Box 4

Series Scope and Content Summary From the Series: Series 1, Professional life, spans the years 1964-2016. This series documents Karen Durbin’s work as a film critic, her teaching, and her committee service and memberships. Most of Durbin’s published writing present in this series is for Elle, Mirabella, Mademoiselle, or The New York Times. This series includes interview transcripts; recordings of some of...

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Notes, notebooks, correspondence, news clippings about Margaret Costanza. Also includes interview transcript with Costanza and Durbin.

Series Scope and Content Summary From the Series: Series 2, Village Voice, contains materials created during Durbin’s time at The Village Voice as Staff Writer, Senior Editor, Arts Editor, and Editor-in-Chief, spanning 1975-2002. The years that Durbin served as editor-in-chief for the newspaper (1994-1996) are well documented not only through the preserved press coverage and correspondence regarding Durbin’s work, but also through meeting notes, budgets, and staffing files....

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University degree and The Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award.

Series Scope and Content Summary From the Series: Series 3, Personal life, is the most heterogeneous series in this collection. This series consists of Karen Durbin’s life and work beyond her professional endeavors, and is organized into five subseries: Education, Photographs, Writing and Journals, Ephemera and Memorabilia, and Books. The Education subseries includes yearbooks, certificates, awards, and programs from her time at Short Ridge High School and Bryn Mawr College. The Photographs subseries holds photos spanning 1929-2010 of...

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Various photographs of unidentified individuals. Durbin is pictured in a high school class photo.

Series Scope and Content Summary From the Series: Series 3, Personal life, is the most heterogeneous series in this collection. This series consists of Karen Durbin’s life and work beyond her professional endeavors, and is organized into five subseries: Education, Photographs, Writing and Journals, Ephemera and Memorabilia, and Books. The Education subseries includes yearbooks, certificates, awards, and programs from her time at Short Ridge High School and Bryn Mawr College. The Photographs subseries holds photos spanning 1929-2010 of...

Series Scope and Content Summary From the Series: Series 3, Personal life, is the most heterogeneous series in this collection. This series consists of Karen Durbin’s life and work beyond her professional endeavors, and is organized into five subseries: Education, Photographs, Writing and Journals, Ephemera and Memorabilia, and Books. The Education subseries includes yearbooks, certificates, awards, and programs from her time at Short Ridge High School and Bryn Mawr College. The Photographs subseries holds photos spanning 1929-2010 of...