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Collins mss., 1926-2001

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Collins, John W., 1912-2001

Title
Collins mss., 1926-2001

Collection No.
LMC 2411

Extent
10,000 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Collins mss., ca. 1926-2001, consist of the correspondence, writings, photographs, albums and chess club records of John William (Jack) Collins, 1912-2001, an influential American teacher of chess.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Collins was born Sept. 23, 1912, in Newburgh, N.Y. His father, John Thomas Collins, a flutist and piccolo player, frequently played in John Philip Sousa's orchestra. His mother, Carolyn LaSears Collins, was a homemaker. Collins lived most of his life in New York City, becoming a chess master in the 1930s. He was a major figure in the early days of modern organized chess, serving as the first correspondence chess editor of Chess Review magazine (which later merged with Chess Life). This program laid the groundwork for the correspondence chess conducted by the United States Chess Federation. He was one of the few players who excelled nationally at both correspondence and over-the-board play, winning the U.S. correspondence championship and ranking as one of the top OTB players in the U.S. He remained an active tournament player through the 1960s, representing the United States in the first World Correspondence Chess Championship. A prolific author, he taught thousands of players through his books and articles, and was co-editor of the ninth edition of Modern Chess Openings.

Arrangement

Organized into the following series: I. Writings and Accompanying Materials; II. Professional; III. Bobby Fischer; IV. Game Records; V. Publications; VI. Correspondence; VII. Personal; VIII. Clippings; IX. Memorabilia; X. Photographs; XI. Albums and Scrapbooks; XII. Audio-Visual; XIII. Realia.

Scope and Content Note

Writings and Accompanying Materials include original drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, columns, and articles written by Collins, along with related correspondence, royalty statements, contracts, and publisher agreements. The Professional series includes game submissions, income statements, awards and honors, and other materials relating to Collins' activities as Correspondence Chess Editor, chess mentor and expert.

The Bobby Fischer series includes correspondence written by Bobby Fischer to Jack and Ethel Collins; the diaries of Ethel Collins, written during Fischer's 1972 World Chess Championship victory over Boris Spassky of the USSR; and an unsigned, undated, handwritten plea for Fischer to return to playing chess professionally. The Game Records series features more than 70 years of materials pertaining to chess matches, tournaments and championships.

Correspondents in the general Correspondence series include: Edmund Adam; Weever W. Adams; Lev Alburt; Emil J. Balthazar; Gigi Benson; Robert F. Brand; Schuyler Broughton; Robert Byrne; Irving Chernev; Church of the Larger Fellowship; E. Malcolm Cohen; John W. (Jack) Collins; Arthur Dake; Marna Olsen Davis; E. B. Edmondson; George F. Gant; Brian Harrow; Ann Humdy; Walter James; Steven Josefowicz; Hector Jurado; Kurt Landsberger; William Lombardy; Norman Monath; Jacqueline Matisse Monnier; Steven Moskowitz; Stan Olsen; Milton Pauley; Dick Rees; Charles A. Reinwald.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Acquired: 2004, 2007
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Collins mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. .
Processing Information
Processed by Susan Bogner.

Completed in 2013


Series: Box 1 I. Writings and Accompanying Materials

Organized into the following subseries of writings by Jack Collins: My Seven Chess Prodigies; Maxims of Chess; Modern Chess Openings; Columns and Articles; Early Manuscripts; Other; and Writings by Other Authors.


My Seven Chess Prodigies

Correspondence with Publishers, 1973-1983,  undated 

Draft, Jan. 30, 1976 

(2 folders)


Incomplete Index of Biographies

Index of Openings, Index of Players

Interview Transcripts

Miscellaneous Magazine References on the Top Five Young Masters

Note Sheets on Young Masters

Notes and Related Materials, 1974,  undated 

Notes Sent to Fischer, June 29, 1974 

Royalty Statements, 1975-1978 

Young Masters Draft, 1974 

(2 folders)


Various Typescript Sections, corrected

Young Masters Publisher Agreement, 1973 

Maxims of Chess

Art

Contracts and Publisher Correspondence, 1976-1977 

Draft, 1977 

(2 folders)


Draft, Dec. 11, 1978 

Galley Proofs

Galley Proofs, Author's Set

Box 2 Maxims

Receipts and Royalty Statements, 1978-1993 

Style Sheet and Other Notes

Modern Chess Openings

Correspondence with C.C.L.A., 1957 

Correspondence with Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1956,  undated 

Correspondence with Walter Korn, 1950-1956 

Correspondence with Walter Korn, 1957-1958 

Final Page Proofs, 1957 

Page Proofs Corrections, 1957 

Recapitulation of Earnings, 1965 

Royalty Statements, 1959,  undated 

Typescript #1, undated 

Typescript #2, undated 

Typescript #3, undated 

Typescript #4, undated 

Typescript #5, undated 

Typescript #6, undated 

Typescript #7, undated 

Typescript #8, undated 

Typescript #9, undated 

Typescript #10, undated 

Typescript Material, undated 

(3 folders)


Columns and Articles

Chess Life, Games by USCF Members, 1952-1954 

Chess Life, Games by USCF Members, 1954-1957 

Chess Life, Games by USCF Members, 1967-1971 

Chess Life, "How the Chess Openings Got Their Names," Corrected Draft, undated 

Chess Life Review Postal Games, Oct. 22, 1969 

Box 3 Chess Movies, 1944-1949 

Chess Review Postal Games, July 11, 1957 

(2 folders)


Chess Review Postal Games, Jan. 29, 1969 

Chess Review Postal Games, undated 

(4 folders)


Correspondence, Chess Review Postal Games, 1970-1972 

Correspondent End Games, undated 

Correspondent End Games, undated 

Dictionary of American Biography, undated 

Elementary Electronics, En Passant, 1968-1971 

"How the Chess Openings Got Their Names," Allegro, undated 

"How the Chess Openings Got Their Names," Chess Life Corrected Draft, undated 

"How the Chess Openings Got Their Names," Chess World, Uncorrected Draft, undated 

Journal of Paraplegia, Chess Column Notes, undated 

Journal of Paraplegia, Correspondence, 1951-1953 

Journal of Paraplegia, Published Copies, 1951-1953 

"The MCO Story," Draft, undated 

"The MCO Story," Published Version, March 1958 

Solitaire Chess, 1947 

Early Manuscripts

"Around the Desk," June 15, 1937 

"Big League Prospect," undated 

"The Cabby," March 7, 1940 

"A Christmas Guest," undated 

"Country Cop," 1939 

"Death Drops," 1944 

"Football Foolishness," April 29, 1936 

"Hotel Clerk," undated 

"A Manager's Choice," undated 

"A Mistake," undated 

"Mountain Murder," undated 

"Mrs. Groom's Adventure" undated 

"My Philosophy," Jan. 23, 1941 

"No. 89655," undated 

"Not a Coward," undated 

"Pepper," undated 

"Pitching- Jeff Higgins," Sept.-Oct. 1939 

Political Essays and other Thoughts, 1939-1942,  undated 

"Quoted Beliefs," undated 

"The Recluse Reflects," Sept. 18, 1941 

"Routine Monotony," June 16, 1931 

"The Ruppert Household," undated 

Shorter Writings and Untitled Works, 1933,  undated 

"The Tale of One Eight-Year Old in the Jungle," undated 

"Taxinter," Brooklyn, Feb. 16, 1940 

"Tim," undated 

"Turned Out," undated 

War Drafts, undated 

"Wheelchair Detective," or "The Recluse Reflects," undated 

Writer's Digest Assignments, 1933-1934 

Miscellaneous Verse, undated 

Miscellaneous, undated 

Other

"Chess Openings by World Champions," written 1958-1963 

"Emanuel Lasker: 1868-1941," undated 

"A Plan to Develop Chess Ability," undated 

Writings by Other Authors

"Death," by Santasiere, A.E., 1973 

"Our Day at City Hall," by Oliver Jovanovic, undated 

Series: Box 4 II. Professional

Organized into the following subseries: Chess Club Records; Collins Kids; Game Submissions; General Business; and Other.


Chess Club Records

A Lecture at the Brooklyn Chess Club, Jan. 11, 1947 

Brooklyn Chess Club, 1946-1948 

Brooklyn Chess League, 1934-1937 

"Caissa's Clarion," Brooklyn Chess Club Bulletin, 1947 

"Caissa's Clarion," Brooklyn Chess Club Bulletin, 1948 

Hawthorne Chess Club, Attendance and Dues, 1931-1939 

Hawthorne Chess Club, Correspondence, 1932-1937 

Hawthorne Chess Club, Constitution, Minutes and Matches, 1931-1933,  undated 

Manhattan Chess Club, 1970-1978,  undated 

Marshall Chess Club, 1940-2000,  undated 

Metropolitan Chess League, 1952-1954,  1962 

Ventnor City Invitation, 1939,  1940 

Collins Kids

1984 Chess Festival, Kiamesha Lake, July 16-20 

1986  Chess Saga

1990  Chess Saga vs. Icelandic Youth Team Programs

1996  Amateur Team Championship Results and Honors

The Collins Kids Clarion, Vol. III, Spring 1997 

CK vs. Harvard and Rockefeller, New York, 1978 

CK vs. Icelandic and Israeli Youth Teams, 1984 

(2 folders)


CK vs. Icelandic Youth and Ethel Collins Memorial Tournament, June-July 1996 

CK vs. West Point Cadets, Apr. 17, 1982 

Copies of Logo Design

Ethel B. Collins Memorial Tournament, March 1994 

Proposed CK vs. Icelandic Kids, New York, 1978-1979 

Receipts

United States Chess Federation Affiliate Certificates, 1999,  2000 

Other, 1972-2001,  undated 

Game Submissions

1938-1969 

1970-1971 

1972 

1973,  1976,  undated 

General Business

Address Book #1

Collins' Income, 1945-1971 

Collins' Income, 1973 

Contact Information

Jack's Inventories

Other Telephone and Address Books

Phone Book

Rolodex, A-G

Box 5 Rolodex, B-H

Rolodex, H-S

Rolodex, I-R

Rolodex, S-Z

Rolodex, unsorted

Other

Awards and Honors

Biographical Materials on Chess Players, A-G

Biographical Materials on Chess Players, H-K

Biographical Materials on Chess Players, L-Z

Chess Bios

Chess Life Data

Collins and Dunst Correspondence Chess Course, 1945,  undated 

Collins' Exhibit, World Chess Hall of Fame, 2001 

Complete Ableware Catalog, JWC Feature, 1995 

David Feldman, Early Prodigious Achievement, 1975 

Interviews with Collins

JWC Biographical Material

The Lincoln Hilton, undated 

Logo Prints

United States Chess Federation, 1975-1992 

United States Chess Federation Forms and Papers

Miscellaneous

Series: Box 5 III. Bobby Fischer

Note: the bulk of the correspondence in this series are letters written by Bobby Fischer to John and Ethel Collins.


Correspondence

Collins, Ethel, 1976-1979 

Collins, Ethel and John, 1958-1967,  undated 

Collins, John, 1959-1982,  undated 

Edmondson, Ed, Oct. 29, 1969 

Koch, Edward I., Feb. 16, 1978 

Regarding Schuyler Broughton, 1976-1988 

Bobby Fischer Game Records

1953-1961,  undated 

Copies of Games, 1971,  undated 

"Game of the Century" Score Sheet and Analysis, Oct. 17, 1956 

Score Sheets and Notes, 1958-1964,  undated 

Unidentified Clipping, undated 

Memorabilia

1972 World Championship

Ethel Collins' Diaries from 1972  World Championship

Other

Blank Postcard Given to Jack from Bobby

Clippings, 1972  World Championship

Clippings and Articles

Clippings and Notes, Bobby Fischer and Iceland

District Court Case, Fischer vs. Darrach, Dec. 1975 

Plea for Fischer to Return to Chess, undated 

"The Role of Bobby Fischer as a Cold War Symbol," Mar. 9, 1992 

Series: Box 6 IV. Game Records

Contains general game records covering the arc of Collins' career. Game records for Bobby Fischer are in the Bobby Fischer series.


Anderssen's Games, Opening Index, undated 

Assorted Problems: Moves in 5-16 Moves, 16 Problems-No Solutions

Belgrade, 1964 

Benoni, La Defense Benoni et La Defense Benoni Moderne, undated 

Championnat de France, 1963 

Collins' Games, 1932-1940 

Collins' Games, 1938-1970,  undated 

Collins' Games, 1941-1950 

Collins' Games, 1951-1960 

Collins' Games, 1955-1972,  1976 

Collins' Games, 1956 

Collins' Games, 1961-1999 

Collins' Games, 1969 

Collins' Games, 1971 

Collins' Games, undated 

D. Byrne Matches, 1967-1968 

Compiled Budapest Defense, Josef Staker and Alan Glasscoe, 1979 

European Tournaments, 1899-1904 

European Tournaments, 1909-1921 

European Tournaments, 1923-1936 

Games Annotated by Collins, 1945-1949,  undated 

Games Annotated by Collins, 1948-1950,  undated 

Games Annotated by Collins, 1950-1952 

Hermann Helms vs. Louis J. Wolff, February 1908 

Inventories, 1953-1962 

JWC Annotations on Saul Rubin's Games, Apr.-May 1956 

Box 7 JWC Weekly Planners, 1978-1981 

JWC Weekly Planners, 1982-1984 

JWC Weekly Planners, 1985-1987 

JWC Weekly Planners, 1988-1990 

JWC Weekly Planners, 1991-1993 

JWC Weekly Planners, 1994-1995 

Kresse vs. Austin, 1939  Special Leadership, Notes by JWC

Log Cabin Chess Club, U.S.C.F., Seeded Championship, Aug. 1959 

Lombardy Games, undated 

Marshall Championship, Collins vs. K. Messerschmitt, Budapest Defense, Mar. 2, 1940 

Match with Marshall, 1907 

"My Games of Chess," by John Collins, Book I, 1932-1937 

"My Games of Chess," by John Collins, Book II, 1937-1938 

"Opening Options," by John Collins, Sept. 21, 1948 

Photostats Published by the Dutch Chess Center, 1952-1954 

Postal Instruction Games, 1914,  1950,  1957-1967 

Postal Instruction Games, 1968-1976,  1980 

Postal Instruction Games Annotated by Collins, 1951-1952 

Records of Collins' Prize Winnings, 1948-1952,  undated 

Reshevsky Memorial Tournament, Rounds 1-7, 1992 

Santasiere Games, 1971 

Selected Games by JWC, undated 

Seventh Midwest Open and Nebraska State Chess Championship, Sept. 1957 

To Collins from Lombardy, Christmas, 1994 

U.S. Chess Championship, 1966-1967 

1959-1963 

Untitled, January 1979 

Miscellaneous

Series: Box 8 V. Publications

Arranged alphabetically by title, then oversized.


14th U.S. Jr. Chess Championship & 60th U.S. Open Chess Championship 1959 

59th Annual U.S. Open Chess Championship, Rochester, MN, 1958 

Ableware Homeware Catalog, 1995  (Collins Feature)

Absolute Chess, by Weaver W. Adams, 1959 

All Games from the XXIII U.S.S.R. Chess Championship, 1956 

All Games from the Carlsbad International Chess Congress, 1929 

All Games from the New York International Chess Congress, 1927 

American Chess Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 4, Jul.-Aug., 1939 

Chess, 1936,  1939,  1958 

Chess Charts, Issue No. 2, April, 1941 

The Chess Correspondent, Vol. XXV, Nos. 5 and 6, 1952 

Chess Endings from Modern Master Play, Jacques Mieses, 1901 

Chess is an Art, by Richard Kujoth, 1955 

Chess Life, 1953,  1961,  1963 

Chess Life, Vol. 38, No. 8, August 1953 

Chess Life, Vol. 41, No. 6, June 1986 

Chess Life, Vol. 46, No. 5, May 1991 

Chess Life, 2000-2002 

Chess Life, Proof Copy, March 2002 

Chess Life and Review, May and August, 1978 

Chess Monthly, Vol. 62, No. 8, November 1997 

Chess Pie, 1922,  1927 

Chess Pie, No.3, 1936 

Chess Review, October 1952 

Chess Review, February 1954 

The Chess Review, December 1938 

The Chess Weekly, Vol. 11, No. 18, March 27, 1909 

A Course in the Elements of Modern Chess Strategy, Reinfeld and Green, Lessons I-V, 1935 

A Course in the Elements of Modern Chess Strategy, Reinfeld and Green, Lessons VI-XII, 1936 

David Bronstein's Best Games of Chess, 1944-1949, by Larry Evans, Limited Ed. No.2

Empire Chess, Vol. VI, No. 1, Winter 1986 

Finals and Semi-finals of the Manhattan and Marshall C.C. Championships, 1956-1957 

Fred Reinfeld Limited Editions, Vol. V, Botvinnik's Best Games, Part I, 1927-1934 

Fred Reinfeld Limited Editions, Vol. X, Ventnor City Tournament, 1939 

Fred Reinfeld Limited Editions, Vol. VII, Semmering-Baden Tournament, 1937 

Fretta-Blad T.R., 1980,  1982,  1983 

Het Eindspel, No. 9, Dr. M. Euwe, 1951 

Box 9 Instructive and Practical Endings from Master Chess, Reinfeld, Lessons II-IV, 1937 

International Chess Tournament, Carlsbad, Bohemia, Aug.-Sept., 1911 

Materials about Iceland, 1985-1987 

Milwaukee, 1957, Edited by Jack Spence, 1958 

Milwaukee Chess Championships, New Western and North Central, 1959 

Modern Iceland, Special Issue: Centuries of Chess, 1987 

National Geographic, Vol. 172, No. 2, February 1987 

New Ideas in Old Settings: The Caro-Kann Defense, by Warren H. Goldman, 1958 

New Jersey Open Chess Championship, Compiled by Robert Durkin, 1959 

Newsletters, 1966-1993 

Principles of Strategy in the Game of Checkers, Louis C. Ginsberg, 1932 

Quest, March 1987 

Roman Pelts Instructional Materials

Russian Works, 1947,  1951 

Selected Games from the 58th U.S. Open Chess Championship, 1957 

Selection of Games from the San Diego Open, August, 1956 

Simple Chess, by Weaver W. Adams, 1946 

Simple Chess, by Weaver W. Adams, Revised, 1958 

Skakfelagsbladid, 9-21 mars 1988 

Some Facts about Iceland for Ethel Collins, PC Globe, Inc., 1990 

Les Tableaux Echiqueens, A. Garreau, [1966] 

Tartakower Memorial Chess Congress, Detroit, 1956 

Temas, XXV, No. 292, Mayo, 1975 

TWA Ambassador, Mayo 1980 

U.S. Chess Championship and 5th Rosenwald Trophy Tournament, 1958-1959 

U.S. Chess Saga, 1984-1990 

Ventnor City International Masters Tournament, 1945 

Vienna International Tournament, by Larry Evans, 1948 

Vim and Vigor, Fall 2000 

World Championship Candidates Tournament, 1953 

Miscellaneous Printed

Chess Archives, Dr. M. Euwe, 1965-1966 

(binder)


Box 35 (Oversize) Life Magazine, "The Deadly Gamesman" (Bobby Fischer), Nov. 12, 1971 

(2 copies)


Box 10 America (Russian language), includes "A Passion for Chess" article on Jack Collins, 1978 

Series: Box 10 VI. Correspondence

Organized alphabetically by last name of the correspondent. Correspondence from Bobby Fischer is located in the Bobby Fischer series.


A-B

C

Collins, John W.

D-E

F-I

J-L

M-O

P-S

T-U

U.S. Chess Federation: Instructions and Introductory Letters, 1952-1953 

V-Z

Unidentified, 1946-1999 

Correspondence re: Collins Kids and Chess as an Amateur Sport, 1978 

Box 31 (Oversize) Framed Letter from Wilhelm "William" Steinitz to J. Spence, August 31, 1895 

Series: Box 10 VII. Personal

Carolyn LaSears Boyd Collins Biographical Material

Collins' Family Tree

Collins' Genealogy Information

Custom-Made Tricycle, 1966-1967 

Dad and Mother's Birth Certificates

Dad's Army Papers, 1899,  1930,  undated 

Estate of John W. Collins

Framed JWC Memorabilia

Grandfather Collins' Papers, 1873-1903 

Henry E. Ecktrom's Will and Death Certificate, 1964 

JWC Letter to President F.D. Roosevelt, May 15, 1941 

John and Ethel Collins' Household Inventory, undated 

John W. Collins Composition Book

John and Ethel Collins' Household Inventory

Medicaid Application, January 12, 2001 

Memorial of Ethel B. Collins for John W. Collins, May 25, 1993 

Miscellaneous

Mother's Keepsakes

New York Society for Ethical Culture, June-July, 1981 

Personal Effects

Polka Brilliante, Piccolo Solo Played by John T. Collins

Sheet Music, Words and Music by Jack W. Collins, undated 

Sousa Band Society News, September 1977 

Will and Bequeath of Louis J. Wolff, 1985-1986 

Will of Alexander Meyer, March 21, 1990 

JWC Memorial Guestbook (album)

Series: Box 11 VIII. Clippings

Allegro, May 1975 

Articles about JWC

Chess, 1939 

Chess, 1941 

Chess, 1944 

Chess, 1945 

Chess, 1946 

Chess, 1947 

Chess, 1948 

Chess, 1949 

Chess, 1940s 

Chess, 1950 

Chess, 1951 

Chess, 1952 

Chess, 1953 

Chess, 1954 

Chess, 1955 

Chess, 1956 

Chess, 1957 

Chess, 1958 

Chess, Cazenovia, 1958 

Chess, Rochester, 1958 

Chess, 1965,  1967 

Chess Life, June 20, 1959 

Chess Strategies and Analyses

Clippings and Folios, 1969 

Clippings and Notes from Books

Collins Kids

Duchamp, Marcel and Alexina

Ethel Collins' Memorial

Game Clippings

"Games by USCF Members," 1960,  1968 

John Cage

JWC Clippings, 1959 

JWC, 1978-1979 

Literary Market

Marcus and Bryan Brown

Miscellaneous Chess

New York Chess Clubs

NT, June 27, 1985 

Other

"Petrosian Crushed in 26 Moves," by Lloyd S. Smith, undated 

Photocopies of Chess Book Title Pages

Related Game Clippings

Russian News, October, 1956 

Sicilian Defense

Ventnor City Invitation Chess Tournament, 1939 

"What I Discovered about Poop Glover," The Saturday Evening Post, 1976 

WWII News, 1939-1945 

Series: Box 11 IX. Memorabilia

Organized into the following subseries: Tournament Programs and Bulletins; and Other.


Tournament Programs and Bulletins

16eme Olympiade D'Echecs, Israel, 1964 

Tallinn, 1975 

Mexico, 1978,  1980 

1945-1975 

1981-1996 

Other

Armed Forces Chess Tournament Dinner, 1967,  1969 

Blank Cards

Box 12 International Chess Calendars, 1990-1998 

Israel Brochures and Pamphlets, 1970s-1980s 

Ordination of Reverend Lombardy, May 27, 1967 

Rolywholover: A Circus, John Cage Exhibition, 1994 

Township of Dover Proclamation, Jan. 8, 1982 

Miscellaneous

Series: Box 12 X. Photographs

Organized into the following subseries: General; and Framed.


General

Chess Players and Enclosed Notes

Christmas Photos from Siggn and Silja, 1983 

Collins, 1987,  undated 

Collins' Apartment, undated 

Collins and Friends, undated 

Collins and Others

Collins and Others, 1993 

Collins and Others, Negatives, 1993 

Collins and Others Eating in Reykjavik, 1972  (From Fischer/Spassky Album #4)

Collins, Ethel and Jack, Miscellaneous Negatives

Collins Kids

Collins Kids' Rolywholover Circus, April 25, 1994 

CK to Israel, 1983-1984 

Concord, Collins Kids vs. Iceland, 1988-1989 

Dale, Arthur, August 3, 1991 

Enlarged Photos from Parsippany, 1994 

Enlarged Photos of John and Ethel, August, 1988 

Family Portraits

Fischer and Weinstein, October 1956,  October 1957 

Fischer as a young boy playing chess with Collins, undated 

Fischer playing Collins with Weinstein in background, undated 

Goldmanski and Others, undated 

Helms, Hermann, 1955 

Iceland, 1995-1996 

Jack and Ethel Christmas Card Prints, 1987 

Jack on Tricycle, February, 1993 

John T. Collins' Band, undated 

JWC Photos by Wolff Weber

JWC Picture Gallery, Hall of Fame

John Cage Photos, 1971 

Karpov, Anatoly

Lasker, Edward and Wolff, Louis, June 1978,  undated 

Lasker, Emanuel

Olafsson, Fridrik, undated 

Lyman, Shelby, January, 1988 

Personal Framed Photos, undated 

Photos from Jack's Apartment

Stanley B. Winters, 1991,  1993,  undated 

Tennessee, Lilla, and Friend

Vermont, Summer 1990 

X-Ray of Collins' Pelvis at Age 2

August, 1958 

September, 1967 

April, 1989 

Miscellaneous

Framed

Box 13 Ethel Collins with Two Children

Framed Photos of Jack

Jack and man holding a cup

Jack playing chess with Clara Collins

Jack posed with a child at Awards Banquet

Jack's Godchild in Reykjavik, Iceland

John Philip Sousa and Band

(John T. Collins, far left)


John T. Collins and others in military attire

John W. Collins and Hermann Helms

JWC playing chess

Louis Wolff as WWI Soldier

Photos of Apartment Buildings

(3 folders)


Photos of Houses

Portrait of Baby

Box 29 Unn the Deep Minded

Portrait of Soldiers

Portrait of John T. Collins

Jack playing chess with children

Portrait of Unidentified Couple

Portrait of Wilhelm Steinitz

Portraits of Children

Portraits of Jack and Ethel

Woman in Fur Coat, 1955 

Unidentified, July, 1985 

Unidentified Framed Photos

Series: XI. Albums and Scrapbooks

Box 12 Scrapbook in Ethel Collins' Memory

(2 folders)


John T. Collins Photos and Clippings

JWC Clippings #1

JWC Clippings #2

JWC Clippings #4

Chess Clippings, Scrapbook #1

Chess Scrapbook #2

Early Scores, Clippings and Letters of Jack

Jack's Very First Album of Chess Clippings, etc.

Box 15 U.S. Open, Lincoln, 1975 

NYS Tournament, Corning, 1969 

U.S. Open, Rochester, 1958  and NYS Tournament, 1956,  Buffalo

Bobby, 1958;  Karpov, Apr. 1979; Korschnoi at JWC Home, Aug. 1983;  Kasparov, 1988 

U.S. Open, Atlanta, 1967 

U.S. Open, Cleveland, 1958 

U.S. Amateur Team Tournament, Somerset, 1992 

1984  U.S. Chess Festival, Concord, U.S., Iceland, Israel #1

JWC #1

JWC #2

JWC #3

JWC #5

Box 16 Iceland, 1972  #1-A

Iceland, 1972  #8

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #1

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #2

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #4

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #5

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #6

Fischer-Spassky, 1972  #7

Box 17 Collins Kids #1

Collins Kids #2

Collins Kids #3

Collins Kids #4

Collins Kids #5

Collins Kids #6

Collins Kids #7

Collins Kids #8

Collins Kids #9

Collins Kids #10

Collins Kids #11

Box 18 Collins Kids Party at Nils Kessler's, 1976 

Collins Kids Amateur Tournament, Atlantic City, 1977 

Collins Kids Match, Parties at Jack's House, 1977 

Collins Kids West Point, 1977 &1978 

Collins Kids City Hall, 1978 

Collins Kids U.S. Amateur Team Tournament, Somerset, 1981 

Collins Kids, West Point, 1982 

Collins Kids U.S. Amateur Team, 1982-1983 

Collins Kids West Point, 1983-1984 

1980-1984,  [Multiple events; Primarily Collins Kids]

Iceland Safari 1977-1978  #1

Iceland Safari 1977-1978  #2

Icelandic Saga 1978-1979  #1

Iceland Saga 1978-1979  #2

Iceland Saga 1978-1979  #3

Iceland Saga 1978-1979  #4

Part of Iceland Saga, 1978 

Iceland Saga, Gift from Iceland, 1978-1979 

1978-1979 

Box 20 Iceland, CK Safari, June 1985  #4

CK, Israel Scenes, 1983-1984 

Iceland Safari, 1980  #1

Iceland Safari, 1980  #2

Iceland Safari, 1980  #3

Iceland Saga, Concord, 1981  #1

Iceland Safari, 1982-1983  #1

Iceland Safari, 1982-1983  #2

Iceland Safari, 1982-1983  #3

Box 21 Icelandic Safari, June 1985  #1

Icelandic Safari, June 1985  #2

Icelandic Safari, June 1985  #3

Iceland Safari, June 1985  #5

CK vs. Israeli Kids, Israel, 1983-1984 

CK vs. Israeli Kids, Israel, 1983-1984 

U.S. Chess Festival, U.S., Iceland, Israel, 1984 

Collins Kids Portfolio, 1977 

Box 22 CK, 1977 

1990  Saga, CK Kids vs. Iceland

CK vs. Harvard, Chang-Aspis Award, 1986 

CK Teams, U.S. Amateur Team Tournament, 1988 

Collins Kids, USAT, Somerset, 1990 

CK Icelandic Saga, 1990;  Thanksgiving, Zamora

CK Matches at JWC Home, 1985 

Nawrose Nur, 1990 

Jack's Russian Kids

Untitled, "To Jack and Ethel from Robert"

Jack's Kids vs. Iselananders, 1990,  Concord

Box 23 Jack, Simol at Dalton, March 1988 

U.S. Amateur Team Tournaments, 1986-1987 

Iceland Saga, 1988  #1

CK Iceland Saga, 1988  #2

CK Iceland Saga, 1988  #3

Gurevich-Adams CK Match, 1985-1986  #1

Gurevich-Adams CK Match, 1985-1986 

Florida, 1988,  Nicky and Jack

CK Icelandic Saga, July 1986  #1

CK Icelandic Saga, July 1896  #2

U.S. Amateur Team Tournament, Somerset, 1985 

U.S. Amateur Team Tournament, Somerset, 1989 

Box 24 Jack Alone #1

Jack and Chess Friends #1

Jack and Chess Friends #2

Jack's Chess Friends #3

JWC Chess Friends #4

Jack's Friends #5

JWC Chess Friends #6

JWC Chess Events and People

Box 25 Chess Cards, etc., Special Keepsakes

Letters to Jack #1

Letters to Jack #2

Lombardy Cards and Letters

Letters and Clippings to Jack #3

Box 26 Letters To Jack #4

Happy Birthday!

Clippings Regarding Jack Clara had kept over many years

JWC Clippings #3

Letters to John #5 Hall of Fame

JWC 1991  U.S. Chess Hall of Fame and Our Trip

[Jack's Handmade Toy Soldiers]

Box 27 Silyja 1

Silyja 2

Untitled, [black album with floral accent], undated 

Gift from Bennie, Ethel's Favorite Father, March 1991 

Untitled; date unclear... 1955-1986  or 1979-1983  (covers multiple events: Danny's Birthday Party May 1983,  Pearl and Allen Kaufman Wedding 1980,  Sig-Waters- and Collins 1979) 

CK Sal Matera: Wedding Ann and Sal, undated 

Untitled; multiple events: Alan and Sara Wedding, 1958;  Chess Friends (no particular time or place); 1956-  Trip with Al and Sara - St. Louis, Canada, Vermont

Collins' House

Collins' New Year's Parties, 1971 

Jack, Ethel New Year's 1988 / New Year's Day at Home 1988

Box 28 Louis J. Wolff #1

Louis J. Wolff #2

Series: Box 28 XII. Audio-Visual

Videocassettes

1987 World Chess Championship, Show #103 "Bobby Fischer's Chess"

(4 copies)


The Works - "Duchamp"

Ethel's Birthday

The "Cross-Country Adventure," July 25-August 13, 1991 

Iceland Chess, PBS Chess Tournament, 9/23/84 

(3 copies)


Audiocassettes

Accompanying Note

Andreas Vollenweider, William Ackerman, Kripalu Instrumentalists

Collins Service, 5/25/93 

Ethel B Collins Memorial, 5/25/93 

John and Ethel Collins: Start of a bio & people they knew (by John)

Unidentified, Black Scotch C-90

Kor Langholtskirkju Land Mins Fodur [Icelandic songs?]

Joseph Matera

Vivaldi Concertos

Discussions, Interviews of Chess People/Jack's Dictations

(16 tapes in black case)


John W. Collins' Stories

Jack's [ones?]

Series: Box

30

(Oversize)

XIII. Realia

Autograph Book, Late 1980s-1990s 

Box 32 (Oversize) Wooden Box (once contained Jack's Bios of Chess Players)

Box 33 (Oversize) Tin containing Jack's Paper Soldiers

Box 34 (Oversize) Butterfly box (once contained Jack's early manuscripts)

Box 35 (Oversize) Autograph Book, 1927 

Blue Purse

Chess Coaster

Flag, 1992  Chess Olympiad in Manila

Pin, "I Love the U.S. Team"

(2)


Pin, "New York Salutes 1st American World Chess Champion"

Pin, "Scholastic Team Chess Championship," March 20, 1994 

Set of Chess Player pins (in Russian), [To Mr. Collins from Michael Perelshteyn]

Sterling Silver Chess Piece, [Gift to Jack from Louis J. Wolff, ca. 1975] 

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