The collection consists of two volumes holding printed ephemera, photographs, and original artwork related to the marketing of products manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company, including construction, chemistry, and magic sets for children, and smal...
Description:
A. C. Gilbert Company of New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1909 as the Mysto Manufacturing Company by Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884-1961, Yale 1909 MD); the company name was changed in 1916. It manufactured toys and small electrical appliances. Th...
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and United States
Subject (Name):
A.C. Gilbert Company., California Fruit Growers Exchange., and La Velle Manufacturing Company.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Artists' materials, Display of merchandise, Marketing, Mechanical toys, Packaging, and Toys
The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diamet...
Description:
The Grolier Club was founded in New York on January 23, 1884, by Robert Hoe and eight other bibliophiles to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, and their art, history, production, and commerce.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Victor D. 1871-1924. (Victor David),, Burroughs, Edith Woodman, 1871-1916., Calverley, Charles, 1833-1914., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Flanagan, John F., 1865-1952., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Ringel d'Illzach, Jean Désiré, 1847-1916., and Grolier Club.
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate;...
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Papers include typescript carbon film treatment for "Love Story," by John Fante and Norman Foster (August 8, 1941); treatment (August 7, 1941) and shooting script (September 17, 1941) for "My Friend Bonito" by Norman Foster and John Fante; report with...
Description:
It's All True was a film project undertaken by Orson Welles and Mercury Productions, Inc. for RKO Pictures in 1941. The film was initially conceived by Welles to consist of four medium-length films based on true stories, including a short history of ...
Correspondence (box 1) and proofs (box 2) received by Williams in preparation for his New Poems, 1940: An Anthology of British and American Verse (New York: Yardstick Press, 1941). Contributors include: Conrad Aiken, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, R...
Description:
Oscar Williams (1900-1964), American poet and editor.
"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
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.
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.
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
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
