Baeck, Elias, called Heldenmuth Koning, Wilhelm, fl. 1715 Saffe, J. van, fl. 1715
Published / Created:
1715]
Call Number:
Zg17 C14 +715
Image Count:
17
Description:
Bound with Il Callotto resuscitato. [Augsburg? 1715?]., Engraved throughout by Wilh. Koning or possibly by Elias Baeck, called Heldenmuth, after designs by J. van Saffe., Plate for August is dated 1715., The plates represent the months and have German verses; each is surrounded by an ornamental border., and The plates seem to have no subject connection with t.p.
Accompanied by engraved portraits of Charles Dibdin, with biographical notes, manuscript, in an unidentified hand; Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); and William Kitchiner, inscribed by Kitchiner to an unidentified recipient; and clippings of a portrait and caricature of E. Rimbault Dibdin., Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a bust of him made by sculptor Robert William Sievier; 12 pencil and watercolor drawings, and 3 etching proofs, by Dibdin's daughter Anne Dibdin for illustrations in his Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland (London, 1801); and 11 autograph letters, signed, from E. Rimbault Dibdin to W. T. Freemantle, English bibliographer and book collector, 1904-1915, with a few draft responses from Freemantle, about Freemantle's collection of books and manuscripts by Charles Dibdin, and E. Rimbault Dibdin's writings about Charles Dibdin., and Autograph manuscript writings by Dibdin consist of song texts: The Cabin Boy (watermarked 1810), The Converted Rake: a Burlettina, The Cuckoo, The Flowing Bowl, The Voyage of Life (first line: "A voyage at sea and all its strife"); plays: The Land of Perfection, The Round Robin (watermarked 1810), Taffy and Whinefred, or, the Gentle Goatherd, The Touchstone, and Zeloida; a poem: Peter Nicked, or the Devil's Darling (watermarked 1794); table entertainments, consisting of narration and songs: The Quizes (watermarked 1814), and The Whim of the Moment (watermarked 1805); and papers relating to his textbook The Musical Mentor, including drafts (some watermarked 1804-1805) for a prospectus, letters seeking subscribers, essays, and song texts, and a printed prospectus.
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776)., E. Rimbault Dibdin, English art curator and critic., and Purchased from Peter Murray Hill on the Plain Fund, 1954.
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814--Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--19th century, Composers--England, Engravers--Great Britain, Illustration of books--19th century--Great Britain, and Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain
Bookplate: Ex libris La Rocefoucauld, duc de Bisaccia. No. 5 of 8 titles in v. with ms. table of contents and spine title: Mélanges historiques. Marine et colonies.
Publisher:
De L'imprimerie de Crapelet,
Subject (Name):
La Rochefoucauld,--duc de Bisaccia--Bookplate. and Vigilante (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Euro tracts--1823., Slave trade--Africa--History--Sources., Slave trade--France--Nantes--History--Sources., Slave traders--France--Nantes--History--Sources., Slavery--History., and Trials--France--History.
Captioned watercolor and pen and ink drawings of scenery and fellow visitors in Yellowstone National Park. A small watercolor and a quote regarding Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling appear on the first page. The illustrated cover and nine drawings are bound together with ribbon. Accompanied by four photographs of Walter Reagles in separate folder.
Description:
Purchased from Margolis & Moss on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1992., Son of James Reagles, a member of the Snake River Division of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories in the 1870s. In 1904, Walter accompanied his father on a return trip to Yellowstone and documented his visit with watercolor and pen and ink drawings. He later became a professional illustrator and was a member of the Art Directors Club of New York., and Versos blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Wyoming--Pictorial works. and Yellowstone National Park--Pictorial works.
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
Michael Brenner papers relating to the Washington Square Gallery and The Soil
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers include undated letters to Brenner from Enriqué Cross regarding Cross's work and containing several of his poems, and letters from Cross dated 1956 Jul 23-1957 Sep 30, describing his life in Mexico and his poor health; letters from Robert J. Coady to Brenner's sister, Miriam Brenner, dated 1916 Dec 30, 1920 Mar 4, and undated, concerning her artwork, Michael Brenner's activities in Paris, and The Soil, a "magazine of art," for which Coady served as art editor and Cross served as literary editor; and partial copies of Volume I, numbers 4 and 5 (1917 April and July) of The Soil which contain reproductions of two of Brenner's drawings. In addition, there is a carte-de-visite (1910) and a snapshot (1920) of Michael Brenner; an undated portrait photograph of R. J. Coady as a young man; and two color snapshots of Enriqué Cross dated 1957.
Description:
Gift of F. T. (Mrs. Michael J.) Brenner. and Lithuanian-born sculptor who immigrated to the United States in 1890, and moved to Paris in the early 1900s. With Robert J. Coady he owned the Washington Square Gallery in New York, and acted as the gallery's European agent.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Michael, 1888-1976, Coady, R. J. (Robert J.), 1876-1921, Cross, Enrique, and Washington Square Gallery
Subject (Topic):
Art galleries, Commercial--New York (State)--New York, Art--Periodicals, and Soil
Seven illuminated borders with strewn flowers, leaves, fruits, birds, insects, and hybrids and nineteen miniatures of saints and other figures, on parchment, cut out from a book of hours and pasted onto folded paper sheets in the mid-nineteenth century, creating a scrapbook in the English Gothic Revival tradition.
Description:
One leaf with upper corner cut away. and Scrapbook has been attributed to Albert Henry Warren (1830-1911), painter and illustrator.
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Includes photographs from Noël Haskins Murphy's scrapbook; photographs of Frederic Murphy and other soldiers on battlefield; Frederic Murphy recovering from injuries
The 23 views and 35 photographs were made on an 1864 exploring expedition of Vancouver Island.
Description:
Frederick Whymper, artist, served on the 1864 Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition initiated by Gov. Kennedy and the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s expedition to Alaska and Siberia., Stored in 1 box., and This collection formerly belonged to Robert Brown, who commanded the Vancouver expedition. It was acquired from Prof. Rudmore-Brown of Trinity College, Dublin and given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Vancouver Island (B.C.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition and Whymper, Frederick
Meggendorfer, Lothar. Moving picture series ; v. 1. and Moving picture series ; v. 1
Description:
Before we begin -- The storks -- The donkey and the dog -- The chickens -- The goat and the artist -- The dragon-fly -- The swallow's nest., BEIN Shirley +617: Pictorial sticker affixed above copyright statement on p. [2] of cover., Cover title., and Six tab-activated moveable pictures accompanied by verses.
Publisher:
The International News Company,
Subject (Name):
International News Company (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Animals--Pictorial works--Juvenile poetry. and Toy and movable books--Specimens.
Bound with Harring, Harro. Historisches Fragment über die Entstehung der Arbeiter-Vereine und ihren Verfall in communistische Speculation. London, 1852.
At foot of sheet: "Photographs by Case & Drahen [i.e. Draper] and H.C. Barley, of Skagway, Alaska.", Contents: Skaguay [Skagway], Alaska, the Gateway to the Klondike -- Miles Canyon, Alaska -- Shooting Whitehorse Rapids, Alaska -- First Passenger Train to reach Log Cabin July 6, '99, White Pass & Yukon R.R. -- Juneau, Alaska -- First Passenger Train on the White Pass & Yukon Route to the summit -- Musharankdorfotoo, Chief of the Chilkat Indians -- Lewis Lake, Alaska -- Warehouse belonging to Keelar, the Money King of Alaska., Date of publication based on printed cover date space: "Date [blank] 190 [blank].", From the L.S. Humes Klondike Collection. Stamped postmark: "Skagway Jun 30 6PM 1910 Alaska." Addressed to Sr. Mary Ida de Jesus, St. Ann's Academy, Vancouver B.C.; from Gundrun Andersen, June 29, Skagway, Alaska., Nine Alaskan scenes on eight panels, folded and tipped into a green mailing envelope requiring 1-cent stamp., and Title from cover; also found as caption on top of sheet.
Publisher:
[Case & Draper and H.C. Barley?]
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Barley, H. C. (Harrie C.), -1909 and Case & Draper
American fiction--20th century, American literature--20th century, Americans--France--History--20th century, and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
All versos blank, not digitized., Bound before plate 37 of his A new method of assisting the invention in drawing. London. 1785., and Engraved throughout. The artist's name appears on each plate (but misspelled Curzon on pl. 1-12, 17-20).
Memoirs describing expeditions and military service in Alaska and the Philippines
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 10
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Typescript memoirs, with manuscript corrections in pen and pencil, by Luther S. Kelly describing his adventures and exploits in the West, Alaska, and the Philippines after 1892. Thirteen chapters describe Kelly's experiences in Chicago at the Columbian exposition in 1893, the Pullman strike, and his friendship with Buffalo Bill Cody; the 1898 Reindeer for Alaska Expedition which includes observations about Laplanders; the Glenn Expedition which introduced Kelly to the Alaskan interior and to geologist and photographer W. C. Mendenhall; the Harriman Expedition; Kelly's experiences in the Philippines; as well as communications with William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Each chapter excluding the first is preceeded by a summary of chapter contents and originally paginated as if carrying forward from Kelly's 1926 published volume. Includes a typescript review of "Yellowstone Kelly" attributed to Charles J. Finger. Accompanied by 27 photographs from Alaska and the Philippines, captioned on the verso in pencil and type, and notated for inclusion in specific chapters. Two prints are by Edward S. Curtis and fourteen are by W.C. Mendenhall.
Description:
Luther S. Kelly, known also as "Yellowstone Kelly", was a trapper, hunter and Army scout. In 1898 Kelly was sent to Alaska to serve on the Reindeer for Alaska Relief Expedition. He was later assigned to an expedition under E. F. Glenn that scouted mail routes to Yukon posts. In 1899 Kelly was hired by the Harriman Expedition and traveled in Alaska before being assigned to command a Philippine post at Dapitan in Mindanao. After successfully resisting a seige by escaped convicts and outlaws in March of 1903 in Surigao, Kelly was appointed Indian Agent at the San Carlos Agency in Arizona. He retired to Paradise, California where he wrote his memoirs; a portion describing his life through 1892 was published in 1926 as "'Yellowstone Kelly': the Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly". He died in 1928.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928 and Mendenhall, Walter C. (Walter Curran), 1871-1957
Postcards with halftone reproductions by Edward Sheriff Curtis of photographs he created of Native Americans, 1904. Images include portraits of a Mohave Indian girl and an Apache Indian girl, a group of Hopi Indian children, and four Apache Indians crossing a waterway on horseback.
Description:
Each postcard has been cut on the right side of the recto., Gift of Peter Sindell, 2007., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952.
Subject (Topic):
Apache Indians--Pictorial works., Hopi Indians--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Pictorial works., Indians of North America--Portraits., and Mohave Indians--Pictorial works.
Two photograph albums and loose photographs found in them. All the photographs are portraits, of Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, Holman Hunt, Thomas Hughes, W. G. Palgrave, G. F. Watts, family members Julia Duckworth Stephen and May Prinsep, as well as neighbors and servants on the Isle of Wight. Accompanied by several photogravures of Alfred Tennyson printed after his death.
Description:
Accompanied by a container list., Bound in 3/4 green calf., Julia Margaret Cameron, early English portrait photographer., and Title taken from album covers.
Subject (Name):
Prinsep, May--Portraits, Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886--Portraits, and Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892--Portraits
Collection also includes two photographs of Alain LeRoy Locke (1946 and undated); related notes, clippings, and ephemera (1907-1971); a typescript carbon of "The Wise" by Countee Cullen, inscribed to Locke by Cullen; and a checklist for an exhibition of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner., Four pastel and charcoal drawings given to Russell by Locke in 1952 include three unsigned portraits attributed to Lenwood Harvey Morris, circa 1915-1918, of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Georgia Douglas Johnson, as well as a portrait of a woman signed and dated by an unidentified artist, "S. H.," 1916., and The collection consists chiefly of letters (most autograph letters, signed) between Alain LeRoy Locke and Maurice V. Russell, 1942-1953. The correspondence discusses Russell's education, career plans, and psychoanalysis, and indicates that Locke supported Russell financially during the years he was in school. The two also exchange news of mutual acquaintances, including "Glenn" and Edward Atkinson. Later correspondence,1954-1980, concerns the death of Alain LeRoy Locke, and commemoration of his life.
Description:
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), African American author, philosopher, and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Educated at Harvard University (BA, 1907, PhD, 1918), Locke taught at Howard University from 1912-1916, 1918-1925, and 1928-1953; in retirement he moved to New York City where he died on June 9, 1954., Formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from Jack L. Lindsey on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund and the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2012., formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann sale, 2015 March 26, lot 185) on the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2015., In Box 1: Correspondence, 1942-1948. In Box 2: Correspondence, 1949-1980; Other papers, 1907-1971. In Box 3: Drawings, 1915-1918., Includes correspondence, ephemera, and drawings,, Lenwood Harvey Morris (1889-1920) was an African American artist. He trained at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts during the early twentieth century. His best-known painting is a portrait of Alain Leroy Locke, 1915-1918, in the collection of the Howard University Art Gallery. He died of tuberculosis in 1920., and Maurice V. Russell (1923-1998), director of the Social Service Department of New York University Medical Center (1973-1988), trustee of Columbia University (1987-1995), and director of the Kenworthy-Swift Foundation (1973-1998). Russell received his bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1948, and his master's of social work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1950. He received his PhD from Columbia University Teacher's College in social psychology in 1964.
African American educators, African American philosophers, African American social workers, Educators--New York (State)--New York., Philosophers--New York (State)--New York., and Social workers--New York (State)--New York.
Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
Description:
Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer. and The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871, Ransom, Frederick E., and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works, and Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works
BEIN 2013 Folio 122: Imperfect: some pages detached, some pull tabs chipped, some moving parts only partly functional., Cover title., On final page are advertisements, including one for: Lothar Meggendorfers lustiger Kinder-Kalender, 1891., Printed on double leaves; includes eight hand-colored movable illustrations., and Text in verse.
Meggendorfer, Lothar. Moving picture series ; v. 3. and Moving picture series ; v. 3
Description:
Cover title., Moving animal pictures -- The happy family -- Geese, ducks, and chickens -- The deer and the squirrel -- The watch dog -- The four cows -- The rider., and Six tab-activated moveable pictures accompanied by verses.
Publisher:
The International News Company,
Subject (Name):
International News Company (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Animals--Pictorial works--Juvenile poetry. and Toy and movable books--Specimens.
Meggendorfer, Lothar. Moving picture series ; v. 2. and Moving picture series ; v. 2
Description:
Cover title., Six tab-activated moveable pictures accompanied by verses., and What it's all about -- The cart horse -- The flock of sheep -- The little girl and the doves -- The student and the dog -- The fox and the chickens -- The owl.
Publisher:
The International News Company,
Subject (Name):
International News Company (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Animals--Pictorial works--Juvenile poetry. and Toy and movable books--Specimens.
A collection of paper dolls and paper outfits designed and painted by Zelda Fitzgerald for her daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith., Consists of five male and three female dolls, four men's outfits and two women's outfits., Gift from Scottie Fitzgerald Smith to Henry Flood Robert, Jr., Missing from the six dolls are three arms, two hands, and two feet; one head has been partially replaced by the artist. Missing from the outfits are three sleeves., The style of the clothing is evocative of French courtiers of the reign of Louis XIV., and Two of the outfits are taped onto the figures of the dolls they fit; the other four outfits do not fit the dolls in this collection.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Robert, Henry Flood,--Jr.--Ownership and Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald--Ownership
Photograph albums of a diplomatic mission to Asia and travel to Burma, India, Egypt, and Greece
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folders 1-33
Image Count:
33
Description:
Blank versos not digitized. and Mounted on album page ; 28 x 35 cm.
Subject (Geographic):
Beijing (China) --Pictorial works, China--Pictorial works, Hong Kong (China), Shanghai (China) --Pictorial works, Tianjin Region (China) --Pictorial works, and Yantai (Shandong Sheng, China) --Pictorial works
George Cruikshank's water colour drawings to Oliver Twist, Twenty-five water-colour drawings, and Water colour drawings to Oliver Twist
Description:
"A portfolio of 26 collotypes, printed in color, which reproduce the drawings made in 1866 by Cruikshank ... it is known that these prints were published by Chapman and Hall in 1895"--Podeschi. and Bookplate of Clara B. and Edward C. Daoust. Bookseller's label: Harry F. Marks, bookseller, 107 Broadway, N.Y.C.
Publisher:
Chapman and Hall,
Subject (Name):
Daoust, Clara B.--Bookplate, Daoust, Edward C.--Bookplate, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870.--Oliver Twist, and Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Illustrations