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Daniel Webster Learns a Lesson

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.”

At the Beach

Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1902.

The Book of Accidents

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

. . . and Roll

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, 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

Type Cast

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

I.I.

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.

 

 

The Peculiar Fish

A movable scene from Dean’s Living Strewelpeter [ca. 1890]

Christmas in June

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.

Hard Time Blues

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.

Eee!-vacuation

From the “Vacuation” card game, England, ca. 1940

Le Détective!

Issue #1 of this Paris investigative newspaper.

 

 

 

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Issues of a newsletter for a gay men’s community, near Amherst, Mass. in the 1970s.

[Click to enlarge]

Writers at Work

The reason is . . .

. . . 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

Playing Dirty

Selected images from a collection of novelty baseball postcards, circa 1910 (Call Number: Gen MSS File 359).

Captain Ginger!

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

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.

Thunder Riders & The Ramblin’ Galoot

Yawp!

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