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1. 23 autograph letters signed and 2 autograph postcards signed from Alice B. Toklas to Haas, with original envelopes
- Creator:
- Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967
- Published / Created:
- 1946-1955
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 833
- Collection Title:
- Robert Bartlett Haas collection on Gertrude Stein and the Conference Press
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3
- Image Count:
- 80
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors and publishers--United States and Authors--United States--20th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 23 autograph letters signed and 2 autograph postcards signed from Alice B. Toklas to Haas, with original envelopes
2. Appendix: Entries 201-300
- Creator:
- Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1940-1955
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 760
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 11
- Image Count:
- 148
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.
- Description:
- Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism., Folios 203, 207, 209-10, 213, 216, 218, 220, 227-229, 244, 250-260, 272-276, 287-289, 291-292, and 298 are missing., Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988., and Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
- Subject (Name):
- Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works, Locher, Robert Evans, 1888-1956, Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946, and Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster, LGBTQ resource, and Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Appendix: Entries 201-300
3. Appendix: Entries 301-350
- Creator:
- Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
- Published / Created:
- ca. 1940-1955
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 760
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 12
- Image Count:
- 105
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Correspondence in the collection documents artwork created by Demuth and owned by different persons and institutions, while circa 125 photographs document work created by Demuth, circa 1906-1934.
- Description:
- Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was an American watercolor artist who turned to oils late in his career and developed a modern art movement known as Precisionism., Folio 303 is missing., Gift of Ann Grether Hill, 1988., and Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1899-1924), as well as two brothers, Edwin Stanton Weyand (1903-1973) and William Rodgers Weyand (1908-1970). Weyand served in the United States Navy during World War II, 1942-1945. Weyand and Robert Evans Locher (1888-1956), a close friend of artist Charles Demuth, operated an antique store and lived in the former home of Demuth in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943-1956.
- Subject (Name):
- Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Catalogs, Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935--Pictorial works, Locher, Robert Evans, 1888-1956, O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986, Stettheimer, Florine, 1871-1944, and Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster, LGBTQ resource, and Precisionism--Pennsylvania--Lancaster
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Appendix: Entries 301-350
4. Belafonte, Harry
- Creator:
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
- Published / Created:
- 1954
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 51
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Belafonte, Harry
5. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1943-1969
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 58
- Collection Title:
- Lester Blackwell Granger papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 4 | 85-87
- Image Count:
- 78
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Folders 85, 86, and 87 digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Granger, Lester B. (Lester Blackwell), 1896-1976
- Subject (Topic):
- African American civic leaders, African American social workers, Civic leaders--United States, Civil Rights movements--United States--20th Century, and Social workers--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
6. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1955
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 4
- Collection Title:
- Beauford Delaney letters to Larry Wallrich
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 5
- Image Count:
- 57
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 97 letters and cards. Delaney writes first from Yaddo in New York and then from Paris. Delaney's letters are primarily personal in nature with frequent comments about his philosophy of life and the value of friendship, and inquiries about mutual friends. Delaney also mentions his work, exhibits, and the sale of paintings in Wallrich's possession.
- Description:
- Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), artist, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1929 he moved to New York where he gained a reputation as a portraitist. Delaney spent the last 26 years of his life in Paris., Larry Wallrich, founder of the Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village, was a close friend of Delaney's and assisted him in the sale of his paintings in the United States., and Purchased from Serendipity Books, 1994.
- Subject (Name):
- Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Wallrich, Larry
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists, African American artists--France--Paris, African American painters, Expatriate painters--France--Paris, and Painters--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
7. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1954
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 4
- Collection Title:
- Beauford Delaney letters to Larry Wallrich
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 63
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 97 letters and cards. Delaney writes first from Yaddo in New York and then from Paris. Delaney's letters are primarily personal in nature with frequent comments about his philosophy of life and the value of friendship, and inquiries about mutual friends. Delaney also mentions his work, exhibits, and the sale of paintings in Wallrich's possession.
- Description:
- Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), artist, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1929 he moved to New York where he gained a reputation as a portraitist. Delaney spent the last 26 years of his life in Paris., Larry Wallrich, founder of the Phoenix Bookshop in Greenwich Village, was a close friend of Delaney's and assisted him in the sale of his paintings in the United States., and Purchased from Serendipity Books, 1994.
- Subject (Name):
- Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979 and Wallrich, Larry
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists, African American artists--France--Paris, African American painters, Expatriate painters--France--Paris, and Painters--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
8. Dover, Cedric
- Creator:
- Dover, Cedric
- Published / Created:
- 1948–1962
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 6 | Folder 187
- Image Count:
- 65
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Includes letter of introduction on behalf of Bette Latimer and enclosed note from Latimer (1948); letters from Dorothy Dover to CVV (1948); article, "IBN Khaldun on Poetry" by Bernard Fisher and Cedric Dover, from an unidentified publication(1951); greeting card from Maureen Dover (1962)
- Subject (Name):
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dover, Cedric
9. Ellsworth, George
- Published / Created:
- 1955 Jul-Oct
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 69
- Collection Title:
- Myron Brinig papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Letters to George Ellsworth, accompanied by a letter from Noel S. about Brinig's No Marriage in Paradise, two book jackets, a promotional piece for Singermann, and photographs of Ellsworth and of Brinig. Brinig's letters, most written from New York City, are detailed accounts of the life of a gay man in New York. Brinig writes of parties, friends, plays and movies he's seen, and of his attempts to get his work published. People mentioned in his letters include Eric Ambler, Erskine Caldwell, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Lynn Riggs, Cady Wells, and Tennessee Williams.
- Description:
- Gift of Robert MacLeod, 1994. and Myron Brinig, American novelist, was born in Minneapolis on December 22, 1896. He grew up in Butte, Montana and many of his most noted works, including Singermann (1929), Wide Open Town (1931), and The Sisters (1937), were set in Montana. As an adult, Brinig lived in Taos, New Mexico and in New York City. He died in New York on May 13, 1991.
- Subject (Geographic):
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
- Subject (Name):
- Brinig, Myron, 1897-1991 and Ellsworth, George
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American--20th century--Archives and Gay men--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ellsworth, George