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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
Request Appointment 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
Request Appointment 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
Request Appointment 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
Request Appointment 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

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Description

2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Summary

This collection documents the creation of the film The Ten-Year Lunch.

Subjects

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.

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

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.

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.

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