Bell left from San Francisco, California, to Vancouver, Canada. He then visited tourist sites in Hawaii, Japan, China, the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, England, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, before returning to the United States via New York. His narrative details his impressions of the different locales, including a description of travel on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Soviet Union. The volume also includes material related to a political rally of the British Union of Fascists in October 1934. Snapshot photographs throughout the volume depict sites and street scenes along his journey. and Scrapbook that documents a trip around the world by Lynn Morley Bell, May-November 1934. The volume includes narrative about the trip, as well as circa 130 mounted photographic prints, circa 145 newspaper clippings and printed items, and 15 booklets and pamphlets tipped in or laid in. Hotel stickers and travel decals, mostly from Japan and the Soviet Union, cover the boards of the volume, while the rear pastedown includes 11 photographs of United States consulates or legations visited by Bell.
Description:
Lynn Morley Bell (1913-1997) was born in Dinuba, California. He was the son of Geoffrey Bell (1889-1961) and Hazel Winderdale Franklin Bell (1889-1957), and grew up in Ukiah, California. In 1938, he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and then worked as a salesman. In June 1939, he married Julia Powell (1916-1996), and they lived in Palo Alto, California. and Purchased from Marc Selvaggio Bookseller on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2009.
Subject (Geographic):
Asia--Description and travel, Europe--Description and travel, and Soviet Union--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bell, Lynn Morley, 1913-1997, British Union of Fascists, and Velikai︠a︡ Sibirskai︠a︡ magistralʹ
The collection consists of two volumes holding printed ephemera, photographs, and original artwork related to the marketing of products manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company, including construction, chemistry, and magic sets for children, and small appliances such as fans, heaters, hair dryers, mixers, and vacuum cleaners. The second volume measures 55 cm. and has 204 loose pages enclosed within the covers of a Shipman Common Sense Binder bearing the title Gilbert Labels. Attached to the leaves are samples of printed sheets used to cover paperboard cartons containing A. C. Gilbert's toys and appliances. Also present are similar carton labels for toys and games made by the La Velle Manufacturing Company of New Haven, including modeling wax, clay, paints, and crayons. Most of the labels are undated but were printed between 1912 and 1935; many were annotated in the 1940s with the date their printing plates were destroyed. and The first volume is a handmade scrapbook measuring 59 cm. and containing 188 pages. The pages hold printed material including posters and advertisements for items manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company. Also present is original artwork, primarily ink on illustration board, paste-ups created for advertising, and photographs of Gilbert product displays in American department stores during the early and mid-1920s. The volume also holds printed proofs and tear sheets of advertising created for the California Fruit Growers Exchange featuring their Sunkist-brand oranges, lemons, and juice extractors.
Description:
A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 as the Mysto Manufacturing Company by Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961, Yale 1909 MD); the company name was changed in 1916. It manufactured toys and small electrical appliances. The A. C. Gilbert Company went out of business in 1967., Pages 79-187 blank, not digitized., Purchased from Artist As Citizen, Inc. and Victoria Reiss on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2012., and Stored in 2 boxes.
Subject (Name):
A.C. Gilbert Company., California Fruit Growers Exchange., and La Velle Manufacturing Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising--United States., Artists' materials--United States., Display of merchandise--United States., Marketing--United States., Mechanical toys--United States--Packaging., Toys--United States--Advertising., and Toys--United States--Packaging.
Volume 2: Loose pages enclosed within the covers of a Shipman Common Sense Binder bearing the title Gilbert Labels. Attached to the leaves are samples of printed sheets used to cover paperboard cartons containing A. C. Gilbert's toys and appliances. Also present are similar carton labels for toys and games made by the La Velle Manufacturing Company of New Haven, including modeling wax, clay, paints, and crayons. Most of the labels are undated but were printed between 1912 and 1935; many were annotated in the 1940s with the date their printing plates were destroyed.
Description:
A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 as the Mysto Manufacturing Company by Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961, Yale 1909 MD); the company name was changed in 1916. It manufactured toys and small electrical appliances. The A. C. Gilbert Company went out of business in 1967., Purchased from Artist As Citizen, Inc. and Victoria Reiss on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2012., and Stored in 2 boxes.
Subject (Name):
A.C. Gilbert Company., California Fruit Growers Exchange., and La Velle Manufacturing Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising--United States., Artists' materials--United States., Display of merchandise--United States., Marketing--United States., Mechanical toys--United States--Packaging., Toys--United States--Advertising., and Toys--United States--Packaging.
Binder containing typescripts and photographs compiled by Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse to document the creation and production of the Beautiful Saralee Dolls. The binder contains an essay regarding the dolls' creation, fifteen black-and-white photographic prints of doll head maquettes created by sculptor Sheila Burlingame (1894-1969), and brief biographies of Sara Lee Creech, Burlingame, and von Hesse, a friend of Creech, who assisted in the production and marketing of the dolls.
Description:
Maxeda Ferguson von Hesse (1913-1987), American author, lecturer, and director of the Von Hesse Studios of Effective Speech and Human Relations, New York., The Beautiful Saralee Dolls were the first anthropologically correct African American baby dolls made in the United States. Two examples were presented to Yale University Library's James Weldon Johnson Collection in November 1951 by their manufacturer, David Rosenstein (died 1963), president of Ideal Toy Corporation, and Sara Lee Creech (1916- 2008), their inventor., and Title from cover.
Subject (Name):
Burlingame, Sheila,--1894-1969., Creech, Sara Lee., Ideal Toy Corporation., Rosenstein, David,---1963., and Von Hesse, Maxeda Ferguson.
Cursive bookhand. Bound in original limp vellum. and Manuscript, on paper, in cursive bookhand, produced in England during the fourth quarter of the sixteenth century.
Description:
Binding: original limp vellum, cut away except for spine., Ex libris John Plimly. Ex libris John Jones. Bequest of James M. Osborn, 1976., Inscription on f. 53r of John Jones of Bala, 1815: "John Jones Bala Meirionydd Sydd yn gwneuthur rhodd o hwn Lyfr gell Ysgoldy Iesu Chwefror 10fed 1815 wedi ei gael gerllaw y Bala gan hen offeiriad.", Inscription on f. 56v: "John Plimly his Booke.", Inscription on f. 57r: "Mary Mall, 1660.", and On 57r: ""Mary Mall ... her book ... 1660
Subject (Name):
Jones, John,--of Bala--1815--Ownership, Mall, Mary--Ownership, and Plimly, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
English poetry--16th century and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Inserted folding leaf : ""Effigies tabvlae smaragdinae."" : 2 representations of the emerald tablet of Hermes. In Hebrew on the left and an exotic tongue (representing Chaldean?) on the right.
Description:
Engraved plate, 185 x 235 mm., tipped in inside front cover., MS consists of 3 loose quires in cover., On paper., and Single columns 175 x 120 mm. bordered in pencil, without ruling.
Subject (Name):
Hermes, Trismegistus. Tabula smaragdina
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy and Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis
Paul Kagan photographs of utopian communities andpersonal papers
Container / Volume:
Box bsd | Folder 273
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The Divine Light Mission (Divya Sandesh Parishad) was an organization founded in 1960 by Shri Hans Ji Maharaj (1900-1966). It gained prominence under the leadership of his fourth and youngest son, Prem Rawat.