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
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...
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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
