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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 5

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Contains 6 Results:

The Living Theatre – News clippings and Photographs, 1971, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150...
Dates: 1971, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Photograph Album – Handmade with purple and black cover, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

The album includes iridescent purple handmade paper wrapper with purple, black and silver leaves. The leaves include photographs of Petra Vogt, Mylar photographs and a variety of posed portraits.

Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Postcards sent to Petra Vogt while in Germany, 1966, 1978

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

The two dated postcards, are signed Thomas, July 9, 1966, to a Berlin address and in German, and the second, is signed by Julian Beck? (1925-1985), 1978, hoping that Petra will get well so they can dance together again.

Dates: 1966, 1978
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Postcards sent to Petra Vogt from Ira Cohen , 1977-1978, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

One postcard from 1978, has Ira’s glyph and was sent care of Banana Joes, Anjuna, Goa, India, with the print cut-out message “Flaming Angel Remember that when we walk” glued on the back.

An undated postcard was addressed to Petra in Berlin and signed Ira, with his glyph.

The third postcard was written to Petra from Allahabad, India, where Ira describes his journey there, “poetry to come later I hope” (January 7, 1977).

Dates: 1977-1978, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Postcards sent to Petra Vogt and Ira Cohen while in Nepal, care of the American Embassy at Kathmandu or the Nepal Bank, Ltd., 1973-1978, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents Correspondents with their locations include a writer from Los Angeles, California, December 12, 1973, who left books for Ira Cohen at their old neighbors’ place, plans on going to Tucson to watch the comet and plans to return to India to live in the mountains in around six months; and “M.” who wrote Ira Cohen from Amsterdam, “our minds keep crossing each other” (January 22, 1975). Marjory Kephart writes from Frankfurt, Germany, to Ira and Petra, reflecting on her time with them...
Dates: 1973-1978, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files

Postcards, chiefly to Petra Vogt and Ira Cohen, circa 1971-1976, undated

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Includes cards from Jury about Ira and Petra coming to Paris (undated); Paul in Bali on the back of a photograph of a statue of religious figure (1976); photograph of Petra Vogt and a portrait, with the inscription “Lord + Lady ‘N’ see ’73 in quietly converging”; and from Fredo, Bali, to Steve Mittenthal, care of Dinsha Sanjana, Bombay, India.Also includes a postcard from “M.” in Milton, Massachusetts, October 23; undated postcard to Petra in green ink, written in poetic form;...
Dates: circa 1971-1976, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Petra Vogt papers / Correspondence, Artwork and Topical Files