Announcement of the construction of the General Hospital of Connecticut. This charter was authorized by the Directors of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut. New Haven, Oct. 1831.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Connecticut State Hospital and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.
Description:
Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism., Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988., and Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs, and Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster, LGBTQ resource, and Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster
Blood, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed thesis, 1857
Description:
First page of handwritten thesis, The Blood, written by Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, the first African American graduate of the Yale School of Medicine (1857). Thesis is bound with other theses from 1857.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Yale College (1718-1887). Medical Institution and Yale University. School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
African American physicians, Medical education, and Medical students
Handwritten note on verso by Monroe Wheeler: Marianne Moore with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, at 260 Cumberland Street Brooklyn, N.Y. photograph by Cecil Beaton. MW
Miscellaneous material relating to Nathan Hale, including illustrations, printed materials, notes by George Dudley Seymour, and documents relating to the controversy over the authenticity of the poem "To Alicia," with a photostatic copy of the poem.