Research Catalog

Title

Geoffrey Biddle Alphabet City papers, 1977-2001.

Author

Biddle, Geoffrey.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2.91 linear feet (10 boxes, 1 volume, 1 oversized folder)

Summary

Geoffrey Biddle is a photographer whose book Alphabet City (published 1992) documented the Puerto Rican community on New York City's Lower East Side in the late 1970s. This collection contains photographs taken in the Alphabet City neighborhood in the late 1970s and 1980s, including but not limited to those published in Alphabet City. The collection also contains sound recordings and partial transcripts of the interviews that Biddle conducted in 1988 and 1989 for use in the book, and correspondence and reference material related to the Lower East Side and the development and publication of the book.

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Authors and publishers
• Photographs
• Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Photographers
• Manuscripts for publication
• Correspondence
• Dummies (printed matter)
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Interviews

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Dummies (printed matter)
• Interviews.
• Manuscripts for publication.
• Photographs.

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref. Sound materials are unavailable pending digitization.

Source (note)

• Purchased from Geoffrey Biddle, 2016.

Call Number

MssCol 23870

OCLC

962361519

Author

Biddle, Geoffrey.

Title

Geoffrey Biddle Alphabet City papers, 1977-2001.

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref. Sound materials are unavailable pending digitization.

Source

Purchased from Geoffrey Biddle, 2016.

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Finding aid

Occupation

Photographers.

Research Call Number

MssCol 23870