Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--21st century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Authors--United States--21st century, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, Poets--United States--20th Century, and Poets--United States--21st Century
From Viktor Golyshev.
Includes translations of Andrew Marvell and Richard Wilbur, the poems Odinochestvo, Piligrimy, Uprazhnenie v konformizme, Osvoenie kosmosa, Kamernaia muzyka, and Iu. Sandul, among many other poems.
Includes holograph drafts of the poems "Ia probudilsia ves' v potu", "Sem' let spustia."
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Name):
United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors--20th century, African Americans--Social life and customs, Antislavery movements--United States, Authors, American--20th century, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description:
Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
Jacques E. Levy research collection on Cesar Chavez
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | 141-152
Image Count:
507
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Folders 142, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151 and 152 completely digitized. and Pages 629-631 do not exist. Includes first draft of typescript for pages 928-956. Includes as part of transcript Levy's written notes on the negotiations with large scale growers in June 1970
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural industries--California, Labor leaders--United States, and Labor unions--Migrant agricultural laborers--United States
Jacques E. Levy research collection on Cesar Chavez
Container / Volume:
Box 3 | 153-162
Image Count:
632
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Folders 153, 154, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161 and 162 completely digitized. and Includes a second numbering of pages 1251-1325 for tapes 78-79. Pages 1328-1329 do not exist. Includes two pages of holograph notes
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural industries--California, Labor leaders--United States, and Labor unions--Migrant agricultural laborers--United States