Guide to the Lola L. Szladits Collection
Title:
Lola L. Szladits Collection
OCLC No.:
1006646503
Dates:
1954-2000
Bulk Dates:
1954-1990
Extent:
2 boxes; 1.25 linear feet
Abstract:
Letters, newspaper and magazine clipping, exhibition catalogs, and photographs documenting the life, activities, and death of Lola Szladits.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use. Copyright restrictions may apply; please contact repository for requests for copying and for authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce the materials.
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lola L. Szladits Collection, 1983-2000, The Grolier Club of New York.
About the Finding Aid:
This finding aid was prepared by Sophia Dahab in Microsoft Word at the Grolier Club, January 2016, and updated by Allison Hughes in January 2018.
Provenance:
Items in box 1 were compiled by Vivien Clark, and donated to the Grolier Club on December 8, 2105. Items in box 2 were compiled by Paul and Marianne Gourary.
Access Points:
Szladits, Lola
New York Public Library, Berg Collection.
Exhibition Catalogs
Biographical/Historical Note:
Lola Szladits was born in Budapest and moved to the United States in 1950. She joined the staff of the New York Public Library in 1955 and became Curator of the Berg Collection of English and American Literature in 1970.[1] She was a member of the Grolier Club and served on the Library Committee from 1977-1978, and from 1989 until her death in 1990.[2]
Scope and Content Note:
Box 1 contains letters from or concerning Lola Szladits, photographs, newspaper clipping and other articles about her work, two exhibition catalogs curated by Szladits, and obituaries. Box 2 contains primarily printed material, including books and exhibition catalogs, inscribed by Szladits to Paul and Marianne Gourary.
Arrangement Note:
Items in Box 1 are arranged in four categories by form and/or subject: Correspondence, Articles and Publications, Death, and Photographs.
Container List:
Box 1:
Folder
|
Contents
|
Dates
|
1
|
Articles & Publications
|
1986-1990
|
2
|
Correspondence
|
1983-1999
|
3
|
Death
|
1990
|
4
|
Photographs
|
1984-1989
|
Box 2:
Articles, Exhibition Catalogs, and Serials
Arrangement note: These items are arranged chronologically.
Folder
|
Contents
|
Dates
|
1
|
“The Influence of Michelangelo on Some Anatomical Illustrations”
|
1954
|
2
|
Bulletin of the NYPL
|
1957
|
3
|
Pen & Brush
|
1969
|
4
|
Bulletin of the NYPL
|
1970
|
5
|
1922: A Vintage Year
|
1972
|
6
|
Documents Famous and Infamous
|
1972
|
7
|
New in the Berg Collection, 1970-1972
|
1973
|
8
|
Owen D. Young Book Collector
|
1974
|
9
|
Byron on the Continent
|
1974
|
10
|
Joint Lives
|
1975
|
11
|
Independence: A Literary Panorama
|
1975
|
12
|
Arrivals in the Berg Collection, 1973-1975
|
1976
|
13
|
Beneath Another Sun
|
1977
|
14
|
Self-Explorations: Diarists in England and America
|
1977
|
15
|
Patrons & Publishers
|
1978
|
16
|
The Awkward Age
|
1979
|
17
|
American Book Collector Vol. 1, No. 5
|
1980
|
18
|
W.H. Auden: 1907-1973
|
1980
|
19
|
Mirror the World: A Survey of Satire
|
1981
|
20
|
Ramblers
|
1983
|
21
|
Women and Literature
|
1986
|
22
|
American Book Collector Vol. 8, No. 3
|
1987
|
23
|
American Book Collector Vol. 8, No. 5
|
1987
|
24
|
American Book Collector Vol. 8, No. 6
|
1987
|
25
|
The Scholar Adventurer
|
1987
|
26
|
Perennials: A 50th Anniversary Selection from the Berg Collection
|
1988
|
27
|
Love and Death
|
1989
|
28
|
Words Like Freedom
|
1989
|
Books
Folder
|
Contents
|
Dates
|
29
|
Charles Dickens 1812-1870: An Anthology
|
1970
|
30
|
Another New Year
|
1987
|
Papers
Folder
|
Contents
|
Dates
|
31
|
“Thinking About Books” Typescript
|
1975-1982
|
32
|
Nomination for the Charles Frankel Prize
|
1988
|
33
|
Press Clippings
|
1980-1989
|
34
|
Press Clippings
|
1989
|
35
|
Szladits Memorial
|
1990
|
36
|
Misc. Gourary Papers
|
2000
|
[1] Mitang, H. (1990, April 1). Lola L. Szladits, 20-year curator at New York library, dies at 67. The New York Times.
[2] The Grolier Club. (2009). Members of the Grolier Club, 1884-2009.