Company Artifacts

I was also inspired to dig through the NYTimes archive around the month of April, 1970. I found this article called, “Love Letter Read at the Davis Trial,” about a…

24 days before  the release of Company, President Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act as part of a growing campaign in the U.S. to limit smoking. The act…

Above is an anniversary announcement. It was published in the New York Times on April 26, 1970, the same day Company opened on Broadway. This announcement underscores the show’s views…

Since I am a big fan of music from the 1970s, I decided to see what the top music albums of the year 1970 were. I found a ranking on…

The artifact I chose was a New York Times article from April 1970 about the first Earth Day and how it was celebrated in New York City. I found this…

Legendary Concert: Van Morrison @ Fillmore West, San Francisco – April 26th 1970 As an avid music fan, and someone who has multiple Van Morrison cds and records, I knew…

I came across this ad for a book in searching through 1970 wedding announcements in the NYT archives. I found it particularly funny and fitting to our discussion of marriage…

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/banned-bluest-eye/ For this post, I did a search of books published in 1970, and although I don’t know what month The Bluest eye was published in, I know it was…

A quick search of the New York Times archives pulled up quite a few articles relating to marriage and divorce. The first of the two I’ll share, dated December 9,…