Lacerenza, William A Mayer, Peter F Reuter, Louis W Suess, George H Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919
Published / Created:
Undated
Call Number:
BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
Collection Title:
Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
Description:
Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
Subject (Geographic):
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
Subject (Topic):
Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
This collection documents the establishment and early years of the Puget Mill Company, which manufactured lumber. The bulk of the papers are letters from Josiah Keller to his partner, Charles Foster. They discuss building plans, business development, ships and cargoes, and accounts. There are occasional mentions of Keller's personal affairs and one letter describes his voyage around Cape Horn in the schooner L. P. Foster. Two charts show Hood's Canal, the harbor, and location of the mill.
Alternative Title:
Puget Mill Company, 2 charts
Description:
Capt. Josiah P. Keller, of East Machias, Maine, was a founder of the Puget Mill Company. He sailed on the Julius Pringle from San Francisco to Puget Sound where he chose Port Gamble as a site for the mill. Keller became superintendent of the mill and in 1853 moved his family to Port Gamble.
Subject (Geographic):
Port Gamble (Wash.), Puget Sound (Wash.), and Washington (State)--Economic conditions
Subject (Name):
Foster, Charles,--d. 1876, Julius Pringle (Ship), Keller, Josiah P.,--1812-1862, L. P. Foster (Schooner), Pope, Andrew J, Puget Mill Company, and Talbot, William C
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a promptbook of Macbeth, written in an interleaved copy of a printed edition of the play. The handwritten notes provide stage directions; scene descriptions; and sound and lighting directions; as well as directions for unnamed characters. The notes also provide explanations for dramatic choices, such as the comment concerning Banquo's murderers, "These are disbanded officers & must therefore be represented as gentlemen not common cutthroats." Occasionally the writer has drawn diagrams of actors' positions or images of scenery; and at the end of the volume, he provides several detailed directions for combat sequences, including one for the final fight between Macbeth and Macduff, involving shoulder blows, leg blows, head blows, groans, and lunges.
Description:
Binding: machine-grain morocco. Pasted on front cover: a printed ticket which reads "Mr. Chas. Pitt Theatre Royal Sheffield. Machbeth." and On flyleaf: engraving of a scene from Macbeth.
Subject (Name):
Macbeth,--King of Scotland, 11th cent.--Drama, Pitt, Charles Dibdin, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Macbeth, Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Dramatic production--History, and Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Stage history--Sources
Subject (Topic):
English drama--17th century, Promptbooks, Stage fighting, Theater--Production and direction--United States, and Theater--United States--19th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
MS notes in pencil on long sheet of newsprint.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Corrected and annotated in pencil. and Typescript, corrected.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Discordantiae sanctorum doctorum Hieronymi et Augustini : [and other tracts]
Image Count:
11
Description:
Bound with: Martinis, O. de De vita ... S. Bonaventurae. Rome, 1482. Barberiis, Ph. de. Carmen in laudem Sexti IV papae. Rome. 1481. and Modern foliation employed.
Subject (Name):
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo and Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Subject (Topic):
Bible -- Commentaries, Sibyls --Early works to 1800, Theology -- Early works to 1800, and Women prophets --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[Rome : Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, 1st December 1481]