Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

This collection is divided into eight primary series: I. Union Activism, II. Notes and Correspondence, III. Financial, IV. Medical/Legal, V. Miscellaneous, VI. Diaries/Daybooks, VII. Personal Photographs, VIII. Ephemera. It is then divided into the following sub-series:

Series I - Union Activism: Boxes 1 - 2

Sub-series:

1. Teachers' Union: Correspondence, Case Files, Notes and "Press and Pressure"
2. Hotel Union: Photos, drafts, outlines

Series II - Correspondence and Notes: Box 2

Sub-series:

1. Correspondence
2. Notes

Series III - Financial: Box 3

Sub-series

1. Receipts/Bills
2. Check Registers
3. Taxes
4. German Pension Papers
5. Insurance Papers
6. Misc.

Series IV - Medical/Legal: Box 3

Sub-series

1. Passports, IDs
2. Legal Papers
3. Contracts
4. Medical Papers
5. Funeral Papers

Series V - Miscellaneous: Boxes 3-4

Sub-series

1. Address books
2. Awards and Honors
3. Clippings/Printed Materials
4. Membership Cards/Postcards
5. Exhibition Catalogs/Memorabilia
6. Yearbooks
7. Federman Papers

Series VI - Dairies and Daybooks: Box 5

Series VII - Personal Photographs: Box 6

Series VIII - Ephemera: Box VII

This collection was donated by Mark Berkowitz, and arrived in two accessions. The first, consisting of Mildred's photos, included two loose-leaf binders contained 120 photographs, as well as silver prints and negatives. This came from the house of Mark Berkowitz on 12/15/89. The second accession came from Minerva Contreras on 12/17/02, and included the Mildred Grossman Archive, as well as a total of 5810 items in a combination of photographs and negatives.

The collection was processed by Michelle Margolis under the supervision of Marcia Frank Peri and completed in May 2006. The collection arrived in a generally good condition, in regular boxes, for both accessions. The contents were wrapped in brown paper in the first accession.

For the sake of preservation, acid-damaged papers were copied onto acid-free paper, and the original papers were retained. There were four folders in the collection that had been labeled by Mildred, but only one ("Press and Pressure") was retained with the original title, as the other folders did not seem to have any unifying factors, nor were the titles appropriate to the contents. Of the remaining folders, "Currin" was renamed "Insurance Papers," and "My Mistakes" and "Book Prints" were included with the Hotel Union Papers. Staples and paper clips were removed from the documents, and envelopes were generally discarded (except in one case, where the decoration, hand-drawn on the actual envelope was quite unique) unless it was needed for identification of a date of correspondence. One envelope, left unopened when the collection was received, has remained unopened. In the case of multiple copies of any documents, only two were retained.

A number of books not directly related to Mildred or the collection have been removed from the collection, to be placed in stacks. A list of those books follows the processing notes. Although there is a folder for Awards and Honors, the certificate from the National Urban League has been included in the Correspondence and Notes, as it is actually an enclosure to a letter. The professional photographs and negatives included in the collection have been removed to the UMBC Photography collection, and are unprocessed as of May 23, 2006. Due to the relatively small size of the collection, the correspondence and other dated documents have been arranged in simple date order.

Leica Flash Synchronizer in box

6 stamps: "Photographs by M. Grossman," etc.

7 records (vinyl):

Ossipov State Russian Folk Orchestra (2 copies)

Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra

Andreyev Russian Folk Orchestra

Samson Francois

Fiddler on the Roof

Balalaika

1 copy Meteorology for Pilots by B. C. Haynes paper, 1940

1 copy The Photographs of Edward Weston paper 1946

1 copy Family by Margaret Mead and Ken Heyman hardcover, 1965

1 copy The World of Leonardo hardcover, boxed, 1966

1 copy Pablo Picasso (Blue and Rose Periods) by William S. Lieberman paper 1954

1 copy You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White paper, 1937

1 copy The World of Atget by Berenice Abbott hardcover, 1964

1 copy Images a la Sauvette by Henri Coutier Bresson hardcover, 1952

1 copy Images of War by Robert Capa hardcover, 1964

1 copy Mulher Gageiro hardcover, 1976

1 copy Moments Preserved by Irving Penn hardcover, boxed, 1960

Portfolio: Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1962

Pamphlet: How to "Read" a Picture

Litho-reprints: Religious Paintings (12 prints)

1 copy Photography at Mid-Century George Eastman House 1959 paper

1 copy Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R by Joseph Stalin 1952 paper

1 set of 5 prints: Budapest by Vadaszendre

1 set of 12 prints by Michelangelo (Biblical prophets)

1 set of 9 postcards from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

1 copy The Reign of Witches by Elizabeth Lawson 1952 paper

1 copy Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes 1955 paper

Note: Card inside "This entry was selected for the Fifteenth Rochester International Salon of

Photography" removed to Awards/Honors

1 copy The Uffizi Gallery by Bartolini & Fiumi 1950 paper

1 copy Henri Matisse exhibition catalog

1 copy Introduction a la Peinture Hongroise 1948 paper

1 copy Photojournalism by Arthur Rostein 1956 hardcover

1 copy Clarion Call by Bella Gross 1947 paper

1 copy Guide to Better Photography 1941 hardcover

Note: signed "Mildred Grossman Berkowitz"

1 set 5 prints "American Homestead" by Currier & Ives Lithograph

1 copy Elementary Meteorology by Verner Finch 1942 hardcover

1 copy In Defense of Women by HL Menchen 1963 paper

1 copy promotional material for "Mirror of History" by HW Janson

1 issue Album Feb 1970

1 issue Bill of Rights Journal December 1987

1 copy (boxed) World of Michelangelo (Time-Life books)

1 copy travel book Greece 1990

1 copy The Private World of Pablo Picasso by David D. Duncan 1958

1 copy The World is Young by Wayne Miller 1958 paper

1 copy Technical Manual: Basic Photography 1941 (War Department).

Note: Paper inserted pp. 245-250 with notes by MG)

1 copy Fundamentals of Photography by Bell & Howell 1962

2 issues Bill of Rights Journal (Dec. 1971, Dec. 1972)

1 sculpture book disbound "La Scultura di Michelangiolo"