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The 50,000 item collection documents Gedney's work from the 1950s to 1989. Subjects include photographs of cross country road trips; rural New York; Manhattan; Brooklyn; rural Kentucky; Hippies in San Francisco; composers; gay rallies and demonstrations; St. Joseph's School for the Deaf; India; England; Ireland; France; and, a large number of nocturnal pictures.

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Archive of Documentary Arts
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- Adrienne Lobel (11)
- Auto Show (7)
- Babbitt, Milton (11)
- Barber, Samuel (10)
- Benares, India (688)
- Berger, Arthur (10)
- Bernstein, Leonard (21)
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (9)
- Blackwood, Easley (8)
- Bola Nath (24)
- Brighton, England (7)
- Brooklyn (162)
- Brooklyn (old negatives) (7)
- Brooklyn Bridge (16)
- Brooklyn Gospel Revival (7)
- Brooklyn Sunday School Parade (22)
- Brown, Earl (6)
- Cage, John (54)
- Calcutta, India (360)
- California (75)
- California, Migrant Farm Workers (23)
- Car Show (13)
- Carter, Elliot (8)
- Chicago (25)
- Cleveland, Ohio (9)
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- Copland, Aaron (11)
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- Eastern Kentucky (109)
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- Eric Hoffer (11)
- Eric Hoffer and Lili Osborne (44)
- Erikson, Robert (7)
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- Gay March and Rally (83)
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- Good Friday Procession, Bronx (17)
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- Ireland (60)
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- Knoxville, Tennessee (37)
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- Los Angeles, California (20)
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- Menotti, Gian Carlo (25)
- Moore, Douglas (7)
- Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn (86)
- New York (53)
- Night (336)
- North Omstead, Ohio (9)
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- O'Rourke's Bar (15)
- O'Rourke's Bar, Brooklyn (36)
- Paris (65)
- Partch, Harry (37)
- Persichetti, Vincent (8)
- Pinkim, Daniel (12)
- Piston, Walter (7)
- Powell, Mel (10)
- Pratt Institute (27)
- Salvation Army (27)
- San Francisco (346)
- San Fransisco (9)
- Schuller, Gunther (13)
- Schuman, William (12)
- Sioux Reservation, South Dakota (29)
- Social Security Administration (34)
- South Dakota (33)
- St. Joseph's School for the Deaf (59)
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz (16)
- Stonewall Riot Anniversary (82)
- Sydeman, William (9)
- The Farm (41)
- Thomson, Virgil (7)
- Unidentified Composer (82)
- View From Gedney's Window (71)
- Washington Market (135)
- Weinberg, Henry (7)
- Weisgall, Hugo (10)
- William Gedney (32)
- William Gedney's Grandparents, Norton Hill, NY (17)
- Wolpe, Stefan (7)
- Wuorinen, Charles (9)

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- ca. 1970 (792)
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Man and woman looking at a museum piece.	Young man and child.	Woman dancing in crowd.	Soundman holding microphone; director Willard Huyck walking toward actors.
Profile of man speaking with right hand raised.	Rickshaws and carriages; wet men pulling cart of goods; wrestlers massaging each other and standing on each others' backs.	Close shot of Diamond.	Living room with television on, toys in front of fire place.
Amusement ride.	Two men looking out over the Ganges and Benares from a ghat; one man meditating nearby.	Grotesque figures; children around a maypole; person sleeping (Kentucky?); buildings and car.	Men drying dhotis on ghat.
Female teen works on porch at a sewing machine.	Two men urinating in open latrine below a billboard.	Bus passing on street below tracks for elevated train; view from Gedney's apartment window.	Wet boy standing outside with arms outstretched.
Row of stores with car parked out front.	John Cage reads while others in room sit and sleep on floor; store fronts; Gordon Mummer, David Tudor, and David Behrman connecting wires and working on electronic chess board; Cage out on street.	Dark stairwell.	Hardware store window front at night.
Sydeman sitting near window.	Couple holding a crying boy in front of David painting in museum.	Man with baby on porch.	Woman kneeling while a boy behind her holds incense bowl in mouth.
Lee Friedlander shooting the Centennial Parade for the Brooklyn Bridge.	Man and child sit on porch; closeup of child.	Sculptors at work; Sculptors socializing; Workers putting up a wooden fence; Indira Gandhi propaganda on a wall: "For a Stable Ministry Vote Congress (I)".	Garage; Eric Hoffer and Lili Osborne
Boy covered by dirt smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other.	People walking or riding bicycles or rickshaws or cars on street in the rain.	Vivan Cornett ironing on porch while children play.	Three women looking at map.

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