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
Archive for the 'General Modern Collection' Category
Type Cast
Published June 12, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection , Yale Collection of American Literature 0 CommentsTags: typewriter, writers
I.I.
Published June 9, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1970s, counter-culture, idiot, international, london, magazine, protest
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.
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Published May 15, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: amherst, commune, community, gay, mass, men, pamphlet
Issues of a newsletter for a gay men’s community, near Amherst, Mass. in the 1970s.
[Click to enlarge]
The reason is . . .
Published May 8, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: berners, goldfish, gontcharova, or, poisson, sheet music
. . . 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
Oratorical Gestures
Published April 11, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 3 CommentsTags: 19th, acting, century, delsarte, gestures, oratory, speaking, stances, system, theater, theatre
Images of the Delsarte system of expression, popularized in the 1880s
and found in the volume: The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution
(Chicago: Conkey, 189 
[in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman's sample book, including Wood's Natural History for Children]
Sweetness
Published April 8, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: box, candy, product, werbegraphik, wrapper
More printing examples from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)
Julien Torma, the complete set.
Published March 31, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: dada, julien, suicide, torma
Every book published by Julien Torma (one of the “dada suicides”) during his lifetime.
The Beinecke Library is listed as the only location that holds all four.
Clarification, please.
Published March 24, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 1 CommentTags: england, estate, james, king, leigh, park, poem, staunton
An 1829 poem on Leigh Park, a suburb of Hampshire, England, when it was still a bucolic estate.
With a tenderly enlightening footnote.
What’s for dinner, Mary?
Published March 20, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1960s, book, camp, club, cook, cookbook, dorian, gay, lesbian
An advertising flyer from the Dorian Book Service, which offered
gay- and lesbian-themed publications in the 1960s.
[View the large size to read the hilarious introduction -
using what can be considered today "sanctioned vocabulary".]
The Wonderful World of David Shrigley
Published March 11, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: artist, cartoon, drawing, idiot, phone, shrigley, weird
A group of little books by the [insert puzzling or inadequate adjective here] English artist.
[The title of the third book is: Drawings Done Whilst On Phone To Idiot]
Femme-o-philia
Published March 4, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1960s, cross-dressing, transvestism, tranvestite
Pages from Transvestia, a magazine published in Los Angeles, California between 1960 and the early 1980s, edited by Virginia Charles Prince. The magazine was one of the principal modes of information and contacts for transvestites in the United States.
Most issues featured life stories, such as Gloria’s
Their Best Friends
Published February 25, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection , James Weldon Johnson Collection , Yale Collection of American Literature 0 CommentsBillie Holiday and Mister, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
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Joseph Brodsky and his cat, photographed by Julia Schmalz
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Eugene and Carlotta O’Neill with Ben and Blemie
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Young Rachel Carson with her dog
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Witold and Rita Gombrowicz with Psina
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Esther Newton and her dog, photographed by Robert Giard
Truth in Advertising
Published February 21, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: cigarettes, Germany, poster, problem, smoking, tobacco, werbegraphik
Posters from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)
et tu, ubu?
Published February 7, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: alfred, jarry, pataphysics, pataphysique, pere, posters, roi, ubu
Poster designed by Alfred Jarry for the premiere of Ubu Roi, 1896.
and a later poster advertising the “Expojarrysition” organized by the Collège de Pataphysique in 1953.
Black Series
Published January 29, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1950s, black, cover, die-cut, gaberbocchus, press, series
Volumes in the Black Series issued by Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950s,
each with a die-cut cover showing the author.
What a {fisher} man!
Published January 24, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1930s, 1940s, austin, barton, fish, fisherman, fishing, jack, lamb, rogers, scrapbook, springs, stein, texas, will
Scrapbooks kept by Jack Lamb, world-famous bass and fly-fisherman,
who was said to have fished every day for 17 years, straight.
Lamb was hired by Gulf Oil Co. to travel and lecture around Texas and Louisiana.
The 13 scrapbooks, ranging between 1933-1943 document his career
as a professional sportsman and as a commercial photographer,
focusing on sports, wildlife, and car crashes.
Fishing in Barton Springs.
Scrapbook cover.
Note Will Rogers’ free-flowing, almost Steinian writing style.
Urban puzzle
Published January 10, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 1880s, Germany, lithographed, new york, puzzle, wood block
A wood block, lithographed puzzle featuring scenes of world cities.
Publisher unknown, ca. 1880s, possibly made in Germany.
Folding Theory
Published January 7, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: cocotologie, origami, positivism, unamuno
From La Cocotologie: Notes pour un Traité by Miguel de Unamuno (Paris, 1946).
A detailed philosophical essay on origami, with engravings by Gérard Angiolini.
(Translated into French, after the 1902 Spanish original in Unamuno’s Amor y Pedagogia, a satirical novel on the excesses of positivism.)
400 Blows
Published January 2, 2008 Beinecke Library , General Modern Collection 0 CommentsTags: 400, artist's, blows, book, claude, roy
La famille quatre cents coups
A surrealist artist’s book by Claude Roy [1954]
Cover stars:
A layout with overlay:
and without:
and the facing page:
