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1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Street and Smith Publications.
Inclusive Dates:
1864-1972
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing company, specializing in popular literature. Collection includes internal records, manuscripts, radio scripts, books and periodicals of the publishing company. Radio scripts include material for Doc Savage, Chick Carter-Boy Detective, Nick Carter and The Shadow. There are also 16mm films of one episode of The Shadow.
Type of Material:
16mm (photographic film size)
Books.
Card files.
Comics.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Watercolors (paintings)
Periodicals.
Pulps (documents)
Radio scripts.
Sketches.
Vouchers (sales records)
Subject:
Chick Carter boy detective (Radio program)
Doc Savage.
Doc Savage (Radio program)
New Nick Carter weekly.
Nick Carter (Radio program)
Nick Carter weekly.
Shadow (Radio program)
Shadow comics.
Shadow magazine.
Yellow kid.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Popular culture
Literature -- American Fiction
Publishing, printing and book arts
Science fiction
Adventure stories, American -- Periodicals.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.
Dime novels -- Specimens.
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular literature -- Publishing.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Radio serials.
Romance fiction, American -- Periodicals.
Science fiction, American -- Periodicals.
Western stories -- Periodicals.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Drago, Harry Sinclair, 1888-1979.
Inclusive Dates:
1926-1968
Abstract:
Papers of the American novelist and short story writer who specialized in historical fiction set in the Southwestern States. Collection includes correspondence (1925-1967); typescript books and stories; and published material by and about Drago.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Southwestern States, Fiction.
Authors.
Novelists.
Literature -- American Fiction
Authors, American.
Novelists, American.

Creator:
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co.
Inclusive Dates:
1890-1904
Abstract:
The collection consists of business correspondence and a few items of printed material of mostly promotional nature.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Advertisements.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Business and Industry
New York State
Typewriter industry.
Business enterprises -- New York (State) -- History.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956.
Inclusive Dates:
1935-1955
Abstract:
Correspondence, manuscripts of the American military, naval, and science fiction novelist.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Research notes.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Authors.
Literature -- American Fiction
Military history
Science fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
Authors, American.
Military art and science in literature.
Military history in literature.
Novelists, American.
Science fiction, American.

Creator:
Cutler, John L.
Inclusive Dates:
1925-1938
Abstract:
Research notes for a book about dime novel author Gilbert Patten, aka Burt L. Standish. Collection includes notes, photographs, printed material, essays, correspondence.
Type of Material:
Bibliographies.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Research notes.
Subject:
Tip top weekly.
Authors.
Biographers.
Literature -- American Fiction
Dime novels -- History and criticism.

6.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Greene, Vernon Van Atta.
Inclusive Dates:
1922-1966
Abstract:
Proofs and tear sheets from a wide variety of comic strips, original drawings, sketches, correspondence, biographical material, published material and taped interviews.
Type of Material:
Audiocassettes.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Photographs.
Subject:
Cartoonists.
Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.
Crime scenes -- Pictorial works.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works.

7.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Special Collections Research Center
Inclusive Dates:
1832-1874
Abstract:
Collection of material to, from, or about Gerrit Smith, American social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Collection created by Special Collections Research Center through purchase and donation.
Type of Material:
Ballots.
Correspondence.
Indentures.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Activism and social reform
New York State
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.

Creator:
Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
Inclusive Dates:
1930-1967
Abstract:
Papers of the American publishing firm, including correspondence (1944-1966); general files, typescript manuscripts, production records, promotional material, books, and newspaper clippings.
Type of Material:
Books.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
Publishers.
Publishing, printing and book arts
Publishers and publishing -- United States.

9.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Lowndes, Robert W.
Inclusive Dates:
1923-1996
Abstract:
Correspondence, printed material and memorabilia of the American science fiction author, editor and fan.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Zines.
Subject:
Believer's worlds.
Fantasy Commentator.
Mystery of the third mine.
Warhoon.
Authors.
Editors.
Science fiction
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Societies, etc.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Science fiction fans.
Zines.

10.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967
Inclusive Dates:
1890-1995
Abstract:
Correspondence, memorabilia, writings, and publications of the Luxembourg-American author, editor, publisher, and entrepreneur in the fields of amateur radio, electronics, and science fiction.
Type of Material:
Articles.
Biographical sketches.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Color transparencies.
Correspondence.
Cylinders (sound recordings)
Drafts (documents)
Editorials.
Lantern slides.
Manuscripts for publication.
Negatives (photographs)
Negative prints.
Patents.
Periodicals.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
Luxembourg.
United States -- Popular culture.
Air wonder stories.
Amazing stories.
Electrical experimenter.
Everyday science and mechanics.
Forecast.
Know yourself.
Modern electrics.
Popular electronics.
Radio amateur news.
Radio & television.
Radio news.
Radio-craft.
Radio-electronics.
Science and invention.
Science fiction plus.
Science wonder stories.
Sexology.
Short wave and television.
Short wave craft.
Technocracy review.
Television news.
Utopia Sonderband.
Wonder stories.
The experimenter's library.
The radio tinker's library.
Radio-craft library.
Authors.
Editors.
Inventors.
Publishers.
Business and Industry
Literature -- American Fiction
Publishing, printing and book arts
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Science fiction
Automobiles -- Radio equipment.
Authors, American.
Editors -- United States.
Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Photographs.
Electronics -- Amateurs' manuals.
Electronics -- Periodicals.
Luxembourg Americans.
Military art and science.
Periodical editors.
Periodicals -- Publishing.
Popular literature -- United States.
Publishers and publishing -- United States.
Radio -- Amateurs' manuals.
Radio -- History.
Radio -- Periodicals.
Radio broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Radio broadcasting -- History.
Radio control.
Science fiction -- Illustration.
Science fiction -- Periodicals.
Science publishing.
Sexuality -- Periodicals.
Shortwave radio -- Periodicals.
Space flight.
Technical writing.
Technological innovations.
Technology -- Periodicals.
Television -- History.
Television -- Periodicals.

11.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1762-1962
Abstract:
Papers of the social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Business, family and general correspondence; business and land records; writings; and maps. Notable correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Maria Child, Cassius Clay, Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, Frederick Douglass, Albert G. Finney, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady and Henry B. Stanton, Louis Tappan, Sojourner Truth, and Theodore Weld.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Bank statements.
Bonds (negotiable instruments)
Broadsides (notices)
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Estate records.
Indentures.
Judicial records.
Land registers.
Land surveys.
Maps (documents)
Pamphlets.
Sermons.
Summonses.
Warrant books.
Wills.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.

12.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981.
Inclusive Dates:
1921-2001
Abstract:
Papers of the Modernist architect and designer, includes architectural drawings, photographs and slides, project files, writings, correspondence and other materials related to every phase of Marcel Breuer's career.
Type of Material:
Architectural drawings (visual works)
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Change orders.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Detail drawings (drawings)
Exhibition catalogs.
Exterior perspectives.
Interior perspectives.
Lantern slides.
Manuscripts for publication.
Memorabilia.
Photographs.
Schematic drawings.
Sketches.
Slides (photographs)
Specifications.
Topographic surveys.
Writings (documents)
Subject:
Architects.
Architects
Architects -- United States.
Architectural design.
Architectural drawing -- United States -- 20th century.
Architectural firms.
Architectural practice.
Architecture -- United States.
Architecture -- Designs and plans.
Architecture, American.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture -- United States -- 20th century.
Bauhaus -- History.
Church architecture -- United States.
Furniture design -- United States.
Furniture designers.

13.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Ackerman, Forrest J
Inclusive Dates:
1884-2009
Abstract:
Papers of the American science fiction author, editor, agent, collector and fan. Biographical material, Ackerman Agency records, correspondence, Famous Monsters files, fanzines, financial material, legal material, memorabilia, Perry Rhodan files, photographs, printed material, recordings of varous types, and writings by Ackerman, his wife Wendayne, and others
Type of Material:
Address books.
Advertisements.
Audiocassettes.
Badges.
Bibliographies.
Business cards.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Calendars (documents)
Booksellers' catalogs.
Civil court records.
Comic books.
Contracts.
Correspondence.
Character toys.
Drawings (visual works)
DVDs.
Fanzines.
Film stills.
Floppy disks.
Galley proofs.
Genealogies (histories)
Indexes (reference sources)
Interviews.
Invitations.
Itineraries.
Layouts (printed matter)
Legal documents.
Limited editions.
Lists (document genres)
Magazines (periodicals)
Manuscripts for publication.
Newsletters.
Notes (documents)
Obituaries.
Permissions.
Phonograph records.
Photograph albums.
Photographs.
Poetry.
Postage stamps.
Posters.
Programs (documents)
Reviews (documents)
Sales catalogs.
Scrapbooks.
Screenplays.
Scripts (documents)
Short stories.
Sound recordings.
Speeches (documents)
Tape reels.
Tax records.
U-matic.
VHS.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Videocassettes.
Visitors' books.
Subject:
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Famous monsters of filmland.
Metropolis (Motion picture : 1927)
Perry Rhodan (New York, N.Y.)
Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Spacemen.
Voice of the imagination.
Literary agents.
Authors.
Editors.
Novelists.
Science fiction
Popular culture
Radio, television, film
Amateur films.
Authors, American.
Cinematography -- Special effects.
Editors -- United States.
Esperanto -- Study and Teaching.
Esperanto -- Societies, etc.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fan magazines.
Fan mail.
Film festivals.
Horror films.
Lesbian pulp fiction.
Lesbians in literature.
Literary agents.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Novelists, American.
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Science fiction -- Periodicals.
Science fiction -- Societies, etc.
Science fiction conventions.
Science fiction fans.
Science fiction, American.
Science in popular culture.
Space flight -- Fiction.
Space flight in art.
Vampires -- Fiction.