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...
Description:
Binding: contemporary full red morocco, covered with elaborate gilt stamps with vase and flower motifs; interlaced design on borders and spine.
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
A bronze sculpture by Augusta Savage portraying a boy holding his stomach and grimacing in pain. It is titled on the front of the base: "Green Apples." It is signed on the top of the base with the artist's monogram, "Savage" lettered vertically within...
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
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 th...
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
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 ori...
Description:
Purchased from James S. Jaffee on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2005.
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-
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. ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (Name):
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe,--1780-1828. and Parrott, Susan Parker,--1780-1852.
