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(10.0 Items)This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.
(330.0 Cubic Feet)This collection contains correspondence and clippings brought together by Reverend Nathan Martin Baker (1837-1922) regarding the 1893 lynching of Samuel J. Bush, a Black farmhand, in Decatur, IL. See [u]Administrative/Biographical History[/u] for more information.
(10.5 Cubic Feet)The library collection consists of more than 5,800 volumes of 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century texts of classical authors, commentaries, Bibles and prayer books, rhetorics, histories, and English literature, particularly of the Elizabethan period. The catalog groups books by subject, listing author, short title, and place and year of publication; shelfmarks ...
(6.0 Cubic Feet)Ewing C. Baskette Collection on Freedom of Expression purchased in 1959. Baskette, a lawyer and librarian, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Within the broad limits of freedom of expression, such topics as freedom of the press, censorship, constitutional rights, ...
(262.5 Cubic Feet)Papers of Ewing C. Baskette, lawyer, librarian and bibliographer. Includes modern speeches, letters and manuscripts on cases dealing with anarchism, the Centralia case, communal living, syndicalism, socialism, the International Workers of the World, freedom of expression and censorship. Baskette's complementary book and pamphlet collection on censorship and intellectual freedom (cataloged ...
(3.0 Cubic Feet)Collection consists primarily of pen drawings executed by Behrensmeyer over the course of his career; a majority of the drawings depict various birds; also includes his "Lessons in Practical Penmanship" (Quincy, Ill.: D.L. Musselman, 1917) and the following periodicals: "The Normal: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Dissemination of Knowledge ...
(16.5 Cubic Feet)The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...
(3.0 Cubic Feet)The Ben Hecht collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the ...
(1.0 Items)Letters from Bentley to Aspinwall regarding Bentley's acquisition of the publishing rights for William H. Prescott's History of the conquest of Mexico. Bentley eventually acquired the rights and the work was published in 3 vols. in October 1843. The letters are all dated from New Burlington Street. Holographs, signed. Title supplied by ...
(1.0 Boxes)Collection of Theatre Programmes from the United Kingdoms and Canada. Assembled and donated to the Library by Alvan Bergman.
(0.0 )Papers of Isabel Bevier (1860-1942), professor of household science (1900-21), including correspondence, publications by Miss Bevier (1898-1940) and the Household Science Department (1900, 1905, 1908-21, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1938, 1945-47), manuscripts (1896-1940), diaries (1917-20, 1922, 1924, 1931, 1935, 1940), clippings, photographs and notes about household science or home economics, the ...
(0.3 Cubic Feet)Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and assorted serials that document Blanc's connection with the Spanish Civil War. A highlight of the collection is the set of manuscripts for Blanc's [i]Wars I Have Known.[/i]
(8.0 Items)Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947
(3.0 Linear Feet)Letter and photographs from American poet and novelist, Maxwell Bodenheim. 1) A.L.S from Maxwell Bodenheim to New York Columnist, Loui Sobel. 1943 2) 7 photographs of Maxwell Bodenheim selling his poetry in Greenwich Village. 1947
(1.0 Linear Feet; 0.5 linear feet with addtional oversize animal skins and 2 typecases)This collection consists of examples of materials and tools used in the bookmaking process.
(1.0 Items)Ms. document. Date taken from first and second lines of text: "This Indenture made the one and Twentyeth day of Aprill in the ffourteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second [...] And in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixtye and two". Signed ...
(1.0 Items)This collection consists of letters from George Borrow's diaries with a transcription.
(46.0 Items)This collection includes letters, cards, clippings, photographs, and obituary notices of author Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her son, William Babington Maxwell. All correspondence is from M.E. Braddon except where indicated.
(232.4 Cubic Feet; 131 volumes.)Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was an American poet and educator born in Topeka, Kansas and raised on the South Side of Chicago. In 1950, Brooks was the first Black person to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category, receiving the award in Poetry for [i]Annie Allen[/i] (1949). Brooks was a beloved ...
(2.1 Cubic Feet)Collection of W. S. Merwin printed materials, from early poems published in journals and his first published book [i]A Mask for Janus[/i], to books Merwin contributed to either as translator, editor, writer of introduction, or blurb writer. Includes uncorrected proofs. Most books are cataloged individually and can be searched under ...
(17.0 Items)Includes notes and letters from recent research on some of these manuscripts. A collection formerly at Eton College, and, in part, originally from the Huth Library. The Common-place books and Notes for English history are in 8 v. bound in red morocco. Another copy of the first 320 entries in v. ...
(6.0 Cubic Feet)Collection of clippings from newspaper comics related to the topics of books and libraries.
(1.0 Boxes)Correspondence and copies of writing by Richard Douglas Burbank. The majority of the correspondence is between Burbank and composer, Nicolas Slonimsky. Other notable materials include items from Pulitzer-Prize winning composer, Charles Wuorinen, whom Richard Burbank studied under at the Manhattan School of Music.