- Creator:
- Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd, 1878-1946.
- Published / Created:
- 1927-1929.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 583
- Image Count:
- 103
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Album of photographic prints and drawings probably compiled by Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham that documents his inspection tour of British colonial surveying departments in Africa for the Colonial Survey Committee, February 1929 to November 1929., Images that depict locations in individual colonies are often preceded in the album by a map of the region with annotations that trace the route of the tour. Colonies and regions documented include Egypt, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Nigeria, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar. Images include views of landscapes, communities, and informal portraits of members of the inspection tour party, as well as white and black Africans., and The album includes some images created earlier than the tour, including an informal portrait of members of the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission in 1927, as well as several photograph postcards depicting black Africans and places in Kenya created and distributed by Kodak (East Africa) Limited.
- Description:
- Brigadier Harold St. John Loyd Winterbotham (1878-1946) served in the South African War and World War I, and as Director-General of the General Ordinance Survey of Great Britain, 1930-1935., Photographic prints in the album are 11 x 16 cm. and smaller., Purchased from McBlain Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007., and Title from cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Africa--Pictorial works, Egypt--Pictorial works, Ghana--Pictorial works, Kenya--Pictorial works, Malawi--Pictorial works, Nigeria--Pictorial works, Sierra Leone--Pictorial works, Sudan--Pictorial works, Tanzania--Pictorial works, Uganda--Pictorial works, Zanzibar--Pictorial works, and Zimbabwe--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Eastman Kodak Company, Great Britain.--Colonial Survey Committee, and Winterbotham, Harold St. John Loyd,--1878-1946
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks--Africa--Pictorial works, Surveying--Africa--Pictorial works, and Whites--Africa--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Africa : a survey inspection tour.
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- Creator:
- Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973
- Published / Created:
- 1941-1955
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 451
- Image Count:
- 36
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of six letters from Asger Jorn to Edouard Jaguer and nine black-and-white photographs. Letters discuss the avant-garde art movements COBRA and the Internationale des Artistes Expérimentaux, artists affiliated with these groups, including Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, and Christian Dotremont, and other topics. Two letters accompanied by manuscripts on the "Programme de l'organisation IAE" and "Au sujet des qualités artiste...". Six photographs record a 1953 visit by Jaguer to Jorn's studio in Silkeborg, Denmark. In addition, there is a photograph by Lars Bay of a ceramic plate made by Jorn and Jaguer, "La sirène du nord," in the Silkeborg kunstmuseum.
- Description:
- Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Danish artist. and Purchased from Jan Ceuleers on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
- Subject (Name):
- Alechinsky, Pierre, 1927-, Bay, Lars, Cobra (Association), Corneille, 1922-2010, Dotremont, Christian, 1922-1979, Internationale des artistes expérimentaux, Jaguer, Edouard, 1924-2006, Jorn, Asger, 1914-1973, and Silkeborg kunstmuseum
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Arts, Modern--20th century, and Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Asger Jorn letters and photographs
3.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 684
- Collection Title:
- Henry Geldzahler papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 20 | 13.18
- Image Count:
- 84
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Art museum curators--United States--20th Century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Christopher Wilmarth: correspondence, photos, faxes regarding Geldzahler's Wilmarth exhibition at DIA Bridgehampton
- Creator:
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 141 | 2038-46
- Image Count:
- 102
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Formerly housed in Box 24, folders 369-70. and Numbered in pencil on versos.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Ghana--Pictorial works
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Contact sheets [49 prints]
5.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 684
- Collection Title:
- Henry Geldzahler papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5 | Folder 189
- Image Count:
- 80
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 1) 19 page typescript of essay "A.R. and the Nineteenth Century," heavily edited and rewritten by Geldzahler in ink; 2) 28 page typescript with heavy edits and rewrites by Geldzahler in margin, some cutting and pasting; 3) 18 page onionskin carbon; 4) 9 8 x 10 b/w glossy photos of photographs by A.P.R.; 5) approximately 10 pages of typeset galleys of the essay, some corrections in pen.
- Subject (Topic):
- Art museum curators--United States--20th Century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Essay on Albert Pinkham Ryder: an important area of study for Geldzahler in the 1960s. Most of this material remains unpublished, due to Ryder family objections about Geldzahler's intimations of Ryder's homosexuality
- Published / Created:
- 1974 Mar 7
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 403 | Folder 4208
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Goyen, William
- Published / Created:
- 1928-87, n.d.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 54 | 776-780
- Image Count:
- 303
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- to GW & MW
- Subject (Topic):
- American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Guérin, Jacques
- Creator:
- Krementz, Jill
- Published / Created:
- 1963-1985
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 75
- Collection Title:
- James Baldwin drafts for Playboy
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Contains photographs of Baldwin by Jill Krementz (published in 1985) for Playboy. Other manuscript materials are a printed leaflet for the "National Day of Mourning for the Children of Birmingham" (1963) in which Baldwin participated as well as a transcription and clipping of an abridged version (published in Isis) of Baldwin's speech at Oxford University for the joint meeting of JACARI (a student-run university charity) and the student union in 1965.
- Description:
- James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American author and activist in the American civil rights movement. and Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
- Subject (Name):
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Leaflet and transcription, published version of speech at Oxford
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 404 | Folder 4246
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miksche, Michael
- Creator:
- Hamm, Ralph C.
- Published / Created:
- 1968-1979
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 30
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | 1-16
- Image Count:
- 77
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and objects documenting the life and work of Ralph C. Hamm. The two letters from Hamm to his mother, Margaret E. Hamm, deal with Hamm's writing, publication of his work, and prison life, including race relations, at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole. There is also a memorandum from the Walpole facility. Writings include a typescript draft of a play and typescript drafts of poems from the collection Dear Stranger/The Wayfarer.
- Description:
- Purchased from Waiting for Godot Books on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2004. and Ralph C. Hamm, III, poet.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States--Race relations and Walpole (Mass.)
- Subject (Name):
- Hamm, Margaret E., Hamm, Ralph C., and Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives, American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Prisoners' writings, American, Prisons and race relations--United States, and Prisons--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ralph C. Hamm collection