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Collection Citation:
Lee Ya-Ching Papers, NASM.2008.0009, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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Lee Ya-Ching Papers, NASM.2008.0009, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Traditions On The Move: Japanese American experiences with Nobuko Miyamoto, George Abe, Sean Miura, Nancy Sekizawa, and Elaine Fukumoto
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Date:
2016 July 03
Scope and Contents:
Debra Wong (presenter); NOKA; Nobuko Miyamoto Betserai; George Abe; Sean Miura; Nancy Miiko Sekizawa; Mariko Elaine Fukumoto (participants) Forced migration has a profound impact on the resilience and the re-emergence of traditions. Great Leap, a multicultural arts organization based in Los Angeles, will focus on the evolving nature of Japanese American culture.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections is by appointment only. Visit our website for more information on scheduling a visit or making a digitization request. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Festival Recordings: Narrative Stage: Mayan Indian Culture in Guatemala: Afro-American Corn rowing: Federal Cylinder Project
Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Festival of American Folklife. Cultural Conservation Program 1985 Washington, D.C. Search this
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
sound tape reel
1 Item (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
United States
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1985 June 30
Local Numbers:
FP-1985-7RR-0410
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
United States Cultural Conservation Program 1985
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, June 30, 1985.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
Collection Rights:
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Montage: Welcome for Charles Lindbergh ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; Bonus marcher ; Adolf Hitler ; Winston Churchill ; John Daly, CBS ; General Douglas MacArthur ; Radio Budapest ; President John Kennedy ; Cardinal Cushing ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Reid Collins, CBS -- The twenties: Communist song, Internationale ; V.I. Lenin ; President Warren Harding ; Humorist W.C. Fields ; Radio commercial with song, Mean to me ; Sound of Model T Ford; Mrs. Robert Goddard describing the flight of the first rocket ; American welcoming Charles Lindbergh after his flight alone across the Atlantic ; Charles Lindbergh ; President Calvin Coolidge ; Closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange -- The thirties: President Herbert Hoover ; Bonus marcher ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; Humorist Will Rogers ; Nazi song, Horst Wessel ; Adolf Hitler ; Prime minister Neville Chamberlain ; Robert Trout, CBS, reporting on the evacuation of London at the start of World War II ; Waterloo Station, London, as children are evacuated -- The forties (the beginning): Nazis conquering the continent, sounds of dive bombers and air raid and German radio proclaiming victory ; Winston Churchill ; Edward R. Murrow, CBS, reporting during air raid alert in London ; Charles Lindbergh ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; British reporter describing convoy under attack in the Atlantic ; John Daly, CBS, broadcasting first report of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ; President Franklin Roosevelt ; General Douglas MacArthur in Australia ; General Dwight D. Eisenhower, D Day, the invasion of Europe ; Edward R. Murrow, CBS, reporting on the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald -- The forties (the end): Arthur Godfrey, CBS, describing President Roosevelt's funeral cortege ; Chaplain William Downey praying on Tinian Island before the departure of the first atomic bombing mission ; President Harry Truman ; Robert Trout, CBS, announcing the end of World War II ; General Douglas MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender ; Atomic test at Binini Atoll ; Winston Churchill -- The fifties: Sound of Sputnik One in space ; Korean War sounds ; U.S. spokesman telling the United Nations of the North Korean invasion of South Korea ; U.S. soldier describing combat in Korea ; Congressman Joseph Martin introducing General Dwight Eisenhower ; Eisenhower accepting the Republican presidential nomination ; Vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon ; Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ; Kremlin bells, Moscow Radio announcing the death of Joseph Stalin ; Radio Budapest reporting the Soviet invasion of Hungary ; President Harry Truman ; Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas -- The sixties: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Song, We shall overcome ; Chants of "black power" ; Rap Brown ; President John Kennedy ; Havana Radio broadcasting anti-American song ; Moscow Radio reporting the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba ; Ron Jenkins, KBOX, describing scene in Dallas after the shooting of President Kennedy ; Ike Pappas, WNEW, describing the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald ; Cardinal Cushing at the burial of President Kennedy -- Taps ; Richard Threlkeld, CBS, Talking to soldiers in combat in Viet Nam ; Chants of "stop the war" ; President Lyndon Johnson ; Spokesman in Carnegie Hall announcing the murder of Dr. King ; Andrew West, KRKD, describing the shooting of Senator Robert Kennedy ; Reid Collins, CBS, with the countdown for the Apollo Eleven landing on the moon ; Houston Control and the astronauts guiding their spacecraft to the landing on the moon ; Neil Armstrong taking the first step on the moon ; Dr. Paul Ehrlich ; Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Richard Nixon's inauguration as President ; President Richard Nixon.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1918
Scholastic.12009
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Scholastic 1970
General:
A recorded collection of the sounds of the important historical events that took place between 1920 and 1970, such as Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the rise and spread of communism, space exploration, and the civil rights movement in America.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Neufeld, Michael J. 2009. "Ellrich (Erich, Mittelbau II)." In The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. Vol. 1, Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Megargee, Geoffrey P., editor. 979–981. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The records of the New York Galerie Chalette measure 24.15 linear feet and date from 1916-1999, with the bulk of the material dating from 1939-1994. The collection documents this contemporary art gallery's operations from its founding in 1954 through Madeleine Lejwa's later years as an independent dealer. Included are correspondence, artists' files, financial and legal records, printed materials, clippings, exhibition catalogs, audio and video recordings, and motion picture film; about half of the collection consists of photographs. Arthur Lejwa's profession as a biochemist prior to becoming a gallery owner is also documented in this collection. The collection also contains personal records of the Lejwas, including correspondence, legal papers, photographs, photo albums, and printed material.
Scope and Content Note:
The records of the New York Galerie Chalette measure 24.15 linear feet and date from 1916-1999, with the bulk of the material dating from 1939-1994. The collection documents this contemporary art gallery's operations from its founding in 1954 through Madeleine Lejwa's later years as an independent dealer. Included are correspondence, artists' files, financial and legal records, printed materials, clippings, exhibition catalogs, audio and video recordings, and motion picture film; about half of the collection consists of photographs. Arthur Lejwa's profession as a biochemist prior to becoming a gallery owner is also documented in this collection. The collection also contains personal records of the Lejwas, including correspondence, legal papers, photographs, photo albums, and printed material.
Among the artists represented in the artists' files are Jean Arp, Max Bill, Burgoyne Diller, Wojciech Fangor, Sue Fuller, Julio Gonzalez, Roberta Gonzalez, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, William Reimann, George Rickey, Leon Polk Smith, Victor Varsarely, Max Weber, and various Dada artists. Many artists are represented in the large collection of photographs as is the Lejwa's personal collection. Included in the business records are invoices, receipts for works sold, yearly sales and purchase ledgers, checks for artwork purchases, and index card files recording sales. Legal records include files related to litigation, primarily Lebenstein v. Lejwa. The collection includes film reels and audio recordings of lectures, broadcasts, and exhibits from the 1960s-1990s. It also includes two film reels from a French television program about Jean Arp.
Among the personal records are biographical information, correspondence, legal records mostly related to the settlement of Arthur Lejwa's estate, a significant quantity of snapshots, negatives and slides, and newspaper clippings chronicling Arthur Lejwa's work as a biochemist and the Robert Gould Research Foundation. Arthur Lejwa's scientific career is also represented in biographical information, publications, research notebooks, and photographs. Much of the personal correspondence is from 1939-1951 and is written in Polish, Yiddish and German. The Lejwa's philanthropic donations, especially in Israel, are documented in correspondence, papers, and photographs. Many of the photographs and photo albums record Madeleine Lejwa's travels in the 1970s-1990s.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 8 series. The series are generally arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject, and chronologically thereafter.
Missing Title
Series 1: Correspondence, 1920-1995 (Boxes 1-2; 1.4 linear foot)
Series 2: Artists' Files, 1916-1996 (Boxes 2-6, 25; 4.3 linear feet)
Series 3: General Business Files, 1950-1994 (Boxes 6-8; 2.3 linear feet)
Series 4: Printed Materials, 1931-1996 (Boxes 9-10, 25; 1.2 linear feet)
Series 5: Photographs, circa 1920s-1994 (Boxes 10-16, 24-25; 7 linear feet)
Series 6: Legal Records, 1938, 1959-1988 (Box 17; 0.8 linear feet)
Series 7: Personal Papers of Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, 1925-1999 (Boxes 17-21, 25; 3.7 linear feet)
Series 8: Motion Picture Film, Audio, and Video Recordings, circa 1950s-1995 (Boxes 21-23, FC 29-42; 4.3 linear feet)
Historical Note:
Art dealers and collectors Madeleine Chalette (1915-1996) and Arthur Lejwa (1895-1972) opened the Galerie Chalette in New York on 45 West 57th Street in February, 1954. The gallery originally specialized in contemporary French graphics and later shifted its focus to contemporary twentieth century European and American art, particularly the work of Jean Arp. Over the years, Galerie Chalette relocated twice. In 1957, the gallery moved to 1100 Madison Avenue and then to 9 East 88th Street in 1964.
Madeleine Chalette was born in 1915 in Paris and grew up in Poland. In 1940, after Madeleine's efforts to secure the release of her father, Leon Chalette, from Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin were successful, father and daughter traveled by boat to Shanghai. They stayed in Shanghai throughout World War II, arriving in the United States in 1946. Arthur Lejwa, a Polish-born biochemist, immigrated to the United States in 1939 and taught at Long Island University. In 1947, Madeleine and Arthur Lejwa were married in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Arthur was the Director of the Robert Gould Institute for Nutritional Research.
The gallery was very active in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the numerous exhibitions. Many of the exhibitions in the 1950s were thematic. Exhibitions in the 1960s were mostly organized around the work of a particular artist, such as Wojciech Fangor and Leon Polk Smith. In 1972, the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcased Jean Arp's work from the Lejwa's collection and a few works lent by Arp's widow, Marguerite Arp. The exhibition was expanded and traveled as "Arp 1877-1966," first exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and then shown in seven museums in the United States and six in Australia.
In the early 1970s, the Lejwas began supporting institutions in Jerusalem, including donating a 17th century Polish menorah to The Israel Museum and five sculptures to be displayed in public spaces: "The Threshold of Jerusalem" by Jean Arp, "The Loop" by Robert Engman, George Rickey's "Two Lines Oblique," "The Skedion Ekton" by Stephanie Scuris, and "Four Cubes Cut in Identical Halves" by Max Bill.
Following Arthur's death on October 27, 1972, Madeleine continued as an independent dealer and consultant and renamed the business Chalette International. In the 1980s, Madeleine Lejwa continued her philanthropic endeavors in Jerusalem, donating to a scholarship fund for Arab students. She was also a strong supporter of New York University's archeological site Aphrodisias, in southwestern Turkey. In the 1970s and 1980s, Lejwa traveled widely including Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Japan, and China. Madeleine passed away at age 81 on June 9, 1996.
Related Material:
Addition papers related to Leon Chalette and Madeleine Chalette are located at Leo Baeck Institute, New York, N.Y.
Separated Material:
Papers related to Leon Chalette's imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp were transferred to the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, N.Y. in 2010.
Provenance:
The records were donated by Robert Warshaw, executor of the Madeleine Chalette Lejwa estate in two accessions in 1997 and 2005.
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