Holy Cow!

Photograph of Ursula Balfour with cow (from the James Lees-Milne Papers)

Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy puppets from the Edmund Wilson Papers (YCAL MSS 187): Punch, Judy, Devil, Police Officer, Skeleton, & Monk (to see the complete collection, search the Beinecke Digital Library .

Eat, Drink, and be Merry…

With Filippo Tommaso Marinetti at the Futurist Table,

Richard Wright and friends,

the Romanov family,

Edith Wharton and friends,

Langston Hughes and writers in Russia,

and the James Joyce family

Gay Paree

Photographs of cast members of the musical Gay Paree (1927-30), collected by cast members Josephine and Sophie Schlenk. The collection includes photographs of:

Josephine and Sophie Schlenk

 

Red Skelton

 

 

Dulcy Dowd

 

 

Irene Cornell dancing “The Gold Plaque”

 

 

and the cast party at the restaurant owned by

Bob Berger, “Waffle King” of Boston

 

View the full record for the collection: Josephine Schlenk and Sophie Schlenk photographs of theatrical performers

The Real Adventures of Tintin

A volume collecting all 108 parts of an serial published in France, 1933-1935 featuring a hero named Tintin . . .

 

who has many adventures, including firing a gun while hanging by a rope:

rescuing fellow aerialists:

diving into Niagara Falls:

and being caught up in an opium den!

before he is reunited with his loving sister:

  

But wait!

There’s more thrilling adventure in the sequel,
which puts our hero in Outer Space . . .

where he battles a Cyclops:

and holds a strange larva in his hand:

  

But that’s not all!!!

In both issues, the lucky reader gets prizes!
In the first part, a model plane to assemble:

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In the second part, a model space ship with a cutaway view:

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and a thematic game:

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Shades of Chris Ware!

Georgia On My Mind

Collages by Lenore Tawney, for Georgia O’Keeffe, from the Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Papers (YCAL MSS 85 ).

La dérive

Guy Debord’s Guide psychogeographique de Paris [1957].

For a scalable version go here: http://highway55.library.yale.edu/PATREQIMG/sids/D0987/1044447.sid
[Apparently not SAFARI friendly, unfortunately.]

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography
and here:  http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/octo.2006.115.1.13

To see films by Debord and many other revolutionary filmmakers, go here: http://www.ubu.com/film/