Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 36
Image Count:
22
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes third-party letter regarding photograph of Baldwin (1956) and form letters from civil rights organizations written under Baldwin's signature (1963-1964)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors--20th century and Authors--United States--20th century
Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Research Files on Western American Art
Container / Volume:
Box 13 | Folder 289
Image Count:
74
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Includes Barchus' Art Souvenir, printed for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1905, and a postcard reproduction of a painting of Mt. Rainier, copyrighted 1905
Subject (Topic):
Art--Collectors and collecting--United States and Provincial Archives of British Columbia
Papers of M. M. B. Walsh's literary agent, Joan Daves, including publishing contracts, a power of attorney, correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes eleven autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Walsh to Daves, eight typescript carbon letters from Daves to Walsh, and several third party letters from editors and publishers regarding Walsh's work. Letters from Walsh discuss literary and personal matters, including her books, work in progress, including the novel The Ghost-walkers, teaching, life on reservations in the Dakotas, and the relationship between her literary output and the Sioux community.
Description:
Joan Daves, American literary agent., Margaret M. B. Walsh (1916-1996), American author., and Purchased from Ken Lopez Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Subject (Name):
Daves, Joan and Walsh, M. M. B
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Dakota Indians, and Dakota Indians--Social life and customs
"October 6, 1961.", "Release to all media, #1.", At head of p. [1]: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations., Caption title., and Stapled.
Publisher:
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Subject (Name):
AFL-CIO and Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Subject (Topic):
Migrant agricultural laborers--California--San Joaquin County and Migrant labor--California--San Joaquin County
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
2 of 2 folders completely digitized. and The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Romance of Reincarnation (287 pages).
Description:
Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 she married Leslie Talbot Baker (born 1875), who earned both his AB (1900) and MD (1906) degrees from Harvard University., Box 1 contains manuscripts; Box 2 contains the original boxes that held the manuscripts., and Purchased from Ian Brabner on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century and Occultism--United States