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

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William Carlos Williams

Joseph Brodsky

Witold Grombrowicz

Ruth Stephan

James Weldon Johnson

Edith Wharton

. . . 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.

“Thunder Riders”

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)

As in a Swoon

Man-of-War Bird

Rise Lurid Stars

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea

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Mural painted by Native American writer Leslie Silko (detail, context)
(Uncat MSS 705 Box 11)

. . . and harried pets. [circa 1890, in the collection of the Beinecke Library
as part of a salesman's sample book, including Young People's History of the World. Possibly never published.]