Learning to Fly?

Zora Neale Hurston, photographed by Prentis Taylor

Their Best Friends

Billie 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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Eric Knight and Toots

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Young Rachel Carson with her dog

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Witold and Rita Gombrowicz with Psina

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F.T. Marinetti and Friends

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Esther Newton and her dog, photographed by Robert Giard

Truth in Advertising

Posters from Die Deutsche Werbegraphik (Berlin : Verlag Francken & Lang, 1927)

Hearts (For Presidents’ Day)

Portrait of George Washington on a playing card, Hearts (Cary USA 204)

Love Notes

From Gertrude Stein to Alice B. Toklas (YCAL MSS 76, Folder 727)

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Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz (YCAL MSS 85, Folder 1861)

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From Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to Eugene O’Neill (inscription on cigarette lighter)(YCAL MSS 123, Box 130,Folder 2464)

 

et tu, 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.

Digging

Drawings of jazz performers, on wood, by Ted Joans. (Uncat JWJ MS 55)

“Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman 1959,
with Leroi Jones and A.B. Spellman Digging”

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“Roscoe of Chicago”

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“One of the Many Greenhorn Ofays
Who Beeped When They Should Have Bopped”

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“His Holy Hipness, Sun Ra”

Knitters!

and girls’ stunts.

From the diaries of Margaret Mellor.