- Call Number:
- Osborn b274
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of an abridgement of a work by John Foxe (1516-87), including a discussion against Papists and a history of England's rulers, important religious figures, and those burned as heretics.
- Description:
- Binding: modern cardboard., Date on first page: "Mar. 30. 1668.", For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., and Text on rectos only.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History--1066-1687., Great Britain--Kings and rulers., and Great Britain--Religious life and customs.
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Protestant authors., Catholic Church--Doctrines--Protestant authors., and Foxe, John,--1516-1587.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian martyrs., Church history., and Persecution--History.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A short epitomy of the first booke of martyrs, 1668.
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- Creator:
- Ransom, Frederick E.
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1865-1868].
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2038 R174
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Abstract:
- Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
- Description:
- Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer. and The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
- Subject (Name):
- Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871, Ransom, Frederick E., and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works, and Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Frederick E. Ransom drawings
- Creator:
- Crow, Albion T
- Published / Created:
- 1947 March 3
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-524 C885
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States. Army --Military life
- Subject (Name):
- St. Cyr, B. C
- Subject (Topic):
- Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847 and Mexican War, 1846-1848 --Campaigns
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Letter : to Dear Children, Galina (Ill.)
4.
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 760
- Collection Title:
- Richard W. C. Weyand collection of Charles Demuth
- Container / Volume:
- Box 4 | Folder 144
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Loose prints
- Published / Created:
- circa 1899-1900
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 571
- Image Count:
- 61
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Muster and History of Browlia
6.
- Creator:
- Selden, John, 1584-1654
- Published / Created:
- [late 17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b102
- Image Count:
- 94
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Concerning "Popery," the author writes, "We charge the prelaticall clergy with the popery to make them odious tho we know they are guilty of no such thing. Just as heretofore they called Images Mammetts and the adoration of Images Mammetry, that is Mahomet & Mahometry odious names, when all the world knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion."
- Description:
- Binding: stitched, loose in Middle Hill boards., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Note in same hand on first page: "Out of a manuscript called the discourse of Mr. Selden lent by the Earl of Arlington to Sir Robert Jenkinson.", Pasted in: inside front cover, dealer's description of manuscript, "said by T. F. Fenwick to be in the hand of Edward Southwell, and perhaps copied by him as a boy before the first (posthumous) publication of the 'Table Talk' in 1689.", and Phillips, Ms. 10149.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649
- Subject (Name):
- Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk and Southwell, Edward,--1671-1730
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Table talk
- Published / Created:
- 1847-48
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 356
- Collection Title:
- ...Journal of the Yukon, 1847-48 / by Alexander Hunter Murray. Ed. with notes by L. J. Burpee
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Subject (Name):
- Gwich'in Indians--Yukon Territory--Pictorial works
- Subject (Topic):
- Indian children --North America, Indian women--North America--Pictorial works, and Indians of North America --Pictorial works
- Collection Created:
- Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1910
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Kootcha-Kootchin / Warriors / Women & children
8.
- Creator:
- Selden, John, 1584-1654
- Published / Created:
- [17th century]
- Call Number:
- Osborn b300
- Image Count:
- 174
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, consisting of aphorisms, axioms, and pithy commentary on such subjects as "Wisdom, "Money," "Retalliation," and "Parliament." Prefaced by a dedication to Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jenkes, signed by Selden's secretary Richard Milward, who "had the opportunity to hear his discourse twenty years together."
- Description:
- 9 preliminary leaves, front and back, some lined but otherwise blank, not digitized., Armorial bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale., Binding: contemporary full leather., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., and Includes alphabetized table of contents.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649 and Great Britain--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Hale, Matthew,--Sir,--1609-1676, Lowther, Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale--Bookplate, Milward, Ri.--(Richard),--1609-1680, and Selden, John,--1584-1654--Table-talk
- Subject (Topic):
- Aphorisms and apothegms--17th century, Conduct of life--17th century, and Conduct of life--Quotations, maxims, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Table-talk]
- Published / Created:
- 1825-1828
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 533
- Collection Title:
- Journal of a Voyage of Discovery in the Pacific and Beering’s Straits : on board H.M.S. Blossom
- Image Count:
- 27
- Abstract:
- The journal describes the 1825-28 voyage of the ship Blossom from Spithead, Isle of Wright to Cape Horn, Chile, the Society and Hawaiian islands, then Kamchatka and the Bering Sea. The ship went back by way of California, Hawaii, the Philipines, and China. The ship continues through Awats Bay, Bering Strait, to San Francisco, Mexico, Chile, around Cape Horn to Brazil, the Azores,and Spithead. Appendices include notes of Blossom’s other voyages, an Esquimaux vocabulary, and star and weather readings.
- Description:
- Blanks not included in pagination.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Pacific Ocean --Exploring expeditions
- Subject (Name):
- Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856, Blossom (Ship), and Wolfe, James, 1807-1848
- Subject (Topic):
- Meteorological records--19th century, Northwest Passage, and Voyages around the world
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Title and selected pages]