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
Manuscript on parchment of Ovid, Heroides 16 (Paris to Helen) 1-38, 145-378, with an unidentified French translation. Latin text, which is written only on the verso of each leaf, faces the French translation, which is written on the recto of each leaf.
Description:
Binding: Seventeenth century, France (?). Bound in red goatskin, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Title, much worn, on spine., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Latin text written in a round humanistic script much influenced by printing; Scribe 1) ff. 1v-21v and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r. French text written in upright batarde; Scribe 1) ff. 2r-22r and Scribe 2) ff. 22r-36r (a more flamboyant style of script)., and Two initials, one at beginning of Latin text (2-line), the other at the beginning of French text (3-line), respectively gold on blue square ground with gold filigree and gold on dark red square ground with gold filigree. Most stanzas introduced by paragraph marks in gold on blue or red alternating grounds, with gold filigree. First letter of each verse stroked with yellow, as are usually majuscules in text. Headings on ff. 1v and 2r in red.
Subject (Name):
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Literature, Medieval--Translations, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Narrative poetry, Latin
Histoire de Monsieur Lajaunisse. and Mr. Lajaunesse.
Description:
Cover title: Mr. Lajaunesse. and Imperfect?: leaf 35 wanting; without the cover title. The numbered leaves are preceded by a leaf listing on [2] p. "Publications de la maison Aubert et cie Galerie Véro-Dodat" and an illustrated title leaf.