Seven Myths That Made Us Modern

From Search & Destroy, #11, 1979.

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Image: “The Mock-Bird,” in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants, Together with their Descriptions in English and French, by Mark Catesby, 1754.

Overlords

Frank Bevan’s costume sketches, in watercolor and in pencil, for “Overlords,” a play produced/directed by George Pierce Baker at the Yale University School of Fine Arts Department of Drama in November of 1928 (UNCAT MSS 1213: view all images)

Margaret Paston

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Lord Moleyns

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Margaret Paston

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Martin

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Agnes Paston

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John Churchyard

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Prude Kitt

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Portrait of the Immortal Soul of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Watercolor and ink drawing with manuscript poem by Arthur  Davison Ficke; photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay, inscribed to Ficke; photo of Millay and Ficke  (YCAL MSS 50)

Grammar in Rhyme

A primer by Walter Crane.
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