{"id":1333,"date":"2020-10-30T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/now\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:22:45","slug":"the-new-school-through-100-archival-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/now\/the-new-school-through-100-archival-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"The New School Through 100 Archival Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

A key component of the First Year course, Integrative Seminar 1, is to introduce students to the New School\u2019s Archives. This lesson is meant to demonstrate how to conduct archival research, and how to find valuable primary sources. Many students progress in their academic journey by visiting archives around the city that are related to their areas of interest during Integrative Seminar 2. While all classes are online this fall semester, in Professor <\/span>Anastasia Aukeman\u2019s section of Integrative Seminar 1, students were given the following prompt to improve their research methods:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Introduce digital primary sources available through the New School Libraries and Archives<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Demonstrate the difference between archiving and curating<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Model the importance of citing sources and why we do it, without resorting to complicated style manuals that confound\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Introduce students to clear, concise interpretive writing<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Introduce first-year Parsons students to the ethos of their college by connecting the exercise to its namesake, Frank Alvah Parsons\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In following these directions and goals, Professor Aukeman\u2019s students were asked to create their own Archival Object cards based on the ones made by The New School\u2019s Archives for last year\u2019s Centennial. Using the rich <\/span>digital database<\/span><\/a> available online from the Archives, students identified sources that peaked their interest to complete this assignment. Below, you will find examples of the completed Archival Object cards.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"Havoline<\/p>\n

    Student: Audrey Park<\/b><\/p>\n

    Havoline Oil Print (1917-1919)\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

    Adele Mowton DuBreuil, a 1920 Parsons graduate, designed this photographic print meant to advertise Havoline oil sometime between 1917-1919. At this time Parsons focused on using industrial art to advertise new products, like Havoline oil, arising at that time. DuBreuil has provided the public with an artistic visual capturing the product\u2019s purpose by including a speeding race car driven by a man wearing goggles and a scarf during a time where cars started becoming a normal form of commute.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    part of <\/span><\/i>https:\/\/digitalarchives.library.newschool.edu\/index.php\/Browse\/ob<\/span>j<\/span>ects\/facet\/collection_facet\/id\/435<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    \"Angela<\/p>\n

    Student: Haripriya (\u201cPriya\u201d) Ramkumar<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Angela Davis and Betty Friedan at a Guest Lecture (1975)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This contact sheet is a photographic display of film captured by photographer and videographer Stanley Seligson of a guest lecture at The New School with Angela Davis and Betty Friedan in September of 1975. At the time, both women were at the forefront of the second wave of American feminism, with Friedan having written <\/span>The Feminine Mystique<\/span><\/i> and founded the National Organization for Women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    part of<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>New School Photograph Collection: Guest Speakers and Performers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n