- Creator:
- Mason, John T., b. 1822.
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2173
- Collection Title:
- John T. Mason diaries
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 14
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- John T. Mason emigrated to California in 1854. He worked on river steamers in the area of Sacramento, and in 1861 he began ranching in Colusa County. and Purchased from William P. Wreden on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1964.
- Subject (Name):
- Mason, John T.,--b. 1822.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ambrotype of an unidentified woman
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- Call Number:
- JWJ V3 W89 940
- Collection Title:
- American Negro songs; a comprehensive collection of 230 folk songs, religious and secular, with a
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Collection Created:
- New York, Howell, Soskin & co. [c1940]
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > American Negro songs
- Creator:
- Vicuña, Cecilia, 1948-
- Published / Created:
- 2012
- Call Number:
- 2014 Folio 20
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
- Description:
- " ... a modern interpretation of the 5,000 year-old quipu, which recorded the literature of the Incas on knotted cords. It ... embodies the intention and essence of a poem by Vicuña translated into English by the poet along with Jerome Rothenberg. Accompanying Chanccani Quipu is a full-color signed drawing inserted into a pamphlet entitled Instruction Manual & Orientation to Various Meanings"--Publisher description., " ... produced and published by Granary Books in an edition of 32 copies each made entirely by hand. The poem was "printed" on unspun wool using stencils made by the poet who also knotted the threads. The quipu is tied or bound to a 16 inch bamboo spine from which it hangs to about 48 inches when installed. The work is housed in a hand-stenciled box (18 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 4 inches) made by Susan Mills. Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints in Philadelphia printed the drawing and the pamphlet in full-color. Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg signed the edition of 32 numbered copies"--Publisher description., and 10/32. Autographs of Cecilia Vicuña and Jerome Rothenberg. In box as issued.
- Publisher:
- Granary Books,
- Subject (Name):
- Granary Books (Firm), publisher., Mills, Susan (Susan E.), Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-, Rothenberg, Jerome,--1931---Autograph., Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, printer., and Vicuña, Cecilia--Autograph.
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists' books, Quipu, and Visual poetry.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chanccani Quipu / Cecilia Vicuña.
- Published / Created:
- 2006
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2702
- Collection Title:
- New Orleans Oral History Project collection
- Container / Volume:
- 16 Oversize
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Clothing & Accessories
- Description:
- (4 items)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Election campaign tee shirts
- Creator:
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962, artist
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 136 (Art)
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Small-scale reproduction of Augusta Savage's plaster sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing" designed for and displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The cast metal souvenir is lettered on the front "Life Every Voice and Sing" and on the back at the base, "Worlds Fair 1939." It bears a paper label on the underside of its base: "Reproduction of a Work of Art Created by Augusta Savage, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' now on exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Augusta Savage Studios, Inc. 143 West 125th Street, New York, N.Y."
- Description:
- Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1970., Label in English., and Title from paper label.
- Subject (Name):
- Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lift every voice and sing.
- Creator:
- Cage, John
- Published / Created:
- 1969
- Call Number:
- 2017 Folio 276
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Description:
- "Lithographs A and B / Using 8 aluminum plates and 9 colors, Lithograph A was hand printed on black Fabriano rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4". Lithograph B, using 8 aluminum plates and 8 colors was hand printed on rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" ... / Hand printed under the supervision of Hollanders Workshop Incorporated, New York."--Colophon., 125 numbered examples plus 18 roman numeraled artist's proofs., A work created by John Cage and designer Calvin Sumsion in memory of Marcel Duchamp. The edition consists of 8 plexigrams, each comprised of 8 Plexiglas panels showing silk screened letters, words and visual images which Cage selected according to chance operations. Two panels are tinted bronze, six are clear. The panels can be arranged randomly on an accompanying slotted, wood base measuring 37 x 61 x 2 cm. A black sheet of paper with a white label has typed instructions on how to arrange. Also included is a booklet (38 pages ; 36 x 51 cm) with title: "To describe the process of composition used in Not wanting to say anything about Marcel: Plexigrams I-VIII lithographs A and B / together with a glossary." Inserted into the booklet is a diagram printed on a transparent sheet (fig. 3). Housed in a black cardboard box., Numbered in manuscript on instructions sheet: II, 40/125. Imperfect: lithographs A and B wanting. Autographs Calvin Sumsion and John Cage on wood base. Booklet annotated., and Signed and numbered faintly on slotted side of wood base.
- Publisher:
- Eye Editions,
- Subject (Name):
- Cage, John--Autograph, Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Influence, Eye Editions, Sumsion, Calvin (Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014, and Sumsion, Calvin--(Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014--Autograph
- Subject (Topic):
- Concrete poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.
- Creator:
- Martinelli, Sheri
- Published / Created:
- 1957
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 22
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Portrait painting depicting a profile of Ezra Pound in blue paint and pencil on an unglazed ceramic tile manufactured by the Robertson Art Tile Company, created by Sheri Martinelli at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1957. The tile was originally a gift from Martinelli to Herman Alexander Sieber upon the release of Pound from the hospital in 1958. Sieber, a research assistant in the Senior Specialists Division of the Library of Congress, had written a report about Pound for the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress that played a role Pound's release from the psychiatric hospital. A letter signed by Sieber to Clifford Daniel Graubart, written in Atlanta in 1987, accompanies the tile and provides its context.
- Description:
- Purchased from James S. Jaffee on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2005. and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Graubart, Clifford Daniel, Martinelli, Sheri, Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Portraits, Robertson Art Tile Co. (Trenton, NJ), Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Sieber, H. A., 1931-, and Sieber, H. A.,--1931-
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors--Portraits
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Painted portrait of Ezra Pound on a ceramic tile.
- Published / Created:
- 1955
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 118 | Folder 1888
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors --20th century --Archives and Authors, American --20th century --Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Press badge for Bandung Conference
- Creator:
- Mars, Incorporated
Planthouse (Gallery) - Published / Created:
- 2017
- Call Number:
- TSIP 94567
- Image Count:
- 4
- Alternative Title:
- Promotional M&M's from Planthouse Gallery
- Description:
- Originals discarded; material available as digital facsimile only.
- Subject (Name):
- Mars, Incorporated, Michel, Katie, and Planthouse (Gallery)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Promotional candy from Planthouse Gallery
- Creator:
- Hader, Bill, 1978-
- Call Number:
- Za1 2014 C8892
- Collection Title:
- Cultivating thought, author series.
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- Artist: Dakung Lee, Collection includes twelve 24-ounce paper cups and twelve 36-ounce paper cups; includes nine 35 x 18 x 12 cm bags, eight 42 x 21 x 14 cm bags, and two 31 x 25 x 18 cm bags with handles., The Cultivating thought author series, issued by Chipotle Mexican Grill, is the brainchild of author Jonathan Safran Foer, who also serves as its curator. It presents the thoughts of authors and comedians on Chipotle cups and bags, each cup illustrated by a different artist., and Twelve authors appear on the cups, nine on the bags.
- Subject (Name):
- Hader, Bill, 1978- Recipe for the perfect fountain drink
- Collection Created:
- [Denver, Colo.] :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipe for the perfect fountain drink