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.
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.
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
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
[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
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-
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
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.
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
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.
