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The original notebook kept by William Blake recording patrons for his
major work of prints finished in 1826.

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Air travel etiquette

Two photographs from the papers of Bettina Bergery, always in fashion.

A Proper Education & the Death of Isadora.

A postcard sent from Monroe Wheeler to George Platt Lynes,  April 16, 1927,
suggesting important books to read.

 

And another, posted September 16, 1927, noting the death of Isadora Duncan.

Telephone Girls, the Algonquin Hotel

A Carl Van Vechten portrait from July 9, 1937.

Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.

Fountains

Washington, DC

 

Macon, Georgia

 

Brussels, Belgium

 

Sevilla, Spain

 

Rome, Italy

 

New York, NY

Paradise Now!

Photograph from the Living Theatre’s now legendary 1968 performance of Paradise Now at Yale Repertory Theatre; ten performers and audience members were arrested for public indecency.

Co‐founder and Artistic Director Judith Malina will be in residency at Yale School of Drama, September 14‐15.  Free public screenings of Signals Through the Flames and Resist!, documentaries about the work of the Living Theatre, will be held at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York Street) on September 14 and 15 respectively at 7:30PM.

The Beinecke Library acquired the Living Theatre Archive in 2008. Among the largest archives ever acquired by the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Living Theatre archive includes some 300 boxes of records, correspondence, scripts, photographs, journals, diaries, audio-visual materials, personal papers, and publicity materials documenting the influential theater company and its founders and principal figures, Julian Beck and Judith Malina. The archive documents in detail the Living Theatre’s development of imaginative alternatives to the commercial theater, including pioneering the unconventional staging of poetic drama, including works by Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams among many others, and various experiments in public and political theater and collective arts. This will be a premier archive for the study of 20th century American theater.

More information about the Living Theatre at the Yale School of Drama is available online: The Living Theatre at the Yale; a description of the archive can be found here: Living Theatre Records.

ca. 1909

An Ezra Pound notebook.

A photograph of F. T. Marinetti.

A Western scene by Charles Russell.

A score by Jules Massenet.

Oriental Limited – Observation car by Walter McClintock

A log cabin, with Joseph Hopkins Twichell and his mother.

A letter from W. H. Davies to Edward Thomas.

Daily Bul

Pages from two runs of Daily Bul, a magazine produced by the sculptor, Pol Bury, from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.