The collection consists sketchbooks, correspondence, documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs documenting the life and career of the American painter, etcher, and poet Henry Martyn Hoyt. Prominent in the collection are sixteen bound commercial...
Description:
Henry Martyn Hoyt, an American painter, etcher, and poet, was born in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, on May 8, 1887, the son of Henry Martyn Hoyt (1856-1910, Yale 1878) and Anne McMichael Hoyt. His father, a lawyer, held positions in the offices of the Unite...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Nahant (Mass.), Rome (Italy), and Spain
Subject (Name):
Hoyt, Anne McMichael, 1861-1949., Hoyt, Henry Martyn, 1887-1920., Parker, Eleanor Kinzie Gordon, 1858-1933., Shurtleff, Alice Gordon Parker, 1885-1951., and Folsom Galleries.
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Draft (483 pages) of "Nexus I" and "Nexus II," typescript carbon, with minor corrections and annotations, and draft (112 pages) of "Nexus: Vol.2," typescript carbon, dated "Nov. 30, 1961," accompanied by autograph letter, signed, from Miller to Emil W...
Papers feature material relating to Sikorsky's The Invisible Encounter (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947), including: drafts, autograph manuscript (incomplete) and typescript, corrected; a printed version, annotated, of the 1947 Scribner's edit...
Description:
Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1889-1972), aviator, engineer, and industrialist, was born in Kiev, Russia (now Ukraine) and emigrated to the United States in 1919.
Subject (Name):
Brasol, Boris, 1885-1963., Golokhvastov, G. (Georgiĭ), Sikorsky, Igor Ivan, 1889-1972., Charles Scribner's Sons., and Poushkin Society in America.
Photograph portrait of African American author James Baldwin by Anthony Barboza, 1975. The photograph belongs to Barboza's Black Borders series of portraits of Black artists
Description:
Anthony Barboza (1944-) is an African American photographer, historian, artist, and writer. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and moved to New York City to study photography. In 1963, he joined the Kamoinge Workshop photography collective, an...
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 and Barboza, Anthony, 1944-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, African American photographers, and Authors
Papers consist of manuscript and printed materials relating to Bervin's adaptations of Shakespeare sonnets. Materials include: annotated Pelican edition of The sonnets (New York: Penguin Books, 1985), from which Bervin's text is derived; an annotated ...
Description:
Jen Bervin (1972-), American poet and visual artist.
Subject (Name):
Bervin, Jen., Ecke, Margot., Moschovakis, Anna., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Penguin (Firm), Ugly Duckling Presse., and University of Denver. Division of Arts and Humanities.
Subject (Topic):
Found poetry, Poets, American, and Women poets, American
The collection consists of correspondence, scripts, contracts, photographs, a production program, press clippings and other materials documenting the script development and production history of John Charles Brownell's play, Mississippi Rainbow. Corr...
Description:
John Charles Brownell was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1877. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, and worked as a professional actor and scenario editor for film companies before undertaking a playwrighting career. ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Brownell, John Charles., Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977., Finn, Bennet R., Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969., Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham., Kondolf, George., McElhany, Thomas J., Sheil, Frank J., Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983., Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.), Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.). Negro Unit., Federal Theatre Project (New York, N.Y.), Playhouse Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio), Richard J. Madden Play Service., Samuel French, Inc., and United States. Works Progress Administration.
Subject (Topic):
African American actors, African American theater, Dramatists, American, Literary agents, Theater, Production and direction, and Theatrical producers and directors
Collection of approximately 75 pieces of correspondence from Riding to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson. There are also letters to the Hutchinsons from John Aldridge, Robert Graves, Alan Hodge, Harry Kemp, James Reeves, and others; one poem by Riding, a ty...
Description:
Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985., Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979., Hutchinson, Dorothy., Hutchinson, Ward., Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960., Reeves, James., and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.
Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of...
Description:
Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator.
Subject (Name):
Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906., Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, 1849-1916., Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934., Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959., Berry, Walter, 1859-1927., Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952., Lesage, Claudine., Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965., Mugnier, abbé 1853-1944. (Arthur),, Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937., and Michel Houdiard éditeur.
"Notes on first draft script of 'Kane'," typescript carbon, dating from 30 April through 2 May, 1940, and screenplay, typescript carbon, "2nd draft continuity," dated 16 May, 1940 on cover, but including revision pages through 15 June, 1940 for the 19...
Description:
Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor, writer, director, and producer in theater, radio, and film.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971., Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994., Mankiewicz, Herman J. 1897-1953. (Herman Jacob),, Welles, Orson, 1915-1985., and RKO Radio Pictures.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Motion picture producers and directors, Motion pictures, Production and direction, and Screenwriters
