Prospectus containing text, typescript, documenting the ideals, activities, and budget of the college, and nine black-and-white photographs documenting the buildings and environment. The text documents the college's emphasis on liberal arts, and includes lists of faculty, advisory council members, former students, and evaluations of students by outside educators.
Description:
Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina. and Folder 2 contains original folder.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Mountains (N.C.)
Subject (Name):
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Subject (Topic):
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States
Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written by Read and one by E. D. Grafton; copies of accounts by Leon Vanloo and Davis L. James, describing how and where Read wrote the poem; a collage by Grafton showing Murdoch reciting the poem; photographs of Read and his wife Hattie by Grafton and others; and clippings regarding the placement of a plaque on the house in which the poem was written.
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Literary Club of Cincinnati, Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893, Read, Harriet Denison Butler, Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888--Poetry, and Vanloo, Leon
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American --19th century --Archives and Poets, American
Postcard from S.N. Rhoads of the Franklin Bookshop to Wilberforce Eames offering the photographs, attributing them to Tyson, and referring to the Indians as "the Indians in whom the Quakers were so much interested."