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Charles Ruas is an American author, interviewer, editor, literary and art critic, and French translator. Born in Tientsin, China, in 1938, Ruas studied French, English, and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where he received a BA in 1960, MA in 1963, and PhD in 1970. Ruas was a Fulbright scholar at the Sorbonne in 1963 and 1964. From 1974 to 1979, Ruas served as the Director of the Drama and Literature Department for New York's Pacifica station WBAI-FM, where he interviewed many famous cultural and literary icons and initiated several innovative literary programs, including the Audio-Experimental Theatre, which fostered collaboration among artists on multimedia projects for radio, and The Reading Experiment, a year-long series of readings from Marguerite Young's novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. Ruas also developed radio programming for the Museum of Modern Art's WPS1 Art Radio, served as an editor for Marguerite Young and other writers, published literary and art criticism for The Soho Weekly News, ARTnews, and Art in America, and conducted interviews of writers for The New York Times Book Review and The Paris Review. In 1985, Ruas published Conversations with American Writers, which includes a group of interviews from the early 1980s with several major writers, including Toni Morrison, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, and others. He lives and works in New York City.
The papers consist of materials related to Charles Ruas's work as a literary editor and interviewer, including transcripts, audiocassette tapes, and CD-ROMs of Ruas's interviews with writers and artists, typescripts and galleys of work by writers Ruas edited, manuscript materials he collected, as well as photographs, correspondence, recordings, and publicity materials that he kept regarding many of the authors with whom he worked.
Interview transcripts and recordings contain Ruas's author interviews, which he conducted for WBAI-FM, WPS1 Art Radio, The Paris Review, and Conversations with American Writers, a book of interviews he published in 1985. Writers represented in the interviews include Toni Morrison, Carlos Fuentes, Michel Foucault, Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Mario Vargas Llosa, Norman Mailer, E. L. Doctorow, Tennessee Williams, Marguerite Young, James Laughlin, and others. While interviews primarily cover specific works by authors and the writing process, some tapes also document readings of work by writers and other live performances. The papers also include typescript drafts and galleys of books by writers whose work Ruas edited, including his own editorial drafts, as well as copies and manuscript materials that were gifted to him by authors, including Susan Howe, his co-host for poetry programming at WBAI-FM, and Marguerite Young, whose epic biography Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs Ruas edited. Drafts and galleys of work by Helen Adam, Susan Sontag, and Djuna Barnes are also present, along with a group of dust jacket proofs. Also included are some correspondence, interview questions, photographs, and promotional materials from various writers Ruas interviewed or whose work he edited or reviewed.
A significant group of photographs of authors and artists was added to the collection beginning in 2016, including promotional photographs and portraits collected by Ruas, as well as shots from the WBAI recording studio. Some contact sheets and negatives are also present.
There are also some translations and other writings by Charles Ruas, including his translation of Death and the Labyrinth by Michel Foucault
Later additions comprise a collection of family papers and photographs documenting the history of Tianjin, China, from the 1890s through the mid-20th century.
The collection is arranged into five primary file groups: Author and Artist Files; Interviews, Radio, and Television; Photographs; Translations and Writings; and Family Papers and Tianjin History Collection.
Gift of Charles Ruas in 2014-2023 (AM 2014-100, AM 2014-106, AM 2014-107, AM 2015-4, AM 2016-44, AM 2017-56, AM 2017-110, AM 2019-4, 2019-97, 2020-39, 2020-68, 2021-54, and AM 2024-016).
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This collection was processed by Kelly Bolding in January 2015. Finding aid written by Kelly Bolding in January 2015. Finding aid updated by Kelly Bolding with new materials in December 2015, November 2016, March 2017, July 2018, March 2020. Description for the Family Papers and Tianjin History Collection series was added by Kelly Bolding in June 2021, based on description provided by Charles Ruas and Joshua Seufert. The 2023 accrual was processed by Amy C. Vo in 2024, with the finding aid updated to reflect this addition.
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- Authors and publishers -- New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Editors - New York (N.Y.) -- 20th century
- Experimental radio programs -- 20th century -- Sources
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Radio personalities -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Shipbuilding -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2015
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Collection Inventory
Materials are arranged alphabetically by author name, followed by general groups dust jacket proofs, postcards, and catalogs.
Consists of typescript drafts, editorial copies, galleys, dust jacket proofs, and notes by other writers with whom Charles Ruas collaborated, including materials he received as gifts from authors, as well as materials directly related to books he edited. Writers represented include Marguerite Young, Susan Howe, Helen Adam, Djuna Barnes, and Susan Sontag. Most prominent are several works by American writer Marguerite Young, including materials regarding her epic biography Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. Ruas edited the unfinished manuscript after Young fell ill and could no longer continue writing the third part. The biography was posthumously published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1999. Several draft versions are present, including a copy of Young's 1742-page original draft, Ruas's working editorial draft, and his edited typescript of Part I with a group of unedited cut pages following it. A spiral notebook, containing Young's manuscript draft of a section of the book on Allan Pinkerton, along with some handwritten notes Young made on diner checks, are also included. In the last few years of her life, when she was very sick, Marguerite Young abandoned nonfiction and returned to writing poetry. Present here are Ruas's set of photocopied typescript and manuscript drafts of Young's last poems, most of which remain unpublished, Young's guide sheet for an unrealized dramatization of her earlier book Angel in the Forest, and a carbon copy of the original typescript of the first two chapters of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, with handwritten corrections by Young, that the author inscribed and gifted to Ruas. Also of note is a typescript of an early book of collected poems by Susan Howe, Ruas's friend and poetry co-host at WBAI-FM. There are also several commercially available CDs of music and poetry recordings that Ruas collected.
Also present are materials that Charles Ruas kept tucked inside of books given to him by writers he worked with as an interviewer, editor, and book reviewer. These materials include correspondence from writers and their publicists and assistants, Ruas's handwritten scripts and questions for interviews on WPS1 Art Radio, book publicity materials, and photographs of Anaïs Nin and William S. Burroughs taken at the WBAI-FM studio. While most correspondence is addressed to Ruas, some are letters addressed to his associates, Susan Howe and Rob Wynne. Most correspondence is brief and regards logistical details of author interviews and book reviews. Exceptions include a significant group of letters from Anaïs Nin to Rob Wynne, from the mid 1970s, and a strange, lengthy letter from writer Laura Riding Jackson to poet Susan Howe, regarding her distress over a potential interview. Individual letters from John Ashbery and Andy Warhol are also present. Materials removed from inscribed books are filed with photocopies of the inscribed pages. Selected first editions and inscribed books from Charles Ruas's library are held in the Rare Books Collection.
While several photographs that were originally kept with related manuscripts and ephemera are present here, photographs of many of the authors and artists listed here can be found in the Photographs file group.
Physical Description9 boxes
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Consists of a San Francisco Burning typescript copy.
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Primarily contains correspondence from Helen Adam, including tarot readings Adam did for Charles Ruas and Rob Wynne, and a photograph of her by Luke Wynne.
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Includes a typed script with performance notations for the stage version of the ballad opera San Francisco Burning performed at the Judson Church in New York City, along with a letter of rejection addressed to Helen Adam from the Public Theater. Also present is a portrait photograph of Helen Adam, circa 1977, taken by Luke Wynne.
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Copy of On the Pulse of Morning (Random House, NY), signed by Curt Asker.
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Copy of typescript of novel titled "Worm Life," published by A. Knopf under the title Group Sex in 1986. 200 pages.
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Catalog from 2019 Curt Asker retrospective in Stockholm with English translation prinout, as well as a photo poscard of Asker's "Le coeur du Luberon" (an installation), photo by his son, Jakob Asker, with a note written by his wife (1985).
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Catalog from "Dead Flowers," signed by Charles Atlas.
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Copy of "The Atrocity Exhibition."
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Includes uncorrected galley proofs for Creatures in an Alphabet.
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Announcement for centenary.
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Memorial program.
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Portrait of Burroughs by Joan Schwartz and a letter from Burroughs's secretary, James Grauerholz, regarding taped interviews.
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MoMA information sheet for the first exhibition of video art by the museum curated by Barbara London. Additional notes on the show by Charles Ruas.
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Photograph of Colwin by Nancy Crampton for memorial announcement with invitation.
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Copy of Issue Number 4, Winter/Spring 1973-74.
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Includes a letter from Doubleday that accompanied Ruas's copies of Death and the Labyrinth.
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Vinyl record of "Jean Genet Directed by Howard Sackler" for Caedmon.
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Program for John Giorno memorial by Ugo Rondinone, his spouse.
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Autograph copy of Cancer in My Left Ball.
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Photocopy of inscription from book given to Charles Ruas.
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Invitation from NY Academy of Art including a photograph of Guggenheim on the roof terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, her home on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, 1950. Courtesy of Magnum Photos.
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Consists of a request to be a reader for Miss MacIntosh, My Darling and a note regretting that her schedule does not allow her to accept.
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Two CDs titled "Flukum" and "Highest Engines Near/Near Higher Engineers."
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Collection of notes and letters from Fanny Howe along with Charles Ruas's reply.
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A typescript for a collection of early poetry.
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Chapbook.
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Includes a Chanting at the Crystal Sea broadside, with cover design by David von Schlegell.
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Consists of Howe's notes for an introduction to V.R. Lang, and on the Boston Poets Theatre, co-founded by her mother, Mary Manning, which is the subject of a WBAI radio documentary by Howe.
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Program for 107th Annual Awards Ceremony at the Poetry Society of America.
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Includes a 1981 letter from Juris Jurjevics to Charles Ruas regarding a planned reissue of Laura Riding Jackson's Progress of Stories, as well as a 1976 letter from Laura Riding Jackson to poet and WBAI collaborator Susan Howe regarding taped interviews.
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Copy of script for the voiceover for the video projection in "They Come to Us Without a Word," the Venice Biennale 2015.
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Postcard from Nova Scotia (1976) and show announcements with Joan Jonas photograph taken by Ragani Haas, Queens Museum (2003); Fabric Workshop Museum (2010); and Joan Jonas driving with Sappho to Nova Scotia taken by Brigitte Cornand, Anthology Film Archives (2006).
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Contains Ruas's script and questions for an interview with Jurjevics for WPS1.
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Memorial program.
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Includes Ruas's script and questions for an interview with King for WPS1.
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Includes contact sheets, photographs, and negatives of Jerzy Kosiński with Charles Ruas at Radio Station WBAI Pacifica in New York City taken by Joan Schwartz, circa 1975, as well as several publicity photographs taken by Kathyrn M. Tidyman. Also a 1993 letter from Jaromir Jedliński to Charles Ruas regarding Kosiński, a printout of Henry Dasko's study "Kosiński's Afterlife," and a Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi catalog dedicated to Kosiński.
Physical Description4 folders
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2 copies of illustrated and handwritten menus for the dinner celebrating the Les Lalannes exhibition at the Château de Chenonceau installed by Peter Marino.
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Show announcement for Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, JGM (Galerie 2005), taken in their garden at Ury, France, and a funeral announcement for Madame Claude Lelanne (April 10, 2019, Ury).
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Consists of a completed chapter from Leffingwell's proposal for an unpublished biography of Jack Smith. This chapter is an account of the underground film community of New York, in which Jack Smith and Andy Warhol were major figures, containing biographical information and details about his work by a participant who later curated Jack Smith's first retrospective at P.S.1. 75 pages.
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Contains a letter from Helene Atwan at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarding Llosa, that was originally kept in Ruas's proof copy of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
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44 Four Line Poems, Full Court Press, Los Angeles.
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Includes Ruas's script and questions for an interview with McIntyre for WPS1.
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Includes a note, addressed to Rob Wynne, regarding a gifted breviary from the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
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Program for exhibition at Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales.
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Includes correspondence between Nin and Rob Wynne, along with a draft of Nin's preface for a new edition of Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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Copy of "Under the Sign of Pisces" and newsletter announcing the WBAI programs on Marguerite Young.
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Announcement for celebration at the Poetry Society of America with drawing of O'Hara by Nell Blaine, 1952.
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"Playing the FM Band" memorial program.
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Postcards on reading Marguerite Young.
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Publication by the Poetry Society of America honoring Simon and Quinn.
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Includes an exhibition announcement for a 1965 show at Royal Marks Gallery featuring a photograph of Susan Howe.
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One CD titled "Untethered."
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Three CDs titled "wisdomatic" and "Cosmic Brahjas" / "Closer to the Tones."
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1 folder
Includes an exhibition announcement for a show of photographs by Eudora Welty at the Old Capital Museum, inscribed by her to artist Rob Wynne.
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Includes Ruas's script and questions for an interview with Willis for WPS1.
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Postcard.
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Prepared for director Tom O'Horgon and actor Victor Limpari's script for a dramatization of Angel in the Forest. The project was never completed.
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Includes Young's handwritten notes on checks from Riker's, a luncheonette in the West Village where Young often worked on her biography of Eugene V. Debs, along with a typescript list of names related to the book.
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Manuscript draft in spiral notebook.
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Photocopy of original typescript, as it was submitted to Victoria Wilson, Young's editor at Knopf, who asked Charles Ruas to edit the manuscript for publication. Wilson's assistant, Lee Buttala, gave Ruas this copy, following the book's publication in 1999. A note from Buttala and a book publisher's catalog are also included.
Physical Description11 folders
Copy of edited typescript.
Physical Description8 folders
Includes a full typescript of Part I, pages 1-383, along with a group of unedited cut pages at the end.
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Consists of a copy of an edited draft of pages 558-1750 of Marguerite Young's Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. The draft was written on a typewriter by Marguerite Young and annotated in her handwriting. This copy was collated during Young's last illness by her friends Dr. Marilyn Hamilton and Professor Suzanne Oboler and submitted to Knopf for publication after her death.
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Copies of typescript and manuscript drafts of an unpublished collection of later poems by Marguerite Young.
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Carbon copy of original typescript with handwritten corrections by Young and a note to Ruas on the first page.
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Includes correspondence with Paul Schullenberger from the MacArthur Fellows Program, regarding Marguerite Young's nomination for a MacArthur Fellowship. Includes a photograph of Marguerite Young holding the completed manuscript of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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Memorial program with New York Times obituary.
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Includes dust jacket proofs for Conversations with American Writers by Charles Ruas, Sketches from Life by Lewis Mumford, Sister Wolf and Group Sex by Ann Arensberg, and The Call: An American Missionary in China by John Hersey.
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Includes catalogues for Musee Stendhal "L'affaire Berthet" (1989), Museo International delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino, "Art on Edge" at Sezon Museum of Modern Art (Karizawa, Japan, 1991), "A View from the East" at Martyn Gregory Gallery (London, 2005-2006), "The Paintings of Gu Gan" at Goedhuis Gallery (New York, 2002), and Gallery & Studio magazine (New York, Vol. 10 No. 2, 2007-2008).
Physical Description2 folders
Arranged based on groupings in which materials were received.
Consists of transcripts, audiocassettes, and CD-ROMs, and related materials documenting Charles Ruas's interviews with a variety of authors and cultural icons mainly throughout the 1970s and 1980s, although some recordings date to the mid 2000s. Ruas conducted interviews for broadcast on WBAI-FM radio, as well as for his 1985 book Conversations with American Writers. The transcripts of Ruas's interviews with Carlos Fuentes and Marguerite Young for The Paris Review are also here. Other authors represented within Ruas's interview materials include Toni Morrison, Buckminster Fuller, Michel Foucault, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, Mario Vargas Llosa, E. L. Doctorow, Susan Sontag, James Laughlin, William S. Burroughs, Donald Barthelme, and Joseph Heller, and others. In addition to interviews, some of the recordings document theatrical performances and readings, such as Anaïs Nin's reading of her introduction to Marguerite Young's Angel in the Forest. Interview transcripts often include multiple drafts and usually contain extensive corrections and editing, done in colored pencil, as well as Ruas's notes regarding his initial impressions of writers and their surroundings, which he often incorporated into the introductions of his published interviews. A group of CD-ROMs contain audio files from Ruas's interviews with artists for WPS1 Art Radio in the mid 2000s. Later additions include annotated program descriptions for Ruas's radio series, as well as a proposal for "Arts in New York: A Television Program" and recordings containing its trial program on artist Dan Flavin.
Physical Description6 boxes
Transcripts are arranged alphabetically.
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Includes the French transcript and Ruas's English translation, along with a letter from Ruas to Foucault regarding the interview.
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Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Alfred MacAdam.
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Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Susan Howe.
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Transcript of a round table discussion with Maurice Girodias, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, and James Grauerholz.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a full draft of the book called "Writers: Lives and Work," including transcripts of interviews. The draft is a photocopied typescript with a few handwritten annotations.
Physical Description3 folders
Recordings are arranged alphabetically.
Physical Description1 box59 audiocassette tapes and 23 CD-ROMs
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Physical Description1 box2 cassette tapes
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1 box4 cassette tapes
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1 box1 cassette tape
1 box2 CD-ROMs
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1 box7 cassette tapes
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1 box3 cassette tapes
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Tape is marked "William Carlos Williams."
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1 box3 cassettes
Includes interviews with David Shipler, Walter Abish, Fanny Howe, Anne Waldman, Edwidge Danticat, Jessica Hagedorn, A. S. Byatt, Wang Ping, Lawrence Osborne, Robin Robertson, Lily Tuck, Patrick McGrath, Christopher Mason, Laura Flanders, Carol Brightman, Ron Padgett, Mary Dearborn, Karole P. B. Vail, Jean Nathan on Dare Wright, Barbara Goldsmith, Pascale Casanova, and Vestal McIntyre, hosted by Charles Ruas for WPS1, an art radio station run by the Museum of Modern Art's PS1.
Physical Description1 box21 CD-ROMs
Consists of a dossier outlining arts coverage implemented by Charles Ruas during the period from 1974-1976 at WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York and distributed to the Pacifica network of stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, and Boston. During this period, these listener-sponsored stations were the voice of the counterculture, the protest against the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Programs listed and related photographs give an overview of the cultural landscape in New York City at the time.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes: The Reading Experiment, Miss Macintosh My Darling by Marguerite Young, in 35 parts; PR broadsheet for Arts Programs, November 1975; Drama & Theater Programs, March-June 1975; Drama program description; John Giorno Dial-A-Poem poets, 8 parts; Saturday Night Specials, fiction program descriptions; Dance program descriptions; Poetry program descriptions from live readings; Programs of Contemporary Writers; advertisement for the Last Days of Nablo Neruda, a documentary; Susan Howe poetry series; Paul Oppenheimer poetry series; Major American Writers series; William Burroughs advertisement for 4 programs; Jerzy Kosinski fiction series; Donald Barthelme fiction series; Art Programs, John Perrault series, Cindy Nemser, Judith Vivell.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of three sets of program descriptions, including a photograph and a "playbill" biography introducing each subject. Printouts from Clocktower website, with annotations by Ruas.
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Consists of digitized and born-digital audio recordings and program descriptions for three radio series produced by Charles Ruas. This includes recordings from his "Conversations with Writers" series on PS1's radio program Art on Air, which later became Clocktower Radio. The "Conversations with Writers" recordings were digitally recorded in the studio from approximately 2010-2015. There are also recordings from the historic audio archives of Ruas's arts programming for WBAI-Pacifica, as well as the Reading Experiment, which contains all programs on Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. The "Historic WBAI" archives and "The Reading Experiment" were recorded on tape in the WBAI studios in NYC from 1975-1980. These programs were distributed nationally and deposited in the Pacifica Archives, but very few survived. The recordings were restored and digitized for Clocktower Radio by David Weinstein and Tennae Maki, who prepared them for broadcast and wrote the program descriptions. Program descriptions include those written by Ruas and his assistant, as well as screenshots of online program descriptions.
Physical Description291 digital files
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32 digital files
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Proposal by Marnie Mueller and Charles Ruas of WBAI Pacifica Radio in cooperation with WNYC-TV for a public television program focusing on the arts.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of two video recordings containing the first trial program for "Arts in New York: A Television Program," the subject of which was minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933-1996).
Physical Description1 folder2 U-matic video tapes
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Consists of photographic prints, contact sheets, and negatives, primarily in black-and-white, including shots taken in the WBAI studio in New York City, as well as promotional photographs and portraits gifted to Ruas by authors and artists with whom he worked. Most of the photographs taken in the WBAI studio are by Joan Schwartz, including images of various authors reading from Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, as well as a number of photographs of poets reading at a New Year's Eve poetry reading at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in 1975. In addition to containing photographs of many of the writers and artists reflected elsewhere throughout this collection, musicians and composers like Patti Smith, Lou Reed, and Phillip Glass are also represented in this group of photographs. Also of note is a group of portraits and photographs of performances by Babette Mangolte. While most photographic materials in the collection are described here, some, which were originally kept with manuscript materials and ephemera, are described with the general Author and Artist Files.
Original file groups based on photographer were preserved. Other photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Physical Description3 boxes
1 box
3A-20A: Harry M. Koutoukas (playwright, performer) in WBAI recording studio, reading from Marguerite Young.
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3A-14A: Alice Playten (stage actress), reading from Marguerite Young. 14A-20A: Harry Koutoukas in recording studio.
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2A-20A: Alice Playten in WBAI Pacifica studio. 21A-37A: Harry Koutoukas in studio.
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3A-26A: Owen Dodson reading from Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling in studio. 27A-38A: Christopher Knowles (left) with Robert Wilson (right) in concert WBAI studio N.Y.
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2A-5A; 18A-24A: William Burroughts reading from "Naked Lunch" in WBAI recording studio; William Burroughs (left) with Charles Ruas (standing right); Peter Zanger, recording engineer (sitting right). 7A-16A: Robert Wilson performing in studio. 6A-7A: Robert Wilson (left) Christopher Knowles (right). 11A-12A: Christopher Knowles performing in studio.
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2A-8A: Wyatt Cooper in studio reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. 9A-11A, 16A-17A: Wyatt Cooper with actress Dolores Brandon, reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. 23A-24A: Charles Ruas with Dolores Brandon in recording studio. 30A-37A: Leo Lerman reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling in WBAI studio.
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3A-6A: Wyatt Cooper with Betty Lou Holland. 7A-16A: Betty Lou Holland reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. 17A-20A: Marian Seldes reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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1A-2A: Marguerite Young. 3A: left to right, Honey Rovit, Frances Field, Marguerite Young, and student. 5A-10A: Charles Ruas settling Marguerite Young in recording studio. 11A-17A: Frances Field comforting Marguerite Young, Marguerite Young smoking in studio. 18A-22A: Marguerite Young (left) with Charles Ruas (right). 23A: David Rapkin, recording engineer. 24A: Marguerite Young. 25A-29A: Frances Field, David Rapkin, Marguerite Young, Charles Ruas, Honey Rovit in studio. 30A: Charles Potter, producer for WBAI Pacifica.
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1A-8A, 15A-30A: Anne Freemantle in recording studio. 9A-14A, 31A-37A: Michael Higgins in recording studio.
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5A-6A, 10A: Charles Ruas (left) with Michael Higgins (right) in recording studio. 21A-30A: Michael Higgins reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. 11A-20A: Anne Freemantle. 31A-37A: Rob Wynne, artist, who scored the readings.
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8A-21A: Tessa Kaner. 22A-34A: Marian Seldes. Both are reading from Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
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8-12A, 14-14A: William Burroughs. 3, 27-28, 30: Anne Waldman. 29: Maureen Owens. 5-5A: Michael Neuman. 32-35A: John Giorno reading. 13-13A: John Giorno and Anne Waldman. 16-20A, 25-25A: Patti Smith. Contact sheet only.
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From 1A to 36A.
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From 5A to 36A.
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Michael Neumann (jester), Marnie Mueller (program director), and Charles Ruas (arts director) in last picture with bow tie. Contact sheet only.
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Includes a portrait of Foreman (1973) and photographs titled "Particle Theory" (1973) and "HcOh TiEnLa (or) Hotel China" (1971).
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Includes a photograph by Carol Mesereau of Phillip Glass (center) rehearsing "Einstein on the Beach" by Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson, and standing on right by column with neck scarf, David Warilow from Mabou Mines; and a 1974 and a 1976 portrait of Glass by Mangolte.
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For "Radio Free America," WBAI.
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Includes a photograph of Kate Parker in Yvonne Rainer's film "Kristina Talking Pictures" (1976); a photograph of "Projection #6: I am a stern and unrelenting judge..."; and photographs from "The Story of a Woman Who..." (1973), including Rainer sitting with John Erdman on the floor at her knees and a seascape projection, Rainer (right) and Erdman (left), and Rainer sitting (left) and Erdman sitting (right).
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Meredith Monk, "Our Lady of Late", music for voice and glass (1972). Photo taken at the Salvatore Alla Gallery, Milan, Italy, in 1974.
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Photo credit: Jill Krementz.
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Program with photographs by Irving Penn for Photographie de mode, 1945-1955 (1990).
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Photograph on promotional material by Knopf.
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Karen Achenbach (left) Britta LeVa (right). Photograph of film "Romance" by Ed Bowes, for a performance at the Kitchen, 1974. Shown in performance of "Sexless: Half a Family," by Ed Bowes, WBAI, 1975. Photo credit: Ed. Bowes.
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Portrait for Live Concert. Photo credit: Dorothy Norman.
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Portrait of Virginia Carr, author of The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, a biography of Carson McCullers (Photo credit: Al Alexander), along with an undated and uncredited portrait of Carson McCullers.
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2 copies.
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Catalog page with description and photograph of work.
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Photographs of paintings including 1) Jewelry on table, color (Photo credit: Bruce C. Jones); 2) Royal Flush, black and white (Photo credit: Bruce C. Jones); and 3) Smaller color print of Royal Flush (Photo credit: Louis K. Meisel Gal).
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Two photographs by Joan Schwartz.
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Photo credit: Jerry Bauer.
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Photo credit: Peter Hujar. A copy of this photograph was made by the Poetry Society of America for their exhibition of contemporary poets.
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Two photographs taken at St. Mark's Church, the Poetry Project's New Year's Eve Reading 1975. The first photograph is of John Giorno conferring with Anne Waldman. The second photograph is of John Giorno taking the stage with Jackie Curtis (poet, performer and playwright). Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Author of Roots. Photo credit: Alex Gotfryd.
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Two photographs. Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Two copies of a photograph. Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Photographs with Fanny Howe, Helen Howe, and Susan Howe taken by Rob Wynne (December 10, 2019) Light Industry, Brooklyn, for Mary Manning (their mother), Women Pioneers Project, Irish film director. Also of Fanny Howe, Helen Howe, and Susan Howe, with her daughter R.H. Quaytman. There are both physical and digital copies.
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Photo credit: Charles Ruas. Depicts Jonas with her brother sitting at a bar.
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Photo credit: Gwenn Thomas. Performers include Gordon Matta-Clark.
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Two photographs signed by Jonas, taken for New York Times Magazine.
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Two photographs. Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Two photographs by Joan Schwartz, along with some clippings about Koutoukas.
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Snapshot by Rob Wynne, showing from left to right, Charles Ruas, Claude Lalanne, François-Xavier Lalanne, M. and Mme. Menier (the owners of the chateau), Jean-Gabriel Mitterand, and an unidentified couple on the balcony of the Château de Chenonceau.
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Photo Credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Promotional album page of photographs, Pantheon.
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Photograph of the original founders of the company. "The B-Beaver Animation," by Lee Breuer. Performers: David Warrilow, Ruth Maleczech, Frederic Neumann, Joanne Akalaitis, Dawn Gray. Paula Cooper Gallery 1972. MOMA 1974. Photo credit: Tina Girouard.
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Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Five photographs, including 1) Maureen Owen, (left) Meredith Monk (right), backstage; 2) Maureen Owen(left), Meredith Monk (middle), Charles Ruas(right); 3) Maureen Owen(left), Meredith Monk (middle), Charles Ruas(right); 4) Meredith Monk (left), Charles Ruas (right); 5) Meredith Monk (left), Charles Ruas (right). Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Includes 1) Marianne Moore, promotional insert for The Complete Poems of…" Viking Press, 1981; 2) Marianne Moore in 1953, Photo Credit: George Platt-Lynes; 3) Marianne Moore in 1924, Photo Credit: Sarony.
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Photographs of paintings by Alice Neel, including 1) John Perrault, portrait, 1972. Photo credit: Tracy Boyd; and 2) Cindy Nemser and Chuck Nemser, nude portrait, 1974. Photo credit: Eric Pollitzer.
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Portrait of Pablo Neruda (Photo credit: Jill Krementz) and photograph of portrait painted by Carlo Levi.
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Photograph of split screen for performance of A.K.A.L.Q.( Also Known As Lenny Quantum) in studio at WBAI. Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Photograph of Anais Nin, seated in WBAI recording studio, with Rob Wynne, artist orchestrating reading. Hands on left, Charles Ruas director. Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Photographs of performers in a performance of the play by Tennessee Williams, including a portrait of Robert Stattel, and three portraits of Maryellen Flynn (full face portrait; blowing bubbles; and in costume). Photo credit: F. Laun Maurer.
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Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Promotional portrait for "Tales of Beatnick Glory" (Photo credit: Jill Kremens), and photograph of Sanders reading at St. Mark's New Year's Eve Poetry Reading (Photo credit: Joan Schwartz).
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Poet and screenwriter.
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Photograph of Dutch Schultz (left) leaving jail in Albany, N.Y., after posting a $75,000 bond prior to trial for tax evasion. For The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, by William S. Burroughs (1975).
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Author of Lucinella. Photo credit: Maria Elena de la Iglesia.
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Photograph of Seldes reading in the WBAI studio (Photo credit: Joan Schwartz).
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"Child poet" (age 10). Photo credit: Joan Schwartz.
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Patti Smith portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe made for publicity distribution for her first record, distributed by Arista Records.
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Two photographs. One was taken by Barnett or Annalee Newman and shows Tony Smith in front of one of his sculptures; the other, taken by Annalee Newman, shows Barnett Newman with Smith's daughters, Seton, Beatrice, and Kiki Smith, in front of the same sculpture. Both are signed by Seton Smith.
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Author of "Wind in the tower" (1976). Photo credit: Rhoda Nathans.
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Photocopy of a photograph.
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Two photographs by Joan Schwartz.
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Photograph of painting by Neil Welliver: "Cedar Water Pool," Fishbach Gallery.
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Includes a portrait of Geoffrey Wolff, author of Black Sun (Photo credit: John Osgood), and a photograph of Harry Crosby and Caresse Crosby, the subjects of Black Sun.
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For Portrait of a Marriage.
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Two photographs of Wynne's "The Mask," drawings in negative and positive, black and white, Stable Gallery.
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Depicts Young with her doll collection at home on Bleeker Street.
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Gwenn Thomas photograph of Joan Jonas performance inserted into the radio. Designed by Jonathan Andrews.
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Consists of translations and other writings by Charles Ruas.
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Includes a rough draft of the initial translation and a copyedited galley.
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Catalog for Marlborough Gallery.
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This group of materials consists of photographic albums and individual photographs, postcards, travel diaries, magazine articles, and some supplemental material documenting the history of the Ruas family in Tianjin, China, and illustrates the history of Tianjin primarily between the years of 1910 and 1946. Two of the photograph albums were put together by Charles Ruas' grandfather and father who were French engineers in the early Chinese ship-building industry at Dagu (Taku) and the water supply system of Tianjin. There is a group of 17 albums documenting the Taku Tug & Lighter Company that were put together by another source. The Manchu General Marshal Yin Chang was the father of Charles Ruas's mother, so there are also some rare Chinese photographs of the imperial family.
Two albums show the beginning of the Chinese shipbuilding industry in the early 20th century at the Taku shipyards and colonial life in Tianjin in the 1910s and 1920, as put together by Charles Ruas' grandfather and father. They show the Brossard shipyard, images of several ships under construction and the conditions of workers at the shipyards, and the various other shipyards at Taku. Other photographs show important landmarks in the city. A group of 17 albums broadly document shipbuilding and vessel salvage on the Hai River in the 1930s with several of the albums specifically depicting some of the work of the British shipbuilder, Taku Tug & Lighter Company, which specialized in shipbuilding, engineering and repairs, salvage, lighterage, and towage. There are also two albums that Charles Ruas created to document the life of his mother, Erika Ruas (1910-1992). Two additional albums show colonial life in Tianjin from the 1920s to 1946. They show historical events such as the famine of 1920-1921, the flood of 1924, the inauguration of the International Bridge, the Japanese attack on Tianjin in 1937, the Japanese Blockade of 1939, the great flood of 1939, the liberation of Tianjin by United States Marines and the history of the Ruas family in Tianjin. Another album, originally belonging to an unidentified American soldier of the 15th United States Infantry which was based in Tianjin, has photographs dating from 1912 to 1940, and includes photographs of Marshall Zhang Zuolin in Tianjin, General William Conner and Prince Chun, father of emperor Pu Yi, with his entourage. Other photos show city life and religious ceremonies.
There are also a small number of rare photographs of the Qing imperial family illustrating the early interaction of the Qing court with Westerners. These include for example a photograph of Emperor Pu Yi against a painted automobile prop, taken at the British Country Club in Tianjin as well as a collection of photographs from a collection of glass negatives by Shun Ling, brother of Princess Der Ling, that show landmarks in the Forbidden City. The collection also includes a photographic album entitled 皇室旧影 that shows members of the imperial family. The photographs in this album were likely also taken by Shun Ling.
Spellings/transliterations on folder titles reflect those found on the materials or the inventory provided by the donor. Some of the materials are accompanied by print-outs of description and information provided by the donor.
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Military album of an unknown American soldier who was a contemporary of Charles H. Ruas in Tientsin. This album was purchased through friends in the "Old China Hands" organizations.
Includes photographs of the 15th United States Infantry Regiment stationed in Tianjin, travel photos, and photos of Tianjin 1912-1938, to be replaced from 1938 to the outbreak of War in 1940 by a contingent of Marines from the Embassy's military security guards based in Beijing. The album begins in the early 20th century. Some photos are dated, such as the 1924 flood of Tientsin.
Includes photographs of Chang Tso Lin, his private automobile; Marshal Chang Tso Lin in Tientsin; General William Conner; Prince Chun, the Emperor Pu Yi's father, with his full entourage in Tientsin. According to Pu Yi he left Tientsin and returned to his house in Beijing after the Great Flood of 1939 (in his memoir From Emperor to Citizen). Unique photo of Prince Chun from this period.
Supplemental material includes: International Newsreel photo, 15th Infantry pitching pup tents in the British military base, Tientsin, Nov 13, 1931 (caption pasted on reverse); US Army Headquarters photo, Tietsin, 1920. Online research material.
This album comprises photographs taken by Charles Ruas, his family, friends, and colleagues. The album records the following events in the history of the city of Tientsin: the famine of 1920-21; the flood of 1924; the inauguration of the International Bridge and the Jing Gang Bridge; the Japanese attack on Tientsin in 1937, the beginning of the second Sino Japanese war, including the bombing of Nankai University; the Japanese blockage of the French and British Concession 1939; the great flood of 1939; the memorial for the late Charles Ruas, who died as a result of working in the contaminated waters of the flood of 1939 and photos of Ruas's family; document of Ruas death certificate, death notice in Pekin and Tientsin Times, North China Star, and a tribute from the British Municipal Council Water Works Report on the 1939 Flood; the US Marine liberation of Tientsin; and the Ruas family return to France.
All photos with the exception of the following were taken by Ruas, family, friends, and colleagues: The second Sino Japanese war, 1937 photographs are from the Bristol University Archives, concentrating on the bombing of Nankai University. The blockage of 1939 photos are original press photos.
Supplemental material includes original photos from newspaper archives of the period include: 1. International News Photos, Jul 30, 1939 "Livestock arriving for blockaded British Concession"; 2. ACME, 7/6/39 "Japanese Bottle up Food Supples Mean for British Tientsin"; 3. ACME, 6/28/30 "Typical Barricade of British Concession in Tientsin"; 4. Planet News Ltd, June 14th 1939 "Japan Begins Blockade of British Concession at Tientsin"; 5. A.B. Text and Bilder 7/31/1937 "Japanska Trupper I Tientsin"; 6. ACME Newspictures, Inc. 10/17/45 "Marines Occupy Tientsin."
M. Ruas began 2 identical albums of the Brossard shipyard in Taku, one each for his son and daughter. This album was for his daughter, Rose Juliette Eulalie Ruas, born in Millau, France 1909, died Sept 1935 in Dakar, Senegal.
This album is an official archive of the construction of a boat in the Brossard Shipyard. All photos in this album are numbered and dated, beginning with photo #107, 5/12/18 to #170, 8/5/19. It is followed by photos of river traffic from Taku to Tientsin.
Includes: a panorama (2 parts, facing pages) of the Brossard Shipyard in Taku 1919, where the boat construction depicted took place; a panorama (continuous) showing multiple boats under construction in the shipyard, 1919; a panorama (continuous, folded) showing the various shipyards of Taku, 1919; a panorama (continuous, folded) of a boat under construction, 1919.
M. Ruas began 2 identical albums of the Brossard shipyard in Taku, one each for his son and daughter. This album was for his son, Charles Edouard Henri Ruas.
This album is an official archive of the construction of a boat in the Brossard Shipyard. All photos in this album are numbered and dated, beginning with photo #107, 5/12/18 to #174, 8/5/19. The album continues with personal photographs of business and leisure of M. Ruas senior and his enterprises. It portrays colonial life and the scope of his activities. Included are several photos of local places in Tientsin that were researched. The album concludes with the opening of the International Bridge and Charles Ruas junior as a member of the French Concession municipal council.
Includes: a panorama (2 parts, facing pages) of the Brossard Shipyard in Taku 1919, where the boat construction depicted took place; a panorama (continuous) showing multiple boats under construction in the shipyard, 1919; a panorama (continuous, folded) showing the various shipyards of Taku, 1919; a panorama (continuous, folded) of a boat under construction, 1919.
This personal album starts with a 1921 visit to Beijing's tourist sites, including the Observatory, the Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall, and the Ming Tombs. Interspersed are photos of Mr. Ruas's acquaintances among the military stationed in Beijing, a visit to the Pei Ta Ho seaside resort, and Shang Hai Kwan. Other photos include family photos of Ruas senior and his sister Rose; the International Bridge and the Jingang Bridge, on which Ruas worked as a young engineer; and the Tientsin Native City Waterworks, where Ruas began as an inspector and later became acting head engineer in the mid 1930s.
Four photograph albums belonging to an executive of the Northrop Aviation Company, likely Frank Leckell based on a steamship dinner card and guest list included in one of the albums. Primarily consists of travel photographs, but also includes images of Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO) in Hangzhou.
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This photographic album shows members of the imperial family. The photographs were likely taken by Shun Ling, brother of Princess Der Ling of the Imperial family.
Consists of a diary of R. Eddy Mathews, a former journalist for the Christian Science Monitor, who traveled to Tianjin to work for the Dollar Steamship line. Includes photographs, clippings, and ephemera.
Consists of a diary by A. M. Dollar with photographs and ephemera from the Dollar Steamship Company and the American College Club in Beijing partly printed by the Peking Gazette Press.
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Includes: Tientsin 1903: postcard of two French children in Chinese costume; pre-1900: three postcards of the French bridge in Tientsin; pre-1900: postcard of the French market in Tientsin; Postcard of Zaghouan, Le Temple des Eaux; pre-1900: French consulate in Tientsin; Illustration of a bridge over the Tientsin Canal (the Grand Canal of China); Postcard of horse and cart; Postcard of men airing their songbirds; Postcard of Wan-Kuo Bridge, Tientsin.
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Includes an album titled "Revolution in China," Verlag con Franz Scholz, Tientsin (1912?); 12 photographs of the proclamation of the republic in Beijing; Sun Yat Sen in Shanghai postcard; military encampment photo; the founding of Nankai University postcard (1919); and a photograph of Premier Cho En Lai as a student at Nankai University playing a female role in a student theater production.
The "Revolution in China" album contains photographs of dead bodies.
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Related to Revolution (1912?) and Loie Fuller.
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First edition book.
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Includes photographs showing the student body of St. Louis College in Tientsin during World War II. There are photographs of Charles Ruas's junior French section and his older brother Franklin Ruas's senior French section. There is also a two-part photograph of the whole faculty and student body of the French and English sections.
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Photograph made from original negative. Notation on the back: Photograph from the late Princess Der Ling's unique collection of glass negatives, taken by her brother Shun Ling.
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Includes Brother Aloysius and a parent volunteer coach.
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Includes a photograph of Charles Ruas with FC municipal court figures and a group photograph of a night club award celebration.
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Consists of pages from the Illustrated London News (1883) of the article, "Foreign Gun-Boats Laid up in the Winter at Tien-Tsin, North China," as well as a page from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (1927) of an article about the Tientsin Race Club.
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These 17 albums broadly document shipbuilding and vessel salvage on the Hai River in the 1930s with several of the albums specifically depicting some of the work of the British shipbuilder, Taku Tug & Lighter Company, which specialized in shipbuilding, engineering and repairs, salvage, lighterage, and towage.
Charles Ruas created these two albums to document the life of his mother, Erika Ruas (1910-1992). Photographs include typewritten captions, but the albums also include a typewritten narrative of each of the pages with additional details.