Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

This collection is organized into eleven series: I. Correspondence, II. Medical and Legal Documents, III. Financial Documents, IV. Experiments, V Eisenbud Writings, VI. Non-Eisenbud Writings, VII. Awards, VIII. Session Notes, IX. Artwork, X. Multimedia, and XI. Photographs. These series are further divided into the following sub-series:

Series I. Correspondence

Series II. Medical and Legal Documents

Series III. Financial Documents

Series IV. Experiments

Sub-series:

1. Experiment Files
2. Experimental Data

Series V. Eisenbud Writings

Series VI. Non-Eisenbud Writings

Series VII. Awards

Series VIII Session Notes

Series IX. Artwork

Series X. Multimedia

Sub-series:

1. Films
2. Video and Digital Video

Series XI. Photographs

Sub-series:

1. Experimental Photographs
2. Thoughtographs
3. Numbered Photographs
4. Eisenbud's Private Collection
5. Ted Serios, Personal Photos

The collection was donated by Eric Eisenbud, son of Jule Eisenbud, arriving in two separate accessions. The first came from Denver Public Library on November 5, 2002, consisting of 14 boxes, including several boxes of books on various subjects in psychology. The second donation was delivered from the home of Eric Eisenbud, arriving in March of 2003 in 10 additional boxes.

This collection was processed under the supervision of Marcia Peri and completed in October 2005. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography arrived with varying degrees of organization. Some correspondence, photographs, and experimental data was kept neatly organized, while the bulk was largely disordered. Whenever possible, original organization was maintained, and documents were simply transferred to archival folders. Due to the large amount of correspondence, only those contacts with at least 15 letters were given their own folder and organized alphabetically. The remainder was organized chronologically.

In the case of photographs, all original negatives and contact prints were kept with the actual shots, and left largely in the organizational manner they arrived in. The images have been arranged alphabetically by subject matter, with the majority of the images pertaining to some aspect of experimentation with Ted. These photographs were left in their original organization with the same titles, and simply transferred to archival folders. The photographs were reprocessed in March 2008 by Lindsey Loeper, Visiting Librarian; this phase of processing addressed preservation concerns and increased access to the numbered photographs used to illustrate Eisenbud’s book, The World of Ted Serios.

Offprints have been organized by date, with no more than two copies of each offprint. Any duplicates beyond a second were deaccessioned. Films have been assigned the original title whenever possible, which is indicated by quotation marks. When the film could not be viewed, or was an audio or video track, and had no title, it was labeled as unidentified. The majority of films were placed in archival film boxes, although those with metal tins in good condition were left in their original containers. Boxes 12 and 13 contain large films, and boxes 13-18 contain smaller films. The remaining containers that could not fit in boxes are notated as "Loose Film Canisters". The oversized VHS cassettes could not be played in a standard VCR, and as a result, the original titles have been maintained whenever available. The set of 'session notes' arrived in a mixed box in one large pile, and as a result of their peculiarity, have been placed in their own series.