American poetry--20th century, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Translations into Italian, and Italian poetry--Translations from English
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
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
A typed prospectus (21 p.) for the Aspen Smelting Company accompanied by a stock certificate for 600 shares of the company, issued on July 14, 1924, to G. D. Sutton. The prospectus includes a fold-out chart of mineral production in Pitkin County from 1880 to 1924; a record of mining leases and royalty schedules; a financial statement dated August 31, 1925; airlift data; and operating costs. Seven photographs, including one of company president R. P. Sharpe and six of various mining properties, are tipped onto pages of the prospectus.
Description:
Purchased from Brian Levine on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2005. and The Aspen Smelting Company was organized in Delaware in 1924. The company owned and leased several properties in the Aspen Mining District of Pitkin County, Colorado, including the Cowenhoven Tunnel, the Durant Mine, and the Smuggler Mine.
Subject (Geographic):
Aspen Mining District (Colo.) and Pitkin County (Colo.)
Subject (Name):
Aspen Smelting Company and Sharpe, R. P.
Subject (Topic):
Mineral industries--Colorado--Pitkin County and Mines and mineral resources--Colorado--Pitkin County
Papers of M. M. B. Walsh's literary agent, Joan Daves, including publishing contracts, a power of attorney, correspondence, photographs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes eleven autograph and typescript letters, signed, from Walsh to Daves, eight typescript carbon letters from Daves to Walsh, and several third party letters from editors and publishers regarding Walsh's work. Letters from Walsh discuss literary and personal matters, including her books, work in progress, including the novel The Ghost-walkers, teaching, life on reservations in the Dakotas, and the relationship between her literary output and the Sioux community.
Description:
Joan Daves, American literary agent., Margaret M. B. Walsh (1916-1996), American author., and Purchased from Ken Lopez Bookseller on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Subject (Name):
Daves, Joan and Walsh, M. M. B
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Dakota Indians, and Dakota Indians--Social life and customs
"October 6, 1961.", "Release to all media, #1.", At head of p. [1]: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations., Caption title., and Stapled.
Publisher:
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Subject (Name):
AFL-CIO and Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Subject (Topic):
Migrant agricultural laborers--California--San Joaquin County and Migrant labor--California--San Joaquin County
Fred Benjamin Millett Correspondence is comprised of incoming letters from American and British authors dating from 1933 to 1950. The authors write in response to Millet's request for information while preparing his books: Contemporary British Literature: A Critical Survey and 232 Author-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935) and Contemporary American Authors: A Critical Survey and 219 Bio-bibliographies (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940). Correspondents include: Sherwood Anderson, Gordon Bottomley, John Dos Passos, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. D., Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Parker, Ezra Pound, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Ethel Sidgwick, Wallace Stevens, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Penn Warren, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams. In his questionnaire Millett asked authors for a list of writings, biographical information, whether the author is represented in an oil portrait, and whether their works have been adapted to film. and Letters from American authors.
Description:
Fred Benjamin Millett (1890-1976), professor of English and Head of the Honors College at Wesleyan University. and Purchased on the George B. Alvord Fund, Library Associates Fund, William Robertson Coe American Studies Fund, and Francis O. Matthiesen Fund, 1960.
Subject (Name):
Millett, Fred B. (Fred Benjamin), 1890-1976
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, English--20th century, Bio-bibliography, and English literature--20th century