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International Graffiti Times archive

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8067

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes 44 original, hand-collaged past-up boards from which the IGTimes page layouts were reproduced; hundreds of original manuscript, typescript, and desktop printing documents comprising the text files from which its editorial content was drawn; more than 4000 original photographs of aerosol street art submitted to the magazine by a community of international aerosol writers and readers; ca. 5000 original reader submissions; ca. 500 original magazines and fanzines; 150 clippings from newspapers and magazines; the archive of the Aerosol Art Armada, which includes ca. 1,000 35 mm. slide transparencies; a selection of flyers for parties and openings in New York City; 5 file folders with information from scholarly researchers who contacted the IGTimes for information on street art.

Dates

  • 1970-2000.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

In late 1983, downtown artist and photographer David Schmidlapp published the first issue of the IGTimes under the name "Yanqui Junkie." The International Graffiti Times was "the original inner-city, international, aerosol 'zine,' and the Aerosol Art Armada traveling show, providing a view of the development of aerosol street art and the rise of hip hop culture in New York City and around the world from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Extent

15 cubic feet. (15 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Collection includes 44 original, hand-collaged past-up boards from which the IGTimes page layouts were reproduced; hundreds of original manuscript, typescript, and desktop printing documents comprising the text files from which its editorial content was drawn; more than 4000 original photographs of aerosol street art submitted to the magazine by a community of international aerosol writers and readers; ca. 5000 original reader submissions; ca. 500 original magazines and fanzines; 150 clippings from newspapers and magazines; the archive of the Aerosol Art Armada, which includes ca. 1,000 35 mm. slide transparencies; a selection of flyers for parties and openings in New York City; 5 file folders with information from scholarly researchers who contacted the IGTimes for information on street art.

Physical Description

Printed material, manuscripts, photographs, publications.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
RMC Staff
Date completed:
January 2017
EAD encoding:
RMC Staff, January 2017
Date modified:
Fredrika Loew, October 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
January 2017
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)