- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Creator:
- Evans, Josephine, active 1839
- Published / Created:
- 1839 April 11
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1130
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- A tan linen sampler with cross, satin, straight, split, outline, back, and stem stitches worked in colored silk thread by Josephine Evans, a student at a Quaker school in Burlington County, New Jersey. The sampler includes a six-line religious verse, below which appears two baskets of fruit on either side of a stylized Quaker schoolhouse with five windows, which is set in a pastoral landscape featuring two trees, a lawn with sheep, and a woman, four children, a dog, and a deer. The woman, a teacher, is ringing a bell to call the four children into the school; one child is African American and carries a basket on his head. The sampler is signed and dated at the lower third, "Josephine Evans aged [threads missing] years. April 11th 1839," and is bordered by a band of daisies and tulips connected by a green vine.
- Description:
- Embroidered verse in English. and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2001.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Burlington County (N.J.)--Social life and customs--19th century
- Subject (Name):
- Evans, Josephine,--active 1839
- Subject (Topic):
- African Americans--New Jersey--Burlington County and Quaker girls--New Jersey--Burlington County
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sampler.
- Creator:
- Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe, 1815-1879.
- Published / Created:
- c. 1850
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-122
- Collection Title:
- Enoch Greenleafe Parrott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 10
- Image Count:
- 11
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- The official letters to Parrott and his letters to his family cover his naval career, 1831-1874, expecially during the Mexican and Civil Wars. There are some earlier family papers, silhouettes of his mother and father, and a daguerrrotype of Parrott. Correspondence for years 1845-1849 is bound with transcript in a volume entitled: Conquest of California. 602 p.
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Subject (Name):
- Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe,--1780-1828. and Parrott, Susan Parker,--1780-1852.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Silhouette, daguerreotype
- Creator:
- Ranew, Nathanael, 1602?-1678
- Published / Created:
- 1692
- Call Number:
- Mhc9 R16 P6
- Image Count:
- 116
- Description:
- In his Practical discourses concerning death and heaven ... London, 1692. and Publisher's advertisement: [3] p. at end.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Nathanel Ranew,
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The glory and happiness of the saints in heaven, or, A discourse concerning the blessed state of the righteous after death ...
- Creator:
- Coracle Press
Van Horn, Erica., creator - Published / Created:
- 1997
- Call Number:
- Zab V3115 +979A 12
- Image Count:
- 6
- Description:
- BEIN Zab V3115 +979A 12: Stamped numbers on envelopes are: 166, 179, 300. The first two have the author's autograph, the third one does not. In box with ms. title: Assorted cards / Erica Van Horn., Each round pinback button is printed with the pattern of a different envelope interior and is housed in a clear, 6 x 7 cm. zip lock bag. Each bag includes a small card (5 x 5 cm.) with the title and author's name printed on recto and a unique, stamped number and author's autograph on verso., and Erica Van Horn.
- Publisher:
- Coracle
- Subject (Topic):
- Envelopes (Stationery) -- In art
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The world of interiors
- 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 13
- 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 > Tintype of an unidentified man