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Box 1

 Container

Restricted

Contains 37 Results:

Abbott, Bernice. Exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, signed catalog, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1976

Air pollution: collaboration with William L. Guthrie, 1989

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the campaign to raise awareness of pollution by private corporations and public utilities, in collaboration with Captain William L. Guthrie of Miami Beach, a former pilot. Includes a letter from Captain Guthrie to Jane Jacobs in 1989. (Kent would have introduced them.)

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1989

Air pollution: Palm Beach, Florida, 1967 - 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Principally Palm Beach, but includes resources on air pollution in other areas of the United States as well.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1967 - 1968

Biographical materials, 1928 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Birth certificates, Cooper Union diploma, business and identity cards, articles about Kent, and her resume.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1928 - 1975

Cellar apartment advocacy (305 W. 4th Street), 1958 - 1978

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

The Committee for the Preservation of Cellar Dwellings was established in 1960 by Kent (as the only member) to save her own and other Greenwich Village cellar apartments from a change in city zoning that would have made them illegal. Includes correspondence, committee letterhead, and articles about Kent's apartment, as well as architectural drawings of it created by Kent in 1958.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1958 - 1978

City Parks: City of New York Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Affairs, 1964 - 1975

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1964 - 1975

City Parks: Preservation of Natural Beauty initiative, 1964 - 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes at least two initiatives, a White House Conference on Preservation of Natural Beauty and a Task Force on Preservation of Natural Beauty.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

Clinton, Bill. Letter on welfare reform legislation, 1996 October 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Original, signed letter from Clinton in reply to a letter from Kent (not included).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1996 October 9

Halperin, Elizabeth Chapman. Poem typescript and photograph, 1970s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1970s

Jacobs, Jane. Articles about (not by Kent), 1962 - 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1962 - 1968

Jacobs, Jane. Correspondence and photograph, 1962-1971, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

The photograph includes a note that it appears to have been taken in Kent's New York City apartment.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1962-1971, undated

Jacobs, Jane. Draft for Systems of Survival, approximately 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Draft of parts one and two, and a page of notes. Drafts have portions underlined that may have been by Kent.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: approximately 1992

Journalism, article drafts, 1970s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1970s

Journalism, correspondence, 1967-1971, 1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1967-1971, 1992

Letters to Kent after her cancer diagnosis, 1999

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1999

Memorial for Annette Kraus Rose by Kent, 1990 July

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1990 July

New York City planning, 1966 - 1973

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Campaigns materials, stationary, Kent's letters, and booklets from the West Village Committee and the West Village Plan for Housing.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1966 - 1973

Palm Beach, Florida port development, 1964

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18-19
Scope and Contents

Contains draft letters to Palm Beach Mayor and City Commission in opposition to the channel deepening project of the Port of Palm Beach. Also includes copies of letters between Gene T. Dyer and George A. Smithers, and a letter to Lady Bird Johnson regarding the port that mentions Jane Jacobs by C.J. Wolfe, President of the Palm Beach County Chapter of the Isaac Walton League of America.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1964

Palm Beach High School yearbook, "The Royal Palm", 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1942

Photographs of Village Voice staff, including Kent, late 1960s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials belonging to Kent that document her journalism and activism, and, to a lesser degree, personal life

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: late 1960s

Pin-backed buttons, 1970s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Two buttons: "Ad Hoc Committee Against Westway" and "Bella Abzug, Our Strongest Voice".

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1970s

Wensburg, Erik. Letters, 1986 - 1987

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Note that Wensburg is also represented in the file of letters after Kent's cancer diagnosis.

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1986 - 1987

Guthrie, Janet, 1978

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Audio recording and transcript.

Access Note

The audio recordings (boxes 2-4) in this series are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not yet been reformatted. Transcripts and typescripts (box 1) are available for research use.

Dates: 1978

Malle, Louis, 1978, undated

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Audio recording and article typescript.

Access Note

The audio recordings (boxes 2-4) in this series are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not yet been reformatted. Transcripts and typescripts (box 1) are available for research use.

Dates: 1978, undated

Pauling, Linus, 1971

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Audio recording, research notes, and transcript.

Access Note

The audio recordings (boxes 2-4) in this series are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not yet been reformatted. Transcripts and typescripts (box 1) are available for research use.

Dates: 1971