Guide to the Big Table Records,
1958-1960

Collection Number: 7720

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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EAD encoding:
Andrea Hektor
Peter Martinez, June 2003

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Big Table Records, 1958-1960.
Collection Number:
7720
Creator:
Inc. Big Table
Quantity:
.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, manuscripts.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, primarily that of Albert N. Podell, business manager, pertaining to the finances and advertising of the literary quarterly BIG TABLE, and to the publication of Beat and other modernist writing; also papers pertaining to an obscenity suit brought against the periodical. Major correspondents include Irving Rosenthal and Griselda Ohannessian.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Big Table was a literary periodical publishing and promoting progressive modernist and Beat prose and poetry, and was the subject of a 1960 obscenity suit.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, primarily that of Albert N. Podell, business manager, pertaining to the finances and advertising of the literary quarterly BIG TABLE, and to the publication of Beat and other modernist writing; also papers pertaining to an obscenity suit brought against the periodical. Major correspondents include Irving Rosenthal and Griselda Ohannessian.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Big Table, Inc.
Ohannessian, Griselda.
Podell, Albert N.
Rosenthal, Irving.

Titles:
Big Table.

Subjects:
American literature--20th Century.
American poetry--20th Century.
Publishing--Laws and legislation.
Obscenity (Law)--Law and literature--United States.
Beat generation.
Beat generation--Writings.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Big Table Records, #7720. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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