Archives Catalogue

Mary Celeste model at Atlantic Companies

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
[19--?]

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item is a photograph of a model of the Mary Celeste held at the Atlantic Companies in New York, United States.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point museum with cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 25
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon touring the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are cadets, R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with West Point Military Academy cadets

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 26
Item
January 26, 1941

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon with three cadets from the West Point Military Academy, where she performed as a guest soloist with their symphonic band. Pictured with her are R.B. Dean, Jr. of Forest Hills, New York; Gordon Gould, Jr. of Mobile, Atlanta; and J.A. Martell of Worcester, Massachusetts.

Photograph of a group of American sailors standing in front of the New York City Department of Marine and Aviation office

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 42, Item 13
Item
1977

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photograph of a group of American sailors eating food in front of the New York City Department of Marine and Aviation office. A flock of pigeons is in the foreground. The photograph was exhibited at the Centre for Art Tapes during a 1977 exhibition of photography and video by Bruce Sparks, Vikky Swettenham and Theodore Wan.

Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York, with henna preventing the further spread of the oil.

Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a docked oil clean-up vessel.

Photograph of weathered crude oil affecting Corex at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 12
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil and cladophora along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows oil and a development of cladophora algae along the shore at Alexandria Bay, with a small houseboat in the background.

Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a Coastal Services Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York, with one unidentified worker sitting atop the tanker.

Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 7
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an oiled boat at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 11
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an oiled blue-winged teal at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a blue-winged teal covered in oil, as a result of the Alexandria Bay oil spill

Photograph of oil along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil along the shore, affecting Salix babylonica, at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 8
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a researcher examining weathered crude oil at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 9
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil invading a marshy embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 4
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Harold W. Higginson and coloured sketch of a tombstone

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 28, Item 1
Item
1966

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of Higginson outside his home in Pleasantville, New York. Higginson was the chief electrical officer on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennet based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1911-1921 and was part of the cable-ship's recovery of over 300 bodies from the Titanic disaster in April 1912. Thomas Head Raddall served as a wireless operator on the same ship from 1920-1921.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon sitting at a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 11
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati and Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 27
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland and Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Antal Dorati

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 28
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with Antal Dorati, conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon playing a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 12
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with Aaron Copland

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 29
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a press photograph of Ellen Ballon at the piano with the American composer Aaron Copland.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon sitting at a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 6
Item
[c. 1940 - 1959]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Terceiro concerto de piano e orquestra : redução para dois pianos

MS-5-2, Box 2, Folder 4
Item
1956

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an autograph manuscript of Heitor Villa-Lobos's reduction for two pianos of his Piano Concerto No. 3, completed in New York in 1956. The composition was commissioned by the Brazilian pianist Arnaldo Estrella.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 10
Item
[c. 1930 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 16
Item
[c. 1930 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 17
Item
[c. 1940 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon playing a piano

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 20
Item
[c. 1930 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photograph of Ellen Ballon's hands playing a Steinway & Sons piano.

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 18
Item
[c. 1930 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Publicity photograph of Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 19
Item
[c. 1930 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of Ellen Ballon with unidentified woman

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 30
Item
[c. 1940 - 1949]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Envelope from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 16
Item
December 31, 1948

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Good Friday Message from the Ministerial Action Committee of The Protestant : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 6
Item
April 2, 1947

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by the Ministerial Action Committee of The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie and Chester Hodgson), as appeared in print on Wednesday, April 2, 1947, stating that "we cannot permit the Cross of Christ to be used as a bludgeon in the hands of those who would use the Jews, or any other religious or racial group, as scapegoats in their thrust for Fascist power over America".

Envelope from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon, Ryan Gustafson, and Sally Ryan

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 13
Item
1946

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Open Letter to the Missouri Knights of Columbus : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 5
Item
April 7, 1946

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of an illustrated broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the Sunday, April 7, 1946 edition of The New York Times, containing a lengthy letter written by Leslie in response to anti-Soviet and pro-Franco Spanish statements from the Missouri Knights of Columbus Catholic fraternal society.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : clarinete baixo

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is the bass clarinet part for Heitor Villa-Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon helping with the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 24
Item
[c. 1942 - 1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 6
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 7
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a note from William "Willie" Somerset Maugham written to Ellen Ballon on the reverse side of an advertisement for three recitals in New York (April 4, 11, 25, 1945) performed by Ellen Ballon and recorded by the radio station WNYC.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 10
Item
October 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the second bassoonists.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, and unidentified man in uniform

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 21
Item
[c. 1942 -1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photograph of Fiorello H. Laguardia, the Mayor of New York (1934-1945) , signing a scroll of greetings from the "Men in New York at the Stage Door Canteen" to the "Men of Canada." The "Men of Canada" refers to the Canadian service-men's center that opened in Ellen Ballon's family home in Montreal.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon and Sally Ryan

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 9
Item
October 16, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

1600 Protestant Ministers Defend Separation of Church and State : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 3
Item
1945

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie), likely in early 1945, titled "1600 Protestant Ministers Defend Separation of Church and State". Item includes facsimiles of articles from the New York Herald Tribune and New York Times (from February 1945), as well as a letter from Kenneth Leslie to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, demanding opposition to "any attempt under whatever formula to involve the free democratic states in any deal in which the Vatican State or its representatives, or the representatives of any Protestant or Jewish establishment of religion, has part or place, either as principal or mediator" and other "disservice[s] to the country".

1613 Christian Ministers Demand an All-Out Anti-Fascist Peace : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
February 13, 1945

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the February 13, 1945 edition of the New York Post, containing a declaration from Leslie and the editorship directed to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, urging resistance against what Leslie deems the anti-Semitic influence of a "overtly political" Papacy.

Concerto para piano e orquestra : primiero e segundo fagotes

MS-5-2, Box 3, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is one of two copies of the first and second bassoon parts for Heitor Villa Lobos' first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. The parts were copied by Henrique Martins. This part was used by the first bassoonists.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 8
Item
May 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Good Friday Message : Shall We Take Our Turn at Murder? : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 2
Item
[1944?]

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (chaired by Kenneth Leslie) sometime in the mid-1940s, with the header "Good Friday Message" "Shall we take our turn at murder?" Item relates to anti-Semitic language and fascist activities affecting American (and Church) policy and opinion as it relates to efforts to establish a Jewish territory in Palestine.