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Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for The ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table
- Title
- Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for The ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table, 1920s-1988.
- Author
- Slesin, Aviva.
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2010-110 Box 4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2010-110 Box 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2010-110 Box 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2010-110 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)
- Summary
- This collection documents the creation of the film The Ten Year Lunch.
- Subjects
- Press agents
- American wit and humor > History and criticism
- Photographs
- Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993
- Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980
- Editors
- Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
- Gordon, Ruth, 1896-1985
- Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967
- Algonquin Round Table
- Humorists, American > 20th century > Biography
- Dramatists
- New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
- Gillmore, Margalo, 1897-1986
- Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945
- Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943
- Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968
- Journalists
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968
- Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951
- Actors
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Note
- Audiocassette tapes of oral history interviews with Round Table members were separated to the Library's Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Source (note)
- Ava Slesin
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on the internet.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 2010-110
- OCLC
- 728175246
- 728175246
- Author
- Slesin, Aviva.
- Title
- Aviva Slesin collection of research and production materials for The ten-year lunch: the wit and legend of the Algonquin Round Table, 1920s-1988.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Terms Of Use
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required. For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
- Biography
- Aviva Slesin (b.1943) is a documentary filmmaker based in New York City whose film The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1987.The Algonquin Round Table was a group of journalists, editors, actors and press agents that met on a regular basis at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. The group began having lunch together in June 1919 and continued on a regular basis for about eight years.
- Indexes
- Collection guide available in repository and on the internet.
- Source
- Donated by Ava Slesin in 2010.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actors.Dramatists.Editors.Journalists.Press agents.
- Added Author
- Abbe, James Edward, 1883-1973.Eisenstaedt, Alfred.Muray, Nickolas, 1892-1965.Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.Hirschfeld, Al.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 2010-110