Scope and Contents of the Collection

Search Terms

SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL (1932-1994, n.d.)

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE (1955-1994, n.d.)

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE (1962-1993, n.d.)

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING (1970-1990, n.d.)

SERIES V. TEACHING (1972-1992, n.d.)

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (1960-1994, n.d.)

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (1933-1994, n.d.)

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES (1960-1994, n.d.)

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS (1970-1987, n.d.)

SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING

SERIES V. TEACHING

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS

OVERSIZE MATERIALS

OVERSIZE MATERIALS -- TUBES

OVERSIZE -- FLAT FILE

Appendix: Descriptive List of Birkby's Films

Noel Phyllis Birkby Papers, 1932-1994

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Maida Goodwin.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003


Collection Overview
	Creator:	Birkby, Phyllis
	Title:	Phyllis Birkby Papers
	Dates:	1932-1994
	Dates:	1960-1994
	Abstract:	Architect; film maker; lesbian activist; feminist; founder, Women's School of Planning and Architecture; and professor. The Birkby papers include her own documentation of women's activities through various forms of documentation. Materials include films, photographs, journals, writings, and correspondence with several notable feminists.
	Extent:	92 boxes, 10 flat file drawers, 14 storage tubes(50 linear ft.)
	Language:	English.
	Identification:	MS 283

Biographical Note

Phyllis Birkby, n.d.

"I have not by any means been a linear oriented professional person." --Noel Phyllis Birkby

Noel Phyllis Birkby was born on December 16, 1932 in Nutley, New Jersey, to Harold S. and Alice Green Birkby. As a child, she showed an interest in architecture and environmental design making drawings of cities and towns and constructing them in miniature in her mother's garden. When she was in high school, career counselors discouraged her desire to study architecture while noting her aptitude for that pursuit, "Well, Miss Birkby, it appears that if you were a man, you should be studying architecture." As a 16 year old in 1949, she "swallowed the implication that there just weren't any women architects" and elected to study art instead, entering the Women's College of the University of North Carolina in 1950.

In college she earned the reputation of rabble rouser and was expelled in her senior year after an incident involving beer drinking. By this time, Birkby had come to see herself as bisexual. Though drinking was the official reason given for the expulsion, Birkby believed that was an excuse to rid the college of a student who too publicly showed her love for a classmate. "I wasn't hiding my love for another woman, didn't think there was anything 'wrong' with it."

After a brief time at home in New Jersey in "numbing misery," Birkby went to New York City where she worked as a technical illustrator and "carried on in the bars." She went to Mexico in 1955 with the American Friends Service Committee where she worked on development projects with the Otomi people. She returned to New York in 1956.

In 1958, a chance meeting with a woman architect convinced Birkby that she could indeed pursue her chosen profession. The next five years were spent studying architecture at night at Cooper Union and working in the offices of architects Henry L. Horowitz (1960-61) and Seth Hiller (1961-63). After earning her certificate in architecture in 1963, Birkby, tired of being relegated to secretarial duties, moved on to graduate work at Yale University.

One of only six women in a student body of about 200, Birkby struggled to "rise above the female role" and prove her capabilities. "[M]y solutions were individual...to be as good or better than the men." She completed a Masters in Architecture in 1966.

From 1966 to 1972 Birkby worked as a designer for the growing New York architectural firm Davis Brody and Associates, where she gained experience in all aspects of design. Two of the most prominent projects she helped to design and see through construction were Waterside Houses, a residential development on the Hudson River, and the Long Island University Library-Learning Center in Brooklyn.

Despite professional success, Birkby was unhappy living a closeted bisexual existence and sank into depression in the years following graduate school. Though she had been introduced to the ideas behind the emerging women's movement, she had dismissed their relevance for her as a professional woman, believing the movement was "mostly about housewives in the suburbs." In May 1970, her lover returned from the Second Congress to Unite Women with a report of how a group of lesbian feminists called the Lavender Menace had disrupted the Congress with a presentation about discrimination against lesbians in the women's movement. "Finally feminism had some meaning for me. I was no longer invisible. I was part of a bona fide feminist issue."

Birkby, who now saw a connection between her life and the movement, joined a consciousness raising group and began reading everything she could find on women's liberation. She came to define herself as a lesbian and was invited to join a lesbian consciousness raising group, known as CR Group One, made up of influential feminist theorists and writers. In the company of Kate Millett, Sidney Abbott, Barbara Love, Alma Routsong (better known by her pseudonym Isabel Miller), and others, Birkby found herself in the thick of the movement.

By 1972, Birkby felt that her work life was at too great a variance with the rest of her life. Her training had been "male defined and dominated." She came out publicly, quit her job with Davis Brody, and started on a variety of pursuits including teaching, private architectural practice, writing, and documenting the thriving women's culture of the 1970s through film, video, photography, oral history, and the collection and preservation of pamphlets, posters, manifestos, clippings, and memorabilia.

In a range of architectural projects taken on privately and in collaboration with other firms, Birkby emphasized the needs and wants of the user. She designed private residences, an artist's studio, retrospective conversions of a variety of facilities for the disabled, low-income housing units, and community residences for patients after hospitalization. In 1973, she went to Vietnam with a team from the firm Dober, Paddock & Upton to devise a reconstruction plan for Thu Duc Polytechnic University in Bien Hoa. In the late 1970s, Birkby worked with Gary Scherquist and Roland Tso in California. Back in New York in the early 1980s, she worked with the Gruzen Partnership and Lloyd Goldfarb.

Birkby taught at a variety of institutions in the early 1970s, notably architectural design courses at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and City College of New York. Later that decade, she taught various architectural and environmental design courses at Southern California Institute of Architecture, California State Polytechnic, and the University of Southern California. In the 1980s, she taught design fundamentals, building construction, and architectural design at the New York Institute of Technology.

Birkby used her teaching as a form of "environmental activism" combining the concept of consciousness raising with an approach to architecture learned in a course with Serge Chermayeff at Yale. Creative teaching techniques such as "buglisting" (making lists of aspects of an environment that are annoying), conceptual blockbusting, and fantasy projection were used to emphasize the "social implications of building form" and to focus her students' attention on the user.

In 1973, as a way to discover the unique perspective women could bring to the built environment, Birkby initiated a program of environmental fantasy workshops held with women of diverse backgrounds across the country. She was later joined in this work by Leslie Kanes Weisman. In the workshops, women were asked to imagine their ideal living environment by abandoning all constraints and preconceptions. Birkby and Weisman published a number of articles on feminist fantasy architecture in the mid 1970s.

Birkby followed the fantasy project with research on women's vernacular architecture. She visited communities and structures built by women who were not trained as architects or builders to document the connections between women's fantasies and the actual form of their creations.

Birkby was a founding member in 1972 of the New York organization for women architects, the Alliance of Women in Architecture and an early participant in the Archive of Women in Architecture. In 1974 she was a co-founder (with Katrin Adam, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Bobbie Sue Hood, Marie I. Kennedy, Joan Forrester Sprague, and Leslie Kanes Weisman) of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture (WSPA), an influential experimental summer school for women in environmental design professions and trades.

As the 1970s came to an end, the great flourishing of women's culture slowed and Birkby, along with many other activists became personally burned out. Her unorthodox career path and radical politics combined with the economic and political realities of the 1980s, caused her struggle for economic survival to consume increasing amounts of her time and energy. Her teaching positions were always "adjunct," WSPA folded, her private practice was part-time and less than fulfilling, she was unable to find a publisher for her research, and she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

In her last months, a group of friends from the early years of the women's movement, lovingly dubbed the SOB (Sisters of Birkby), banded together to care for Birkby who had moved to Great Barrington, MA. Noel Phyllis Birkby died of cancer on April 13, 1994 at age 61.

For more information see the file of materials from the 1997 Sophia Smith Collection exhibit "'Amazonian Activity': The Life and Work of Noel Phyllis Birkby, 1932-94".

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Noel Phyllis Birkby Papers consist of 50 linear feet of correspondence, films, memorabilia, photographs, sketchbooks, research files, subject files, videotapes, and writings. They date from 1932 to 1994 with the bulk of the material dating from the mid 1960s to Birkby's death in 1994. The papers provide significant information about Birkby's life and work, the women's movement and lesbian feminism in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, New York City lesbian culture from the 1950s to 1990s, and the establishment of a number of organizations of women architects.

Throughout the papers, there is more visual than written documentation. Nearly half of the total footage is made up of photographs, films, and videotapes. Birkby described herself as "always more interested in pictures than words." In addition, much of Birkby's research and documentation did not result in finished products leaving the Papers rich in raw materials that were not extensively sifted and digested.

Information about Birkby's personal life is available in SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL, which contains general biographical materials particularly about her education and finances. The autobiographical writings (1970s- ) in SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING are a rich source for reflections on both her personal and professional life. Tape recordings and transcriptions of Consciousness Raising Group One sessions in SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (transcriptions) and SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS contain a wealth of personal anecdotes. The tape recorded therapy sessions in the latter series are restricted until January 1, 2033.

Throughout her life, Birkby used a variety of visual and verbal media to express herself artistically. Drawings, prints, and paintings are located in SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL; artistic photographs and films are housed in SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS and SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES; and a few poems and other written pieces are filed in SERIES I and SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING.

Birkby's work as an architect is well-documented through Project Files in SERIES III: ARCHITECTURE which contains drawings, elevations, plans, sections, renderings, correspondence with clients, and job meeting minutes. These materials are more extensive for projects she designed in private practice (1972- ) and particularly for projects undertaken in the 1980s and 1990s for the New York State Facilities Development Corporation. Extensive files on one FDC project, the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center's community residence at 3531 Oceanside Drive, were retained as a sample of the extensive paperwork maintained on such projects. Other FDC project files were weeded to leave only those materials which directly reflect Birkby's contributions to the project. Sketchbooks in SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL contain early sketches of architectural projects intermingled with all manner of notes and sketches such as journal entries, creative writing, artistic sketches, personal notes, lists, etc. The professional portfolio materials in SERIES I also document Birkby's architectural projects. Buildings designed by her are documented visually in SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS.

Birkby's introduction to consciousness raising in 1970 brought about changes in every facet of her life. Changes in the nature of her architectural work can be seen in the different types of buildings she designed, most on a smaller scale. Materials about her various projects aimed at documenting and articulating the unique perspective women could bring to the built environment are available in SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING and in the related photographs, slides, and tape recordings.

Other professional interests are reflected in materials related to Birkby's work for the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council (in SERIES III) and her research and teaching related to housing for the elderly (in SERIES IV and SERIES V), particularly notes and photographs from a research trip to Scandinavia in 1981, and Pratt Institute student projects. Other materials on Birkby's educational techniques can be found in SERIES V, in the portfolio materials in SERIES I, in SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS, SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES, and in the tape recordings of workshops in SERIES IX.

Birkby began to use film as a tool in architecture in the early 1960s because it allowed three- dimensional documentation of the built environment. Enamored of the medium, she soon came to use film to create "a notebook of events around me--a kind of journal," initially documenting the private activities of friends and family. These private films are peopled with the lesbian feminist theorists and activists who were Birkby's friends. Once she became involved in the women's movement, she also used film, audiotape, and still photography to document political actions and demonstrations.

Materials which document lesbian culture in 1950s and 1960s New York are available in the correspondence and in some of the earlier personal films. Autobiographical writings and consciousness raising group transcripts offer a retrospective view of the period.

In addition to her active visual and audio recording of events, Birkby documented the 1970s Women's Movement, lesbian feminism, and the flourishing women's culture by collecting written materials and memorabilia at meetings, rallies, conferences, etc., and by saving articles and issues of periodicals that were of interest to her. Most of these materials are filed in SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES. Organized primarily by subject, the lively contents of these files vary widely, showing, among other things, the humor, energy, and optimism of the times.

In the late 1970s, Birkby began work toward a film on the "second wave" of the women's movement. She planned to use footage shot in the early 1970s combined with later interviews of leading figures in the movement such as June Arnold, Charlotte Bunch, and Robin Morgan. Tapes and transcripts of these interviews survive in SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES and SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS. The film footage and oral history interviews provide rich documentation of early 1970s activities as well as the lives of the interviewees before the advent of the movement.

Personal reflection about her status as a woman in a male-dominated field led Birkby to join with other women architects in forming the Alliance of Women in Architecture in New York City to participate in the Archive of Women in Architecture at the Architectural League of New York, as well as the Association of Women Architects, the Organization of Women Architects, and the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes. Materials about the founding and growing pains of these organizations are in SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE. Alliance of Women in Architecture materials include videotapes of members recounting the early history of the group as well as consciousness raising groups with women architects (in SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES). Birkby's own perspective on women in architecture can be found in the texts and slides (in SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING and SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS) from presentations she gave on the subject.

Related materials in the Sophia Smith Collection are in the records of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture, the Women's Liberation Collection, the papers of various activists in Women's Liberation, and the oral histories and videotapes of participants in "'Amazonian Activity': A Celebration of the Life of Noel Phyllis Birkby", held at the SSC in the fall of 1997. A number of Birkby's friends have committed to placing their papers in the SSC and some have begun to send materials. See the reference staff for more information.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into nine series:

I. Biographical and Financial Material
II. Correspondence
III. Architecture
IV. Research, Speaking, and Writing
V. Teaching
VI. Subject Files
VII. Photographs
VIII. Films and Video
IX. Tape Recordings

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SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL (1932-1994, n.d.) 3 linear feet

This series consists of general materials about Birkby's life, finances, and education. Included are such materials as clippings, curriculum vitae, legal papers, class notes and drawings, portfolio materials, scrapbooks, and sketchbooks.

Arranged alphabetically.

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE (1955-1994, n.d.) 1 linear ft.

This series consists primarily of incoming correspondence. The few surviving drafts of outgoing letters are interfiled with the incoming by the name of the correspondent. The series is arranged in two subseries: Individuals, containing letters or cards from major correspondents (3 or more letters) filed alphabetically; and General, filed chronologically. Undated general correspondence is filed alphabetically at the end of the subseries.

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE (1962-1993, n.d.) 9 linear ft.

This series consists of materials related to Birkby's work as an architect and architectural consultant, and to architecture in general. It is arranged in three subseries: General, Projects, and Subject Files.

Materials filed in the General subseries pertain to Birkby's employment and certification as an architect and architectural consultant. Included are correspondence, bids, applications, minutes, and reports.

The Projects subseries, consists of materials related to architectural projects for which Birkby played a design role. Included are, bids, evaluations, drawings, specifications, contracts, notes, and miscellaneous materials. Standard-sized materials are arranged alphabetically by name of client or, where applicable, by name of project. Oversize materials are stored separately in flat files. They are arranged alphabetically by name of client or, where applicable, by the name of the project.

Materials in the Subject Files, consist of clippings, articles, booklets, pamphlets related to architecture. They are arranged alphabetically by subject.

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING (1970-1990, n.d.) 4.75 linear ft.

This series consists of notes, drafts, manuscripts, published articles and books, subject files, research materials, publicity materials, and clippings related to Birkby's research, writing projects, lectures, and workshops. The series is arranged in two subseries: General and Women and the Built Environment. General material is arranged alphabetically by title of work (if any) or by topic (when untitled). The Women and the Built Environment subseries is divided into nine sections reflecting the various materials produced or collected as a part of this project: Published Writings; Lectures, Conferences, and Workshops; Research Project; Curriculum Proposals; Fantasy Drawings; Book Proposals; Women's Vernacular Architecture and Buildings for Women; Grant Proposals; and Subject Files.

SERIES V. TEACHING (1972-1992, n.d.) 2 linear ft.

This series consists of correspondence, applications, minutes, notes, curricular materials, copies of student work, and reference and miscellaneous materials related to Birkby's work as a teacher. General materials and applications for employment are filed at the beginning of the series. They are followed by materials related to work at specific institutions which are filed alphabetically by the name of institution.

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (1960-1994, n.d.) 4.75 linear ft.

This series consists of clippings, memorabilia, pamphlets, position papers, manuscripts, posters, publicity materials, etc., about individual women, women's issues, and homosexuality. It is divided into three subseries: Individuals (filed alphabetically by name), Women, and Homosexuality, each arranged alphabetically by subject.

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (1933-1994, n.d.) 7.75 linear ft.

This series is divided into three subseries by format: Photographic prints, Negatives, and Slides and Transparencies. Photographic prints and Slides and Transparencies are divided into the following categories: Personal; Artistic Photography; Architecture; Miscellaneous; Political; Research, Speaking, and Writing; Teaching; and Travel. Negatives are numbered and arranged consecutively.

Personal includes photographs of Birkby, her family, friends, homes, and pets. Artistic Photography reflects Birkby's use of photography as a medium of artistic expression and consists of photographs of cityscapes, scenery, flowers, etc. Architecture consists of photographs of buildings taken for study or to document projects designed by Birkby. Political consists of photographs of political actions, primarily marches and demonstrations. Research, Speaking, and Writing consists of photographs taken to illustrate research on elderly housing and women and the built environment. Teaching consists of photographs used in teaching and of projects done by Birkby's students. Travel consists of photographs taken to document the sights seen on a variety of trips.

Negatives have not survived for every print in the Papers. Where applicable, negative numbers are noted on the reverse side of the corresponding photographic prints.

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES (1960-1994, n.d.) 15 linear ft.

This series is divided into three subseries by type of material: Written material, Films, and Videotapes. Written material is filed alphabetically by the name of the film project. Films are divided into sections as follows: Architecture, Art Films, Personal, Political and Travel. Architecture consists of films taken to document the built environment. Some are documentation of projects Birkby designed, others are buildings or spaces Birkby visited. The Art Films demonstrate Birkby's use of film as a means of artistic expression. Personal consists of "home movies" of friends and family. Political consists of documentary footage of political actions. Travel is made up of films taken on a variety of trips. Within each section films are filed alphabetically by title, or if they were untitled, by subject. Titles that were written by Birkby on the film or the box in which the film was stored are listed in quotation marks.

Videotapes are divided into two sections: Original videotapes, filed chronologically, followed by videotape Film Transfers of selected films by Birkby produced for the Sophia Smith Collection in 1997. [see Appendix for descriptive list of films].

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS (1970-1987, n.d.) 3.25 linear ft.

Tape recordings are divided into two subseries by format: Cassettes and Reel-to-reel. Within the subseries, tapes are arranged in sections as follows: Personal; Political; Architecture; Films; Research, Speaking, and Writing; and Teaching.

Personal tapes include audio letters, consciousness raising group sessions, therapy sessions, a psychic reading, and performances by some of Birkby's friends. They are arranged alphabetically by subject or title.

Political recordings document marches, demonstrations, rallies, speeches, conference presentations, and interviews. They are arranged chronologically with the undated tapes filed at the end of the section.

Architecture tapes consist primarily of speeches by others. Films consists of soundtracks, research interviews, and unedited sound recordings made for use with film footage.

Research, Speaking, and Writing contains four tapes related to Birkby's research on housing for the elderly along with extensive recordings made as part of the project on Women and the Built Environment. The elderly housing tapes consist of meetings and discussions about this subject. The Women and the Built Environment tapes are divided into sections: Environmental Fantasy Discussions (free-ranging interview sessions with small groups of women); Lectures, Workshops, and Conference Presentations (recordings of presentations by Birkby, sometimes in collaboration with Leslie Kanes Weisman); Women's Vernacular Architecture (interviews with women about structures they had built); and Reference (mainly lectures by colleagues on this topic).

Teaching consists of recordings of Birkby's classes at various institutions.

SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL

Box	Folder
1	1	General and clippings, 1963-82, n.d.

Address books, n.d.

Art by NPB and friends, 1953-94, n.d.

Birth certificate, diploma, will, 1932, 1950, 1993

Cancer/death: notes, 1991, n.d.

Curriculum vitae

6-7

c. 1966-91

Drafts, c. 1972-92

Notes, n.d.

Education

Class notes and papers (unidentified), n.d.

Class notes, philosophy, n.d.

Women's College of the University of North Carolina

General, 1950-54

Coraddi (literary magazine), 1953-54, n.d.

Cooper Union

General, 1959

Architecture 32b: class notes, 1959-60

Course work: International University in New York project

Yale University

General, 1963-83

Box	Folder
2	18	First Year Design: problems, 1962-63

Second Year Design: problems, 1963-64

Third Year Design: problems, work, 1964-65

Thesis project, Hofstra University Physical Education Complex, 1965, n.d.

Class work, miscellaneous, 1964

Hofstra University Library Complex, n.d.

Financial

Box	Folder
2	24	51 Market Street Landmark Corporation, 1970-92, n.d.

Income tax forms, 1985-92

Miscellaneous, 1980-90, n.d.

Social Security and disability, 1992-93

Identification cards, 1980-84, n.d.

Parties, 1992, n.d.

Memorial party, 5 Jun 1994

Miscellaneous, 1954-89

Stationery, business cards, n.d.

Portfolio

Box	Folder
2	33	Professional and students' work, c. 1990

Box	Folder
3	34	Professional work, c. 1990

Students' work, c. 1990

Sketchbooks/scrapbooks

Box	Folder
3	36	"The Collected Crap of NPB," college scrapbook, 1951-c. 1954

Items removed from "The Collected Crap of NPB," 1951-c. 1954

38-42

1963-74

Box	Folder
4	43-52	c. 1975-83

Box	Folder
5	53-62	1985-c.1992

Box	Folder
6	63	n.d.

64-65

Miscellaneous sketches and notes, n.d.

Travel

Box	Folder
6	66	Passports, visas, miscellaneous, 1950-85

Mexico, 1955

Vietnam, 1973

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE

Individuals

Box	Folder
7	69	Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, n.d.

Florence Adams, 1978-79

Nancy A. Allen, 1979, n.d.

Anonymous, 1955, n.d.

Tommye Barker, n.d. [1954?]

Ellen Perry Berkeley, 1968-89

Birkby family, miscellaneous, 1985-93, n.d.

Alice Green and Harold S. Birkby, 1955-85, n.d.

Donald Birkby, 1973-79, n.d.

Nell Blaine, n.d.

Rita Mae Brown, n.d.

Lena Ch'en, 1973

Linda Clark and Joan Casamo, n.d.

Nancy Colin, 1972

Frances Doughty, 1971-74, n.d.

Ena Dubnoff (outgoing correspondence only), c. 1978

Jan Marie DuBois, 1982, 1983, n.d.

Louise Fishman, 1969, n.d.

Barbara Hammer (outgoing correspondence only), n.d.

Bertha Harris, 1972-73, n.d.

Jill Johnston and Ingrid Nyeboe, 1980-93, n.d.

Rakhel Kafri, 1970-81, n.d.

Nina Kassen, 1974-77, n.d.

Margrit Kennedy, 1979-80, n.d.

Liz Marra, 1973, n.d.

Millie Messick, 1955, n.d.

Kate Millett, 1975-90, n.d.

Susan Mogul, 1976, n.d.

Kay Neelands, 1955, n.d.

Shannon-Joan O'Brien, 1983-90, n.d.

Jane O'Wyatt, 1975-94, n.d.

100

Lorinda Roland, 1967-90, n.d.

101

Renne/Gertrud Romkens, 1982-85, n.d.

102

Susanne Szabo Rostock, 1976-83, n.d.

103

Charlotte Rude, 1980-89, n.d.

Box	Folder
8	104	[Claudia?] Samson, 1975

105

Inga-Lisa Sangregorio, 1984, n.d.

106

Onny B. Smith, 1974

107

Students, 1977, n.d.

108

Beverly Taylor, 1982

109

Ulla Terlinden, 1981, n.d.

110

Mary Vogel, 1980, n.d.

111

Alida Walsh and Maria ?, 1969-78, n.d.

112

Alberta Ming-Chi Wang, 1965-67, n.d.

113

Leslie Kanes Weisman (outgoing correspondence only), 1974, n.d.

114

Mary Beth Welch, 1981, 1983

115

Charleen Whisnant and Red Clay Publishers, 1979-80, n.d.

116

Ann Witten, 1983-84, n.d.

117

Women's College of the University of North Carolina friends, 1953-58, n.d.

General

Box	Folder
8	119-122	1950-94

123

Undated, A-Z

124

Fragments

125

Undated, first name only

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE

General

Box	Folder
9	126	1972-92

127

Computer Aided Drafting/Design (CADD), 1986-88, n.d.

128

Licenses, 1968-93, n.d.

129

Office, 1985-91, n.d.

Job applications, bids, proposals

130-132

General, 1975-93, n.d.

133

St. Vincent's N. Richmond Alcohol Halfway House, 1993

134

Davis Brody and Associates, 1982, n.d.

135

Dober, Paddock, Upton and Associates, 1974, n.d.

136

Gruzen and Partners, 1973-81, n.d.

137

New York City School Construction Authority prequalification questionnaire, 1993

138

New York City Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises certification, 1990

New York State Facilities Development Corporation

139

General, 1987-90

140

Standard form, 1992

Feasibility Studies

Community Residence

Box	Folder
9	141	1468 Jessup Ave., Bronx, 1987

142

2886/92 Valentine Ave., Bronx, 1989

143

Evergreen and Townline Rd., Hauppauge, 1989

144

670 Townline Rd., Hauppauge, 1989

Box	Folder
10	145	AIDS home unit, 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, 1989

146

New York State Department of Social Services Homeless Housing and Assistance Program: technical assistance contract, 1988

147

New York State Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises certification, 1988-91

148-149

Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, 1968-72, n.d.

150

United Nations School, Queens: field study, 1990

151

United States Office of Personnel Management: application for federal employment, 1991

152

United States Office of Management and Budget: standard form 254, 255, 1990, 1992, n.d.

153

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, 1989, 1992, n.d.

Projects

Amethyst House, Bayley-Seton Hospital Halfway House for Women, 75 Vanderbilt Ave., Staten Island, NY, FDC # 3465

Box	Folder
10	154	General, 1989-91, n.d.

155

Contracts, 1987, 1989

156

Photocopies of photographs, n.d.

157

Clippings, 1990-91

158

Division of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse regulations, 1987

159

Elevations, n.d.

160

Consultant Evaluation, 1989

161

Feasibility Study, 1986

162-164

Correspondence, 1987-89

Box	Folder
11	165	Correspondence, 1990-91

166

Job meeting minutes, 1988-90

167

Job meeting notes, 1987-89

Specifications

Box	Folder
11	168	General, c. 1989

169-172

Electrical, heating, mechanical, plumbing, c. 1989

173

Miscellaneous drawings, 1989, n.d.

174

Arledge, 1842 Rosevilla Ave., Pasadena, CA, n.d.

175

Barber, Brooklyn, NY, n.d.

176

Bellevue Environs study, 1968

177

Bellomo, 7455 Soundview Ave., Southold, NY, 1985-87, n.d.

Bronx Children's Psychiatric Center, Adolescent Day Treatment Center, 1180 Rev. James Polite Blvd., Bronx, NY, FDC # 3166

178

Correspondence and minutes, 1986-87, n.d.

179

Design Consultant Agreement, 1987

180

Feasibility Study, 1986

181

Miscellaneous, 1986, n.d.

Bronx Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 2747 University Ave., Bronx, NY, FDC # 4722

182-183

Correspondence and notes, 1988-90

Box	Folder
12	184	Consultant evaluation, 1990

185

Drawings, n.d.

186

Schematic Submission Report, 1989

187

Specifications, 1990

188

Design Consultant Agreement, 1989

189

Cambell, Greenwood Lake, Orange County, NY, n.d.

190

Cardamon Lane Condominiums, Little Ferry, NJ, 1983-84

DeSalvo, 138 West 120th St., New York, NY, 1984-85

Box	Folder
12	191	General, 1989, n.d.

192

Specifications, n.d.

193

Dominguez, 424 Dahill Rd., Brooklyn, NY, 1984-85

194

Fifth Street Women's Building, 330 East 5th St., New York, NY, 1971

195

Fox/Whitby, 3 Sheridan Sq., New York, NY: kitchen renovation, 1985

196

Fox/Whitby, 3 Sheridan Sq., New York, NY: terrace enclosure and Springy Banks Rd., E. Hampton, NY: kitchen renovation, 1986-87

197

Grand Central Subway Station, 1980

198

Hayden/Maris, 8318 Riopath, [?], CA, 1980

199

International Women's Tribune Center, 777 United Nations Plaza, 1992

200

Jacobs, 51 8th Ave., Sea Cliff, NY, 1974

201

Johnson, 231 East 77th St., New York, NY, 1991

202

Johnston, Cutchogue, Southold, NY, 1985-89

203

Knowlton, River Rd., Point Pleasant, PA, 1988-89

204

Krogius, Lopers Path, Southampton, NY, n.d.

Box	Folder
13	205	Leeds, Sagaponack, NY, n.d.

Lobel, Hedges Bank Drive, E. Hampton, NY

Box	Folder
13	206	General, 1976-77, n.d.

207

Correspondence, notes, specifications, 1974-77, n.d.

208

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Master Plan, 1966-68

209

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Library/Learning Center, 1966-70

210

Maple Knoll Village, Springdale, OH, 1978-81

211

New American House: competition submission, 1984

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center: accessibility retrofit for various buildings

Box	Folder
13	212	Specifications, general, 1987

213

Specifications, electrical and heating, 1987

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 201 Garden Place, W. Hempstead, NY, FDC #4846

Box	Folder
13	214	Correspondence and notes, 1989-91, n.d.

215

Feasibility Study, 1989

216

Design Consultant Agreement, 1989

217

Specifications, general, 1990

Box	Folder
14	218	Specifications, electrical, plumbing, heating, 1990

219

Job meeting minutes, 1990, n.d.

220

Consultant evaluation, 1990

221

Schematic Submission Report, 1989

222

Drawings, n.d.

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 3531 Oceanside Rd., Oceanside, NY, FDC #4845

Box	Folder
14	223	Consultant evaluation, 1992

224

Physical completion reports, 1992

225

Job meeting minutes, 1991-92

Correspondence and notes

226-227

1989-Jul 1990

228-230

Aug 1990-1992, n.d.

231

Contractors' applications for payment, 1991-92

232

Consultant applications for payment, 1991-92

233

Contract Cost Breakdowns, 1990-91

234

Notes, misc., n.d.

235

Contractors' Progress Schedule, 1991

236

Consultant Code Compliance Certification, 1990

237

Outline specification, n.d.

Box	Folder
15	238	Specifications, general, 1990

239

Specifications, electrical, heating, plumbing, 1990

240

Design Consultant Agreement, 1989

241

Feasibility Study, 1989

242

Schematic Submission Report, 1989

243

Change orders, 1991-92

244-245

Sample submissions, 1991-92

246

Record of sample submissions and shop drawings, 1990-91

247

Pollon, 59 East 4th St., 1985, n.d.

248

Rodriguez, 235 and 195 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY, 1985, n.d.

249

St. Ann's School, Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY, 1971

250

Sokolow, Winding Rd., Ardsley, NY, 1986, n.d.

251

Spyer, 2 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, 1991

252

Spyer, 254 Tuckahoe Lane, So. Hampton, NY, 1986-87

Box	Folder
16	253	Thu Duc Polytechnic University, Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 1973

254

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Single Room Occupancy residence, 334-336 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY, n.d.

255

Vaughan, 201 West 138th St., New York, NY, 1985-87

256

Vinson, 2 34th St., Stonybrook, NY, 1985

257

Wallace, 1058-1068 Pacific St., Brooklyn, NY, 1990-91

Watering Place Resort Hotel, Roatan, Honduras

Box	Folder
16	258	General, 1984-85

259

Drawings, n.d.

260

Background information, n.d.

261

Waterside Houses, east midtown Manhattan, NY, 1968

262

Witten, Barter's Island, Boothbay, ME, 1978

263

Women's Liberation Center, 243 West 20th St., New York, NY, 1985

264

Women's Hall of Fame/Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY: competition submission, 1975-87

Projects, OVERSIZE

Box	Folder
1	1	Unidentified, n.d.

Amethyst House, Bayley-Seton Hospital Halfway House for Women, 75 Vanderbilt Ave., Staten Island, NY, FDC #3465: details, elevations, plans, sketches, 1987-91

Arledge, 1842 Rosevilla Ave, Pasadena, CA: elevations, plans, sketches, n.d.

Barber, Brooklyn, NY: sketches, elevations, plans, renderings, sections, c. 1973

Bay Ridge Medical Center, 68th St., 3rd Ave. & Senator St., Brooklyn, NY: interior elevations and details, wall sections, 1961, n.d.

Bellevue Environs study: rendering, 1968

Bellomo, 7455 Soundview Ave., Southold, NY: elevations,

Bondini's Restaurant, 62 West 9th St., New York, NY: floor plans, 1972

Boulevard East housing/office complex, West New York, NJ: plans, section, n.d.

Bronx Children's Psychiatric Center, Adolescent Day Treatment Center, 1180 Rev. James Polite Blvd., Bronx, NY, FDC # 3166: elevations, plans, 1987

Bronx Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 2747 University Ave., Bronx, NY, FDC # 4722: elevations, plans, 1990

Box	Folder
2	12	Cardamon Lane Housing, Little Ferry, NJ: elevations, plans, sections, 1983-84

Cinnamon Court Housing, [original name Ginger Gardens], Little Ferry, NJ: elevations, plans, sections, 1983

Dale's Footworks, University Towne Center, San Diego, CA elevations, plans, sections, 1978

DeSalvo, 138 West 120th St., New York, NY: plans, 1984-85

East Islip Housing, Hollins Lane and Lavender Lane, East Islip, NY: details, elevations, plans, sections, rendering, 1985-86

Box	Folder
3	17	Fox/Whitby, 3 Sheridan Sq., New York, NY: kitchen renovation, terrace enclosure: elevations, plans, sketches, rendering, 1986-87

Fox/Whitby, Springy Banks Rd., E. Hampton, NY: details, elevations, plans, sections, 1986

Great Neck Elderly Housing, 700 Middle Neck Rd., Great Neck, NY: details, elevations, plans, 1980

Hayden/Maris, 8318 Riopath, ?, CA: elevations, plans, schematic, 1980

Jacobs, 51 8th Ave., Sea Cliff, NY: elevations, plans, sketches, 1974

Johnson, 231 East 77th St., New York, NY: plans, 1991

Johnston, Cutchogue, Southold, NY: elevations, plans, sketches, 1984-85

Krogius, Lopers Path, Southampton, NY: elevations, plans, sections, n.d.

Box	Folder
4	25	Leeds, Sagaponack, NY: sketches, section/plan/elevation, n.d.

Leser, 129 West 12th St., New York, NY: elevations, plans, sketches, 1962-63

Lobel, Hedges Bank Drive, E. Hampton, NY: sketches, 1975-77

Lobel, Hedges Bank Drive, E. Hampton, NY: First design--details, elevations, plans, sections, 1975-76

Lobel, Hedges Bank Drive, E. Hampton, NY: Second design-- elevations, plans, sections, 1976-77

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Library/Learning Center: plans, sections, 1970

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Modernization Program, Connolly Hall and Metcalfe Building: elevations, details, plans, sections, 1966

Maple Knoll Village, Springdale, OH: details, elevations, plans, sections, 1978-81

Midwood Drive Housing, Plainview, NY: elevations, plans, sections, 1985

Box	Folder
5	34	Pilgrim Psychiatric Center: accessibility retrofit for various buildings: plans, 1986

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 201 Garden Place, W. Hempstead, NY, FDC #4846: details, elevations, plans, sections, 1990

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 3531 Oceanside Rd., Oceanside, NY, FDC #4845: details, elevations, plans, sections, sketches, 1990-92

Plandome Heights Housing, Plandome Heights, NY, Residences A and B: details, elevations, plans, sections, 1984

Box	Folder
6	38	Rodriguez, 235 and 195 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY: plans, sketches, n.d.

St. Ann's School, Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY, Childrens' Art Center: plans, sketches, 1971

Sokolow, Winding Rd., Ardsley, NY: elevations, plans, sketches, n.d.

Spyer, 2 Fifth Ave., New York, NY and 254 Tuckahoe Lane, So. Hampton, NY: details, elevations, plans, sections, sketches, 1986-87

Thursh, 239 Piermont Ave., Piermont, NY: plan, sketch, n.d.

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Single Room Occupancy residence, 334-336 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY: plans, sections, n.d.

Vaughan, 201 West 138th St., New York, NY

Box	Folder
6	44	Sketches, n.d.

Details, elevations, plans, sections, 1985-87, n.d.

Box	Folder
7	46	Wallace, 1058-1068 Pacific St., Brooklyn, NY: elevations, plans, sections, 1990-91

Watering Place Resort Hotel, Roatan, Honduras

Box	Folder
7	47	Sketches, 1985

Elevations, plans, sections, 1985

Waterside Houses, east midtown Manhattan, NY: elevations, plans, sketches, 1968

Witten, Barter's Island, Boothbay, ME: sketches, n.d.

Women's Hall of Fame/Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY: competition submission

Box	Folder
7	51	Competition announcement, existing conditions, c. 1987

renderings, plans, sketches, c. 1987

Subject files

Box	Folder
17	265	General, miscellaneous, 1966-92, n.d.

266

Accessibility, 1980-91, n.d.

Alternative construction systems

267

General, 1970, n.d.

268

Adobe, n.d.

269

Earth-sheltered housing, 1979-80

270

Mobile homes, n.d.

271

Self-help techniques, 1968-74, n.d.

272

Solar, 1979, 1986, n.d.

273

Architecture and Environmental Design education, 1969-78, n.d.

274

Communities, planned, 1977-78, n.d.

275

Congregate/Cooperative housing, 1978-80, n.d.

276

Environmental and community design, 1976-84, n.d.

277

Expo '70, 1970

Box	Folder
18	278-279	Housing, philosophy/psychology of, 1963-78, n.d.

Individuals

Box	Folder
18	280	General, 1967-79

281

Julia Morgan, 1974-76, n.d.

282

Theodate Pope Riddle, 1979

283

Moshe Safdie, 1967-71, n.d.

284

Emily Anne Smith, n.d.

Paolo Soleri

285-286

1966-71, n.d.

287

notebook "Archologies," n.d.

288

Single-parent housing, 1978-79, n.d.

289

Urban housing, 1968, 1977, 1981

Women

Box	Folder
18	290-291	Women and architecture, miscellaneous, 1948-92, n.d.

Box	Folder
19	292-295	Alliance of Women in Architecture, 1972-87, n.d.

Archive of Women in Architecture, Architectural League of New York

Box	Folder
19	296	General, 1973-77, n.d.

297

Exhibit "Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective," 1977-78

298

Association of Women in Architecture, 1978-81

299

Organization of Women Architects, 1974-75

300-301

Status of women in the architecture profession, 1973-82, n.d.

302

Union Internationale des Femme Architectes, 1979-82

303

Women and communities, 1978, n.d.

304

Women and environmental design, 1974-77

Box	Folder
20	305	Women and environmental design, 1980, 1985, n.d.

306

Women and housing, 1976-84, n.d.

307

Women's Architectural Review Movement, 1972

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING

General

Autobiographical

Box	Folder
21	308	"Creative Personal Interactions Journal," from Actualizations Workshop, c. May 1984

309

Notes on dreams, 1979, 1990, n.d.

310-311

Problem solving, 1971-79, n.d.

312

Women in architecture, personal notes, n.d.

313

AMAZON EXPEDITION: A LESBIAN FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY edited by NPB, Bertha Harris, Jill Johnston, Esther Newton, and Jane O'Wyatt. Times Change Press, 1973

Elderly Housing

314

Notes, flyer for lecture, n.d.

315-317

Subject files, n.d.

318

"Jill Johnston," draft, n.d.

319

"Over, on and Under Water: Three Astounding Structural Systems," DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENT, 1970

320

"Saigon: Hue, 1973" poster for slide-lecture, 4 Apr 1975

Women and the Built Environment

Published Writings

Box	Folder
21	321	"Amazon Architecture," COWRIE LESBIAN/FEMINIST, Vol. 2, No. 1, Apr 1974

"Designing for the Messiness of Life," MS, Feb 1981

322

Text

323

Notes and drafts

324

"Feminist Fantasy Architecture," (with Leslie Kanes Weisman) WOMEN'S AGENDA, Vol. 2, No. 3, Mar 1977

"Herspace," HERESIES II, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1981

325

Text

326

Notes, drafts, correspondence

"I Want it to help, not hinder me: Neue Erfahrung in Umgang mit Raum. Die 'Women's School of Planning and Architecture,' USA," ARCH+ 56, Apr 1981

327

Text

328

Notes, drafts, correspondence

Box	Folder
22	329	"Patritecture and Feminist Fantasies," (with LK Weisman) LIBERATION, Vol. 19, Nos. 8 & 9, text, drafts, correspondence spring 1976:

330

"A Woman Built Environment," (with LK Weisman) QUEST, Vol. II, No. 1, summer text, drafts, correspondence 1975:

331

"Women's Community Design," illustration for calendar 1974

"Women's Fantasy Environments: Notes on a Project in Progress," (with LK Weisman) HERESIES, May 1977

Box	Folder
22	332	Text

333

Notes, drafts, correspondence

334

"The Women's School of Planning and Architecture," (with LK Weisman) in LEARNING OUR WAY: ESSAYS IN FEMINIST EDUCATION, 1983: text, correspondence, proofs, revisions, contracts, 1978-83

Lectures, Workshops, Conferences

Box	Folder
22	335	Clippings, 1974-79, n.d.

336

Correspondence, flyers, publicity, 1974-93, n.d.

337

Women in Architecture Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, correspondence Mar 1974:

338

"Women in Architecture" lecture at University of Detroit, 10 Oct 1974

339

Gay Academic Union Conference, New York University, New York, NY, "Negotiating Space: The Woman-Built Environment": correspondence, program, notes Nov 1974.

340

Women in Design: The Next Decade conference, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, correspondence 20 & 21 Mar 1975:

341

West Coast Women's Design Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, corr, proceedings Apr 1975:

342

Women in Design and Planning Conference, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA, "Women's School of Planning and Architecture" and "Women's Fantasy Environments": program, notes 7-9 Nov 1975.

343

Gay Academic Union Conference, "Utopias--Radical Future Visions": program 28-29 Nov 1975.

344

Women in Architecture: Realizations and Possibilities symposium, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, "How Women Experience, Conceptualize and Design Space": program Mar 1977.

345

Alternative Educational Environments conference, Environmental Design Research Association, workshop proposal 1978:

346

Feminist Visions of the Future conference, California State University, Chico, CA, "Fantasies and Realities: Women's Visions of the Built Environment": correspondence, planning materials, program, 1978-79 Mar 1979.

347

If Women Planned the World....: Fourth Annual Women in Planning and Government Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "Alternative Design": clippings, correspondence, program May 1979,

348

Fifth International Congress: Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, Seattle, WA, "Fantasy and Reality: Women's Creative Imagination": abstract, text, notes, program Oct 1979.

349

International Festival of Women Artists, Copenhagen, Denmark, "Women in Education" panel: correspondence, notes, program Jul 1980.

350

Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, Jul 1980 and Sarah Kulturzentrum Cafe fur Frauen, Stuttgart, Aug, 1980. "Feminism and Architecture in the USA": flyers

351

Hexenstudientage Frauenseminar, Aachen, Germany, "Women's School of Planning and Architecture": clipping, program, publication 24-26 Oct 1980.

352

School of Architecture seminar, Aarhus, Denmark, "Women's Fantasies in Space and Architecture": correspondence, invitation 31 Aug-1 Sep, 1981.

353

Nordic Women's Building and Planning Forum, Rodhus Klit, Denmark, "En arkitektskola for kvinnor": correspondence, program, report Aug 1981.

Box	Folder
23	354	Notebook from 1981 trip to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 1981

355

Women's Worlds: Strategies for Empowerment, Second International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Groningen, the Netherlands, "Women and Housing: Future Visions": correspondence, program, notes, abstract, conference materials Apr 1984.

356

A Celebration of the Beguines, New York, NY, . "Creating Spiritual Space for Ourselves": flyer, program Oct 19??

357

Kvinner, Natur, Rom conference, Oslo, Norway, Workshop: program Mar 1984.

358

Miscellaneous notes, outlines, text, n.d.

Research project

Box	Folder
23	359	Descriptions of project, 1975, n.d.

360

Correspondence re project, 1970-82, n.d.

Curriculum proposals

"Women and the Built Environment"

Box	Folder
23	361	Text, 1976, n.d.

362

Participants' Exposition entry, ACSA/AIA/NEA/UNebraska Non-Graphic Section, n.d.

363

Correspondence, 1974-75

364

Miscellaneous notes, n.d.

365

Goddard/Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change, 1976

366

"Women and the Built Environment: Personal, Social and Professional Perceptions," c. 1976

Fantasy drawings

Box	Folder
23	367	Originals, n.d.

368

Copies, n.d.

Book Proposals

With Leslie Kanes Weisman

Box	Folder
23	369	"Women's Environmental Fantasies," n.d.

370

"Women's Environmental Visions and Fantasies," 1978

371

"Drawings of Women's Fantasies: An Environmental Investigation," n.d.

Box	Folder
24	372	"Rooms of Our Own: Women's Fantasies and Realities in the Built Environment," n.d.

373

"Breaking Out of the Rectangle: Women's Fantasies and Realities in the Built Environment," c. 1980

374

Correspondence, 1976-79, n.d.

375

376

Drafts, notes, lists, outlines, 1974, n.d.

377-382

Personal notes, 1980, n.d.

Women's Vernacular Architecture and Buildings for Women

Box	Folder
24	383	General notes, flyers, 1976, 1983, n.d.

384

M.F. Beal, spiral house, Seal Rock, OR: correspondence, 1979

385

Califa Community, Angelus Oaks, CA: flyers, 1977, 1980

386

Danner House Women's Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark: flyer, notes, correspondence, n.d.

387

Laurie Davis and Rain Parrish: interview notes, n.d.

388

Virginia Gray, adobe tree house, Santa Fe, NM: interview transcript, floor plan, notes, photocopies of photographs, correspondence, 1979

389

Isla Vista (CA) Tipi Village: clippings, interview notes, 1979

390

Joyce Johnston, recycled dwelling, Truro, MA: clipping, n.d.

391

LESBIAN LAND ed. by Joyce Cheney. Word Weavers Press, 1985.

392

Nourishing Space, Vail, AZ: newsletters, flyer, 1977-78,n.d.

Box	Folder
25	393	Marsha Oliver, oval house, Taos, NM: interview notes, correspondence, general, 1979

394

Pagoda Temple of Love, Saint Augustine, FL: flyers, newsletters, n.d.

395

Anita Rodriguez, Santa Fe, NM: interview notes, n.d.

396

Sarah Kulturzentrum Cafe fur Frauen, Stuttgart, Germany: clipping, n.d.

397

Ann Stokes A STUDIO OF ONE'S OWN, ed. by Dolores Klaich. Naiad Press, 1985

398

Tye Farm, communal dwellings and barns, Albion, CA: clipping, interview notes, 1974, 1978, n.d.

399

Wholeo, stained glass dome by Caroling, Monte Rio, CA: interview notes, color photocopies of photographs, clippings, correspondence, 1977-82

Grant Proposals

Box	Folder
25	400	Miscellaneous, 1973, n.d.

401

National Endowment for the Arts, "An Audio-visual investigation of the design environment as it specifically effects women." 1975.

402

National Endowment for the Arts, Project fellowship in Architecture, Planning and Design 1979.

403

German Marshall Fund Short-term Travel Award, correspondence, report 1981:

404

National Endowment for the Humanities, "Toward the humanization of the built environment: Women's sensibilities in Architecture and Planning" 1981.

Subject Files

Box	Folder
25	405-406	Articles, papers, 1971-78, n.d.

Denmark

407

General, 1980, n.d.

408

"Pa Vej: Women's Expressions on the Environment" an exhibit in Copenhagen Town Hall, : booklet, publicity, 1980

409

Germany: clippings, reports, 1980-81

410

Norway: conference materials, 1979, 1984

411

Sweden: clippings, pamphlets, 1976-77, 1984

SERIES V. TEACHING

Box	Folder
26	412-413	General, n.d.

414

Reference materials, n.d.

415-418

Applications for employment, 1974-91, n.d.

419

Applications for employment, references, 1979-88

420

Freelance, n.d.

California State Polytechnic University

421

General, 1976-77

422

Course materials, 1977-78

City College of the City University of New York, School of Architecture

423-424

Correspondence, minutes, 1972-75, n.d.

425

Course materials, Architecture 121, 1972-73, n.d.

426

Course materials, Architecture 131, 1973

427

Detroit, University of, School of Architecture: correspondence, teaching materials, student research report, 1975

428

Hofstra University: sample of student work, 1983

429

Los Angeles Community Design Center: general and course materials, 1980

New York Institute of Technology, Center for Architecture

Box	Folder
27	430-431	General, correspondence, minutes, 1982-90, n.d.

432

Architectural Drawing Manual, 1973

Course materials

ARCH 6031 and 6032, Design Fundamentals I & II

Box	Folder
27	433	Meetings and general, 1982-87

434

Student work, n.d.

ARCH 6031, Design Fundamentals I: teaching materials,student work

Box	Folder
27	435	Summer, 1983

436

Fall, 1983

437

Fall, 1984

438

Fall, 1986

439

undated

ARCH 6032, Design Fundamentals II: teaching materials, student work

Box	Folder
27	440	Spring, 1983

441

Spring, 1984

442

Spring, 1985

443

Spring, 1986

444

Fall, 1986

445

Spring, 1987

Box	Folder
28	446	Fall, 1988

447

Spring, 1989

448

undated

ARCH 6149, Building Construction I: teaching materials, student work

Box	Folder
28	449	Teaching materials, 1987-88, n.d.

450

Student work, 1988

451

ARCH 6175, Architectural Design I, 1983-87, n.d.

452

ARCH 6176, Architectural Design II, 1984

453

ARCH 6217, Architectural Design IV, 1989-91, n.d.

454

ARCH 6218, Architectural Design V, 1992

455

ARCH 6219, Architectural Design VI, 1990-91

456

ARCH 6493, Construction Drawings I, n.d.

ARCH 6901, Architectural Design VII, Berlin Wall Thesis Studio

457

General, 1987-88

458

Trip to Berlin, 1987

459

Student work, Emelito M. Felix, 1987-88

460

Student work, Ray Maggiore, 1987-88

461

Student work, Brad Schneider, 1987-88

462

Reference material, 1977-87, n.d.

Box	Folder
29	463	Reference material: postcards, flyers, 1987, n.d.

464

Reference material: street maps, 1986-87, n.d.

465

ARCH 8450, Interior Design Problems II: teachingmaterials, n.d.

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture

Box	Folder
29	466	General, 1974-78

Teaching materials

467

1972-73

468

Elderly housing, 1975

469

1975-76

470

1977, n.d.

471

Southern California Institute of Architecture, 1977-78

Southern California, University of

Box	Folder
29	472	General and notes, 1978-80, n.d.

473

Correspondence and memoranda, 1978-80, n.d.

Course materials

ARCH 102, First Year Design

Box	Folder
29	474	Fall, 1978

475

Spring, 1979

476

Fall, 1979

477

Spring, 1980, n.d.

478

ARCH 105, Architectural communications media, 1978-80

479

Womanschool Adult Education Center, 1975

Women's School of Planning and Architecture

Box	Folder
29	480	Bibliography, reading lists, 1977, n.d.

481

Teaching materials, 1975-78, n.d.

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES

Individuals

Box	Folder
30	482	Sidney Abbott, 1972-76, n.d.

483

Jerri Allyn, n.d.

484

Jane Alpert, 1973

485

Ellen Perry Berkeley, 1974, n.d.

486

Nell Blaine, 1960-73, n.d.

487

Ivy Bottini, 1975

488

Charlotte Bunch, 1986

489

Caroling, 1981

490

Phyllis Chesler, 1970-1992

491

Judy Chicago, 1977, 1979, n.d.

492

Mary Daly, 1978

493

Betsy Damon, 1982-84

494

Diana Davies, n.d.

495

Frances Doughty, n.d.

496

Louise Fishman, 1982, 1992-93

497

Bici Forbes, n.d.

498

Gisele Freund, 1979

499

Midi Garth, n.d.

500

Barbara Hammer, 1978, 1994, n.d.

501

Bertha Harris, 1971-93, n.d.

502

Dolores Hayden, 1979-83, n.d.

503

Jeriann Hilderly (aka Jeritree), 1978, n.d.

504

Buffie Johnson, 1991

505

Jill Johnston, 1969-80

506

Rakhel Kafri, n.d.

507

Maria Karras, 1976-77

508

Margrit Kennedy, 1980-85

509

Roberta Kosse, n.d.

510

Audre Lorde, 1993

511

Barbara Love, n.d.

512

Cynthia Macadams, 1973-83, n.d.

513

Muriel Magenta, 1978, n.d.

514

Artemis March, 1992

515

Kate Millett, 1970-93, n.d.

Box	Folder
31	516	Maricla Moyano, 1979

517

Jean Mundy, n.d.

518

Marilyn Murphy, n.d.

519

Esther Newton, 1971, n.d.

520

Jane O'Wyatt, n.d.

521

Eleanor Pam, 1993

522

Arlene Raven, 1982-87, n.d.

523

Jeanette Kathleen Rogers, 1978

524

Lynda Simmons, n.d.

525

Alida Walsh, 1978, 1982, n.d.

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Box	Folder
31	526	General, 1973-92, n.d.

527

Teaching materials, 1972-78, n.d.

528

Charleen Whisnant, 1972

529

Jennifer Wyland, n.d.

Women

Box	Folder
31	530	General, 1970-75

531

Abortion, 1977, n.d.

532

Academia, 1972-73, n.d.

533

Amazons, n.d.

534-535

Artists, 1962-87, n.d.

536

Books, 1971-93, n.d.

Book catalogs/publishers

Box	Folder
32	537	Miscellaneous, 1970-81, n.d.

538

Academy Press Limited/Academy Chicago Limited, 1980, n.d.

539

Come! Unity Press, n.d.

540

Crossing Press, 1982-85

541

Daughters, Inc., 1973-77

542

Diana Press, 1976, n.d.

543

Feminist Press, 1977, 1981

544

First Things First, 1973, 1975

545

Know, Inc., n.d.

546

Naiad Press, 1979

547

Northwest Matrix, n.d.

548

Red Clay Books, 1973

549

Bookstores, 1977, 1983, n.d.

550

Books, poetry, 1971-76

Books

Box	Folder
32	551	Spiderwomon's Lesbian Fairy Tales, 1977

552

Miscellaneous, 1966-72, n.d.

553

Business cards, n.d.

554

Calendars, 1973-80, n.d.

555

Cerridwen (a salon in the arts), n.d.

Box	Folder
33	556	Class and the women's movement, n.d.

Conferences

Box	Folder
33	557	Miscellaneous, 1971-88, n.d.

558

"Feminist Perspectives on Pornography," San Francisco, CA, conference materials, transcription of talk 17-19 Nov 1978:

559

National Organization for Women Sixth Annual Conference, Washington, DC, conference materials 17-19 Feb 1973:

560

National Radical Feminist Conference, Pennsylvania, correspondence Aug 1975:

561

"Woman 1977: The Status of American Women," National Women's Conference, Houston, TX, conference materials 18-21 Nov 1977:

Consciousness raising groups

Box	Folder
33	562	General, 1971-72, 1981, n.d.

563

Transcript of CR Group One session, "Bisexuality," Oct 1971

564

Transcript of CR Group One session, "Butch/Femme," Oct 1971

565

Education, 1971-80

566

Entrepreneurs, 1973-76, n.d.

567

Europe, n.d.

568-569

Film, 1971-92, n.d.

570

Health, 1976-80, n.d.

571

Huntington (Mass.) Project, 1973, n.d.

572

Images of women, n.d.

573

Matriarchy, 1978, n.d.

574

Memorabilia, 1970-75, n.d.

575

Motherhood, 1970, 1973, n.d.

576

Music/songs, 1971, n.d.

577

National Women's Agenda, 1976-77

Organizations

Box	Folder
34	578	Miscellaneous, 1972-89, n.d.

579

Building Women, Inc., n.d.

580

Feminist Art Institute, n.d.

581

New York Radical Feminists, 1971

582

Fifth Street Women's Building, 1970-71

583

Matrix: A Place of Our Own, 1986-87, n.d.

584

New Environments for Women, Inc., 1974, n.d.

585

New York Feminist Art Institute, 1977-85, n.d.

586

Older Women's League (OWL), 1981-85, n.d.

587

Sagaris, A Multi Racial Feminist Institute, n.d.

588

The Woman's Building (Los Angeles), 1975-83, n.d.

589

Womanschool Adult Education Center, Inc., 1975

590

Women's Design Center, Inc., 1973-75

591

Women's Design Space, 1974, n.d.

592

Women's Development Corporation, 1980, n.d.

593

Women's History Research Center, Inc., 1976, 1979, n.d.

594

Women's Interart Center, 1972-83, n.d.

595

Women's Liberation Center, 1970-72, n.d.

596

Women's Neighborhood Builders/Developers, 1981, n.d.

Box	Folder
35	597	Periodicals, 1972-84, n.d.

598

Political actions, 1970-84, n.d.

599

Pornography, 1979, n.d.

600

Psychology, 1970-75, n.d.

601

Sexuality, 1983, n.d.

602

Spirituality, 1976-78, n.d.

603

Theatre, 1972-76, n.d.

604

Vegetarianism, n.d.

605

Violence against women, 1971, 1978, n.d.

606

Women's Liberation, 1970-74, n.d.

607

Women's Skill Exchange Festival, n.d.

608

Women's Studies, 1971-82, n.d.

Homosexuality

Box	Folder
35	609	General, 1970-90, n.d.

610

Memorabilia, 1971, 1981, n.d.

611

Gay Academic Union, 1973, n.d.

612

Health, n.d.

613

History/Archives, 1979-80, n.d.

614

Lesbian and Gay Directory of Services and Resources, New York Metropolitan Area, 1991

615

Lesbian artists, 1977-78

616

Lesbian Life Space, 1973, n.d.

Box	Folder
36	617	Lesbian literature and publishing, 1976-78, n.d.

618-619

Lesbianism, 1970-89, n.d.

620

Lesbianism and Women's Liberation press conference, 7 Mar 1973

621

National Gay Task Force, 1974, n.d.

622

Organizations, miscellaneous, 1971-89, n.d.

623

Periodicals, miscellaneous, 1972-76

624

Radicalesbians of Philadelphia, 1971, n.d.

Box
37		Buttons, pins

Box
38-39		T-shirts

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS

Photographic prints

Personal

Box	Folder
40	625-629	NPB, 1930s-90s

630

Family, 1930s-88

Friends

631-635

Groups, 1940s-90s

636

Women's College of the University of North Carolina, 1950-54

637-638

Groups at parties, 1980s-90s

Box	Folder
41	639	Groups at Huntington, MA, 1973

640-641

Groups at Millett Farm, 1980s-90s

642

Jan Crawford, 1975, n.d.

643

Louise Fishman, 1967, n.d.

644

Barbara Hammer, 1977-78, n.d.

645

Jill Johnston, n.d.

646

Naomi Katz, 1964-65, n.d.

647

Kate Millett, 1972, n.d.

648

Jane O'Wyatt, 1973, n.d.

649

Leslie Kanes Weisman, 1974, n.d.

650

Miscellaneous groups, 1986, n.d.

651

Gravesite, Ka boat, 1994

652

Art by NPB, n.d.

653

Hand-painted canes by NPB, n.d.

654

Cats, n.d.

655

Swimming, 1950, n.d.

656

51 Castle St., Great Barrington, MA, n.d.

657

51 Market St., New York, NY, n.d.

658

Yale University and New Haven, CT, n.d.

Artistic photography

Box	Folder
41	659	Miscellaneous, 1952-90, n.d.

660

Roller skating, Venice, CA, n.d.

661

Trapeze, n.d.

Architecture

Box	Folder
42	662-664	Amethyst House, Bayley-Seton Hospital Halfway House for Women, 75 Vanderbilt Ave., Staten, Island, NY, FDC #3465, 1990, n.d.

665

Bellevue Environs study, 1968

666

Bellomo, 7455 Soundview Ave., Southold, NY, 1985-87, n.d.

667

Bronx Children's Psychiatric Center, Adolescent Day Treatment Center, 1180 Rev. James Polite Blvd., Bronx, NY, FDC #3166, 1987

668

Bronx Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 2747 University Ave., Bronx, NY, FDC # 4722, n.d.

669

Cardamon Lane Condominiums, Little Ferry, NJ, n.d.

670

Cinnamon Court, Little Ferry, NJ, n.d.

671

Evergreen Ave. and Townline Rd., Hauppauge, NY, 1989

672

Fox/Whitby, Manhattan, 1987, n.d.

673

Fox/Whitby, Long Island, n.d.

674

Jacobs, 51 8th Ave., Sea Cliff, NY, 1973, n.d.

675-677

Johnston, Cutchogue, Southold, NY, 1985-89

Box	Folder
43	678	Knowlton, River Rd., Point Pleasant, PA, 1988-89

679

Leser, 129 West 12th St., New York, NY, 1964

680

Lobel, Hedges Bank Drive, E. Hampton, NY, 1977, n.d.

681

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Master Plan, 1966-68

Box	Folder
42	682-683	Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Library/Learning Center, 1966-70

Box	Folder
43	684	Maple Knoll Village, Springdale, OH, n.d.

685

New American House: competition submission, 1984

686

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 201 Garden Place, W. Hempstead, NY, FDC #4846, 1989

687

Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Community Residence, 3531 Oceanside Rd., Oceanside, NY, FDC #4845, 1989

688

Sokolow, Winding Rd., Ardsley, NY, 1986, n.d.

689

Spyer, 2 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, and 254 Tuckahoe Lane, South Hampton, NY, n.d.

690

Thu Duc Polytechnic University, Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 1973

691

670 Townline Rd., Hauppauge, NY, 1989

692

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Single Room Occupancy residence, 334-336 Bergen St., Brooklyn, NY, n.d.

693

2886/92 Valentine Ave., 1989

694

Vaughan, 201 West 138th St., New York, NY, n.d.

695

Watering Place Resort Hotel, Roatan, Honduras, 1985

Box	Folder
44	696-697	Waterside Houses, east midtown Manhattan, NY, n.d.

698

Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, competition submission: photos of site and environs, n.d.

699

Unidentified, 1968, n.d.

700

Computer generated images, n.d.

701

Gruzen and Partners projects, n.d.

702

Miscellaneous, 1994, n.d.

Political

703

Marches/demonstrations, 1970s-90s

704

National Women's Conference, Houston, TX, 1977

705

Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, Seneca Army Depot, NY, 1983

Research, Speaking, and Writing

706

Elderly housing presentation, n.d.

Women and the Built Environment

707

Buildings by/for women, 1970s-80

708

Danner House, n.d.

709

Fantasy drawings, n.d.

710

Women in Architecture symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1974

Teaching

Box	Folder
45	711	University of Southern California faculty, c. 1979

Samples of student work

712

Miscellaneous, 1980s

713

Berlin Wall Thesis Studio, 1987-88

Travel

Box	Folder
45	714	Unidentified, 1967, n.d.

715

Denmark, n.d.

716

Berlin, Germany, n.d.

717

Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD, n.d.

718

Cozumel, Mexico, 1991

719

Honduras (?), n.d.

720

Vietnam, 1973

721

Italy, n.d.

Negatives

Box
46		35mm, 1-69

Box
47		35mm, 70-144

Box
48		4x5, #200-231

Box
49		4x5, #232-269

Slides and transparencies

Architecture

Box	Folder
50	722	Student Work, 1964-66, n.d.

Projects

723

A-N, 1973, 1986, n.d.

724

Jacobs, Johnston, 1971-72, 1985-88

725

Leeds, 1975, n.d.

726

Lobel, 1977, n.d.

727

Long Island University, 1973-77, n.d.

728

T-Z, unidentified, 1973-87, n.d.

729

Miscellaneous, 1963, 1967, n.d.

730

Expo '67, 1967

731

Soleri, Cosanti Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ, c. 1969

732

Watts Towers, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1969

733

Art by NPB and others, 1973-93, n.d.

Personal

Box	Folder
51	734	Animals/pets, 1970, 1975, n.d.

735

51 Market St., 1974, 1984

736

Yale University [?], 1966, n.d.

737

Family [?], 1967-69, 1984, n.d.

738

Noel Phyllis Birkby, c. 1954-c. 1978

Individuals

Box	Folder
52	739-740	Miscellaneous, 1967-82, n.d.

741

Barbara Hammer and NPB, c. 1978-79, n.d.

742

Bertha Harris and Jennifer Wyland, 1972

743

Jill Johnston, 1972-73

744

Naomi Katz, 1964, n.d.

745

Alberta Ming Chi Wang, 1972, n.d.

746

Black and white photographs of friends, copies, n.d.

747

Groups, 1972-83, n.d.

748

Groups at Huntington, MA, 1972-73

749

Groups at Millet Farm, 1972-93, n.d.

750

Groups, miscellaneous

751

Miscellaneous

Political

Box	Folder
53	752	1971-77

753

Gay Pride March, 1973

754

National Women's Conference, 1977

755

1977-82

756

Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, Seneca Army Depot, NY, 1983

757

Undated, unidentified

Research, Speaking, and Writing

Elderly housing

Box	Folder
54	758	Teaching slides, 1975, n.d.

759

Plans and drawings, n.d.

760

Scandinavia, 1981

Women and the Built Environment

Box	Folder
54	761	Workshops, miscellaneous, 1973, 1979

762

Workshop, "Kvinner, Natur, Rom," Oslo, Norway, n.d.

763

Fantasy drawings, 1977-79, n.d.

764

Slide lecture I, n.d.

765

Slide lecture II, n.d.

766

Lecture slides, misc., n.d.

Buildings by women

767

Miscellaneous, 1979-82, n.d.

768

Wholeo, 1973-76, n.d.

769

Women in Design: The Next Decade conference, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, 20-21 Mar 1975

Artistic photography

Box	Folder
55	770	Miscellaneous, 1966-83, n.d.

771

Mobile homes, 1975, n.d.

772

Nature, 1969-83, n.d.

773

Nature/beach, 1962-63, n.d.

774

New York City, 1964, 1972, n.d.

Teaching

Box	Folder
55	775	Miscellaneous, 1975-78, n.d.

776

Design lecture slides, 1977, n.d.

777

Women's School of Planning and Architecture: fantasy drawings, n.d.

Travel

Box	Folder
55	778	Bahamas, 1971-72

779

England, c. 1960s

780

France [?], 1984, n.d.

Box	Folder
56	781	Germany, 1987

782

Germany: Berlin Wall, 1987

783

Holland, 1984, n.d.

784

Italy, 1992, n.d.

785-786

Mexico, 1954-55, n.d.

787

Scandinavia, 1982, n.d.

788

Sri Lanka, 1973

United States

Box	Folder
56	789	General, 1970-84, n.d.

790

Canyon de Chelly, AZ, c. 1969

791

Olympics, Los Angeles, 1984

Vietnam, 1973

Box	Folder
57	792	Slide lecture

793

Miscellaneous

794

San Genero, 1972

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES

Written material

Box	Folder
58	795	General and miscellaneous, 1972, n.d.

796

"Architectural Barriers to Women, Mothers with Young Children": introduction, n.d.

796a

The Thanks be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation grant materials, 1993-94, n.d.

797

"Head Change": notes, 1977, n.d.

"Listen!"/"The Second Wave" (proposed film on the women's liberation movement)

798

American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Program funding applications, 1977-78

799-780

Notes, n.d.

781

Interview notes, n.d.

Interview transcripts

782

June Arnold

783

Charlotte Bunch

784

Robin Morgan

785

Esther Newton and Kathryn McHargue

786

Sue Perlgut

787

Carole Rosenthal

788

Dinah Utah and Nancy Johnson

789

Shirley Walton

790

Washington Square Park, n.d.

Films

Architecture

Box	Folder
59	1	Bronx House, Davis Brody

Chicago

Davis Brody and Associates

"Davis Brody Buildings" 10/71

"Davis Brody Building/1 Foot of Naomi Fatt"

6-7A

Hampshire College

Laundromats, 1978

"LIU Library Model Making"

"LIU"

"Soleri" Watts Towers [?] Pouring Foundation

Soleri? Foundation pouring

Soleri, c. 1969?

Soleri, Sandy [?]

Soleri

Space Center Assembly Building

"Waterside Site/Yale shots"

Art Films

Box	Folder
60	18	"A&P Broome St./Ice Skate," 1962

"A&P," Market St., 8/6/60

"Ann and Sue," summer 1970

"Auto Show"

"Backyard"

Backyard, 1979

"Beach"

"Beach--Footprints" Flotsam 8/66

Beach House 7/69

"Beach Walk B.H.?"

"Beach With Dogs--Sagaponack"

"Bici's Divorce"

"BMT//Bridge"

"City Island, Women," 8/71

"Clark Ferebee House"

"Clark/Ferebee, pigeons near Macy's" Herald Square, 5/70

Dogs

"Drive"

Fantasy Film, Dream, Forbes, Birkby

"Fibishes" / Fall Foliage Family, 11/68

Flowers, Stamford

Frances/Water, etc. @ Lynda's

"Head Change"

Box	Folder
61	40	completed film [?]

16 mm elements, AB roll, magtrack

Box	Folder
62	42	Slide out takes

Video out takes

Original footage

Out takes

Title roll

Out takes

Titles

A Roll

B Roll

Old title

Extra video

Titles

54-55

"Kite," 1971

Lone Woman on Beach, 5/70

Louise Fishman at the Beach

Love Letter

Mime

Miscellaneous

Nude Man at Beach

Rooftop Shooting

Scenery, 1972

Box	Folder
63	64	Seashells By the Seashore

Shirley Walton

"Stamford" Long Island Beach

"Stamford" II 8/68

67A

"Stamford"

"Sun on Water/Sky/Rough Cut(?)" Beach Sunset

69-70

"Tractor," 1971

"Two Bridges" Brooklyn Bridge

Two Bridges Manhattan

"Two Bridges ______" Neighborhood/Manhattan Bridge, 1969

Untitled

75-81

Washington Square Park, circa 1970, n.d.

Box	Folder
64	82	Washington Square Park, circa 1970, n.d.

Box	Folder
65	83	Washington Square Park, circa 1970, n.d.

Wholeo

Box	Folder
64	85	Wind Chimes, 11/71

86-87

Windsor

Personal

Box	Folder
64	88	"Amazon Weekend"

"Amazon Weekend"

90-91

CR Volleyball

CR #1 Dinner Party at Kate Millett's Farm

"Dance" Birthday Party

Box	Folder
66	94	"Dykes at Jill's Weekend" Upstate NY

Box	Folder
64	95	Esther, Louise, Roberta, Martha, Aug 1971

96-97

Friendship Circle at Beach House, 1972

The Girl Gang

"Group"

100

Group

101

"Jane and Jill"

102

Jane O'Wyatt and Jill Johnston

103

Jennifer's Birthday Party, 6/67

104

Jill Johnston and Van, 3/72

105

Maryland II

106

Old Peekskill Calendar, 1976

Box	Folder
66	107	"Peekskill--Leslie/Dinah"

108

"Pt. Pleasant," 12/67

109

R, K, W, Cats

110

Self Portrait: Hello, Hello, Hello

111

"Softball"

112

Street Fair

113

Tower, Esther, Louise

114

"Woodstock Pool/Dana's Baseball Team"

Political

Box	Folder
66	115	"Abortion St. Pat's" Protest

116

"Abortion" Rights, St. Patrick's Protest, reel #2

117

Albany March

118

"April 10" Demonstration in Washington DC

119

"Dec 12 Demo" Women's Liberation Demonstration 1970

Box	Folder
67	120	"5th St."

121

"First 1/2 of March '71?" Women's March, first half, '71?

122

Gay March 7/71

122A-B

Gay March, [?] 1977

123-126

"It's All Right to Be Woman Theater"

127

"Patchapines, E-Day, 42nd St., Peace March"Demo/42nd St./Patchapines Yoga Hour

128

Women's Lib March A

129

"Women's Liberation March Trial Blowups" B

130

Women's Lib 26 Aug 1970

131

Women's Strike for Peace and Equality

132

Untitled

Travel

Box	Folder
68	133	"Bahamas"

134

"Canyon de Chelly" [formerly Soleri Cement A]

135

"Maryland"

136

"Maryland"

137-143

Miscellaneous Road Footage A-G

144-147

Olympics, Out of Focus Field Hockey, 1984

148

"Patchapines"

149

"Saigon," 1973

150

Saigon [?], [?] 1973

Videotapes

Preservation masters--VHS format

Box	Folder
69	1-2	Kay Standley and Bradley Soule lecture on perceptions of discrimination in the professions and forecast for change for women professionals and the professions in general, at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, NY 13 Dec 1972

Alliance of Women in Architecture

Discussion of history, goals and activities of the AWA at the Architectural League of New York, n.d.

3a-3b

General meeting, 10 Aug [1972]

AWA members' discussion of AWA's relationship with UIFA, 26 Oct 1972

Consciousness raising

Introduction to CR: AWA group discussing CR at Architectural League of NY

6-7

CR session with AWA members at Judy Klein's, [1972]

Architect Judy Edelman interviewed by Sarah Brezavar, n.d.

9-10

Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes, 3rd Annual Congress, Bucharest, interviews with women architects, an engineer, and the president of UIFA 1972:

Architectural Barriers to women: mothers with young children, c. 1972

Video document of Women in Architecture Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, March 1974

"Mardelle [Shepley]" Discussion at Columbia University(?) the status of women in Architecture followed by footage of women making architectural drawings and models, n.d.

VHS Originals

Box	Folder
69	14-15	Lesbian Activists at Mid-Life, meeting 29 Jan 1989

Group at 51 Castle St., Great Barrington, 25 Nov 1990

"NYIT 90--New Mexico/Pow Wow"

Noel Phyllis Birkby Memorial/Party, Kate Millett's loft, 295 Bowery, NYC, 5 Jun 1994

Box	Folder
70	19	"Birkby's Greatest Hits" video of still photographs of/by NPB shown at Memorial/Party, 5 Jun 1994

"In Memoriam: Phyllis Birkby" short film by Barbara Hammer shown at Memorial/Party, (2 copies) 5 Jun 1994

Group (Sidney Abbott, Barbara Love, Alma Routsong, etc.), Horse Show, n.d.

"Dr. Ji" Tai Chi, n.d.

"Cats, Fire Dept., Horse Show," n.d.

Film Transfers, VHS format--Preservation Masters

Box	Folder
70	24	"CR Volleyball" (2 copies)

Six Short Films by NPB ("Head Change," "Tractor," "Kite," "5th St.," "Windsor," and "Amazon Weekend")

Transfer of films 94-102, 104-105, 107, 110-113 to VHS

Transfer of films 115-119, 121 to VHS

Transfer of films 122-129, 131-132 to VHS

Box	Folder
71	1-13	Original Videotapes, reel-to-reel format

Box	Folder
72	1-13	Restoration Masters, U-Matic format

In-house Use Copies, Transfers of Films

Box
72a		#90-91, VHS

#7, 7A, 8, 20, 18, 23, 22, 30, 31, 62, 71-73 DVD

#75-83 DVD

#40, 54-56, 69-70, 86-89, 120 [transferred from VHS 25] DVD

#94-102, 104-105, 107, 110-113 [transferred from VHS 26] DVD

#27, 115-119, 121 [transferred from VHS 27] DVD

#122, 122A, 122B, 123-129, 132 [transferred from VHS 28] DVD

#130 [transferred from VHS 28a] DVD

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS

Cassettes: Preservation Copies

Personal

Box	Folder
73	1	Audio letter, Bertha Harris to NPB, n.d.

Audio letter, NPB to Bertha Harris, n.d.

Consciousness raising group, "Butch/Femme," 1 Oct 1971

Side A: Consciousness raising group, "Butch/Femme," (cont'd) Side B: music for Tractor film and Washington Square Park sounds 1 Oct 1971

Consciousness raising group, "Bisexuality," 9? Oct [1971]

Side A: Consciousness raising group, "Bisexuality," 9? Oct [1971] (cont'd) Side B: "Sandy # 1," 14 Aug 1971

Consciousness raising group, "Straight," 2 Jan 197[2]

Jill Johnston reading from her work for NPB, n.d.

"Mod Drama," performance, Bici [Forbes]/Mallory [Millett Danaher], n.d.

"On the Streets of Sagaris," performance, Emily Medvec recorded by Hera, 1975

Psychic reading with Michael Hughes, n.d.

Therapy Session Tapes

Box	Folder
73	12	Therapy session with Beverly Dennis, 7 Mar 1978

Therapy session with Beverly Dennis, 30 Jul [1978]

Therapy session with Beverly Dennis, n.d.

Side A: Therapy session with Beverly Dennis, n.d. Side B: "Jany V. S." interview re windmill, n.d.

16-17

Therapy session, "Phyllis" (2 cassettes) n.d.

18-20

Therapy session, "Session" (3 cassettes) n.d.

Side A: Therapy session, "ice cubes" Side B: Vietnamese Music n.d.

Political

Box	Folder
74	22	Women's Liberation March, 26 Aug 1970

Women's March on City Hall, 12 Dec 1970

24-25

Women's Liberation (2 cassettes) March, Aug 1971

Women's / Discussion at Jill's re ritual, matriarchy March, 1972

speech, Betty Friedan, IDCA, 1975

Women's National March on the Pentagon, 10 Apr 1971

29-30

Kate Millett interviews, (2 cassettes) 1/5/77 and 12/4/7[7]

31-33

Christopher Street March/Rally, (3 cassettes) 1977?

34-36

National Women's Conference, Houston, TX, (3 cassettes) 18-21 Nov 1977

Presentation at conference [MLA 1974?] re lesbian literature, n.d.

38-40

Feminist Perspectives on Pornography conference, San Francisco, CA, (3 cassettes) 17-19 Nov 1978

Kate Millett interview [not by NPB], n.d.

Interview re welfare, Mary Vogel [not by NPB], n.d.

Architecture

Box	Folder
75	43	Expo 68 Whole Life Expo, San Francisco, panel, "Housing for Everyone" Boyd, Herman, McMahaon, et al. Apr 1987:

Magrit Kennedy, talk, "Energy," Oslo, Norway, 1982

Magrit Kennedy talk on women and architecture, n.d.

Monterey Design Conference, "Human Nature and Architecture" Apr 1987,

Two Bridges Neighborhood Council meeting(?), n.d.

Translation by Jan D. of articles re architecture and women from German periodicals, n.d.

Films

Second Wave of Feminism

Box	Folder
75	49	Interview, June Arnold, 7 Jun 1977

50-51

Interview, Esther Newton and Kathryn McHargue, (2 cassettes) second tape b/w Discussion among friends n.d.

Interview, Sue Perlgut, 10 Jun 1977

General

Box	Folder
75	53	Washington Square Park: sounds, interview, n.d.

Discussion at Kate Millett's farm about progress on a film, n.d.

"Tractor" soundtrack

"Mooncircles" slide lecture soundtrack for "fan slides", n.d.

Research, Speaking, Writing

Elderly Housing

Box	Folder
75	56	"Old People Pratt Tape," n.d.

Community ___________ Society meeting re elderly, Oct 1975

Dover(?) St. meeting re elderly, n.d.

Discussion, "Kids/Old People," n.d.

Women and the Built Environment

Environmental Fantasy Discussions

Box	Folder
75	60	"Washington women, Val, Jo," 31 Jul 1974

"Val, Jo, L.," 4 Aug [1974?]

"Dinah's Fantasy childhood," 25 Aug [1974?]

Interview, Liza ?, Cheryl ?, and Mary ?, and NPB, Mar 1974

Box	Folder
76	64	"Tape on fantasy, cont'd," 9 Sep 1974

Ann Pollon, Gail ?, Bertha Harris, n.d.

Side A: Ann Pollon, Gail?, Bertha Harris, n.d. Side B: "Goddard" slide lecture, n.d.

Julia ? and Sahli [Cavallaro?], Lectures/workshops/conference presentations n.d.

University of Detroit slide lecture, "Women in Architecture," 10 Oct 1974

Gay Academic Union Conference, New York University, "Negotiating Space: The Woman-Built Environment 30 Nov 1974,

Workshop, NPB and LKW, "Women in Design: The Next Decade" conference, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, 20-21 Mar 1975

71-72

Lecture and workshop, "Two Feminist Designers, Leslie Kanes Weisman and Noel Phyllis Birkby," University of Wisconsin--Green Bay, 1-2 May 1975

Workshop, "Fantasies and Realities: Women's Visions of the Built Environment," Feminist Visions of the Future conference, California State, Chico, CA, Mar 1979

Workshop led by NPB, unidentified, n.d.

Workshop led by NPB and LKW, unidentified, n.d.

Women's Vernacular Architecture

Box	Folder
76	76	Interviews, Virginia Gray, Santa Fe, NM, 11 Apr 1979; Laurie Davis (Hogan dwelling), n.d.

Interviews, Santa Fe, NM, n.d.

Interviews, Laurie Davis, Nancy Lipsett, Santa Fe, NM, n.d.

79-80

Interviews, Tipi Village, Isla Vista, CA, Mona and Jade, (2 cassettes) n.d.

Interviews in Santa Barbara, Sandy? Pat?,

Interview, Pyramid of Amaratasu, Jenner, CA, n.d.

Interview, Joyce Johnston, Truro, MA, n.d.

Interview, Tye Farm, H. Bye, n.d.

Box	Folder
77	85	Interview, Marsha Oliver (oval house), n.d.

Interview, Lorie ?, n.d.

Interview, Shannon's cabin n.d., Fantasy Workshop, Therapy session with Beverly Dennis, [ Aug 1978]

Reference

Box	Folder
77	88	Leslie Kanes Weisman teaching ARIII class [University of Detroit?], 5 Sep 1974

Talk by Ena Dubnoff, "How space has beenappropriated by women to satisfy their material and creative needs," Long Beach, 1985

Slide lecture on women and design by Sheila de Bretteville, n.d.

Women's Development Corporation meeting, n.d.

Teaching

Box	Folder
77	92	City College of the City University of New York, architecture class, n.d.

[Pratt Institute?], Basic Design Class, 20 Oct 1974

94-95

Womanschool Adult Education Center, Women and the Built Environment, (2 cassettes) Oct 1975

Gay Academic Union Conference, panel "The Lesbian Experience in Education,"

Box
78-81		Cassettes: Originals

Cassettes: Use Copies

Box	Folder
81a	3	Consciousness raising group, "Butch/Femme," [2 compact discs] 1 Oct 1971

Side A: Consciousness raising group, "Butch/Femme," (cont'd) and Side B: music for Tractor film and Washington Square Park sounds [cassette] 1 Oct 1971

Consciousness raising group, "Bisexuality," [cassette] 9? Oct [1971]

Side A: Consciousness raising group, "Bisexuality," (cont'd) and Side B: "Sandy # 1," [cassette] 9? Oct [1971]14 Aug 1971

Consciousness raising group, "Straight," [cassette] 2 Jan 197[2]

Reel-to-Reel

Personal

Box	Folder
82	1	Audio letter, Barbara Hammer to NPB, "A Tape #1," 28-31, Jul 1978

Films

Second Wave of Feminism

Box	Folder
82	2	Kate Millett talk at Gay Academic Union conference, University of Southern California, 25 Nov 1978

Women's Liberation March, 1970

4-5

Interview: Shirley Walton, 12 Jun and 31 July 1977

Interview: Charlotte Bunch, n.d.

Interview: June Arnold, 7 Jun 1977

8-9

Robin Morgan Yarrow-Birkby broadcast on Velvet Sledgehammer (2 tapes) 31 Jul 1977

Second Wave of Feminism, interview: Robin Morgan, n.d. Washington Square Park, sounds, n.d.

Box	Folder
83	11	Second Wave of Feminism, interview: Dinah Utah andNancy Johnson, 13 Jun 1977

Second Wave of Feminism, interview: Carole Rosenthal, n.d. Washington Square Park, sounds, n.d.

Research, Speaking, and Writing

Women and the Built Environment

Box	Folder
83	13	Lecture "Feminism and Architecture in the U.S.," Sarah Kulturzentrum/Cafe fur Frauen, Stuttgart, Germany, 29 Aug 1980

Workshop with LKW, n.d.

Interview at Pyramid of Amaratasu, Barbara [Hammer], Claire, Alicia?, NPB, Feb 1978

OVERSIZE MATERIALS

Series I. Biographical and Financial Material

Box	Folder
84	791	General

792

Artwork by NPB and friends

793

Education: Yale University portfolio and Third Year Design problems and class work

Box	Folder
85	794	Sketchbooks

795

Travel

Series II. Correspondence

Box	Folder
86	796	Correspondence

Series III. Architecture

Box	Folder
86	797	Licenses

Projects

798

Bellevue Environs

799

Campbell

800

Dominguez

801

Knowlton

802

Long Island University

803

Pollon

Box	Folder
87	804	Watering Place

805

Waterside Houses

806

Women's Liberation Center

807

unidentified

Subject Files

Box	Folder
87	808	General

809

Alternative Construction Systems

Series IV. Research, Speaking and Writing

Box	Folder
88	810	General

811

Women and the Built Environment: Fantasy Drawings

Series VI. Subject Files

Box	Folder
88	812	Individuals

813

Women, A - F

814

Women, G - Z

815

Homosexuality

Series VII. Photographs

Box	Folder
89	816	Personal

817

Architecture

818

Artistic

819

Miscellaneous

820

Political

821

Travel

OVERSIZE MATERIALS -- TUBES

Series I. Biographical and Financial Material

Box
Tube 1		Education: Cooper Union student drawings

Series III. Architecture

Box
Tube 2		Projects: Long Island University Library/Learning Center

Box
Tube 3		Projects: Waterside Houses

Series IV. Research, Speaking, and Writing

Women and the Built Environment: Environmental Fantasy Drawings

Box
Tube 4		"Aug 13 WSPA"

Box
Tube 5		"L.A. Conference"

Box
Tubes 6-14		Unidentified

OVERSIZE -- FLAT FILE

Series I. Biographical and Financial Material

Artwork by NPB and friends

Education, student work

53-54

Miscellaneous student projects (2 folders)

Medical Building

Cooper Union

Miscellaneous

Urban Row House

Episcopal Church

Group Medical Center

International University, NY campus w/Lynda Simmons

Yale University

Thesis: Hofstra University Gymnasium

Housing for the Elderly

Museum

Recital Hall

Series IV. Research, Speaking, and Writing

General

Women and the Built Environment: Women's Vernacular Architecture, M.F. Beal house plan

67-69

Women and the Built Environment: Fantasy Drawings

Series III. Architecture

Subject Files

Series V. Teaching

Teaching

Series VI: Subject Files

Individuals

Women: Artists

Women's Organizations, The Woman's Building

Homosexuality

Appendix: Descriptive List of Birkby's Films

The following list was made primarily by Birkby friend, the filmmaker Barbara Hammer in 1996. Films located after that time were described by student assistants Erin Zolkosky and Crystal Daugherty using Barbara Hammer's list as a model. The few films with no description were considered self explanatory or have not been viewed.

Titles that were written on the film or the box in which the film was stored are in quotes. Other titles were assigned by Barbara Hammer.

ARCHITECTURE

1. BRONX HOUSE, DAVIS BRODY. 3 min. Sup. 8

2. CHICAGO. Sup. 8, B&W, good condition.

Shot of a man, another man, three men.

Abstract B&W of just hair and white background.

Interesting architectural space they're in. Some important Wright building. Architectural details, well exposed. Exterior has statues at rooftop.

Next reel in color. Probably looking at Wright again. Residence. W.S. Sherman home, 148 Coonely Road. Looks like the whole film is an exploration of those two spaces. Leaded glass.

Downtown Chicago skyline, then the Sears Tower, then Lake Michigan. Her Chicago experience.

Beach at Lake Michigan. Sunset over city. Water, sunset reflected on the water.

3. DAVIS BRODY AND ASSOCIATES.8 mm.

Whole film has red cast, light flare along one edge and is of different people, men and women. It might be architectural students or colleagues of hers, definitely architectural. Drawing table.

Second part is B&W. Shots of different men, one woman, same group of people in architectural school or they're colleagues. Book in the background "Yale". She attended Yale.

****Very early image of Phyllis, kind of gray, cute, smiling, talking, long hair and no scratches on film. Looks pretty young.

People working at their desks in architectural space. Office space of architects. Probably 1962.

4. "DAVIS BRODY BUILDINGS"

Construction workers repairing building site, first minute and half.

Second minute not exposed - all black.

5. "DAVIS BRODY BUILDING/1 FOOT OF NAOMI FATT"

Nearly complete. One shot of Naomi Fatt at head of reel. Film in good condition, pristine.

6. HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE. 3 min.

Driving in snow to Hampshire; bldgs., etc. pretty good. slightly over-exposed.

7. HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, REEL 2.

7A. HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE [?]. Approx. 3 min.

Building--Hampshire College? on snowy day. Trees, stand of birches. Camera pans building. Paths on campus. Building. Young people walking around campus. People walking under building passageway. Shots of small bus-stop(?) building. Several quick shots of campus and people walking around.

8. LAUNDR0MATS. A Film by Arc 2 A . Filmed at SCI-ARC, 1978. Phyllis Birkby, Instructor. A study of physical and social space of Laundromats.

Star Wash. Clothes going round. Woman walking into Laundry cleaners. Series of Wash House signs. Some stop action sections.

Lots of signs. Sense of humor shows in choice of signs. People engaged in talking, sorting clothes, putting in coins, etc. Empty chairs. Machine bubbling over. Tide box in trash. Kids. Shots of woman's ass. Obviously from an admiring viewpoint. Beautiful sense of emptiness of space in early morning, slightly overexposed shots. Diagram, cartoon of how to do laundry.

Excellent shots of laundromat model design. Was this film a study to see the needs of people in a laundromat then followed by the model made to fit the needs? Many different creative models. Very colorful and interesting designs!

Stop action of people going in and out of laundromat doors. Overexposed but interesting. Loading clothes into car trunk.

9. "LIU LIBRARY@MODEL MAKING". Super 8

Silhouette of guy, soft focus of woman and library model. Men working at models at desks w/glue and brushes, modelbuilding. Some in focus, some soft focus.

10. "LIU. One minute.

11. "Soleri.WATTS TOWERS? POURING FOUNDATION. 8 mm.

Some construction. A woman working mixing cement, and men. Laying foundation, looks like. May be a house she designed.

1923 S.P. is the way tower is signed. Film damaged, broken splices and film almost broken at end. Film damaged at end. Watts towers, looks like.

12. SOLERI? BLACK & WHITE ARCHITECTURAL STUDY, FOUNDATION POURING. B&W 8mm.

Well exposed, no scratches. Very interesting architectural space people are fixing up. Looks like women, one man. Really wild, wonderful architecture.

Fantastic gate, curved wooden roof.

Second section - pouring foundation.

13. SOLERI CEMENT, B.

Architectural model w/group of people around it. Rounded architectural space of cement, in a desert setting. Very interesting. Walkways that are jagged and diagonal.

Outside, cement mixer after chimes. A man and women working with the cement. You see forms.

14. "Soleri, Sandy(?).

Man working on a lathe. More of the cement chimes or bells, different from film 13 - beautiful - hung on strings. Another set of them, different kind.

Film in good shape, no scratches, well exposed. Ceiling w/red in between the cement rafters. Open space w/cement between, makes it look very light. More hanging bells in a new configuration. Spikes of the building.

Now in a car. She's in back seat, so we see driver's face in rearview mirror, and a woman sitting next to driver. Now beautiful abstract shot CU of rearview mirror which is reflecting natural scenes as car goes forward. Blurred countryside. Back to Canyonlands [see film 134]. She must have visited this place first and then gone on this trip.

15. SOLERI.

Flintstones comic of construction in desert setting similar to redrock.

16. SPACE CENTER ASSEMBLY BUILDING. color

Shots of trees and roadside moving past with Space Center Assembly Building in background. Unexposed strip. Driving onto center grounds; stopped at a guard booth. Descending upon the building, driving closer. Shot of building out window of car. Interior of building--greenish, a sign says "cell 3--cell 4." Interior shots, of structural elements, start close up, zoom out. Also panning across room. Shot of glass wall. Wide shot of hanger (?), workers walking past. close up of sign: "hard hat area." Wide shot of ceiling and track lighting glowing greenly. Another pan across the glass wall. Dark interior shots. More pans up and down the glass wall, in succession. Jump cuts between shots of darkly exposed interior. Shot of backlit interior structure: beams, supports. More zooms and pans through the interior. Med. shot of missile, panning it up and down. Jump cuts of between sticker of American flag, group walking out, interior of mission control. Interior landscape shot. Airstrip? Jump cuts of shots of mission control. Close up of digital counter.

17. "WATERSIDE SITE/YALE SHOTS". Overexposed.

Shot from a car driving by Yale U. When she gets to Yale, nicely shot architectural studies, all of different buildings. Window details, roof details. Good shape, no scratches. Only drive part is overexposed.

ART FILMS

18. "A&P BROOME ST./ICE SKATE". 1962 1.5 min. on Market St. at night. 1.5 min. ice skating in the country.

Night shooting of store fronts and signs. DeSantis Prime Meats in bright red. Chubby's Restaurant. Daytime, looks like near her home in Chinatown. Maybe her street. Bridge or subway trestles. She's shooting out of her loft window at people walking by on the street. Store was across the street.

Second part - Man w/mustache ice skating. Person in yellow rainhat. Snow on ground. Old-fashioned ice skate - close up of. Another guy ice skating. Abstract study of ice. Would be beautiful projected. Shooting television set. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Goldie Hawn, etc.

19. "A&P" MARKET ST. 8/6/60. 8 mm color, Overexposed.

Across the street from her home.

20. "ANN AND SUE.SUMMER 1970. Color Sup. 8.

Sweet little study. Interesting architectural house on ocean at the beach. A woman waving from the stairs. Looks like Long Island. Woman lying in the sand, CU of another woman reading Novel Perspectives. Two women, Ann and Sue, in the sand together, CU of their feet crossed, touching. Good exposure. Lot of foot study. Slightly scratched. Still feet. Major feet study, more feet. CU of one of them. Medium shot of same rolling in the sand and out of the picture. Same woman by the ocean.

21. "AUTO SHOW".

Perfect condition, details and features of cars in an auto show. Beautifully shot for design and light. Alfa-Romeo, Ferrari Spitfire, Land Rover, Austin Healey.

22. BACKYARD 1979. 8 mm. color.

Looks like an urban backyard - TV antenna, clothes on lines. Probably shot from her living space, out window. It's a pun on backyard, potted plants and laundry and other buildings directly facing your own. Footage is good, slightly green. Manhattan skyscrapers shot sideways, city hall as well as vertical. Nice shot of white laundry, with city hall in background. Looks like a creative piece. 1979. Potted plants. Slightly scratched. A lot of cables and ropes, beautifully shot, great color, pulleys. Looks like boat mast, ropes and pulleys, it is. River is right there in back yard.

23. "BACKYARD". Approx. 5 min. (color)

Fairly dark exposures: Shot of NYC skyline. Shots of buildings. Shots of buildings out of focus, focusing. Shot of side of building taken through a window; pans up through frame. shot of twilight sky, fading light. Jump cuts between quick shots of buildings, TV antenna.

24. "BEACH". (color)

Close up of women's faces. Side close up of woman's face, she's driving. Series of close ups and extreme close ups of female faces, possibly inside car. Close up of a woman's neck, mouth in side profile. Arrival at the beach: 3 women walk into the frame, into the distance. Shot of hazy beach. Med. long shot of woman holding shark skeleton up to the camera. Another woman spreads a blanket. Another walks away to a dune. Med. shot of reclining woman's midsection from back. Jump cut to front shot. Close up of woman's face. Another woman's face. Splice. Shot of three women running away from the camera toward the water. One woman runs back and forth along the shoreline. Two women link arms and twirl around. Woman in bikini stands dead shark upright in sand. Shot of woman in the bikini and woman in yellow shirt jesting with each other. Wide shot of women standing with backs to camera, looking at the water. More shots of goofing around. Wide shots of women walking, running down the beach. The woman in red walks toward the camera, into an extreme close up. Splice. Med. shot of dunes. Shot of woman sitting on the dunes. More shots of the woman on the dunes from various angles. Med. long shot of two women cuddling. More shots of women on dunes: walking around, linking arms. Pan across dunes to shoreline. Long shot of woman walking over dune toward camera. Stops, lies down, disappears, sits up again. Rear long shots of women at shoreline, looking out at water.

25. "BEACH--FOOTPRINTS.FLOTSAM 8/66. 8 mm. color

Woman at beach w/dog. Wonderful third shot of two foot prints in sand merged. Exposure good, color good. First part of first shot in leader is damaged. Footprints in the sand. Ocean. Shot footprints so they look 3-dimensional in bas relief in shadow on them. Small doll in seaweed, flotsam, washed up by the waves. Coughdrops in seaweed. Interesting junk in seaweed. Then a lone sandal. A milk carton, etc. Dead bird. Sea grasses.

26. BEACH HOUSE, 7/69. 8mm Color.

All pink cast. Just flotsam, crabs, rocks. Do not see a beach house at all. Sand is pink, water is pink. Skeleton. Sailboat. A face of Louise Fishman. Overexposed Louise F. in pink water. Not worth much.

27. "BEACH WALK, B.H.?.BEACH WALK. Short Roll, Super 8, 2 min.

Possibly Barbara Hammer. Back of woman walking, running at beach. Ocean.

28. "BEACH W/DOGS--SAGAPONACK.

Woman w/afghan dog, running by beach. Woman sunning. CUs of different women sunning and dogs, more dogs, different dogs, CUs of their dog hair, interesting texture of CUs. Many minutes. CU of woman's laughing face. Goggles in the sun. Doghair w/ocean behind. Face of the Afghan. Tail of Afghan. Japanese multi-colored umbrellas, creatively shot piece. Two dogs sniffing each other. Scottish terrier. Women playing frisbee. Slightly scratched, good exposure

29. "BICI'S DIVORCE". B&W Super 8

Bici [Forbes] on one side, line separates paper, other side says Jeff [Hendricks, Fluxus artist]. Seems to be pasted on a wall in a house w/barbed wire between, in interior of a home. Zoom on a person but dark, can't tell who it is. Maybe Jeff. Woman - also dark footage. Tangle of barbed wire w/somebody's hands touching it. Looks like a divorce ritual. Woman enmeshing herself in barbed wire. Dark. Door w/light bulb hanging by and a bouquet of flowers. Something wrapped in bubble wrap.

30. "BMT [Brooklyn Mass Transit]//BRIDGE". B&W Super 8. 3 minutes.

Shot at night. Looks like white lights in a dark space. Probably a subway car going by. Probably would look good projected. She lived under the Manhattan Bridge. Would like to see it projected. Pristine condition. Five shots of Louise Fishman and another woman at the beach picking up shells.

31. "CITY ISLAND WOMEN". Super 8 color. 8/71.

Mannequin of a woman's head then cuts to a woman in the street. CUs of women in street walking by. No scratches, good color. Policewoman, all different ages of women, gray haired, long brown hair. Women sitting down, studying, Playboy bunny in B&W. Drawing of a woman w/mustache on her. Interior shots. Shot of Phyllis w/aviator glasses and hair pulled back. Shots of a man and other women, CUs. Probably an architectural group. CUs of hands slicing wood, building models. A photo or postcard of Psyche kissing a woman, statue of woman's head looking down, infant sucking breast on statue. Photo of two women who look like mother and sister or sisters, ancient photo. Photo of two women w/shawls, sign that says SISTERS. Looks like a photographic show of sisters.

Exterior shot of a blonde woman CU. Long shot of her as she turns head and looks at traffic. Shot of another woman very tan and also slightly blonde and smiling towards camera. Shot of water w/sailboat on it. Might be Catalina or ?

Back to same woman, lying down, CU of her face w/hand shading her eyes, smiling, laughing, good shot but intermittent scratch but much of it not scratched. Feels very intimate.

32. "CLARK FEREBEE HOUSE.. Color. Super 8

Trees on the beach. Brief shot of a man walking. House, wood shingle, wood patterns, light on wood, graphic shooting of shingles. Probably Clark at the beach. Tractor at the beach. Clark in rearview mirror of tractor and driving it on the sand at the beach and it's some dirt shovel or tractor. Only thing on the house is the shingles.

33. "CLARK/FEREBEE, PIGEONS NEAR MACY'S". 8 mm color, 5/70

Trees, bay window reflecting the ocean, more flotsam, junk floating in the water. Pigeons near Macy's in second part. Statue in the Macy's area. People dining outdoors. Good focus, not scratched. Large red X sculpture w/pigeons and people dining around it. Lots of pigeons being fed and statue of man w/NY buildings behind it. Maybe Herald Square.

34. DOGS.

Two German Shepherds playing in hallway. Interesting brown tones. Night footage, distant lights. Back to dogs again in living room. Colors nice, playful, fill up most of frame. Person wearing a Samuel Gompers sweatshirt in picture, a guy, seems to be his dog. Out the window dark again back again, out the window.

35. "DRIVE. (color)

Shots of driving down twisting country roads in winter. A bit of snow is on the ground. Shot through the windshield. Camera is very jumpy. Shots of driving through country roads through rain globules on the windshield. The rain has turned to ice. Quick shots of passing cars. The ice has melted, blurring the windshield. Leader. Medium shots of the roadside, the camera is being moved back and forth. More shots of driving down country roads through windshield, but camera is zoomed in slightly on road. Shaking camera shots of same: roadside, trees, snow. Camera straightens out to stretch of road again. Windshield wipers pass across screen. The corner of the windshield appears in the frame. More winding roads. No more rain or snow.

36. FANTASY FILM, DREAM FORBES, BIRKBY, NAOMI FATT.- print, not original.

Some hand colored footage. In a violet scene she cuts from B&W to color and then back. Does that several times and intercuts a woman's breast being revealed w/ a man's glaring eyes. Hands on breasts, cut to man's eyes. Violet scene seems to be two women in sexual wrestling intercut w/men looking and w/ the breast. The woman is looking back. Two men behind table watching. Men in sepia. Women in color, rolling on the floor. Circle vignette around two men, cut to a circle mirror of the breast, cut to circle of two women, black all around, hole in balloon. Her creative work.

37. "FIBISHES" 11/68, FALL FOLIAGE FAMILY. Reg. 8

Dark. Nature footage, man shot like an hour before sunset, footage looks reddish. CU of a woman. Man and woman at the seaside. Beautifully lit little kid going up a small hillock with the light catching her orange jacket. Everything dark but the orange jacket. Everything dark but the orange light of a person's face. Kid being held by a person. Wildweeds.

Perfect exposure of a fall day on second half. Child in fall colored coat surrounded by beautiful fall foliage. Mom in bellbottoms walks up tree limb barefoot while child looks. Yellow-leafed trees around. Kid follows in foliage colored jacket. Out of focus trees. Another woman below looks up at beautiful red-leaved tree. Lake w/fall trees around. Beautiful two leaves floating in water w/lily pads. Dock into water w/two women and a child. More foliage relfected in the water. Footage is in good condition.

38. FLOWERS STAMFORD. Color, 1 min.

Various short shots of flowers. Good shape.

39. "FRANCES, WATER, ETC. @ LYNDA'S [SIMMONS].,

Frances Doughty--one good shot at head of roll; rest water reflections, leaves, sunlight; another woman soft focus, Lynda?

40. "HEAD CHANGE.. 5 min. 16 mm. color sound film. Completed work.

Love obsession w/woman named Leslie [Ena whom she met at WSPA?] with whom she ran WSPA conferences with. Shot from slides and television footage. Slide of Phyllis w/long hair, halfway through. Soundtrack is popular song "She's That Kind Of Woman" sung by Jade and Sassaparilla. [Ena] Leslie? gets her hair cut. Not dated. Tech. advisor Alida Walsh. In can and mailing carton.

41. "HEAD CHANGE. 16mm. elements film, AB roll, 16 mm. magrack for "Head Change."

42. Slide outtakes from "Head Change".. 16mm

43. Video outtakes from "Head Change". color 16 mm., 30 seconds.

44. "Head Change.

Original footage that was optically printed, 16 mm. of photographs and slides. The WSPA, of Phyllis that were used in Head Change.

45. Outtakes from "Head Change". 16 mm.

red filter used on slides used in Head Change. Video footage. Slides of haircut. Slides of WSPA group.

46. Title roll for "Head Change"..16mm

47. More outtakes, slides from "Head Change".. 16mm

48. Titles for "Head Change".. 16mm

52. Extra video for "Head Change".. 16mm

53. More titles for "Head Change"..16mm

54. "KITE" aka GETTING IT UP. Super 8, 15 minutes. Print.

Sweet Film. Two women lovers at the beach flying kites, lying in sand, holding hands. Nice close ups of sandy levi crotch; shoes with sand, (showing two women together). Kite abstracted to form. Orange and black on white beach. 4 women. One with camera. All in same kite scene. Shot of Phyllis, CU. With aviator clear glasses, eyes closed, throws her head back. CU of Phyllis's face with someone else's fingers in her mouth (or her own). Nice CU's of P.B. Group shots with women and kite. Medium CU of tying kite. Kite flying. Phyllis and others in same shot watch kite. Phyllis holding kite string looks at Louise Fishman? Passing string back and forth. Phyllis with hands up as if lost kite.

55. "KITE" 11/19/71. Sup. 8. Original

56. LONE WOMAN ON BEACH 5/70. Overexposed Reg. 8,

Woman on the beach 5/70. At very end, woman walks away down beach, good exposure. Shots of ocean.

57. LOUISE FISHMAN AT THE BEACH. One and one-half minutes.

Paper spliced. Do not project until splice repaired. Nice creative shooting of two women at the beach, shooting from behind, she shot in a way that they jump from side to side. Image in good shape.

58. LOVE LETTER. 16mm

Pan down a slide of Phyllis to a life size outline drawing of her body. Second shot of drawing, inside body are written things, in the head a fried egg with tears dripping from it and a smile and it said around the outside "a new head." Second shot of legs w/bellbottoms. Left leg says "say acting drawing speaking" right legs says "do something working hearing." One leg says pain one leg says love. Drawing of another person in the class. Dissolve from one figure into another. Could be same person, two different drawings. A slide of one woman, Leslie maybe, different one than we've seen. Three or four photos of another woman, shots short so that they're animated. Looks like Leslie? Graphic like a computer printout Phyllis imprinted over the slide of another woman. Completed film.

59. MIME. Workprint, Super 8, 2 min. (Tails Out)

60. MISCELLANEOUS.

First shot of a woman's hand by a yellow structure. Shot mostly from a TV screen, possibly. Second part - an outake from "Tractor." Do not project, paper splice. Not very interesting.

61. NUDE MAN AT BEACH.

Man w/sunglasses CU. Woman w/sunglasses CU. Extreme CUs showing eyepiece, creatively shot, mouth, nose, camera turned. Long shots of people around a swimming pool in LA. Creekwater, dim shot of a man sitting on a rock in a cave, actually not so bad. Then in another position, doing a shoulder stand on same rock and water going around. Now he's nude. She zooms in on his penis and now there's a rear shot. Another nude shot of him lounging on the rocks. At the beach and same man is lying in sand nude between rocks, kind of crawling on hands and knees as if coming out of the ocean. Another shot of him walking into this cave. CUs of him w/sky behind. Ocean looks Carribean. Ocean is turquoise. CU of him, has a beard. Woman at the beach holding up seeds from a tree or something. Same woman w/camera and looks like her hands are on her bra? or underwear?

62. ROOFTOP SHOOTING. 1.5 minutes

Good shape, nicely exposed. Texaco station at night. New York(?) rooftop, water towers. Could be shot from her roof. Store that says Ernest Chandler's Goods, Tarpaulins, Tents and Bags on its brick building side. Circular pan shot, light is nice, last hour of the day. Manhattan bridge in background, or Brooklyn behind the projects. Next day, Texaco sign in daylight.

63. SCENERY. Super 8, Color, 1972. 1 minute.

A few miscellaneous shots of trees.

64. SEASHELLS BY THE SEASHORE. Super 8, color, 3 minutes.

Carribean or South Seas or ?.

65. SHIRLEY WALTON. Super 8. Black/White. Approx. 12 min.

Unedited footage gets good at end. Mostly dark, too dark to read. Woman in doorway or room posing. Sections of patterned cloth and woman lying down. Has hands crossed on stomach, zoom out, she appears to be pregnant. CU of woman's face without glasses. Nude, swollen breasts, she is pregnant! Beautiful nude long shot, well exposed of pregnant Shirley in interior. Shirley poses erotically while pregnant! Holds stomach. Tummy full frame. Zoom out to LS frontal, side, other side. Same shot from behind. Series of hands on tummy. Shirley dancing? and sitting.

66. "STAMFORD.LONG ISLAND BEACH.. B&W. Reg. 8.

Long Island beaches, has drift fences. Group of men and women on the beach, CUs. She's shooting the way the fences keep at the sand. Looks like Long Island. CU of smiling face of either Ann or Sue, refers back to Beachhouse Film #20?. Beach grasses. Ocean and another woman at the beach. Sue? Hand holding up a rock w/piece of seaweed growing out of it. Hand and foot, hand is going through seaweed, shot from one side of the frame and then the other. A toy cow on the beach.

67. "STAMFORD" II. 8/68 8 mm.

Red and White sailboat. She shoots it very expressively w/graphic design using the shape and color of the sails for a design pattern in part.

67A. STAMFORD.

Ocean, sailboat being set up, Sunfish sailboat on the beach. Red and white sail. Not scratched. Woman and child looking for seashells. Lots of the boat putting out to sea. Man and woman in boat. Hulls of boats on racks. Sunfish sailing. Don't know who people are. Older heterosexual couple.

68. "Sun on Water, Sky, Rough Cut(?).BEACH SUNSET.

Shots of ocean, sunset, ocean, beach foam, foam on sand, lot of soft focus. Waves coming in and out at sunset. Nice cloud shots. Sunset behind clouds. Quite beautiful. Film has a big scratch in it. Looks like she shot a sunset in real time. That's the end of it.

69. "TRACTOR". Original.

70. "TRACTOR". Super 8, color print, approx. 4-5 min.

This is an edited completed Super 8 Film titled TRACTOR. Good Condition. Completed: 11/19/1971 by Noel Phyllis Birkby. The tractor woman is Frederica Leser.

Shots of woman driving tiny tractor. Scenery shots of background. Slightly overexposed. Camera point of view of ground; dark shot of woman driving towards you. Side shot through bushes of woman driving. Frame through interior of home window zoom to tractor. Second shot through corner of barn? window. Side ways with camera turned to the side! of woman driving. Upside down shot of woman driving. Series of camera turned sideways or upside down. Afghan hound CU. Short shots of side ways, upside down. Tractor is mowing lawn. (I remember Phyllis telling me about this film. She considered it complete and a work in itself which it is.) Sunset shots.

71. "TWO BRIDGES".

Brooklyn Bridge, beautifully shot, some scratches, some perfect. The Golden Hour, hour before sunset. East River and buildings around the bridge. Last part is overexposed. Very last is good exposure again.

72. 2 BRIDGES MANHATTAN. Reg. 8, color.

Good color. Shot from rooftop. Rather beautiful. Some light flares. Car Carey's in. Crowds gathered on New York sidewalk. Shots from down in the crowd. Tuba and woman in red, white and blue dress, back to camera, turns. Shots from behind stage. Man in suit turns toward the camera. Men's handshakes w/mens suits. Carey shaking hands, CU of hands. Carey from stage w/microphone. Crowd shots very good. Wonderful character shots of crowd members. A lot of gesturing by Carey, hand gesturing. Series of his hands in frame. Color good, looks great.

73. "TWO BRIDGES ________.NEIGHBORHOOD/MANHATTAN BRIDGE. 1969

Half is black. Her location where she lived. Date of '69 on film. Market Street - One Way. Manhattan Bridge. Beautiful sepia cast to the film. Architectural details of railing. Sign - Community Control is Beautiful and Workable. Sign in Chinese. A shot of the anchorage of the Manhattan bridge. Film is not scratched. Street lights, a shot underneath the subway or bridge looking up. Long shot of Manhattan Bridge with the towers. Architectural details of cement. Snow on fences. Bridge scene through houses. Bridge scene from sidewalk w/community members, different ethnic groups. Then she shoots an abstract, may be the bridge, then darker buildings and a building where bridge was. Sign - Mobilization For Youth. Sign in Hebrew - 22 Rutgers Street. Jewish Daily Forward, huge sign. Important Lower East side footage. Sign - Lower East Side Information Servicecenter. Great roll. Beautiful shots of everything. Snow on trees, camera steady, people walking by. Incredibly beautiful.

74. UNTITLED. Approx. 3 minutes (color)

Darkly exposed shots of woman; zoom in on her face. Woman balances vase on her head. Woman sits with vase in front of her. Close up of her face, she's saying something, and blocks the camera with her hand. Camera zooms out. Another person surprises her by joining her. They bat at each other, then stand together at end.

75. WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. Sup. 8, good condition, color, one minor scratch. Well exposed.

People in the park, in the arch, crowd gathered below arch. Kids in costume - Halloween? Lots of kids in costume below arch, walking, nicely shot.

Woman in clown costume. Kid w/great orange mask as devil, devil's tail, all by himself. A fake plant. CU of kid's face with paint smudges. Kid wrapped in white swaddling and turban. Crowd shots of kids and adults. In a playground section of park w/ropes, kids climbing ropes. Spinning platform. Football game. Seems to be just people in the park, documentation of how people use the park, that's what she'd be interested in. Dark footage. Hare Krishnas - well exposed. Hare Krishnas chanting, dancing w/signs. People using the park. That's it.

76. WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK.

Man w/guitar in civic space. Two African-American men singing and playing guitar in New York. Footage good, not scratched. Street scene of VW red bus painted w/ "LOVE" in big white letters. Could be Washington Square. Hot dog stand, footage looks good, not scratched, minor anyway. Crowd in demonstration or someone's famous, huge crowd. It is Washington Square Park. Long shot. General long shot of people in park, child by pool, volleyball game at Washington Square Park. Red bus is in frame, may have carried the women into the park. Dark shot of game.

Next reel: Back to singers from first reel, strung together, good looking heterosexual older couple in their seventies. Series of shots of people sitting around circle w/fountain in middle in Washington Square Park. People dog walking in Washington Square Park. People sitting around a bench in the park. People gathering in small groups, crowd probably watching entertainers. Two women playing the viola, small group of musicians people watching. Two people (women?) under tree. Photographers, man and woman, sitting at tripod. Man w/sign on his back, ice cream stand. People sitting in small group w/ guitar. General Washington Square Park study.

77. MORE WASHINGTON SQ. PARK. 1.5 min.

Mainly of kids playing. A guy in a suit on a podium, kids playing tag, semi-soft focus.

78. WASHINGTON PARK STUDY SERIES 10/70.

Dog running, fall day, beautiful, no scratches. Pigeons, dogs, people in the street around the park. People walking dogs, squirrel.

79. WASHINGTON PARK STUDY SERIES II 10/70.

Mainly of the arch and buildings surrounding the park, dogs, fountain.

80. WASHINGTON PARK STUDY SERIES III 10/70. 1.5 min.

People in park kissing w/green film. Man filming, woman taking light reading, shooting a kid in a tree. Green filter, trees and sky. Then yellow filter. People reading w/yellow filter.

81. WASHINGTON PARK STUDY SERIES IV 10/70.

Small patch of snow in fall leaves. People around pond. Mounds in park. Twilight. Beautiful filter rainbow light coming down into park. Refraction of light through trees - very pretty. Pigeons on cement bricks. Pigeons in trees. Park bench empty, w/pigeons.

82. WASHINGTON PARK STUDY SERIES V 10/70.

10/25/70. Dark. Kid on bicycle. The arch. Looks like twilight. Fountain without water. Kids in the rain. Troubador area - sign on post.

83. WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. (color and black and white)

Pan around stone steps or enclosure. Crowd shots from the back and side, panning around. Jump cuts between medium shots of people in crowd. Medium shot, pan out of man dancing. Wide shot, zoom in on child in fountain. Jump cuts between shots of black inverted cap-things on ground.

Cut to black and white footage. Children playing on jungle gym in med. long shot, their truncated limbs pass in and out of the spaces between the beams. Med. shot of parents or older children, from back. Med. long shot of children crawling on top of structure. Wide shot, of merry-go-round, zoom into child in center. Med. shot, framed by beams, of child smoking (?).

Cut to color footage. Med. shots of people in Washington Square.

Cut to black and white. Activities in W. Square: woman buys a glass pipe, woman combs hair, shots of people passing by. Elderly couple walzes in midst of passers by. Med. shot of their legs, knees-down, dancing. Zooms out to wide shot. Head shots of passers-by moving in and out of frame.

Cut to color. Shot of the upper half of arch in W. Square. Shots of people in Square, camera zooming in and out. Toddler chases ball.

84. WHOLEO. Original footage, 16 mm, 1751, unscratched, unprojected, perfect condition, tails out on reel.

Hammer's archive has similar footage shot by Hammer of Birkby at same time and in same place. Footage of stained glass Buckminster Fuller-type dome w/aluminum or metal struts. 1978 or 79. Good shape, no scratches, Barbara Hammer is in it. Circle pan of the dome, still shots of different configurations of the stained glass. Circular movement spinning you around the dome. At the Russian River in California. Camera pans by Barbara Hammer, nude shot of Hammer. Another one of Hammer showing necklace to someone and taking a coffee cup and putting a medallion in it. Hammer dramatically pouring tea. Colored reflection of glass on nude body. Hammer standing on head w/breasts sagging. Colored light playing over her body. Another circle spin of the stained glass.

One of the Tatami mats w/colored light reflected on it. Coffee cup is picked by woman who was living in the Dome [Caroling]. Beautiful outdoor shot of the dome going down to the entranceway. Shot looking in through the entranceway into the Dome. Shot of B. Hammer in the dome, talking, scratching back, gesturing. New interior space of wooden structure, The Pyramid [of Amaratasu], on top of hill in northern side of the mouth of the Russian River. Lived in and constructed by women. CU of a fuschia.

B. Hammer overexposed walking on a cliff by the beach, undressing, posing. Long shot of Hammer on cliffs w/water below. Ocean then back up to Hammer, stretching, on the cliff top. Dark footage. Ocean sunset, pinkish. Closeup of hand and flower and second shot is sideview of Hammer's face. A shot of Phyllis in same position, very intimate, camera moves into her eye and quickly down her body. CU of two hands and flower - more than a dozen short shots of Hammer's hands in different positions ending up w/camera movement, making the hands turn in a circle. Lovely.

85. WIND CHIMES. 11/71 8 mm.

Strips of different colored clay that look like pieces of cloth on a clothesline blowing in the wind. First shots are good, later overexposed, then good again. Second group of chimes made of glass jars w/little pieces of ceramic inside them to jangle with them. Don't know location. Good condition, no scratches.

86. WINDSOR PRINT. Approx. 15 min.

(Some dykes in nature.) Woman reading, eating. Overexposed badly, waterfall and Louise Fishman. Nicely exposed light reflection on water. More overexposed. Soft focus woman/lipstick- Frances Doughty? Foot in water. Nice black and white flicker abstraction. Dark. More abstraction. Back of woman in underpants - Louise Fishman- at waterfall; later front view. Out of focus and overexposed water. Is that Frances in profile? Water skeeter/nice radiating circles like moire patterns! Overexposed leaves. Some branches good, especially cutting. Louise Fishman drinking tea. Other dykes close ups. Same woman eating chips that film started with.

87. WINDSOR. Sup. 8 Color.

Woman eating potato chips reading typed papers like newspapers. Then a long shot of her in chair w/ portable typewriter. It's a well-known writer. Shot of dog w/ curly hair. Color shot of woman cut to same woman in B&W, sharp focus. Another woman w/dogs at creek. Next shot overexposed shots of creek. She edited this, no idea why she kept that in. Water shot of creek, good exposure. Again overexposed. Soft focus of Frances Doughty. Feet in water. Again, a lot of overexposed. (I think this is an edited film where she wanted to go between light and dark - doing this on purpose). Lots of water shots. Section of woman in nude except for red underpants whose holding up a rock in the water. Looks like it's Louise Fishman, it is. Camera zooms in to Louise Fishman laughing. Again more overexposed. Some beautiful CU abstractions of water. CU of a redhead from behind and then zoom out to woman in clothes in water, turns looks at camera, and zoom in on her. Long curly brown hair. Another woman drinking from a plastic cup. It's Lousie Fishman. That's soft focus. Then a real cute CU of Louise Fishman smiling, drinking from the cup in focus. Another woman who has a red bandana around her neck w/green cup. Another woman and back to the woman with the potato chips. Footage has one scratch going all the way through. It's a finished film, signed NP Birkby.

PERSONAL

88. "AMAZON WEEKEND". Completed Film, needs head leader. Aprox. 20 min. Super 8 mm.

Women at lake nude, washing hair, swimming. Beautiful exposure. Two scratches. Jill Johnston. Counter Revolution and Revolt. Sidney Abbott? Great CU JJ/freckles. Woman on float in water. Nicely lit. Stop Action overexposed. Long shot woman on float. Loving shot of two women topless with floats, hugging, kissing. Nice! Nude woman jumps onto float. and again but misses. It is Sidney Abbott or Phyllis Birkby. Or each. Jill. African American woman. Jane O'Wyatt. Jill with pen. Volleyball. Film Break.

Wine drinking. African American woman dancing, acting silly. More rafting. Two rafts. Smoking on raft. Film Break and crinkle.

89. "AMAZON WEEKEND. Print.

90. CR VOLLEYBALL. Super 8. Approx. 15 min.

Jane O'Wyatt. Kate Millett. All the women in the Consciousness Raising Group playing volleyball.

91. CR 1 VOLLEYBALL.

Kate Millett, a blond curly-haired woman [Linda Clarke] she had her arms around in the '71 womens march, Jane O'Wyatt, Sidney Abbott and others. Looks good, some scratches. She did a nice section of women's hands, nice section, while they were playing a game. Soft focus shot, long, long shot of Kate Millett laughing. Really nice shot of overall game. Long shot. Getting firewood, looks like Jane O'Wyatt is chopping wood, with an ax. Two shots of that.

92. CR #1 DINNER PARTY AT KATE MILLET'S FARM.

Dark, very dark, again a lot of close ups of women's faces but not well exposed. Not much useful. Maybe a party or a CR group, again very dark, maybe Barbara Love. A woman with a hand by her face. Is it too dark to tell. Nice shot of a woman's hand on a kitchen counter or table with glasses, wine glass, plate. That's Barbara Love. Good shot with hands on face. Nice shot of hand with cup. But, mainly too dark.

93. "DANCE" BIRTHDAY PARTY? JENNIFER. B&W 8 mm.

Turntable, outdoor street light. Jennifer's birthday party in B&W? Birthday cake. Kids blowing out candles. Kids outside w/ man. Birthday girl turning around, going over to her maybe little sister, holding her hand, two dance together, very, very cute CU of their faces.

94. "DYKES AT JILL'S WEEKEND"..aka JILL'S WEEKEND UPSTATE NY.Super 8.

Lesbian Gathering, In woods & house at Jill Johnston's upstate New York [Accord, NY?]. Unedited. Dark footage of faces. Good ball Game. Louise Fishman and others. In woods. Darker footage. Jill Johnston with Gay tee shirt and others. CU darker Jill. MS Jill.

Leader. Backlit. Looks like Jill dancing, acting up. Nice shots of dark figures of women backlit playing ball. Good outdoor shots of Jill. Jill hugging Jane O'Wyatt. Jill standing by V.W. bus wearing huge Peace symbol. slightly soft focus. Jacket hanging on bus, zoom out to Jill. CU's good of Jill.

Leader. Group inside house, Jane, and others. Sitting in circle. Dark. Someone sitting under desk lamp. (a few burnt frames) Jill outside by bus/van. (color in this reel looks sepia.) Good shot Louise Fishman with big hair!. Film broke and taped (repair before projecting next) at very end.

95. "ESTHER, LOUISE, ROBERTA, MARTHA: AUG. '71". 3 min. [Esther Newton, Louise Fishman, Roberta Kosse, Martha Shelley]

Women in nature. At creek. First part well exposed, middle black, end of feet CU well exposed.

96. FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE AT BEACH HOUSE A. Super 8, magnetic soundstripe film. May be sound.

Women in nature reading, another woman at a house. Looks like the same women in other films we've seen before. At a beach house. Goes w/something else. Some women are lying on beach towels. Woman who wrote Lover [Bertha Harris]?

97. FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE B. 1972, color Super 8

Phyllis in film. Starts w/shot of Phyllis Birkby. In good shape, looks like it's her group again, her friends. A shot of Phyllis in bellbottoms, 7/72. She has long hair, aviator glasses. Back of her head w/this other friend who we've seen in many movies, then of her w/light meter. She's holding a still camera. She's walking by the other woman, touches her, adjusts her hair. Slightly overexposed w/intermittent scratch, not bad, wearing red bellbottoms. Shows her in relationship to her group of friends at this beach house. Terrier dog w/red bandana around neck. Another shot of Phyllis w/hands on chest sticking out her tongue, turning and going into the house. Another shot of her outside the house, making hand gestures. Short bit of really nice exposure of her medium CU.

Another woman at door of the house in long shot. Same woman w/car in background, seated in the grass by the road. Another woman in lounge chair, lying on the beach. Lighting cigarette. CU of Bertha Harris, I think, nicely shot through the grasses, CU of her w/house in background.

98. THE GIRL GANG.

Woman w/Polaroid camera. Another woman in beach chair talking. Image is not scratched, nicely exposed, soft colors. Louise Fishman with red scarf sleeping on the ground. Somebody else reading on a blanket on the grass. Same group that was in # 33? at the potato chip eating. Sidney Abbott, I think. Study of women's hands, like she cut off their heads and just shot their hands. Colors are pastel. Woman smoking at end.

99. "GROUP" . Super 8, 3 min.

Phyllis at beach with curly headed woman; looks like Provincetown beach or Long Island with snow on sand. Group of women walking, running. Cute group shot at end/Phyllis holding uprooted tree. Playful, well-exposed, 1 intermittent scratch, not bad.

100. GROUP. Sup.8, 3 min.

CU of group interior. well exposed. Then out at same beach as Reel #26. One does handstand.

101. "JANE AND JILL". Super 8. 3 minutes.

Much of closeups out of focus. Good infocus shots of Jane drawing; Jill exercising; Jill Johnston doing backbends. Outside in snow with bus in background, Jill's feet in the air. Jane nicely lit, sitting. Jill hugging Jane inside at table. Ouside in snow with bus looks like it's Jane's feet in air with Jill helping her do a headstand.

102. JILL JOHNSTON AND JANE O'WYATT. B&W 16 mm. original.

About a stop overerxposed. Person raking leaves [Huntington, MA]. Jane O'Wyatt and Jill Johnston. Cute of Jane raking leaves on the lawn. Fast funny action of Jill Johnston. No scratches, perfect condition and a shot with two of them raking in the same frame. Still shot of them standing posed w/rakes looking at each other.

Pan of Jill sitting on the ground next to Jane, quite overexposed. Interior almost perfect. Two frames of Jill w/pen, interior, and then whole shot is good exposure of Jill, posed to write, talking and Jane at side, talking back and forth. Jane scratching her arm while talking. Jill w/head in her hands and the book on the table is Women And Film, magazine. Graphic saying Oh, Wow! Shot of a stool w/someone's hand on it.

103. JENNIFER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, 6/67.

Jennifer looks to be about 6 years old. Opens w/ her Happy Birthday song. Just a birthday party.

104. JILL JOHNSTON AND VAN 3/72.

Jill Johnston, soft focus. Really nice shot as camera pulls back, not scratched, nice light, looks like she's in a cabin. Date 3/72 on film. Shot out window, scratches on film. Snow on trees. Some shot she's trying to shoot that's dark lit. Jill's VW bus in the snow, shoots from different angles. Soft focus trees.

105. MARYLAND II. Reg. 8, color.

Good shape, good color. Reeds at ocean. A pier, reeds, white boathouse, pier leading back to big white mansion house. Family home? Horses. Kid on the beach. Cute woman posing in doorway. Light struck. Wonder if it's her sister.

Walking down steps. Showing off. Holding a coat. Same woman as on first Maryland tape. Has Phyllis' broad face.

Asian American woman. [Ming-Chi Wang??] Half is Maryland. Other half is Asian American woman, really cute, she's smoking, light is nice on her face. She's in a park. She's standing with an African American woman on the sidewalk and Phyllis has stocking cap and pea coat on. ***Great shot of Phyllis in a coat, in the park in fall, has a yellow lining to the scarf or to the coat. Brown hair, walks by the camera. It might be Central Park. Somebody lying on the grass, can't tell who. Asian woman again is dancing in the park and she's acting like she's behind the bars of a gate, putting her lips through as if she were blowing a kiss. Framed by the gate. New location, sort of like, don't know where, like Canal Street. Second story held up by wood pillars, row of 50 doors acting as wall on second floor. Very interesting. Pans doors.

106. OLD PEEKSILL CALENDAR. Super 8 mm. 1976. 20 seconds.

3 shots of Phyllis and other women nude on a lawn. Good exposure. Date on package reads 1975.

107. "PEEKSKILL LESLIE [NANCY?]/DINAH". Sup. 8

Dark, group of women undressing, CU of two women's faces that are correctly exposed. Two women on beach towel. Beautifully lit shot of badminton player, black background w/face and arms lit by the sun and companion. Playing badminton in the nude. Really great. With beachball behind. Looks like a two-woman badminton game. Perfect condition. Game over. Two women have arms around each other. As they bend over. One has silver chain above her ass. Other has levis on. New game. More than two people. Nude twosome. Playing topless. Overexposed shot of lawn and woman w/badminton racket. Then a nicely exposed one. Croquet in the nude, now leapfrog or wrestle. I would like to work w/this footage. Very idyllic, very 70s.

108. "PT. PLEASANT" 12/67. Super 8 color.

Architects around a model. Color looks really good. No scratches at all. Outside at a boat shed. Looking at the casement that holds back the sand. Boathouse on piers. Older woman w/mink collar and Christmas wreath at door. Older man (could be her parents). Nicely shot, he is smiling. Next section is black.

109. "R, K, W, CATS". B&W Sup. 8

Mysterious shot of woman's head going back and forth by cabinet. Woman w/bottle. Soft exposure. Woman pouring wine, think it's a woman, dark. African-American woman head shot and same other person. Cats are well exposed. Couple of cats on a wooden floor. Partial scratch in the film. More and more cats. Head shots of cats. Cats playing, rolling together on the floor.

110. SELF-PORTRAIT: HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO. Super 8. Approx. 2 min.

This is absolutely precious. Phyllis with short bob; with glasses, without, with hair back; with nun's cowl; with nun's cowl and prayer pose; hiding face; masked; side hat; smiling.

111. "SOFTBALL. (color)

Close up of woman smoking, zoom out. Softball game, in long shot, camera is along first base line. Shot of women in park benches, behind fence. Camera pans across. The pitcher confers with the catcher. Camera is behind plate, woman gets hit and runs to first base. Zoom in to close up of slip of paper with score. Med. long shot of three women conferring. Med. long shot of one woman helping another with practice swing. Goes blurry. More softball. One run, one strike. Tracking shot of pitcher throwing ball. Long shot of woman waiting at base. Another hit, pan shot between pitcher's mound and home base. Long shot of players walking off of field, hugging. Close up of women, talking. Medium shots of women embracing. Med. long shot of woman (Kate Millett?), arms extended, moving side to side. Another game, possibly soccer, in background. Long shot of women horsing around.

112. STREET FAIR. With woman (Leslie?). 3 min. Super 8.

Edited in camera. Nice shot of people walking past metal store shutters. Well exposed. Phyllis Birkby herself right after the shutters. Nice shot. More shutters. Long shot of Birkby by booth. Phyllis walks by loading dock. Leslie (?) walks by shutters; then in midst of fair. This short film looks edited.

113. "TOWER, ESTHER, LOUISE". Sup. 8 , 3 min. 2 scratches in middle.

Louise Fishman. Phyllis (out of focus CU's) Good of Louise in bathing suit. At beach. Phyllis with 35mm camera. Phyllis in bathing suit. Esther, too. Tower must be the dog

114. "WOODSTOCK POOL; DANA'S BASEBALL TEAM.. [Dana Birkby, nephew]

Begins w/baseball game. Looks like a little league game, maybe women, no kids. Young boys' baseball team. No scratches, nicely exposed. Woodstock Pool: girl swimming in pool, fly in pool, girl on lounge, boy on lounge, adolescent boy walking, water splashing, guy diving, guys in pool, standing on shoulders, three guys making a tower on shoulders.

POLITICAL

115. "ABORTION ST. PAT'S. Protest ABORTION RIGHTS: ST. PATRICKS PROTEST. 3 min. good exposure.

116. "ABORTION.ABORTION RIGHTS: ST. PATS, REEL #2. 3 min. good exp.

117. ALBANY MARCH.(color) Either slightly out of focus, or the projector was having problems.

Shots of people walking together--from back. Medium shot of women; two more of these. Shot of banner. Blurry shots of women walking hand in hand, marching. Camera zooms in on faces, then pulls back for a wide shot. Wide shot of 3 or so people sitting on trunk of car, parade passes between them and the camera. Short strip of unexposed film. Wide shot from back, of marcher's heads and the banner flying overhead. Close up of linked hands and arms. Very dark exposure: front shot of marchers moving forward, close ups of individual faces. shot of Dyke banner. More blurry faces, linked hands. Side shot of marchers moving across the screen. Shots of two banners. Wide shot of marchers from slightly overhead.

118. "APRIL 10.DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Woman with FBI sign taking pictures. Man wearing pig mask and sign saying "Macho Pig." Fairly good but overexposed one stop and slightly scratched. Groups of people at rally. A photo enlarged of a man with graphics "Kidnapper" below. Peace icon flag. Woman with woman's lib symbol painted on cheek. Out of focus stuff. Woman with Asian Woman Photograph, woman has hand clasped. Cadets in uniform marching from behind. Colorful ragtag hippy looking marchers with colored flags walking toward camera. "Free Erika" Poster. Women with arms around one another protesting. Camera notes clothing. Women wear headbands of different colors. "Sisters Unite, You've nothing to Lose" signs. Cherry Blossom Festival signs indicates protest to free political prisoners is in Washington, D.C. Sisterhood banner. Guards at White House? Red graffiti on official walls: "Power to the underground sisters". "Support Sisters in Asia" banner. Lots of crowd, protester shots. All a little overexposed, but not too bad and slightly scratched, often one scratch through side or middle.

119. "DEC 12 DEMO.WOMENS' LIBERATION DEMONSTRATION. Dec. 12, NYC, 3 min.

Well Exposed. Free 24 Hour Childcare banner; women's lib poster/demands; CU of faces, pins, Ti-Grace Atkinson (?), some dark & out of focus.

120. "FIFTH STREET". Sup. B&W, approx. 10 min. Well preserved. [5th St. Women's Bldg takeover, Jan 1970]

Opens w/CU of women's faces. "Adelante Las Hermanas En La Lucha," then there's a French sign - "You Are Welcome" then in English "Lesbian and Straight Together"; beautiful, hand-drawn graphics. Sisters Unite, hand drawn sign. Another hand drawn sign: Our Hands, Feet, Bodies, Minds Are Tools For Change. Architectural details of the loft, it looks like they're in a loft. Fifth St. may have been an old women's center? Meeting - Welfare Mothers At Noon - another sign. Women's Building - another sign; Women's Interart Center; Gay Pride sign; Food Co-op; This Building Is Ours. The Price? Our Commitment (Jane O'Wyatt told me about this - take over of the Fifth St. building) Sign says "We Shall Not Be Moved." "Lesbians Unite" "Health Care" signs. Early comic drawing "Keep On Trucking, Sisters" "Never Underestimate The Power Of A Woman" another sign beautifully done, good contrast, B&W. Babytalk Magazine, dated material. Old falling apart interior structure of loft, interesting looking. "Our Small Group Is Fixing This Room To Be Used By All Sisters As A Lounge - Donations Accepted" hand drawn sign. Dark footage. Great shot of women's gathering in the space. Medium shots of some of the women, soft focus, didn't have enough light. Sharp focus of a woman in crochet hat, Buffy Johnson, the painter? Great shot of whoever it is. Women singing or performing, girl child, aluminum paper background. This is a good film. Children holding on to parents' hands - nice shot. Long shot of the group holding hands in a circle. Nicely lit and good exposure. Older woman, 60s or 70s, looks like a skit is being performed.

121. "FIRST 1/2 OF MARCH '71?.WOMEN'S MARCH '71?.

Well exposed, no scratches. Looks like historic women holding large banners in NY. "New York Radical Feminists" banner goes all the way across the street on sheets. "Lesbians For Nixon" woman w/big smile carrying sign, then waves. Shots of crowd and shots of back of woman wearing a motorcycle helmet. Interesting closeups of men who I don't know if they're marching or not. Another banner "Equality" - equals sign. CU of woman in dark glasses smiling. Beautiful shot of Frances Doughty and woman in CU, dark glasses, long hair. Another big banner "Brooklyn NOW" Women wearing the fist in the circle. Women's lib sign. Great shot with radical banner behind. Lots of reds and whites in the image. Policemen, newscasters. Sappho? Was A Woman banner. Good shots of people in the street. A sign saying "One to One Committee NOW". More newscaster. Abortion Is A Woman's Right sign. Historical woman photo. Huge comic book-like billboard sign on a building. Soft focus of march. Sign - Smash Sexism, Women's Libertion NOW t-shirt. Crush Phallic Imerialism - nice shot showing a lot of women holding sign. Kate Millett is in crowd w/Betty Friedan right after sign (maybe) soft focus, anyway, not great. Bystanders. Another banner "Lesbian (something)" Women marching by shoe shop - "Shoes For Women" Woman reading as she marches, may be changing. Kate Millet in red - soft focus. CU of other women. Back to Kate. Dog w/sign on it - can't read. CU woman's face - pull out to medium shot. Jan Oxenberg possibly w/purple blouse w/white trim? Street scene. Angela Davis sign - large B&W photo. Good shot of Kate w/arm around somebody [Linda Clarke?], w/historic woman photo in background and a woman of color, finally, next to her. CU of Louise Fishman w/short hair. Woman's hand holding pamphlet saying Woman's World. Shot of another woman, don't know who, several. Sign - "Gay Male Feminist" CU of another woman. Button - "Sister" Angry woman yelling, holding a banner, very dramatic, pretty good not scratched. Shot - "Sisterhood Is Powerful" sign. More banners. Back of Kate w/arms around someone from behind. "Lesbians Unite" in focus. GAA embrodiered on hip pocket of dungarees. A lot of women all together. "Women's Liberation Is A Lesbian Plot." Policemen walking in front of sign. Soft focus on police. Women's Lib sign seen through a bus. Woman marching alone down street w/gusto. Women straggling down the street w/"Plot" sign. Nice CU of holding hands, arms around each other. Two women in white shirts arms around each other. Kate Millett again, in red, w/blonde woman also in red. Men marching. Women in dresses marching. "Unity" banner. "Phallic Imperialism" sign of New York Radical Feminists. Crowd shot, really good, around "Lesbians Unite" sign. Lots of nice crowd shots now, very seventies, good exposure, good color. More of Kate w/girlfriend and a third woman, smiling at camera. Westchester Coalition sign. Quality Child Care Service For Working Mothers sign. Chick Is A Dirty Word handwritten sign. Woman w/hand over mouth. Now, microphones at space where rally will be. A woman at microphones. We Are With You - French women's liberation sign. Then, B&W - good shot of microphones in B&W and some of the speakers. African-American woman in crowd, CU. I think Ti-Grace Atkinson(?) CUs of people, African-American man, Euro-Am. women. March For Equality banner behind speakers, big camera. Huge rally, now, shot of thousands in crowd. Great crowd shots. Not scratched. Soft focus CU. Betty Friedan, soft focus. Dark footage at end.

122. GAY MARCH 7/71.

Jill Johnston. Louise Fishman. Slightly overexposed. Then, out of focus. Good exposure - woman waving under Burlington House. Site of march sign - We Are Everywhere. Two women holding hands, arms around each other. Slightly overexposed. CU of Kate Millett eating, overexposed. Two woman kissing, out of focus, overexposed. Women's Lib button. Lots of overexposure. Not useable. Then, shot I think of Kate from behind. Maybe Kate and Jill - two longhaired women w/arms around each other -don't know who. Two other women, laughing. Some good, some scratched. More over exposed. Gay love, God's love - overexposed sign.

122A. GAY MARCH, 1977. Approx. 3 min.

Woman with sign "Gay Pride '77." Woman with hands raised above head forming triangle shape with thumbs and pointer fingers. Marchers. Band of police officers in march. Marchers. "Lesbian Feminist Liberation" banner. "Lesbian Seperatists Love Women" banner. "Dykes Tykes" banner and float. Women marching. 3 women with cameras. 2 women--one could be Louise Fishman. Too fast to tell. Close-up of woman with dark curly hair. Placard with Anita Bryant's face in center of swastika. Marchers. "Dykes Tykes" float. "National Organization for Women" banner. Marchers.

122B. GAY MARCH, 1977. Approx. 3 min.

"Lesbian Feminist Liberation" banner. "Anita Bryant is garbage" placard. Woman sitting on ground. Seems to be post-march. Banners are hung on fence, placards on ground. Crowds of people sitting around talking in a park?

123. "IT'S ALL RIGHT TO BE WOMAN THEATER. Super 8, B&W

Poster - Change For My Sisters poster, title and woman's face illustration. Cuts to a woman. Looks like 1986. Dark. Some shots of women's faces. Much is too dark to use. Another poster - graphic illustration of a hand carrying a cup, then a little cage around a brick, a woman w/a scrub brush and foot, pregnant woman, a drawing shot in CU, no scratches, useable, looks like a gallery in the theatre w/various drawings hung on walls. Kind of gray but useable. Sojourner Truth poster, woman. Emma Goldman. Poster w/a lot of women's names, more drawings from the exhibition. Very good.

124. "IT'S ALL RIGHT TO BE WOMAN THEATER.

Soft focus of woman's face, slightly soft focus of another one. Looks like a women's theatre group. Some clear shots nicely lit of this group. Pull back to showing the group together sitting in a circle w/guitar. Nicely lit well exposed. CU of guitar is out of focus. A woman listening, in focus, well lit, several women. Action of one woman holding another while laughing and trying to pull away. Well lit and clear. Another woman yelling, a larger older woman, fairly okay. Another woman seems to be crying, close up of very dramatically gesturing hands. Two hands holding, again dramatic gestures, well lit and clear. Interaction between two women, their hands and a face. Nicely lit, interesting shot - a very good roll of women's theatre group. Women pointing at one another

125. "IT'S ALL RIGHT TO BE WOMAN THEATER/JJ TYPING.. Super 8, B&W

Dark, mostly; some shots of women's faces. A woman with a prop.

126. "IT'S ALL RIGHT TO BE WOMAN THEATER". Super 8, B&W

Drawing of a stick figure called "Me", big feet. All Right To Be Women Theatre. CU of Me, looks like a Phyllis Birkby self-portrait. My friends, stick figures holding hands "My Friends" Looks like title of show is The Popular Crowd. Drawing of a boy I had a crush on. He was in the Popular Crowd. The saga of my hairy legs or how my heart hurt. The boy is saying to the two girls, "Did you see her hairy legs?" Little stick figure drawings. "Did you see Sue's hairy legs?" Drawing of a heart w/lightning bolt through it. Line drawing of a lot of feet and shoes and a sign, "How My Mother Saved The Day, I Thought" "Can I shave my legs?" Bunch of hairy legs w/mother w/hairy legs and me w/hairy legs. My Fantasy. Ronson shaver plugged. THE END sign, then a woman walking through so you see these were on the wall. Women's Theatre - very good exposure. Back to realistic photography. In production, one sticks her tongue out, one w/mouth open. Beautifully lit and shot well. Good roll. One medium long shot showing a circle of women sitting together. Zoom up to a woman who is talking. Shows how group circle. Very well exposed sign of the play "A Chant For My Sisters." Shot of a ladder, woman listening. Best exposed of the theatre rolls.

127. "PATCHAPINES E-DAY/42nd STREET/PEACE DEMO". (color)

42nd Street: Night. Dark exposure. Close up of man's face, zoom out: standing in doorway. Close up of movie marquee. Head shot of woman with cigarette. Full shot of movie marquee. Close up of bottom edge of marquee, zoom in. Blinking marquee lights reflected in chrome. Woman lights cigarette. Med. shot of two men shaking hands. Zoom to close up of faces, zoom out. Splice. Shot of movie marquees. Close up of woman staring into camera. Zoom from long shot of couple standing to close up, zoom out. Medium shot of man with cigarette. Marquee. Close up of words on marquee, "Butch" & "Maggie". Side close up of man. Shot of car headlights moving past. Close up of red blinking taillight. Another. Daytime--American flag waving in the wind. Nighttime--close up of (cop car?) lights flashing, yellow and blue. Interior(?) extreme long shot of person on stage or other elevated surface. Exterior full-length shot of lighted window display w/female mannequin. Close up of glowing "Don't Walk" traffic sign. Med. shot of Hare Krishna couple dancing, zoom out. Same, from back. Close up of banner, zoom out, zoom back in.

Peace Demo: Long shot of barricade, two women climbing over it. Crowd shot: faces, woman with blonde bouffant. Close up of police officer. Crowd shot. Woman standing on barrier. Med. closeups of people's heads and shoulders as they walk by. Quick shots of people's faces. More crowd shots: people walking down stairs. Long shot two people on an elevated surface, red flag in back. Long shot of side of building, crowd. Long shot of people dancing on roof of entrance porch of large building. Zoom out. Man holding newspaper torch. Med. shot of man laughing in crowd. Extreme long shot of people dancing on roof, zoom in. Blue flash. Med. shot, zoom out of large paper skull hung from man's neck. Another shot of people on roof. Close up of back of news camera person's head, camera. Zoom out and pan down to reporter interviewing protestor, zoom in on her face. Long shot of crowd, banner above says "Pig Press...." Shot of red banner, says "Free Bobby." Man leaning against speakers. Crowd shot. Two red flags, crossed. Shot of protestors on roof. Long shot of banner. Individual close ups of men in uniforms. Military? Marchers walking toward camera. Med. shot of riot cop juxtaposed against street. Head shot of man shouting. Mounted policemen seen fr. below. Backlit. Med. long shot cops in riot gear lined up in front of street. Close up of bullhorn. Long shot of moon, framed betw. buildings.

128. WOMEN'S LIB. MARCH, A. 16mm

Looks like rephotography of Super 8 that she has on Women's Lib March. Looks like Kate Millett, Angela Davis. Small freezes on women's faces. Only optical printing that changes is a few short freezes of faces. Refer to Film #39. Blow up of Super 8.

129. "WOMEN'S LIBERATION MARCH TRIAL BLOWUPS.. 16mm.

130. WOMEN'S LIB 26 AUG 1970

131. WOMEN'S STRIKE FOR PEACE AND EQUALITY. 16mm Early '70s. [26 Aug 1970]

Roll of 7252 optically printed, 16 mm. color. Live action of a women's lib demonstration, TV news cameras, crowds, camera follows policeman doing crowd control. "No peace for a peace" - women's sign, "Male Chauvinists You Better Start Shaking." Women marching, news cameras set on high above the crowd. People giving peace sign from cafes to marchers. More TV news. People watching from windows. "Don't Iron While The Strike Is Hot" - Women's Strike August, Strike Headquarters 229 Lexington Ave. High School Feminism Is Alive and Growing. Power To The Women. Women's Strike For Peace and Equality. Women's fists in the air. Female Disc Jockey Wants Liberation And Job. Nicely exposed shot of the march in front of sign saying Fieldcrest. Nice overview of a long march. A freezeframe on a face - Rita Mae Brown? Equal Jobs sign. Playboy Club, Bunny flag flying. Freezeframe of the bunny flag. Good condition, not scratched at all.

132. UNTITLED

TRAVEL

133. "BAHAMAS". (color)

Shot of foamy water crashing on grainy beach, panning around. Again. Still water. Tiny fish swimming around in water. Close up of plant life in water. Close up tracking shot of small fish. Unexposed strip.

Med. shot of shells in water. Tracking shot (right to left) of waves rolling onto beach, to where a woman and a man are piling sand. Shot of man's legs, with water washing over his feet. Med. shot of man making sandcastle. Close up of limbs carving castle. Med. shot of the woman, man in foreground. More shots of castle building. Close ups of sandcastle towers. Close ups of finished sandcastle. Unexposed strip. Jump cuts between close ups of sandcastle and wide shot of ocean and dunes. Nice visual juxtaposition. Black strip of film.

Interior shot, dimly lit, of woman lying in bed under covers, being fed by man slightly offscreen. New angle of same. Close up of woman's face. Close up of woman's arm hanging over side of bed. Med. side shot of woman. Close up of her face. Exterior shot of two people on hill overlooking sea. Closer shot of same. Med. long shot of woman walking into camera. Med. long shot of man fishing. Med. shot of man w/fishing pole walking to camera. Long and medium shots of waves crashing on rocky shore. Unexposed strip. Med. shot of person fishing, zoom out and then in. Shot of ocean, person swims into frame. Med. shot of man standing in water. Close up of woman taking off her snorkling mask. Med. shot, from side, of man looking out of frame. Med. shot of woman bent over. Close up of man's face. Long shot of 5 people walking down street to docks where all the boats are, zoom out. Extra long shot of same, zoom in. Subjects wave to camera, dance around. Black strip of film.

Close up of man's face. Close up of woman's face. Wide shot of water, shoreline in distance, zoom out. Camera pans horizon. Long shot of horizon, edge of boat in bottom of frame.

134. "CANYON DE CHELLY. 8mm. Color.

Looks like shot in Utah or Canyonlands. I think she is referring to the architect, but the forms are all natural, not manmade. Beautiful red caves, red rocks, looks like poured cement, but poured by nature. Unscratched, good shape, good color, good focus. Canyon de Chelley, the White House, Indian ruins. Red water, very expansive filming. Series of four frames at a time, then one of them says "The End" on it but really isn't. Then an arrow going different ways. Then footprints that rangers make for tours. One little scratch goes through the film. Shot in true Birkby style. From dusk, night to morning, same location. Rest is all black.

135. "MARYLAND JULY 4TH. (color)

Close up of man's head. Close up of him squeezing a pimple? Red haired man reading, another man. Pan through the interior of house. Lots of windows, zoom in on chandelier. Long shot of boat sailing by on lake. Exterior shot of boathouse. Zoom out wide, to boats sailing past. Long shots of men urinating in garden. Head shot of redheaded man. Shot of abstract reflections in water, undulating on surface. Pretty. Two backlit shots through branches. More abstract light patterns in pool. Close up of corner of pool from overhead. Shot of more light abstractions in pool. Med. shot zoom to close up from inside house through windows of lake view. Backlit shot of trees swaying in wind. Close up of windowpanes: raining outside. close up of light fixture. Close up of top of chair back. Very dark shots of foxes in a pen. Exterior long shot of men on a lawn, pan to stately white house. Again. Jump cuts between med. shots of white flowers. Shot of facade of house. Med. shot of men on lawn with water in the background. Long shot of shoreline, pan across. Med. shot of men walking, from behind. Backlit leaves against sky. Long shots of gardens: a statue from three sides. Under the arbor. Jump cut to statue. Med. shot of flower. Head shot of other statue. Long shot of road going out of gardens. Long shot of statue, head shot from either side. Setting sun through tree branches.

136. "MARYLAND".

Horseback riding in Maryland. Well established white wood house on lawn. Man sitting in tree jumps from tree. Woman goofing off. Everyone is goofing off. Kid. Point of view driving a car. Beagle in the woods. Hiking in the woods. By the seashore w/dog. Beagle and two other dogs.

137. MISCELLANEOUS ROAD FOOTAGE A.Super 8 color. 7244 Looks like more trees at the beach, soft focus, blue haze. Street scene in some city. Capitol dome? Rocky River Ranch gates. Cute woman smiling and CU of her through a windshield, driving a truck. Next shot, nicely shot of woman w/baseball cap on that reads, "Smilers". Looks like a mixed sports team, baseball game, focus is soft except for those two CUs of the woman's face.

138. MISC. ROAD FOOTAGE B. Super 8 color. [1984, Los Angeles]

Looks like Olympic sports event. Swimming or diving, XXIII, Games of the 23rd Olympics Los Angeles. Focus is all soft. Except for the swimming lanes. Judges and swimming lanes and long shots are nice color is good and look like they've never been projected. Perfect. Overview of the street around the Olympics, w/palm trees, people on diving platforms.

139. MISC. ROAD FOOTAGE C - HIGHWAY.

Highway shot at different angles stretching off into sky. Film gave blue haze to everything. Turns camera upside down and to either side. Intermittent scratch later in the film. Landscape shot from car. Buttes, beautiful stormy sky at dusk, rainbow, no scratches. Ends up at Olympics at L.A.

140. MISC ROAD FOOTAGE D.

More highway - blurred of vegetation, buildings and building details, iron grill fence, soft focus. Parts are good focus, part soft.

141. MISC. ROAD FOOTAGE E.

Peacock. Ferris wheel. Some Fantasyland. Maybe Disneyland. Crowd scenes are soft focus. Children's playground is good. Louisiana journey - probably a boatride. Scandanavia, gondola entrance. Dark footage. Then daylight, soft focus. Inflated balloons, soft focus.

142. MISC. ROAD FOOTAGE F.

Same soft focus, details of a house w/horsedrawn carriage in front, saying Carriage Tours Savannah. Confederate flag. Looks like Savannah, w/southern homes, porches and wooden grillwork around the porches. Could be 1965, there is a 65 between the sprocket holes. Road, highway, then park - woman in bathing suit w/baseball cap walking toward camera, waving to Phyllis, big smile. (Might be Louise Fishman). Horse's head over a fence.

143. MISC ROAD FOOTAGE G.

Sunlight through the trees, intermittent scratch, same hazy, soft focus highway, water, street lamp by the beach, window frames of the beach. Motel, something Alvin's Island, either a motel or restaurant. More highway - road trip. Buildings, southern again, trees, southern mansion.

144. OLYMPICS OUT OF FOCUS FIELD HOCKEY. Sports stadium. [1984]

Out of focus game. Field hockey. Bad roll.

145. OLYMPICS I - OUTDOOR WOMEN'S SWIM MEET. [1984]

Outdoor women's swim and diving meet. Perfect shape. Shot with an eye for design. Full stadium - looks like L.A. Could be olympics. 23rd Olympics. refer to #104.

146. OLYMPICS II. [1984]

Track meets, flags, huge crowds, five rings. Focus not always good on CUs, good on long crowd shots. Colors are great. Wheelchair event, but focus is not good. Pretty good of men in yellow suits, a band, carrying instruments, walking on the track. Most out of focus.

147. OLYMPICS III. [1984]

Women in straw hat with pins on it w/track behind. Crowd scene. Track again, focus is good. Wheelchair, disabled, special olympics. Regular Olympic flag flying. Running - soft focus. Nice long shot of the stadium.

148. PATCHAPINES.(color)

Close up of man's face. Camera pans faces of people on porch, to extreme close up of hands. Patchapines sign. Close up of woman holding camera up to face. Jumps cuts between shots of flora, people. Jump cut to the beach. Long shot of a woman in the water. A woman gets up off the sand and moves to the water, a man goes with her. Ends in longshot. Med. long shot, parallel to shoreline, of waves rolling onto beach; truncated headless bodies of people pass by. Unexposed strip. Shot of people clustered together, lying on beach. Camera moves around them in a circle. They wave, are obviously enjoying themselves. Zoom in and out of the people, more circling of them as they perform synchronized movements with their legs and arms. Camera zooms in, then out as they disperse. More shots of rolling waves and truncated bodies walking past. Same, camera turned on side. Same, camera turned upside down, Same, camera turned on other side. Now camera right side up. Cycle repeats. Shots of rolling waves, kid playing in sand, truncated bodies walking past.

149. SAIGON.

Dark street scenes of Saigon. Too dark to use. Good exposure of man w/pink rickshaw, pedalling. Street scenes w/bicycles. People on bicycles. Second reel - all black.

150. SAIGON [?]. Approx. 3 min.

Many scenes of people, cars, bicycles, motocycles on busy street. View of building facade, "Continental Palace." More people, bicycles, cars and motorcycles. Lighting much darker. People getting out of car. So dark, you can barely tell what this is. White man and woman walking toward camera, then they greet camera operator. More people, bikes, cars and motorcycles in street. People walking down street.

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Contents

Noel Phyllis Birkby Papers, 1932-1994

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Maida Goodwin.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

2003

Collection Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Search Terms

Organization of the Collection

SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL (1932-1994, n.d.) 3 linear feet

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE (1955-1994, n.d.) 1 linear ft.

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE (1962-1993, n.d.) 9 linear ft.

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING (1970-1990, n.d.) 4.75 linear ft.

SERIES V. TEACHING (1972-1992, n.d.) 2 linear ft.

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES (1960-1994, n.d.) 4.75 linear ft.

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS (1933-1994, n.d.) 7.75 linear ft.

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES (1960-1994, n.d.) 15 linear ft.

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS (1970-1987, n.d.) 3.25 linear ft.

SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL AND FINANCIAL MATERIAL

SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE

SERIES III. ARCHITECTURE

SERIES IV. RESEARCH, SPEAKING, AND WRITING

SERIES V. TEACHING

SERIES VI. SUBJECT FILES

SERIES VII. PHOTOGRAPHS

SERIES VIII. FILMS AND VIDEOTAPES

SERIES IX. TAPE RECORDINGS

Appendix: Descriptive List of Birkby's Films