Autograph manuscript and print commonplace book. Collection of notes, engravings, and print cuttings concerning archery. Print items include announcements of meetings of the Robin Hood Society; playbills, reviews, and excerpts from stage adaptations of the legend of Robin Hood; announcements of equestrian archery shows and Robin Hood re-enactments. Also includes clippings of news items, short poems, an account of William Tell, an editorial on women archers and membership in the Toxopholitic Society, with a watercolor depicting a woman archer. Engravings of: the Liberty of Switzerland; the dress of royal archers (1795); men's fashion and archery costumes (in color, 1829).
Description:
Binding: Full calf, gilt borders and spine with blind-tooled flowers and gilt title: Archery Scrap Book., Bookplate: Joseph Haslewood., Inscription on front pastedown: J.W. Remington Wilson. Ent in Cat., Items dated in ink, from 1724-1829., Paper watermarks: 1799, 1813, 1818., and The book later belonged to John Matthew Gutch (1776-1861) who added to it; Gutch later used the book as the basis for an article in The Reliquary (XIX [1787-1789]: 157-160) where he wrote "Some of the following vestiges of English archery are contained in a commonplace book formerly belonging to Mr. Haslewood, collected by him as an appendix to a meditated edition of Robin Hood Ballads; others have been collected by the present writer" (The Reliquary XIX: 157); this description is copied on a tipped-in leaf in the volume. A few of the items mentioned by Gutch are no longer present in the volume.
Subject (Name):
Robin Hood Society (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Archers--Women, Archery--Great Britain--History, and Robin Hood (Legendary character)--Drama
Scrapbook contains photographs, documents, manuscript material, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera documenting Sanders's service with the American Red Cross in Hyères, France from fall 1918 through summer 1919. Approximately 475 black-and-white photographs document the Château San Salvadour, which served as the headquarters of the Red Cross, buildings and locations in Hyères and on the Mediterranean Coast of France and elsewhere, soldiers, and civilians. Other materials include documents and ephemera relating to Sanders's service and travel, clippings about Sanders, and correspondence, including several memos from the Red Cross, and one autograph letter, signed, from Charlotte Renaux, written in 1921. Issues of the Hyeres Weekly News, published by the Red Cross, contain contributions from Edith Wharton.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Harriet Beatrice Sanders (1893-), of Helena, Montana, served with American Red Cross, with the Southern Zone staff, in Hyères, France, from September 1918 to May 1919., Purchased from Pickering & Chatto on the George B. Alvord Fund, 2014., and Stamp on front cover: Harriet B. Sanders, American Red Cross, France.
Subject (Geographic):
Hyères (France)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works and Mediterranean Coast (France)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
American Red Cross, Château San Salvadour (Hyères, France)--Pictorial works, Renaux, Charlotte, Sanders, Harriet B, United States.--Army.--American Expeditionary Forces, and Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American
Colored xerox copy (1976?) of a scrapbook (owned by the Jack London Ranch, Glen Ellen, Calif.) compiled by the Rev. Mr. Irvine, documenting Jack London’s visit and lecture, 26 Jan. 1906, under the auspices of the Yale Union. With Irvine’s manuscript commentary (in Gothic script), illustrated by Max Dellfant, 2 letters from members of the Yale Union, and various clippings.
Subject (Name):
Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941, London, Jack, 1876-1916, and Yale University
Subject (Topic):
Socialism, 1899-1910 and Student movements--United States--History--20th century
Drawings of various complexity, presumably by a boy and for him by an adult, which depict figures and activities of fictitious nations on sheets of a ledger volume, circa 1899-1900. Drawings consist primarily of military figures, inhabitants, indigenous animals, and naval ships of Browlia, Frowlia, and Souv, in addition to a map of the nation of Browlia, a Browlian postage stamp, and flags for the nations Browlia and Ounyhonte. Several of the drawings are on sheets, which are then mounted on leaves of the ledger volume. Other items include two photographic prints that depict the boy, poetry and songs in English and Browlian, a clipping of lines from a Welsh religious publication that may have inspired the Browlian language, and eighteen collages created from magazine halftone images. The creator provides English and Browlian commentary about drawings and items with pencil inscriptions as well as typescript created with a dollar typewriter.
Description:
Although the entire scrapbook has been renumbered in pencil by the creator, several otherwise blank pages have not been digitized. and Volume has been partially disbound.
Subject (Topic):
Imaginary creatures, Imaginary languages, Imaginary places, Imaginary societies, and Imaginary wars and battles
Scrapbook with poster stamps and decals that advertise companies and expositions chiefly in the American West, circa 1915. Companies represented in the scrapbook include American-Hawaiian Steamship Company; Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company; F A O Schwarz; Great Northern Railway Company (related to the See America First campaign for Glacier National Park); Volland Poster Stamp Co.; and W.P. Fuller & Co. There are also stamps and decals for expositions including the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, 1905; the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1915; and the Panama-California Exposition (later known as the Panama-California International Exposition) in San Diego, California, 1915-1917.
Description:
Alfred Edward Heller (born 1929) is a collector, investor, and author. He wrote World's Fairs and the End of Progress (1999) and was the publisher and editor of the quarterly magazine World's Fair from 1981 to 1995., Purchased from the William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2005., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Glacier National Park (Mont.) and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, F A O Schwarz (Firm), Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.), Heller, Alfred E., Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition--(1905 : Portland, Or.), Panama-California Exposition--(1915 : San Diego, Calif.), Panama-California International Exposition--(1916 :--San Diego, Calif.), Panama-Pacific International Exposition--(1915 : San Francisco, Calif.), Volland Poster Stamp Co., and W.P. Fuller & Co.