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
Correspondence and property records concerning the Talbot family, primarily Richard Ely Talbot. Correspondence includes circa 80 autograph letters, signed, between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge Talbot, and their daughters Elizabeth Talbot Anderson and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell while students at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 1865-1867. Topics include the family's ranch in Georgetown, Texas, the Chisholm trail, an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans, the Civil War, and Richard Ely Talbot's involvement with the Republican Party. Includes documentation of Richard Ely Talbot's interactions with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, including the impressment of ten of Talbot's mules and an interrogation about transactions involving enemy property, 1862-1864. Property records include deeds, land grants, surveys, and titles concerning land in Texas relating to Richard Ely Talbot, Thomas Talbot, John W. Talbot, Joseph W. Talbot, Elias W. Talbot, Peter Kinsey, and Sarah Gilleland Kinsey Tone, 1838-1877. Includes three manuscript and printed maps of the Talbots' properties in Texas. Collection also includes report cards from the Abbot Academy for Anna Louisa Talbot Shell and Elizabeth Talbot Anderson. Genealogical material consists of five issues of the Williamson Country Genealogical Society newsletter containing articles about the Talbots and Andersons.
Description:
Box 1: correspondence between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louise Trowbridge, and their daughters, genealogical materials, and report cards. and The Talbot family was an American family of ranchers and politicians in Texas, Michigan, and Massachusetts. Richard Ely Talbot (1816-1884) was a rancher and cowboy in Georgetown, Texas who was involved in the Texas Republican Party and Texas Reconstruction Convention, including serving as a delegate to the Texas Republican Party Convention, 1868-1869. Talbot married Anna Louisa Trowbridge in Louisiana in 1846; they moved to Texas in 1852 and were among the earliest settlers in the area between Georgetown and Circleville. The Talbots had six children, including Elizabeth Talbot Anderson (1847-1900) and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell (1848- ). Richard Ely Talbot's siblings included John W. Talbot (1805-1876), Joseph W. Talbot (1815-1886), Elias W. Talbot (1820-1876), and Thomas Talbot (1818-1885), who was a politician and governor of Massachusetts, 1874-1875 and 1879-1880.
Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
Description:
[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam .., A translation of: Recueil des histoires de Troye., Approx. [350] leaves missing., Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford., Bookplates: Charles J. Rosenbloom; A. Edward Newton; John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Tipped in is an A.L.S. from Seymour de Ricci to A.E. Newton concerning this work., Imprint from STC and Needham; see also Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 38-9, 48., In three books., Signatures: [A-O¹⁰ P⁸; A-I¹⁰ K-L⁶; A-K¹⁰]., The first book printed in English and the first book printed by Caxton on his own account., The first leaf is blank., The last leaf contains 14 lines of Latin verse beginning: Pergama flere volo. fata danais data solo ..., and Title from ¹[A]2r, which is printed in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves
Manuscript, possibly presentation copy, of a genealogical history of the Radclyffe (also Ratcliffe and Radcliffe) family. Also contains table of contents.
Description:
Binding: contemporary calf, with title: Radclyffe's Historical Memoirs., Bookplate: possibly of the 5th earl of Newburgh., Coat of arms, drawn in ink, reads: Si Je Puis., Dedicated and presented to James Earl of Newburgh, [Anthony James Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Newburgh (1757-1814)?]., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Ownership inscription, on verso of p. 1: Lady D. Eyre. [Dorothy?], and Volume also contains: excerpt from Memoirs of Gramont, on actress Mary Davies, mother by King Charles II of Mary Tudor, who married Francis Ratcliffe.
Subject (Name):
Newburgh, Anthony James Radcliffe,--Earl of,--1757-1814., Newburgh, James Bartholomew Radcliffe,--Earl of,--1725-1787., Radcliffe family., and Radclyffe, William,--1780-1855.
Back cover annotated in a contemporary hand, "Walmsley's Cash Book.", Binding: Original parchment-covered boards, parchment remaining on back cover only., Blank leaves throughout., and Imperfect: wormed with loss of text.
Subject (Geographic):
Wiltshire (England) --Economic conditions --18th century and Wiltshire (England) --Social conditions --18th century
Subject (Name):
Long family, Long, Henrietta Greville, Lady, 1683-1765, and Long, James, Sir, circa 1682-1729
Subject (Topic):
Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Home economics --Accounting, and Landlord and tenant --England --Wiltshire
James Marshall Osborn collection of poetry manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder P.B. I / 23 - 69.
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
The collection consists of manuscript copies of several thousand individual English poems, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The majority of the items date from between 1650 and 1800.