On the Road
Georgia O’Keeffe
(Stieglitz & O’Keeffe Papers YCAL MSS 85)
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Langston Hughes, Hugh Jackman, and friends
(Langston Hughes Papers JWJ MSS 26)
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Photograph of Eugene O’Neill sitting in Bugatti racing car, in the driveway at Chateau du Plessis
(Eugene O’Neill Papers YCAL MSS 123)
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Gerri Major in New York on Josephine Baker Day, photographed by Carl Van Vechten
(Van Vechten Photographs) Used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; the permission of the Trust is required to reprint or use Van Vechten photographs in any way. To contact the Trust email: Van Vechten Trust.
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Benedetta Cappa Marinetti
(Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers GEN MSS 130)
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Marcel Duchamp
(Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Societe Anonyme Archive YCAL MSS 101)
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Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Pavel Tchelitchew
(Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas Papers YCAL MSS 76)
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Fedor Avgustovich Stepun
(Fedor Stepun Papers GEN MSS 172)
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Thornton Wilder
(Thornton Wilder Papers YCAL MSS 108)
Retouched portraits
From the Katherine S. Dreier papers / Societe Anonyme archive
Jean Arp
Max Ernst
Kaputt-nik!
Three issues of a radical and far-out magazine, Charlie Kaputt, from Berlin, 1968.
Young and Modern
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
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Langston Hughes, with his mother
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Wallace Thurman
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Find related materials in the Beinecke Collections: Finding Aid Database (archival collections), Orbis (printed materials), Digital Library (images).
Hen fight!
An engraved plate by George Cruikshank from a compilation of issues
of “London Oddities or the Theatrical Cabinet”, [London, Hodgson & Co., ca. 1822.]
Efficacious Grace
Johnathan Edwards, “Efficacious Grace,” manuscripts in a notebook made from several different scraps of paper and bound by hand; in the Jonathan Edwards Collection, Gen MSS 151.
By any other name
“Rose is a Rose is a Rose…” a wax seal for embossing envelopes, from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, .
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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