Illustration from: From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster / By Horatio Alger, Jr., New York :J.S. Ogilvie & Company, [c1882]
“Is it a story?” — “No, Daniel; it is the Constitution of the United States.”
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1902.
The Book of accidents: designed for young children. New Haven : S. Babcock, Sidney’s press, 1831.
And it only gets worse . . .
Read the entire book online: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2013671
MS 410 England, [15th century]
Indulgence Scroll (in Lat. and Eng.)
Parchment roll, 1515 x 165 mm., unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late fifteenth century. Written and decorated area, 1391 x 141 mm. Single bounding lines and guidelines for text (6mm. apart) ruled in lead. Written in gothic liturgical script in brown and red ink.
[For a full catalog description, see: http://webtext.library.yale.edu/beinflat/pre1600.ms410.htm]
. . . Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock!
Scenic postcards from the Beinecke Digital Image database:
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/
Balanced Rock, Garden of the Gods, Colorado
Canopy over Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Pulpit Rock. Presque Isle, Lake Superior
Sugar Loaf Rock, Mackinac Island
Rooster Rock, Columbia River, Oregon
Witches Rock, Weber Canon, Utah
Arch Rock, Santa Cruz, California
Writers at their typewriters.
From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex
William Carlos Williams, 1940s
Eric Knight, [1942?]
H. L. Mencken, 1913
Rachel Carson, undated
Joseph Brodsky, undated
Idiot International, a counter-culture magazine focusing on politics,
published out of London, England, 1970-1971 -
possibly related to the longer-lived French publication
“L’idiot international”, but the link is unclear.
A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]
An illustrated writing sheet, printed in London,
filled out with an original Christmas poem
by a young girl named Rebecca Jane Mitchell in New York, 1807.
Photographs of dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus dancing “Hard Time Blues,” her dance based on a folk song about sharecropping by singer Josh White. Primus was well known and widely celebrated for her dance performances based on important African American poems and songs, including “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes and “Strange Fruit” by Lewis Allen. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 1943.
Additional resources: Pearl Primus on Wikipedia; Josh White on Wikipedia; Carl Van Vechten on Wikipedia. All photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; the permission of the Trust is required to reprint or use Van Vechten photographs in any way. To contact the Trust email: Van Vechten Trust.
From the “Vacuation” card game, England, ca. 1940
Issue #1 of this Paris investigative newspaper.
Issues of a newsletter for a gay men’s community, near Amherst, Mass. in the 1970s.
. . . it is a strikingly beautiful image.
Natalia Gontcharova’s cover for Lord Berners’ song, “Poisson d’Or”, 1919.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/amory-berners.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Natalia_Goncharova
Selected images from a collection of novelty baseball postcards, circa 1910 (Call Number: Gen MSS File 359).
A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series,
written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark).
These copies were the author’s own, specially bound in limp suede covers.
Fore-edge photograph of a collection of programs issued by the Writer’s Forum reading series at SUNY Brockport, 1968-1975. The collection was complied by poet William Heyen, one-time director of the Forum. Each program includes a poem by and a photograph of the featured poet; most are signed by the poet. Poets represented include: W.S. Merwin, Diane Wakoski, John Hollander, Richard Wilbur, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Robert Creeley, John Berryman, Robert Bly, Nadine Gordimer, Louis Simpson, Erica Jong, C.K. Williams, Richard Howard, Carolyn Kizer, Ishmael Reed, Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Richard Hugo, Marge Piercy, James Tate, William Matthews, Richard Eberhart, among others. Related collections: William Heyen Papers; Heyen Papers Addition; Al Poulin and Boa Editions Papers; additional materials may be located in the Beinecke Library’s Uncataloged Acquisitions Database.
Selected posters and lobby advertisements featuring key scenes and lead actors in silent western films, circa 1910-1930.
Complete description of the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection (Call Number: WA MSS S-2553); additional images from the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection Images.
Buddy Roosevelt in “The Ramblin’ Galoot”
“The Pony Express,” A James Cruze Production
“The Covered Wagon,” A James Cruze Production
Don Coleman in “The Bronc Stomper”
Tom Mix and “Tony” the Wonder Horse in “Horseman of the Plains”
Selected manuscript fragments from the Walt Whitman Collection (YCAL MSS 202)
With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea
