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and kept the name after the failure of the marriage in 1934. She lived in London from 1933 through 1939 with various trips to Moscow, Paris, Capri. She studied lithography in London. In Moscow in 1935 as a lithographer, she gave birth to her daughter, Helen Roe, renamed Kiske
Janeway (1935-2022).
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among others. These women, in particular its long-lived Chair Doris
Diether, founded in the 1960s what became Community Board II (CB2) in 1971, one of New York's earliest community boards. When Janeway was not serving on the CB2, she regularly attended the meetings. The successful campaign to
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in her maternal grandparents' home at 101 Rugby Road in
Brooklyn, she and the family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1925 where her father, Charles Siesel Rindsfoos, joined his brother William in the Brunson Bank. She eloped in 1932 with fellow Cornell student
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for two years, 1962-65, she testified in 1965 before New York County's Fourth May Grand Jury investigating the prison's notorious mistreatment of prisoners. Janeway distinguished herself as a witness by reporting in
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Chapter 12. While she was initially in favor of prison reform, once the building was emptied of prisoners in 1971 she and the Patchin and Milligan Place tenants group called for its demolition in 1973.
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In 1956, amid tabloid coverage, a jury of 6 in NY Municipal Court recognized
Janeway's claim on her 1 Milligan Place apartment, and scuttled the landlord's eviction, in an early example of
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Diagnosed with mouth cancer, Carol
Janeway died of pneumonia in November 1989. Her will of 1988 bequeathed the liquidated assets of her estate to The People With Aids Coalition.
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which holds
Janeway's papers in addition to some tile work. Ceramic art by Janeway and additional papers were sold by her estate and are in a private collection.
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newspaper a four-article series describing her treatment by the prosecutor in the Grand Jury. Her colleague at the prison was social worker
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however the firm did not put the designs into production. Two such
Janeway plates appeared in the 1948 Wedgwood exhibition at the
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until the early 1950s when she worked out of her home in
Milligan Place in Greenwich Village. She was featured in a 1945 issue of
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from 1942 -1949, while Gimbels, I. Magnin, Gumps and other stores also sold her wares. She had three successive studios in
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She designed and produced a line of ceramic chess, backgammon, and checker sets. Of the 32 artists invited to exhibit in
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Blumenthal, Ralph (December 20, 1971). "Local Boards are Gaining in Power After 2 Years". New York Times. p. 12.
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The Art of Carol Janeway: A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan
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Hellhole: The Shocking Story of the Inmates and Life in the New York City House of Detention for Women
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From the 1950s she became increasingly active in preserving Greenwich Village working alongside
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Janeway, Carol (July 1965). "A Closer Look at the Grand Jury (Parts 1-4)". The Villager.
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Ferrell, William E. (March 6, 1965). "Inquirey Ordered at Women's Jail". New York Times.
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Works by Janeway are held by few museums, despite claims in her obituary. These are the
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was published in 1950 by Tudor Publishing Company as a part of a series. Her pamphlet,
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