Served as a journal for Bissinger during his 1968 trip to Cuba. He mentioned others on the trip such as Jerome Rothenberg, George Cohen, George Hitchcock, Susan Sontag, and Bruce Kendrick. His notes recorded contact information for the people he met and descriptions of the communities and farms the group toured, as well as his thoughts on socialism. He mentioned meeting Fidel Castro. Laid in are related clippings, contact information, letters, invitations, flyers and travel documents. The notebook also recorded notes taken during his attendance of the Southeastern People's Revolutionary Conference (1971) where he met Kathleen Cleaver. The conference was sponsored by the Malcolm X United Liberation Front.

Includes itinerary for a trip to Europe which included Dublin and Paris, journal regarding the flight and individuals he met, notes on a trip to Iowa City and Washington, a list of Massachusetts sites, as well as lists of negatives of literary persons and celebrities. Laid in are bills from Ireland, tearsheets, and a group letter signed by Diane di Prima. Also includes bathroom designs and a dog drawing.

The mostly blank notebook has a few telephone numbers and financial notes regarding bank accounts.

The mostly blank notebook has a few financial notes by Bissinger and notes by Hanley. Laid in are financial notes, telephone numbers and a cartoon.

Financial notes by Bissinger, with a few notes and telephone numbers.

Bissinger's notes regarding conscientious objectors, the draft, deferrments, contact information, and resources. Hanley's notes and drawings are related to 18th- and 19th-century quilts and bed coverings, descriptions of furnishings, the Allen House, ideas for summer wardrobe, and wall fabric.

Includes contact information, reminder and appointment notes, travel itineraries, and other brief notes on scrap paper and envelopes.

Brief notes on a trip, contact information, and laid in ticket stubs for transportation.

Drawings and notes by Richard Hanley, including lists of clothing; ideas and designs for room arrangements and furnishings; recipes; and notes. Laid in are recipes and blank postcards.

Drawings and notes by Hanley, including images of his dogs, an incomplete letter, and designs for room arrangements and furnishings. Laid in is a note and a transportation ticket from a trip to Spain in 1948.

Contains drawings and notes by Hanley for home designs, furniture, and accents, as well as sketches of birds and dogs, to-do lists, and miscellaneous notes.

Includes designs for wallpaper, one page of autobiographical information, and a letter to Stephanie Chamberlin. Laid in is a "Las Estracas" ticket from Mexico.

Drafts of a story written by Karl Bissinger.

Artwork for Toppy.

Bissinger's son. Includes several articles about Fechheimer and one review written by him.

Written while Bissinger or Hanley were traveling. Includes clippings detailing the filming of 1964 western, The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, for which Bissinger was one of the still photographers.

Letters from Bissinger's life partner.

Articles, notes, and drawings related to Hanley and patterns created by Hanley.

Includes an undated letter to Bissinger, a photograph taken by Rukeyser in 1975, plus an article and obituary.

Includes a McCune letter and IOU to Bissinger, letters to McCune from Hungarian costume designer Marcel Vertes, George Davis and Lotte Lenya.

One letter to McCune from Tennessee Williams and drafts of McCune's letters written to Williams in 1957 regarding his voluntary hospitalization.

Photocopies of letters regarding Chaikin's response to Israel's sale of arms to South Africa in 1976.

One regarding Westbeth, with a petition signed by Muriel Rukeyser, among others.

Letters in response to the death of Richard Hanley, including one from Grace Paley.

Account sheets for theater tickets.

Includes images of Ireland, Spain, artwork, and Westbeth.

Includes passport used to visit Cuba through Mexico.

Material related to Bissinger's maternal grandfather. Includes photographs of Agnes Murphy and Dan Murphy, clipping, membership card for The Jonathan Club in Los Angeles, and an inscribed copy of After Big Game in the Arctic and Tropic by Max C. Fleischmann.

Bissinger and John B. Nicholson formed a partnership in 1949 and opened Café Nicholson, a restaurant which became a popular New York meeting place for the rich and famous, as well as aspiring artists and writers. It was in the courtyard at the café that Bissinger took some of his photographs of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and others. Includes the business certificate, a menu autographed by actor Louis Calbern, as well as clippings and articles regarding the restaurant and its clientele. Also includes information about Edna Lewis, the café's chef.

Bissinger was an active participant in the Westbeth community. Includes newsletters, minutes of council meetings, articles and printed material about Westbeth.

Includes maps, menus, drawings, tearsheets, clippings, articles, and programs.

Original collage with a handwritten note by Bissinger.

Artwork or photocopies of artwork, including copies of a painting by Bissinger, as well as various drawings and painting by unidentified individuals (possibly by Richard Hanley or Bissinger). Items include Bush Design, Palazzo Orsini, Roma, and several untitled paintings.

Includes three decks of playing cards, three matchbooks, one small sewing kit, and two buttons.

Statement written by Bissinger and others in support of burning draft cards.

Includes a signed piece of artwork by Ira Cohen (1997) and three posters titled Art for WRL.

Karl Bissinger was honored for his work with the War Resisters League. Two copies of the publication.

This Vietnam docu-drama is dedicated to Karl Bissinger.

Includes a letter from Rudolph W. Giuliani (1977) when he has Acting Deputy Attorney General.

Two copies of a pamphlet announcing a demonstration in Moscow (in Russian).

Reprint of article by George Lakey from WIN magazine.

Includes two copies of Peacemeal, a cook book from the Greenwich Village Peace Center, with introduction by Grace Paley.

Nine issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.

Thirteen issues of a publication of the New York Workshop in Nonviolence.

Written by Arthur Harvey.

Reprint from Liberation of an article written by Carl Oglesby.

Poster which includes a list of the participants and sponsors.

Anti-war/peace material published by the American Friends, Clergy & Laity Concerned, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the A. J. Muste Memorial Institute.

Include articles on Vietnam, the war on terror and other political topics.

Computer generated copies of photographs with an email from Lisa Miller.

Anthology which includes Paley's story the long-distance runner

Grace Paley issue of the journal.

Special publication of the War Resisters League in New York honoring Grace Paley on her sixty-fifth birthday.

Includes an issue of UR University Review .

Junior Bazaar existed as a separate publication from Harper's Bazaar from 1945-1948, and surviving issues of the magazine are rare. Part of Bissinger's early professional photographic work was for this publication.

Hoagy Carmichael, Philip Dorn, Ann Jeffreys, Cris Alexander, Beatrice Pearson, Patricia Neal, Mary Welch, Frances Reid, June Duprez.

Otto Kruger and daughter Ottilie; Moses Soyer studio.

Juanita Hall and Betta St. John, Robert Lewis Shayon, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Marge and Gower Champion, Elena Nikolaidi, Elizabeth Montgomery (costume designer).

Jean Renoir.

Jose Greco.

Bobby Jones at the Masters golf tournament.

James Gould Cozzens.

Photographer for Living Theatre during European tour. Cover is from The Apple.

Photograph from Living Theatre production of The Brig.

Biography of Jane Bowles written by Millicent Dillon, also a friend of Bissinger.

Book jackets from several editions of Bowles's biography with Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.

Japanese articles on Paul and Jane Bowles that include Bissinger photographs.

Group photograph of Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Buffie Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq, at the Café Nicholson.

Includes article on Karl Bissinger, with photograph of Bissinger by Zachary Fechheimer (his grandson). Also includes Bissinger photographs of Juliette Greco, Jean Cocteau, Anna Magnani, James Baldwin, Montgomery Clift, Ezio Pinza, Hoagy Carmichael, Saul Steinberg, Paul Bowles, Robinson Jeffers, and Jean Marais.

Cover includes Bissinger photograph of Jane Bowles.

Bissinger photograph of Maeve Brennan on cover of catalog.

Includes newspaper articles, magazine articles, tear sheets, and galley proofs.

Newspaper article Bissinger wrote about Saul Gottlieb, published in The Village Voice.

Bissinger interviewed by George Plimpton for article on Truman Capote.

Originally interviewed by Michael Maronna in 1995. Excerpt published in 2005 for the War Resisters League dinner honoring Karl Bissinger and Ralph DiGia.

Includes 2006 Legends of the Village calendar, which featured Bissinger in April.

Several articles about or featuring Bissinger, including November 29, 1970, article from New York Times Magazine, "From 1-A to 4-F And All Points In Between," by Saul Braun. Also includes notes from Catherine Johnson's speech at 2005 WRL dinner honoring Bissinger.

Author Wendy Schwartz was a long-time Bissinger friend and coworker at WRL.

Article about Bissinger's life, including information obtained through interviews. Schwartz noted that a shorter version of this article appeared shortly after Bissinger's death, in the Winter issue of WIN as a memorial to him.

Includes article by Julian Beck.

Debut of film of the Living Theatre's 1963 production of The Brig

New York University

Includes an interview with Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theatre, and an interview with Joseph Chaikin

New York University

Includes several articles on the Bread and Puppet Theatre, including one by Peter Schumann.

Interview with Joseph Chaikin about announced disbanding of the Open Theatre.

Performance at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union, New York, featuring scenes from Living Theatre productions 1951-1983.

Program from 40th anniversary celebration benefit for Living Theatre, held at the Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York.

Includes an interview with Brenda Dixon about her time with Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre.

Program for Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Theatre on the Square.

Incomplete article about the Living Theatre's reprise of The Brig.

Includes a program for Peasant Life, an Angry Arts benefit production in which Bissinger played a role. Other programs included are from Judson Poets' Theater, 29th Street Rep, and a postcard for the Living Theatre's A Dream of Water in 2003.

Includes articles sent to Bissinger by friends or that were about friends, including Edna Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Helen Morgan, Ken Nordine, Paul Bowles, and Al Carmines.

vol. 12

American director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright.

Photographed in New York while directing High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American painter.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one large format color transparency. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while appearing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes negatives, large format negatives, contact sheets and prints.

American writer, poet, and critic. His Cuban-born third wife, Mary Hoover, was a successful artist.

Includes contact sheets and prints. Negatives available in Series V.B.

American actor, writer, director, and activist.

Photographed with Ossie Davis, Orson Bean, and an unidentified actress, for Theater People for Peace. Includes negatives and one print.

American actor, performer, and designer.

Photographed in New York while appearing in Noel Coward's Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Includes negatives.

American poet.

One print.

American actress and model, wife of Richard Avedon in the 1940s.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Photographed with husband Richard Avedon and with Leonard Gershe. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American photographer.

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

American writer.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actress.

Photographed at Polo Grounds, watching Giants with jazz musician Joe Bushkin. Includes three contact sheets and one print.

Barker is a British poet and novelist; Williams is Ukrainian-born American poet and anthologist.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American art director and photographer.

Includes photograph with Richard Avedon. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actor and performer.

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

American actress and singer.

Includes contact sheets and prints.

French artist and designer.

Two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actor, director, poet, and painter; founded Living Theatre with Judith Malina.

Includes negatives, one black and white slide, and portion of contact sheet.

American actress.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Italian nobleman.

Includes photographs of his son, Gaetano. Photographed at his home in Catania, Sicily. Also includes contact sheets.

American composer, arranger, lyricist, and orchestrator.

Includes large format negatives and contact sheets.

American art historian, critic, collector, and connoisseur of Italian Renaissance art.

Photographed at I Tatti, Berenson's villa outside Florence. Includes two small prints, one large print, and a single image from a contact sheet.

Choreographer and dancer.

Photographed performing Bettis choreography for As I Lay Dying. Includes contacts from large format negatives, and prints.

European editor for Flair magazine, based in London and Paris after her divorce from her diplomat husband, Anthony Biddle. Only daughter of mining millionaire William Boyce Thompson.

Photographed in Morocco. Includes negatives, parts of a contact sheet, and one print.

American composer.

Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American non-fiction writer.

Includes negatives.

Includes negatives and contact sheets containing photographs of unidentified woman.

Flavio Borghese, 12th Prince of Sulmona; his wife, Angela Paternó, 7th Princess of Sperlinga dei Manganelli, children Vittoria and Marcantonio, and mother-in-law.

Photographed at home in Palermo, Sicily. Includes negative, contact sheets, and one print.

Jane Bowles is an American writer of novels and short stories; Paul Bowles is an American composer, travel writer, novelist, and translator.

Includes negatives, one large format negative, contact sheets, and prints for both Jane and Paul Bowles. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

French actor and philanthropist.

Photographed in the library of the French Research Foundation, which he established in California. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actor.

Photographed in New York while starring in A Streetcar Named Desire. One large format negative made from contact sheet; one 8 x 10 negative, and two photocopies of cover image for The Luminous Years. One print available in Series V.B.

American artist. Fashion illustrator for Flair magazine.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American playwright.

Photographed at the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and contact sheet. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives.

Irish-born American writer.

Includes negatives and two 11 x 14 contact sheets.

American actor.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American jazz singer.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

American actor.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes Bissinger's note to send two different 8 x 10 photographs to London agent A.D. Peters, care of Sally Bentlif, who in 1965 married journalist and Nelson Mandela biographer Anthony Sampson.

British actress.

Photographed at Café Nicholson while in costume for her role in The Importance of Being Earnest. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actor.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed at the Radio Theatre in Chicago. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Cuban poet, writer, and anthropologist.

Photographed at her home near Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American writer.

Photographed in New York, and on set of Jean Cocteau film Les Parents terribles in Paris with Marie-Louise Bousquet, editor of French Harper's Bazaar. Includes negatives, one large-format negative taken from contact sheet, one contact sheet, and prints. Also includes one newspaper clipping of photograph.

American songwriter.

Photographed with artist Charles Owens and editor Jean Lavender. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Scottish actress.

Includes contact sheets and one print.

American pop vocalist.

Includes large format negatives and two prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American-born Paris restauranteur and performer.

One print.

Spanish writer.

Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Italian nobleman.

Photographed in Catania, Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

American actor, director, teacher, and author. Founded Open Theatre in 1963.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.

American dancers, choreographers, and actors. Gower also directed several Broadway musicals.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

American comic actress and entertainer.

Photographed in New York while starring in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Includes large-format negatives and prints.

American actress.

Photographed while performing in the Living Theatre production of The Apple. Fragments of contact sheets. For additional images, see Series IV.A.

Audrey Christie and Phyllis Povah are American actresses; Virginia Field is British actress.

Photographed in dressing room while performing in Light Up The Sky. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

British actress, daughter of Winston Churchill.

Photographed in Hollywood with Michèle Morgan. Three prints. For additional images, see Series IV.A.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and two prints.

American actor.

Photographed on streets of New York City. Includes numerous negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Contact sheets also available in Series V.B.

French director, poet, novelist, playwright, and artist.

Photographed in Paris on the set of Les Parents terribles, along with Josette Day and Gabrielle Dorziat. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

French writer, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette.

Photographed in her Paris apartment. Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.

American actor.

Photographed at home in Brentwood, California. Fragments of contact sheet and one print.

British actress.

Includes negatives.

American poet.

Includes negatives and one print. Photographed at May 1967 poetry reading that featured Andrei Voznesensk and included Robert Lowell, The Fugs, and Robert David Cohen. For more images from the 3 Penny Poetry reading, see Series IV.A.

American actor.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer.

Includes contact sheets and prints.

American actor, director, writer, and composer.

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

American fashion model.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American writer, film and theater critic.

Includes negatives.

American actor.

Photographed at various locations in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American artist. Son of artist and muralist James Daugherty.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Alfred De Liagre was an American theatre owner, producer, and director. Stewart Chaney was American producer, director, and designer. John van Druten was British-born American writer and director.

Photographed in New York during run of The Druid Circle. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American dancer, choreographer, director, and actor.

Photographed backstage at Allegro, which De Mille choreographed and directed. Also includes photographs from the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and damaged contact sheets. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives.

American teacher, writer and playwright who had close association with the Bread & Puppet Theatre during the 1960s.

Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph.

Austrian actress, born Luli von Hohenberg.

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and large-format negatives.

Danish writer.

Photographed in New York. Two prints.

American poet. Editor of The Floating Bear and founder of The Poet's Press; married to Alan Marlowe at time of photographs.

Photographed at Millbrook estate during Timothy Leary occupation. Includes negatives.

Dutch actor.

Photographed in New York while performing in The Big Two. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Austrian-born American actress.

Photographed in New York while performing in The Druid Circle. Includes negatives.

American actor and singer.

Includes one contact sheet and two prints.

British-born American actress.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actor, director, and producer.

Photographed in New York while performing in Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while performing in High Button Shoes. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Puerto Rican-born American actor, director, and producer.

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Includes contact sheets with "Scotti Field, Voice of Turtle" written on verso. May refer to actress Betty Field, who was a replacement in Voice of the Turtle.

American journalist; wrote under pen name "Genêt."

Photographed at Park Avenue Armory in New York. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Italian fashion designers.

Photographed in their atelier, with Nelly Corradi modeling several dresses. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while performing in Another Part of the Forest. Includes contact sheets.

American actress and singer.

Photographed in New York, including in costume for Beautiful is the shore. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets. Also includes an example of a negative Bissinger manipulated.

Includes numerous negatives.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and one fragmented contact sheet.

American writer, preservationist, and long-time contributor to The New Yorker.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while performing in Life With Father. Includes negatives and two contact sheets.

American musician and songwriter; conscientious objector.

Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and prints.

Includes negatives of a man who may be American comedian Jackie Gleason.

Prussian-born artist, architect, and educator residing in Mexico.

Photographed in Mexico City, Mexico. Includes negatives and prints.

Includes negatives.

Gordon is American actress, director, and writer; Kanin is American director, producer, writer, and actor.

Photographed in New York during run of How I Wonder. Includes negatives and contact sheets. Also included are negatives and contact sheets of Gordon and Kanin with actor Raymond Massey and writer Donald Ogden Stewart.

American writer and activist.

Photographed with poet David Henderson on street in New York. Gottlieb's wife, Odda, is in background. Includes three prints.

Italian-born American dancer and choreographer.

Photographed performing in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

French singer.

Photographed in Paris with friend, poet Anne-Marie Cazalis. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Austrian-born American artist.

Photographed in studio. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints, with some images of Stanley Hayter and Irene Rice Pereira.

British actor.

Photographed at house in Hammersmith, London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

New York City florist.

Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets.

Siberian-born American composer.

Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Hall is an American actress and singer, and St. John is an American actress.

Photographed in costume for roles in original cast of South Pacific. Includes negatives.

American poet.

Photographed at Bissinger's kitchen table. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

American diplomat, businessman, former Secretary of Commerce, Special Assistant to President Truman.

Includes prints.

British actor.

Photographed on stage with Joyce Redman in Ann of the Thousand Days. Includes negatives and prints. See Series IV.A. for contact sheets.

American actresses and singers.

Photographed in New York during run of High Button Shoes. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American soprano.

Photographed in New York during run of Carousel. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

German-born American nutritionist, self-help author, and proponent of "natural way of eating."

Photographed at villa in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

British artist and printmaker, founder of Atelier 17 in Paris.

Includes negatives, one print, and one contact sheet with several images of Irene Rice Pereira.

American actress. Daughter of Ben Hecht.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American poet and activist.

Includes prints.

American actress.

Photographed in her New York townhouse garden, along with ex-prizefighter Charles Newhill (Hepburn's bodyguard and butler) and American journalist Shana Alexander. Includes negatives and one print.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while appearing in Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American producer and director.

Includes contact sheet and print.

American actress; married Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while appearing in A Streetcar Named Desire. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American director and producer.

Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Huxley is a British-born writer and philosopher; Isherwood is British-born American writer.

Photographed at Santa Monica, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets and prints.

Waitress at Café Nicholson.

Photographed at Café Nicholson. One print.

American poet.

Photographed at his home, Hawk Tower, in Carmel, California. Includes views of Big Sur. Also includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets. Additional negatives available in Series V.B.

American actress and singer.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while performing in Burlesque. Includes contact sheets.

American writer.

Includes negatives and contact sheets. Bissinger also photographed the Jessup family, individually and as a group, on several occasions.

American artist.

Photograph in front of mirror in 1949, and later with her painting, Labrys (1972). Includes negatives and contact sheets.

British actress.

Photographed in London. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Irish writer and director.

Photographed in New York during production of his play The Old Lady Says "No!". Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actor. Son of Robert Earl Jones.

Photographed in costume in Central Park. Includes negatives, contact sheets, prints, and color slides.

American actor. Father of James Earl Jones.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American artist.

Photographed in his studio in Union Square. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

American composer, arranger, and orchestrator.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

British clarinetist; American swing musician Benny Goodman studied with him.

Includes negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints.

Austrian actress and cabaret singer.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress. Daughter of Nancy Carroll.

Includes several photographs on Spanish Steps in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American designer and architect.

Photographed at Knoll Associates showroom. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actor.

Photographed with his daughter Ottilie, who was appearing with him on Broadway. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Cuban artist.

Photographed at his studio in Havana, Cuba. Includes negatives. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

British filmmaker, director, screenwriter, and editor.

Photographed in London outside his mews studio. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Irish artist.

Photographed in London. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and one print.

French-born American ballet dancer; married to George Balanchine.

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American fashion model. Sister of model Suzy Parker.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American writer.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Austrian singer and actress, formerly married to composer Kurt Weill.

Photographed with new husband George Davis, an American writer and editor. Includes two large format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American actress.

Includes negatives.

American journalist, humorist, and writer.

Includes negatives.

Canadian comedienne and entertainer.

Includes negatives.

American journalist, author, editor, and political commentator.

Includes negatives and prints.

American artist and engineer.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American producer, director, and writer.

Photographed in New York during run of Mister Roberts. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American writer and poet.

Some photographs with Grace Paley. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

American artist and art dealer. Bissinger's fellow student at Art Students League.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Nephew of Marshal Lyautey, founder of modern Morocco.

Photographed with his wife in Morocco at the Nadir's diffa, with Patrick O'Higgins, Flair travel editor, and Margaret Thompson Biddle, European editor at Flair. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Italian actress.

Photographed at her apartment in Rome with Piero Tellini, and at Café Nicholson with Johnny Nicholson. Notation on the verso of one contact sheet in Bissinger's hand "For Frank Merlo," Tennessee Williams's companion. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

French-born American fashion designer, born Main Rousseau Bocher.

Photographed in his New York atelier. Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Austrian-born American actress. Founded the Living Theatre with Julian Beck.

Photographed in performance as "Clara." Includes negatives and prints.

French actor.

Photographed in Paris on the set of Les Parents terribles. Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Martin was American singer and actor; Lewis was American comedian, actor, writer, and director.

Includes negatives and two large-format negatives.

American model, writer, poet, artist, and muse.

Photographed in several New York locales. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and negatives.

American writer.

Photographed at Nyack, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American jazz saxophonist, composer, band leader, and educator. Wrote songs for the Living Theatre's The Connection.

Includes negatives.

Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American set designer and art director.

Includes negatives.

American emcee, creator and host of The Breakfast Club on radio and television.

Includes negatives.

American artist, photographer, writer, and teacher.

Photographed with one of his paintings. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

British writer, critic, and essayist.

Photographed in Sicily. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

American actor and artist; appeared in numerous Andy Warhol films, and performed as Andy Warhol.

Includes negatives, color negatives, and one color print,

Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes cut-up contact sheet.

American writer and painter.

Photographed at his home in Big Sur, California. Includes negatives, large format-negatives, and cut-up contact sheets. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Italian nobleman.

Photographed in Sicily with architect Sebastiano Inserra and with son Alberto. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

French singer, dancer, and entertainer, born Jeanne Bourgeois. Performed frequently with Maurice Chevalier.

Photographed in her dressing room at the Club Tropicana, New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Hungarian playwright and novelist.

Photographed at Plaza Hotel, New York. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Chilean-born American actress; wife of Leonard Bernstein.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and two prints.

French conductor.

Includes negatives.

British costume and scenic designer for stage and screen. Founding member of Motley Theatre Design Group.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actor.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

French actress.

Photographed in Hollywood, with Sarah Churchill. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American stage manager.

Photographed backstage. Includes negatives

Sicilian movie writer.

Photographed in Taormina, Sicily. Includes cut-up contact sheets.

American artist.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.

French actor, singer, and painter.

Photographed on streets of Paris. Includes negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

British West Indies-born American merchant marine captain and artist.

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

British-born American actress.

Photographed while performing in The Respectful Prostitute. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Italian writer and publisher. Married American Charles Murray.

Photographed in Italy, with friends including Averell Harriman, Princess Borghese, the Fontana sisters at their atelier, Patrick O'Higgins, and Karl Bissinger himself. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and contact sheets.

American artist.

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

American actress.

Photographed in New York while appearing in Another Part of the Forest. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Photographed in New York. Includes contact sheets.

American classical and jazz harpist.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American director, actor, producer, and screenwriter.

Includes negatives.

Bissinger's friend and business partner at Café Nicholson.

Photographed at Café Nicholson, Fire Island, and other locations. Includes Nicholson with his sister, with Jeanne Owens, with Dick Hanley, and with Bissinger. Also includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Greek-born American mezzo-soprano.

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American singer, songwriter, guitarist, actress, and human rights activist, born Odetta Holmes.

Includes negatives, prints, and 1965 article with Bissinger photo of Odetta.

American actress.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American fashion model; married New York mayor William O'Dwyer.

Includes contact sheets.

Travel editor for Flair.

Photographed in Morocco and New York. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American theoretical physicist; director of Manhattan Project.

Includes contact sheets.

Italian statesman and jurist, former Senator and former Prime Minister of Italy.

Photographed in Palermo, Sicily. Includes large-format negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

American fashion designer.

Photographed with model wearing Toni Owen dress. Includes negatives.

American painter, classmate of Karl Bissinger at Art Students League; married Jeanne Owens.

Photographed in New York and Fire Island; also in Italy with Natalia Danesi Murray. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

Owens was American artist and classmate of Karl Bissinger at Art Students League. She was also National Backstroke Champion in 1938; married Charles Owens.

Photographed at various locations in New York City and Fire Island. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American writer, poet, and activist.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American decorator, married to Henry Parish II.

Photographed in her home. Includes large-format negatives.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Born Yesterday. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American artist.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Includes negatives and one print.

American actress; sublet her apartment to Marlon Brando.

Photographed in New York while appearing in The Voice of the Turtle. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American artist.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Years Ago. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Dutch classical pianist and teacher.

Photographed with students at Mills College, California. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Summer and Smoke. Includes negatives and prints.

American actress and entertainer.

See Series V.B.

Italian singer and actor.

Photographed in dressing room while starring in South Pacific. Includes negatives and one print.

Photographed at the Guggenheim Museum and other New York locations. Includes negatives.

American fashion designer.

Includes large-format negatives.

American actor.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Rappeneau is French writer, director, and actor. Girardon is French actress.

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Irish actress.

Photographed while performing with Rex Harrison in Ann of the Thousand Days. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives and prints.

American singer, harpist, and zitherist.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actress.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

French director, screenwriter, actor, and author; son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Photographed at Café Nicholson. Includes large format negatives.

American actress.

Photographed while substituting for Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday. Includes contact sheets.

Irish poet, dramatist, and producer.

Includes negatives.

American writer who also published under married name, Theodora Roosevelt Keogh. Granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt.

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and cut-up contact sheets.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American poet and political activist; Westbeth resident and friend of Karl Bissinger.

Photographed at Washington Square Methodist Church. Includes negative and print.

German-born American artist.

Photographed in Venice. Includes negatives and prints.

Saylor is American composer and teacher; Lawergren is nuclear physicist and music archeologist.

Includes negatives and newspaper clipping of photograph, dated November 7, 1971.

American actress and writer.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Call Me Mister. Includes contact sheets.

American sculptor.

Includes negatives and two prints.

Polish-born American theater owner and producer.

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

American fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Includes large-format negatives and contact sheets. Also includes photographs of her brother, Richard Domerico.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Russian-born American artist. His identical twin, Moses, and his brother Isaac are also successful artists.

Photographed at studio in New York with fashion models. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Romanian-born American artist and illustrator, The New Yorker contributor for over fifty years; married to Hedda Sterne at time of photograph.

Photographed in Bissinger's Westbeth rooftop garden. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actress.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Ukrainian-born American violinist.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American artist. Married to Saul Steinberg at time of photograph.

Photographed at her home in New York. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American artist, poet, and writer.

Photographed with several of her paintings. Includes negatives and prints.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Man and Superman. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American playwright, librettist, lyricist, and author.

Photographed in New York, and at the Princess Theatre, home of Experimental Theatre. Includes negatives and clipping of published photograph. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives and contact sheets.

Mexican artist.

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and print.

Spanish art critic and writer.

Photographed in Spain with her El Greco painting. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

American actor.

Includes negatives.

Russian-born American mezzo-soprano.

Includes negatives, large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

French director, critic, writer, and actor.

Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.

American actor.

Includes contact sheets.

British actor, director, composer, playwright, and writer.

Photographed in New York during run of The Love of Four Colonels, written by Ustinov. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes negatives.

Both are French directors, married in 1962.

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Mexican dancer.

Photographed in Madrid. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American novelist, screenwriter, and essayist.

Photographed at Café Nicholson with Tennessee Williams, Buffy Johnson, Donald Windham, and Tanaquil Le Clercq. Includes large-format negatives and prints.

Austrian-born American film director.

Photographed at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Includes negatives, large-format negatives, and prints.

Photographed with Johnny Beauchamp. Includes negatives.

Russian poet.

Photographed at poetry reading sponsored by Angry Arts, including Gregory Corso, Robert Lowell, The Fugs, and Robert David Cohen. See Series IV.A. for additional negatives from same event.

American actor, producer, director, and stager.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American actor and producer.

Includes negatives, contact sheet, and prints.

American actor, producer, and director.

Photographed at Republic Pictures with director John Ford. Includes cut-cup contact sheets and prints.

American actor.

Photographed in New York while starring in Present Laughter. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American composer, born William Jennings Bryant Weber.

Photographed at piano, and with Francis Thorne. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Russian-born American artist.

Photographed in studio at Great Neck, Long Island. Includes large-format negatives, cut-up contact sheets, and one print.

Includes negatives.

American actress.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Cyrano de Bergerac. Includes negatives and contact sheet.

American actress.

Photographed in Rome. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Whitehead is Canadian-born producer, director, performer, and theater owner; Rea is American producer and theater owner.

Photographed in New York during run of Medea. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American actor.

Photographed while appearing in Command Decision. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American producer and stage manager.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

American playwright and screenwriter.

Photographed in New York. Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print. Negatives also available in Series V.B.

American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Formerly Wallis Warfield Simpson and King Edward VIII.

Photographed at home in Paris. Includes large-format negatives, contact sheets, and prints. See Series IV.B. for color transparencies of their Paris home.

American actress.

Photographed during run of Lady Windermere's Fan. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Young is American minimalist composer and musician, founder of The Theatre of Eternal Music; Zazeela is American light-artist, designer, painter, and musician.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Politically radical puppet theater founded by Peter Schumann in 1962-1963 in New York City; moved to Vermont in 1970.

Photographed William Marshall in the role of God. Includes negatives and one print.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints from several unidentified productions.

Informal dance group at Judson Memorial Church.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also include a flyer for the performance, featuring photograph by Bissinger.

Photographed in Paris. Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes negatives.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Traveled to Cuba via Mexico as part of group that included Susan Sherman, Jerome Rothenberg, and others. During visit, Bissinger photographed Fidel Castro as he addressed the people. See also Series I. for the journal Bissinger kept during this trip.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints. Also includes photographs of Bissinger participating in protests and marches.

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Photographs of Bissinger, along with Paul Zimmer (Open Theatre), Sandra Wolfe, writer Sybil Claiborne, Charles Freehoff, Steve Berkowitz, and Ann Mudge. Includes contact sheets and prints.

Includes contact sheets and prints.

Includes negatives.

School for vision-impaired children. Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several prints.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, color photographs, and black and white prints of Bissinger, taken by various people through his life.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, color photographs, black and white prints, and several color slides of Bissinger's longtime partner, Dick Hanley. Includes one framed photograph taken in France.

Includes negatives, and December 1966 issue of The Dew Claw, published by The Briard Club of America.

Bissinger's home until his death in 2008. Includes negatives, color contact sheets, color photographs, black and white prints, and several color slides. Also includes tearsheets from two articles featuring Bissinger photographs of the apartment kitchen.

Photographs from family trips to Sweden, Spain, and China/Japan.

Includes color negatives, color photographs, and color contact sheets of his son, David Fechheimer, as well as David's wife, Dianne Roxas, and Bissinger's two grandsons, Zachary and Sam.

Includes negatives, one contact sheet, and several slides of dogs belonging to Bissinger's son, David, taken during visit to San Francisco.

Bissinger's family was in the candy business in Cincinnati. Includes negatives.

Sculptor living in Europe; goddaughter of Bissinger and Hanley

Includes negatives and two color photographs.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print. Series of pictures of Chris Chamberlin (Stephanie's brother) at Fire Island, and formal pictures of the Welle children.

Includes negatives.

Includes negatives, prints, and color photographs by and from Bissinger's many friends.

Includes negatives and prints.

Includes negatives and photographs of unknown couple photographed in several locations.

Includes negatives and contact sheet.

Includes negatives with view of city across the Ohio River.

One negative and a fragments of contact sheets of the Belcastle estate pool house, designed by J. Edward Elliston in 1911.

Photographs taken during Timothy Leary's occupation of Millbrook. Includes contact sheets and one print.

Includes negatives.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Negatives for Anonymous Arts project to make photographic record of architectural ornamentation from demolished buildings.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and one print.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes negatives, contact sheets, and prints.

Includes negatives and one contact sheet.

Includes color slides.

Includes negatives and contact sheets.

Includes correspondence, with Andrew Hoyem, offprints, photocopies, and prospectus from Arion Press.

Original negatives from Bissinger's 1949 trip to Morocco.

Includes original contact sheets (cut apart into individual images) and modern prints.

Includes negative, large-format color negatives, and cut-up contact sheets.

Includes correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements.

Contained in three-ring binder.

Includes photographs, photocopies and tearsheets with images used in The Luminous Years.

This working copy of the book originally had contact sheets laid in (see Series V.B. F9), photocopies have been inserted.

Originally laid in the book (see Series V.B. F8.)

Photography historian and editor of The Luminous Years.

Includes correspondence, memos, invoices, and other communications regarding the book project and sales of photographic prints.

Numerous reviews of the book.

Includes correspondence, photocopies, and negatives for proposed book of Bissinger photographs of Haiti.