Series I. Correspondence Files, 1977-1994
Extent
Scope and Contents Note
This series includes two sets of correspondence files. The first includes correspondence related to the management of the store's product line, with most of the letters directed to Lorelei Rowars, the Museum Store Director from the mid-1980s to mid-1991, when the store temporarily closed for almost five months. Subject matter includes arrangements for products to be developed and sold in the store, such as posters, catalogues, postcards, holiday cards, and other items; product proposals from vendors; arrangements for sales of museum store products through outlets other than N-YHS itself (e.g., holiday gift sales for local company employees), and related matters. These files were found during processing in 2016 as a complete set.
The second set of correspondence also relates to store management, but was compiled from various store files by the processing archivist. Principal subjects in this set include arrangements for the Adirondack Store to have a space at N-YHS during the exhibition Forever Wild, arrangements with Princeton Audubon Ltd for printing Audubon reproductions, store catalog production files, sales of the Phelps-Dodge Family book, and a sampling of mail orders received for store items.
Arrangement Note
The series opens with a set of files in their original alphabetical order by correspondent or topic. These are followed by a second set of correspondence compiled by the processing archivist and arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
Processing Information Note
The series was processed to a minimal extent in December 2016. The files in set 1 remain in their original folders.
Set 1. A - Ca, 1977-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes exchanges with advertising agencies and outlets (e.g., Forbes Magazines, New Yorker); product development proposals from vendors (e.g., postcards, tee-shirts, bookmarks, calendars); Audubon-related products; book print promotions for the Audubon series, "The Birds of America" and "Immigration to New York"; permissions for American Heritage; Birchrun Mint license regarding John Rogers sculptures; documents from architects Charles E. Broudy & Associates concerning redesign of the store; and poster distribution rights with Bruce Teleky.
Set 1. Cl - Lu, 1984-1994
Scope and Contents Note
Includes requests for museum store catalogs; exchanges in regard to N-YHS items to be included in the Museum Shops of the World Catalog; production of circus, theatrical, and Tiffany postcard books (Dover Publications); store consultant Tom Aageson invoices; vendor proposals for various product possibilities (e.g., textiles, notecards, puzzles by Galison Books, address book); arrangements for sale of products, such as posters and catalogues, associated with particular exhibitions (e.g., Arnold Newman, Irving Browning, Government by Choice, Childe Hassam Flag Paintings, Jasper Cropsey, Jackie Robinson, Pageant of Heraldry); Hudson River Book project; and various design proposals for the store itself (e.g., banners, brochures, catalog).
Set 1. Mc -Sca, 1984-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes production of Audubon poster; N-YHS participation in holiday gift shops at Morgan Guaranty and the Municipal Art Society; N-YHS's participation with a booth at the "New York is Book Country" book fair; store purchases for a Paris 1889 exhibition shop; publication of Tales of the Phelps-Dodge Family; product design work by Stephen Saitas; arrangements with Sandak for Audubon and other Slide-Paks; postcard project with Eastern Press; orders for posters for various objects (e.g., Bulls and Bears in the Market) and exhibitions including Government by Choice and Audubon; royalty fees to N-YHS for poster sales; sales of remainders.
Set 1. Sch -W, 1985-1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes book signing for Simon Schama's History and Imagination: The Storyteller and the Detective; invoices for tote bags; production costs for slide-paks from Sandak for various exhibitions; N-YHS's participation in the Holiday Gift Fairs for Port Authority employees and at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center; receipts of store montlhy sales; press release in regard to the alliance between the Hudson River Club and N-YHS to celebrate the opening of the Luman Reed Gallery; and Tiffany-related products.
Set 2. Adirondack Store (2 folders), 1992
Set 2. Administration, 1988-1992
Scope and Contents Note
Includes schedules and procedures.
Set 2. Audubon/Princeton Audubon Ltd. (2 folders), 1985-1991
Set 2. Bulls & Bears Poster Printing, 1985-1992
Set 2. Catalog Production. Museum Store (3 folders), 1986-1991
Set 2. Catalog. Luman Reed Collection, 1989
Set 2. Columbian Iconography, 1991
Scope and Contents Note
Includes sketches of design for exhibition-related sales space.