Research Catalog
Max Eastman papers
- Title
- Max Eastman papers, 1916-1968, (bulk 1916-1921).
- Author
- Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
- Supplementary Content
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1994-008 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- .25 lin. ft. (1 box).
- Summary
- The collection is primarily photographs of Eastman's silent film star friends, Charlie Chaplin and Florence Deshon.
- Subjects
- Jaffery (Motion picture)
- Deshon, Florence, 1894-1922
- Silent films > United States
- Drawings
- Morehouse, Marion
- Smith, C. Aubrey (Charles Aubrey), 1863-1948
- Photographic prints
- Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990
- Kid (Motion picture)
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Wells, H. G (Herbert George), 1866-1946
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints.
- Drawings.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Eastman, Yvette (Mrs. Max)
- Biography (note)
- Editor, writer and translator, Max Eastman founded and edited The Masses (1913-1917), and The Liberator (1918-1922), and was an editor of the Reader's Digest from 1941.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1994-008
- OCLC
- NYPW94-A261
- Author
- Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
- Title
- Max Eastman papers, 1916-1968, (bulk 1916-1921).
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Editor, writer and translator, Max Eastman founded and edited The Masses (1913-1917), and The Liberator (1918-1922), and was an editor of the Reader's Digest from 1941. He published 25 books on a variety of subjects including poetry, the psychology of literature and laughter, and critiques of Marxism. He also translated some of the works of Leon Trotsky and others and compiled and narrated a film history of the Russian Revolution. He was part of the Greenwich Village (N.Y.) leftist, intellectual and artistic circle in the 1910s and 1920s. During this time he met Florence Deshon, a stage and screen actress from Tacoma, Washington. He and Charlie Chaplin competed for her affections. She died of accidental gas asphyxiation in February 1922, despite a transfusion of Eastman's blood. Shortly thereafter, Eastman went to Russia to learn the language and study the Soviet system, but left after an early disillusionment with Stalin.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1994-008