BEIN The three sheet poster consists of two sheets: 148 x 104 cm and 69 x 104 cm; shelved as: BrSides Double Folio 2021 30., Collection title devised by cataloger., A collection of promotional materials for the 1952 motion picture "The member of the wedding.", Collection consists of two lobby cards, one film still, and a three-sheet poster., and Film still is a portrait of Ethel Waters.
Bust-length portrait in profile to right of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. Facsimile signature below image. Image based on a photographic portrait of Custer in half-length, seated pose
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BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga: On sheet 30.3 x 24.0 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 01: On sheet 30.1 x 24.3 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 02: On sheet 30.5 x 23.9 cm., and Engraving based on Matthew Brady studio photograph.
Bust-length portrait in profile to right of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. Facsimile signature below image. Image based on a photographic portrait of Custer in half-length, seated pose
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga: On sheet 30.3 x 24.0 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 01: On sheet 30.1 x 24.3 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 02: On sheet 30.5 x 23.9 cm., and Engraving based on Matthew Brady studio photograph.
Bust-length portrait in profile to right of Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. Facsimile signature below image. Image based on a photographic portrait of Custer in half-length, seated pose
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 865ga: On sheet 30.3 x 24.0 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 01: On sheet 30.1 x 24.3 cm., BEIN BrSides Zc10 865gaz 02: On sheet 30.5 x 23.9 cm., and Engraving based on Matthew Brady studio photograph.
Lithograph reproduces Von Schmidt's painting that depicts the battle at Little Bighorn; in foreground center U.S. soldier holds up regimental flag surrounded by dismounted troopers under attack by mounted Native Americans; villages and natural landscape in distance. The lyrics to Garryowen, the 7th U.S. Cavalry's regimental song, are printed below the image
Description:
In facsimile of artist's hand below image:On left, artist's proof; on right: for the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library / Eric Von Schmidt '89., Title from caption below image., and Within image of original painting in lower right, signed: Von Schmidt, 1971-76.
Manuscript ship's log, illustrated, mounted on pages from a bound printed copy of John Rowlett's Tables of Discount, or Interest, on Every Dollar[...]. The majority of the volume (pages 1A/1B-31) details a whaling voyage that began in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 1845 July 18, destined for the Pacific Ocean. The author describes whale hunts, places visited (including Lima, Peru, and the Hawaiian islands), weather, animals, and life on the ship. Illustrated with eight colored-pencil drawings of ships, whale species, and geographic views. The last entry, dated 1847 November 5, marks the end of the voyage. Pages 32-38 contain six poems or shanties; the names and locations of the crew and officers are listed on pages 39-40.
Alternative Title:
Log of the whaling ship Acushnet : Captain William B. Rogers out New Bedford two years voyage 1845 and Rowlett interest tables
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The Acushnet is the same whaling ship Herman Melville joined in 1840; his experiences helped shape Moby-Dick., Title from title page., Written on single sheets of paper adhered to a printed copy of Rowlett's Tables of Discount. Page 1A/1B is laid in. Resolvid W. Bowles' name and occupation (cooper) are written on the title page and he is listed among the ship's crew, but it is unclear whether the manuscript is in his hand or was copied by someone else at a later date., Endpapers include manuscript notes, figures, and J.D. Sturtevant's autograph. The number "4050" is written on a sticker adhered to the title page., and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Hawaii and Lima (Peru)
Subject (Name):
Acushnet (Whaler)
Subject (Topic):
Whaling, Whaling ships, and Description and travel
Autograph manuscript, signed, by "H. A. L." containing lines from Lucy Smith's Moroni's Lamentation (a Mormon hymn given to Smith in 1833 and sung in the Nephite tongue), undated but possibly created during the 19th century. The manuscript does not follow the original hymn entirely as it includes variations and additions. The hymn has reference to a battle of the Nephites against the Lamanites around the Hill Cumorah in New York State
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors