The collection was donated in 1988 by the estate of Robin Forbes via executor Jerremiah O. Bragstad.
Robin Forbes (d. 1982) was a photographer working in the SoHo district of New York City in the mid-1970s. He captured numerous images of street scenes, artists, studios, exhibition installations, lofts, people, performances, and businesses of the era.
Robin Forbes slides of SoHo, 1975-1976, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Robin Forbes Slides of SoHo collection measures 0.4 linear feet and consists entirely of 35mm color slides of the SoHo District of New York City, taken between 1975-1976. Depicted are street scenes of Spring Street, Prince Street, West Broadway, and other streets in SoHo; SoHo faces taken on West Broadway; businesses including the Spring Street Bar, the OH HO SO bar, Fanelli's Bar, Parocelso, The Cheese Store, Clockmaker/Miso, and the SoHo Weekly News staff; gallery installations, including Robert Morris and Robert Smithson exhibitions; artists working in SoHo studios including Margery Bihan, Rosemarie Castoro, Marisol, and unknown artists, and dance performances and poetry readings.
The collection was minimally processed by Barbara Aikens in 2013.
The goal for minimal-level processing at the Archives of American Art is to provide access to collections as quickly as possible while maintaining our high standards for arrangement, description and preservation. Generally, materials are minimally rearranged, existing folder titles are retained, and all materials are rehoused in acid-free folders and boxes. Staples and other fasteners are not removed, but materials are removed from binders or damaged binding when necessary.
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. research center.
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This collection has been digitized in its entirety and is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
Due to its small size, this collection has been arranged into one series. Box numbers in the finding aid container listing represent archival slide storage containers housed in one larger box. Within each new container, groupings of slides are titled and arranged according to the handwritten labels found on the original slide boxes. These groupings are listed as folders in the finding aid.
This series has been scanned in its entirety.
SoHo Faces, West Broadway
Artists in Studios, Margery Bihan
Artists in Studios, Rosemarie Castoro
Artists in Studios, Marisol
Artists in Studios, Unidentified Artists
(Contains images of artist Jack Lembeck).
SoHo Gallery Installations, Smithson/Morris
SoHo Gallery Installations, Unidentified
SoHo Performances, Dance and Poetry
SoHo Businesses, Spring St. Bar
SoHo Businesses, OH HO SO
SoHo Businesses, Fanelli's Bar
SoHo Businesses, Parocelso
SoHo Businesses, The Cheese Store
SoHo Businesses, Clockmaker/Miso
SoHo Newspaper, SoHo Weekly News Staff
SoHo District
SoHo District
SoHo District
SoHo District