Oceana Publications Inc was a publishing house specialising in law and civil rights founded by the British émigré Philip F. Cohen (1911–1998) in 1945.
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500 5th Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City (1945–12.1947); 115 West 42nd Street, Midtown Manhattan, New York City (01.1948–03.1948); 461 West 18th Street, Chelsea, New York City (04.1948–1950); 43 West 16th Street, Chelsea, New York City (1951–1957); 80 Fourth Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City (1958–1961); 40 Cedar Street, Dobbs Ferry, New York City (1962–?).
Cohen, Philip F. “Oceana Publications.” Legal Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3–4, 1992, pp. 113–120. HeinOnline. Accessed 19 February 2021.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “Book review.” Des Moines Tribune, 10 December 1952, p. 20.
Steinhauer, Jennifer. “Philip F. Cohen, 87, Founder of Legal Publishing Company.” The New York Times, 30 September 1998, p. 8. Accessed 16 March 2021.
Sorgenfrei, Robert and David Peters. Marion Palfi Archive (Guide Series, no. 10). Center for Creative Photography. University of Arizona, 1985.
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Marion Palfi
Marion Palfi was a German émigré photographer who lived in New York from the 1940s to the 1960s. Her photographic engagement in social and political topics made her name for her use of the camera to draw attention to social injustices.
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Manhattan Magic is a photobook which was published in 1937 by the German émigré photographer Mario Bucovich in New York City.
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Chinatown U.S.A. is a photobook published by the German émigré photographer Elizabeth Coleman in 1946 focusing on American-Chinese communities in New York and San Francisco.
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5th Avenue was the first photobook by Fred Stein and was created in 1947 with the publishing house Pantheon Books.
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J.J. Augustin was a German publishing house in Glückstadt with a long history, going back to 1632. In 1936 the American branch opened in New York with a large artistic and cultural focus.
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Schocken Books was a publishing house established in 1945 in New York by the Russian émigré Salman Schocken (1898–1959). It specialised in books on Judaica and Hebrew topics.
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Pantheon Books was a publishing house founded in 1942 by the German émigré Kurt Wolff (1887–1963) and aimed at the exiled European community in New York.
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Fritz H. Landshoff’s Querido publishing house was originally an offshoot of Emanuel Querido's Querido Uitgeverij Dutch publishing house in Amsterdam. Querido Verlag was created in 1933 to publish work by German political exiles.
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The German émigrés Kurt S(z)afranski, Ern(e)st Mayer and Kurt Kornfeld founded Black Star in 1936. The photo agency established was a well-run networking institution in New York.
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Leco Photo Service was a photofinishing lab, highly-frequented and a contact hub for émigré photographers and photo agencies during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a provider of employment for women in the photo industry.
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Founded in 1940 by the emigrant Charles Rado (1899–1970), Rapho Guillumette was a picture agency.
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Pavelle Laboratories was found in 1936 by Leo and Carmen Pavelle and operated on East 42nd Street. It was specialised in the development of miniature camera film and one of the first labs working with colour film.
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