Seven photos of artistic bookbindings. [1929]. [5524-1]-[5525-1]

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Description

Title: Seven photos of artistic bookbindings. [1929]. [5524-1]-[5525-1]
Creator: From the Collection: Marinetti, F. T., 1876-1944
Published / Created: 1929
Provenance: Purchased from Jean-Pierre de Villers, 1999., According to Jean-Pierre de Villers, the original scrapbooks were stored in La Banca del Santo Spirito in Rome between 1945 and 1975. In 1975 they were moved to Venice into the custody of Luce Marinetti-Barbi. Marinetti-Barbi had the scrapbooks photographed onto microfilm. The microfilm frames were then mounted onto slides. de Villers purchased the slides from Marinetti-Barbi in 1983 and sold them to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 1999. Six hundred and eigthteen frames were damaged and sent by de Villers to a restoration company where they were cleaned and photographed. These remaining images went sent to the Library in 2005 under the original purchase agreement.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 475

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Container / Volume

box 70, slide 24-25

Access: Public
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Citation: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti "Libroni" scrapbooks on futurism slides. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.