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Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, ou, Les festes et diuertissements du roy à Versailles

Creator:
Silvestre, Israël, 1621-1691
Published / Created:
1664?]
Call Number:
2014 Folio 462
Image Count:
12
Description:
BEIN 2014 Folio 462: Imperfect: plates 2, 3, and 5 wanting. Variant state with privledge statements and no numbering. All plates hand-colored. Plates numbered in ms. on versos (plate 6 misnumbered as 2). Autograph: Buous. Stamp: Louis de Monspey. From the collection of Andre Meyer. and Nine double-page engravings, including t.p.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
France and Versailles
Subject (Topic):
Festivals and Court and courtiers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Les plaisirs de l'isle enchantée, ou, Les festes et diuertissements du roy à Versailles : diuiséz en trois journées et commencéz le 7me. jour de may de l'année 1664

2.
May-Day in London [graphic]

Creator:
Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 1, 1784.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Volume 1, opposite page [161] Page 55. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"May-Day; a busy urban street festival; milkmaids with their 'garlands' - headresses of plate, greenery and brushes; chimney sweepers, a violinist with an artificial leg, and others."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17 x 21.1 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge., Mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 57 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs by Harrison & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, May Day, Festivals, Milkwomen, Headdresses, Chimney sweeps, Street musicians, Violins, Peg legs, Dance, and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > May-Day in London [graphic]

3.
Photograph album of Salmon Day festivities, Keller, Washington

Published / Created:
ca. 1930.
Call Number:
WA Photos 312
Image Count:
25
Abstract:
Photograph album documenting the activities of Salmon Day festivities in Keller, Washington, ca. 1930. The celebration by the Colville Indians occurred near the mouth of the San Poil River. Images include views of streets and buildings in Keller, spectators and participants at a rodeo, and of a mountainside horse "suicide race" from a distance. Identified individuals include rodeo participants Len Perkins of Yuma, Arizona, and Oran Fore of Newhall, California, and Colville Indians, Chief Jim James and Mary Hughes
Description:
Individual photographs measure 12.5 x 18.0 cm. and smaller., There are some typescript captions., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington, Keller., Keller (Wash.), and San Poil River (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Fore, Oran., Hughes, Mary, Colville Indian., James, Jim, Colville Indian chief., and Perkins, Len.
Subject (Topic):
Colville Indians, Cowboys, Festivals, Indian cowboys, Indians of North America, and Rodeos
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of Salmon Day festivities, Keller, Washington