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.
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 ...
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
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.
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 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
Collection of correspondence, writings, and other papers growing out of Shawn's collaboration with Brooks on a collection of essays, Lulu in Hollywood (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), about her life as a film actress. Correspondence features a large...
Description:
Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American dancer, actress, and author.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Los Angeles., and Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985., Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023., Lantz, Robert., Shawn, William., and Sicre, J. P. (Jean-Pierre)
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Motion picture industry, Motion picture actors and actresses, and Social life and customs
Autograph manuscript, signed by Clarise Merino, in which Merino defines the goals of Americanization and cultural assimilation of immigrants in the United States. Merino proposes several methods for American women to befriend and mentor immigrant wom...
Description:
Clarise Merino (1905- ) was a teacher born in Arizona.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Merino, Clarise, 1905-
Subject (Topic):
English language, Study and teaching, Foreign speakers, Immigrants, Cultural assimilation, Education, Teachers, Women, and Women immigrants
Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center, an American concentration camp near Delta, Utah. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the camp; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at ...
Description:
Charles Erabu "Suiko" Mikami was born in Hiroshima, Japan, on January 30, 1902. He studied sumi-e brush painting before immigrating to the Seattle, Washington, in 1919, where he worked as a produce broker while continuing to paint and write poetry in ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, and Sevier Desert (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Mikami, Charles Erabu, 1902-1998. and Central Utah Relocation Center
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Concentration camps, Japanese Americans, and Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
The collection consists of three drawings by Greville Rickard: "Sherry-Netherland Fire" (circa 1927, crayon on paper mounted on board, 51 x 34.5 cm.), "Residence of Dr. Charles V. Paterno, Greenwich, Conn." (circa 1937, ink on card, 56 x 32 cm.), and ...
Description:
Greville Rickard was born in Denver, Colorado, on December 8, 1889, the son of Stephen Rickard. He received a BS degree from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1912, and studied afterward at the Yale School of Architecture. Rickard prac...
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Paterno, Charles, 1878-1946, Martinot, Paul, and Rickard, Greville, 1889-1956.
