In Memoriam

A scrapbook of mementos, writings and artwork by Willie Paddock who died young, Yonkers, NY, ca. 1860s-1880s.

Visual dictionary

A graphic vocabulary list intended for “sourds-muets” (deaf-mutes)
printed in Nancy, France, in 1830.

Your face is your best mask

A guide for producing street theater, ca. 1970

with guidance on the various uses of masks:

Key Words

From the Beinecke Digital Images Online database:
 http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

 

Title Key to private, sound-proof room in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.

Author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Place of origin n.p.

Date undated

Physical Description 1 object. 9 cm.

Genre/Form Artifacts

 

Title [Key to Kensington Gardens].

Date [ca. 1902]

Physical Description 1 key metal 10 cm.

Note Soon after the publication of “The Little White Bird” Barrie was given a private key to Kensington Gardens by the Duke of Cambridge, Ranger of the Gardens.

Summary/Description Engraved J.M.B.

Subject Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937.

Genre/Form Artifacts

 

Note Stein, Gertrude

Part of Key 1945

Call Number YCAL MSS 76

Folder or box number 163 4300

“Never Wear Out”

Poster advertising performances of “Blue Jeans,” [1900]; an actual buzz saw appeared on stage in “The Thrilling Saw Mill Scene.” This was the first play to include a scene in which a character in a mill is rescued in the nick of time from being killed by a buzz saw, a scene which was to become a cliché of American melodramatic theater.

“. . . not to instruct the vicious . . .”

A self-explanatory guide to trapping birds and game, England, ca. early 19th century.

Watch out little birdie!

California Moss

IN: Records of waybills : [California], 1862 Mar 2-1863 Oct 30. 

Volume containing autograph manuscript records of shipments made by an unidentified carrier in California. Records list letters, packages, and other articles, with names of senders, destinations, values, and charges. Pressed samples of California mosses were laid in the volume and have been removed to a separate enclosure. A brief note, written in holograph manuscript by Emma F. Hapgood to her brother, Charles H. Hapgood, Dec 25, 1912, is affixed to the cover. Hapgood identifies the mosses as samples gathered and prepared in California by herself and Lydia S. Hapgood. WA MSS S-1988

Lipstick Trace

An issue of Black Mask from January, 1967 [not cited in Greil Marcus’s “Lipstick Traces”]

 

The Inimitable Carolyn Wells

Selections from scrapbooks (ca. 1910s)  kept by the writer Carolyn Wells, author of, among other titles,:
“The Seven Ages of Childhood,” “The Happychaps,” “Folly in Fairyland,” and “Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat”.

She also collaborated on several books with the artist Oliver Herford, who indulged her passion for cats with such whimsies as these: