- Creator:
- Mason, John T., b. 1822.
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2173
- Collection Title:
- John T. Mason diaries
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 14
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- John T. Mason emigrated to California in 1854. He worked on river steamers in the area of Sacramento, and in 1861 he began ranching in Colusa County. and Purchased from William P. Wreden on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1964.
- Subject (Name):
- Mason, John T.,--b. 1822.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ambrotype of an unidentified woman
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- Creator:
- Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.
- Published / Created:
- 1699]
- Call Number:
- Globe 21
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Maps, Atlases & Globes
- Description:
- From the library of Jonathan T. Lanman., Image of globe with further description is listed online under "Lanman Globe Collection", Not in Younge's "Catalogue of early globes"., The globe shows three cartouches, one includes title the other two are left blank., and This celestial globe corresponds to Coronelli's terrestrial globe of 1699.
- Publisher:
- Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti,
- Subject (Name):
- Lanman, Jonathan T
- Subject (Topic):
- Celestial globes--Early works to 1800.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Amico Lettore / Oltre al molti Globi delineati dal P. Cosmografo Coronelli per Sourani diuersi di uarie e uaste misure ne ha ultimamente composti e stampi di cinque grandezze a publica beneficio, fra quali i piu commodi, ed exalti sono i presenti. I Numer
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1790]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS FILE 431
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- Unidentified printed French almanac from the 1780s that has been hollowed out, glued shut, and lined with red velvet to serve as a container for a silver pyx, or Holy Communion holder, possibly by a French priest in the early 1790s. The top of the pyx is engraved with a cross on uneven ground.
- Description:
- Binding: contemporary full red morocco, covered with elaborate gilt stamps with vase and flower motifs; interlaced design on borders and spine., In French., and Purchased from Justin Croft on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Religious aspects and France--Religious life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church--France
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgical objects--France, Lord's Supper--Catholic Church, and Sacramentals
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > French almanac containing a concealed pyx
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1350]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 817
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Ivory writing tablet, carved on one side with a scene of the Crucifixion beneath Gothic arches.
- Description:
- Erasable writing tablet.
- Subject (Topic):
- Crucifixion, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Tablets (Paleography)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ivory writing tablet.
- Creator:
- Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962, artist
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 136 (Art)
- Image Count:
- 8
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- Small-scale reproduction of Augusta Savage's plaster sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing" designed for and displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The cast metal souvenir is lettered on the front "Life Every Voice and Sing" and on the back at the base, "Worlds Fair 1939." It bears a paper label on the underside of its base: "Reproduction of a Work of Art Created by Augusta Savage, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' now on exhibit at the New York World's Fair. Augusta Savage Studios, Inc. 143 West 125th Street, New York, N.Y."
- Description:
- Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1970., Label in English., and Title from paper label.
- Subject (Name):
- Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
- Subject (Topic):
- African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lift every voice and sing.
- Published / Created:
- Kyoto, 18th or early 19th century and Undated
- Call Number:
- YAJ 12.7
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- [Box containing an ink-slab and a water-spout], [Brushes used in the 8th century by copyists of Buddhist texts], Nara jidai fude, and Nara zhi-dai fude
- Description:
- This image combines two distinct groups of objects.
- Subject (Topic):
- Ink-stones and Writing --Materials and instruments --Japan
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Negoro-nuri suzuri-bako
- Creator:
- Martinelli, Sheri
- Published / Created:
- 1957
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 22
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Portrait painting depicting a profile of Ezra Pound in blue paint and pencil on an unglazed ceramic tile manufactured by the Robertson Art Tile Company, created by Sheri Martinelli at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1957. The tile was originally a gift from Martinelli to Herman Alexander Sieber upon the release of Pound from the hospital in 1958. Sieber, a research assistant in the Senior Specialists Division of the Library of Congress, had written a report about Pound for the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress that played a role Pound's release from the psychiatric hospital. A letter signed by Sieber to Clifford Daniel Graubart, written in Atlanta in 1987, accompanies the tile and provides its context.
- Description:
- Purchased from James S. Jaffee on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2005. and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Graubart, Clifford Daniel, Martinelli, Sheri, Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Portraits, Robertson Art Tile Co. (Trenton, NJ), Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Sieber, H. A., 1931-, and Sieber, H. A.,--1931-
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors--Portraits
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Painted portrait of Ezra Pound on a ceramic tile.
8.
- Creator:
- Proctor, Alexander Phimister, 1862-1950
- Published / Created:
- 1915
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2601
- Collection Title:
- Franz R. and Kathryn M. Stenzel Collection of Western American Art Addition
- Container / Volume:
- Box 26
- Image Count:
- 9
- Resource Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Alternative Title:
- The Bronco Buster and The Bucking Bronco
- Description:
- Stored in Art Storage.
- Subject (Name):
- Stenzel, Franz and Stenzel, Kathryn M.--(Kathryn Mathison)
- Subject (Topic):
- Cowboys in art--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Procter, Alexander Phimster, "The Bucking Bronco", signed: AP Proctor 1915. Cast for J. G. Edwards. Life size bronco is in the Civic Center, Denver, Colorado.
- Creator:
- Hader, Bill, 1978-
- Call Number:
- Za1 2014 C8892
- Collection Title:
- Cultivating thought, author series.
- Image Count:
- 2
- Description:
- Artist: Dakung Lee, Collection includes twelve 24-ounce paper cups and twelve 36-ounce paper cups; includes nine 35 x 18 x 12 cm bags, eight 42 x 21 x 14 cm bags, and two 31 x 25 x 18 cm bags with handles., The Cultivating thought author series, issued by Chipotle Mexican Grill, is the brainchild of author Jonathan Safran Foer, who also serves as its curator. It presents the thoughts of authors and comedians on Chipotle cups and bags, each cup illustrated by a different artist., and Twelve authors appear on the cups, nine on the bags.
- Subject (Name):
- Hader, Bill, 1978- Recipe for the perfect fountain drink
- Collection Created:
- [Denver, Colo.] :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Recipe for the perfect fountain drink
- Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. South Seas
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1889-1891]
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 808
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- Partial drafts, holograph, corrected, circa 1889 to 1891.
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Co. (Christie's sale, New York, 2010 December 3, lot 559) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2010. and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Polynesia--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis,--1850-1894
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, Scottish--19th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert Louis Stevenson drafts of the South Seas, 1889-1891.