Sub-series largely consists of correspondence and subject files documenting both business and personal matters dealt with by Karsh's New York office, which he opened in 1955 to handle the sale of his photographs in the United States. The files contain some material pre-dating 1955. The material includes personal and professional correspondence including incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters, notes, printed material and clippings, background and research material relating to Karsh's subjects and clients, some financial and travel records, memorabilia and other material.
Included is correspondence with Woodfin Camp, Karsh's American agent, J. Walter Thompson, "Harper's Bazaar", and "Look Magazine". There is documentation on Karsh's involvement with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Jerry Lewis' Labour Day telethon, on Northwestern Mutual Life including clippings of advertisements and annual reports in which Karsh's photographs were used, and on several photograph exhibitions in which he was involved including Expo `67, the Roloff Beny exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, entitled "Pleasure of Photography", and a Union Carbide Exhibition.
The "Jean McJanet" and the "New York Studio Reports from Gaylene Fraser" files include records of phone messages received by Karsh's New York office in his absence.
The "Famous Men" files contains correspondence from many prominent figures including Harold Town, Edward Steichen, Glenn Gould, Ravi Shankar, Alan Shepard, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, John Glenn, Marshall McLuhan, Marian Anderson, John Kenneth Galbraith, Wilder Penfield, Lord Thomson of Fleet, Sean O'Casey, David Low, Dwight Eisenhower, Viscount Alexander of Tunis, U Thant, Harold Wilson, Konrad Adenauer, François Mauriac, Jean Dubuffet, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Graham Greene, Lyndon Johnson, Somerset Maugham, Norman Rockwell, Sir Laurence Olivier, Evelyn Waugh, Jack Paar, Grant Macdonald, Jerry Lewis, Joan Crawford, Mamie Eisenhower, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Bernard Baruch, John Gunther, Charlton Heston, Thomas Mann, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lester B. Pearson, and others.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject with oversized material stored in volume 376.
