- NYPW93-A2
- Author
- Town Hall, Inc.
- Title
- Town Hall, Inc. records, 1895-1955, bulk (1940-1955)
- Access
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Biography
- Town Hall was founded in 1894 by six prominent suffragists under the name League for Political Education to continue the struggle for women's rights by raising political consciousness. Robert Ely was director of the League from 1907 to 1937. The Town Hall building, erected with funds raised by public subscription, was opened in 1921 as "a meeting place, clearing house for ideas, forum, lyceum, concert hall, school, and college." In 1935 George Denny, associate director of the League and later president, created America's Town Meeting of the Air, a radio program to foster discussion of political, social and economic concerns. The name of the institution was changed in 1938 to The Town Hall, Inc. and in 1956 it became affiliated with New York University.
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- Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
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- Added Author
- Denny, George V., 1899-1959.Ely, Robert Erskine, 1861-League for Political Education (U.S.)
- Added Title
- America's town meeting of the air (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 3013