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1.
Ambrotype of an unidentified woman

Creator:
Mason, John T., b. 1822.
Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2173
Collection Title:
John T. Mason diaries
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 14
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
John T. Mason emigrated to California in 1854. He worked on river steamers in the area of Sacramento, and in 1861 he began ranching in Colusa County.
Subject (Name):
Mason, John T.,--b. 1822.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ambrotype of an unidentified woman

3.
Chanccani Quipu / Cecilia Vicuña.

Creator:
Vicuña, Cecilia, 1948-
Published / Created:
2012
Call Number:
2014 Folio 20
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Description:
" ... a modern interpretation of the 5,000 year-old quipu, which recorded the literature of the Incas on knotted cords. It ... embodies the intention and essence of a poem by Vicuña translated into English by the poet along with Jerome Rothenberg. Ac...
Publisher:
Granary Books,
Subject (Name):
Granary Books (Firm), publisher., Mills, Susan (Susan E.), Rothenberg, Jerome, 1931-, Rothenberg, Jerome,--1931---Autograph., Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, printer., and Vicuña, Cecilia--Autograph.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' books, Quipu, and Visual poetry.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chanccani Quipu / Cecilia Vicuña.

4.
Lift every voice and sing.

Creator:
Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962, artist
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 136 (Art)
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Small-scale reproduction of Augusta Savage's plaster sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing" designed for and displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The cast metal souvenir is lettered on the front "Life Every Voice and Sing" and on the back at th...
Description:
Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
Subject (Name):
Savage, Augusta,--1892-1962
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors--United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Lift every voice and sing.

5.
Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.

Creator:
Cage, John
Published / Created:
1969
Call Number:
2017 Folio 276
Image Count:
65
Resource Type:
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
Description:
"Lithographs A and B / Using 8 aluminum plates and 9 colors, Lithograph A was hand printed on black Fabriano rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4". Lithograph B, using 8 aluminum plates and 8 colors was hand printed on rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" ... / Hand pri...
Publisher:
Eye Editions,
Subject (Name):
Cage, John--Autograph, Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968--Influence, Eye Editions, Sumsion, Calvin (Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014, and Sumsion, Calvin--(Calvin Johnson), 1942-2014--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Concrete poetry
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Not wanting to say anything about Marcel / John Cage and Calvin Sumsion.

6.
Painted portrait of Ezra Pound on a ceramic tile.

Creator:
Martinelli, Sheri
Published / Created:
1957
Call Number:
YCAL MSS FILE 22
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Portrait painting depicting a profile of Ezra Pound in blue paint and pencil on an unglazed ceramic tile manufactured by the Robertson Art Tile Company, created by Sheri Martinelli at Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1957. The tile was ori...
Description:
Purchased from James S. Jaffee on the Ezra Pound Archive Fund, 2005.
Subject (Name):
Graubart, Clifford Daniel, Martinelli, Sheri, Pound, Ezra,--1885-1972--Portraits, Robertson Art Tile Co. (Trenton, NJ), Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Sieber, H. A., 1931-, and Sieber, H. A.,--1931-
Subject (Topic):
Authors--Portraits
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Painted portrait of Ezra Pound on a ceramic tile.

8.
Robert Louis Stevenson drafts of the South Seas, 1889-1891.

Creator:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. South Seas
Published / Created:
[ca. 1889-1891]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 808
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Partial drafts, holograph, corrected, circa 1889 to 1891.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Christie's sale, New York, 2010 December 3, lot 559) on the Chauncey Brewster Tinker Prize Fund, 2010.
Subject (Geographic):
Polynesia--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Stevenson, Robert Louis,--1850-1894
Subject (Topic):
Authors, Scottish--19th century--Archives
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert Louis Stevenson drafts of the South Seas, 1889-1891.

9.
Silhouette, daguerreotype

Creator:
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe, 1815-1879.
Published / Created:
c. 1850
Call Number:
WA MSS S-122
Collection Title:
Enoch Greenleafe Parrott papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 10
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
The official letters to Parrott and his letters to his family cover his naval career, 1831-1874, expecially during the Mexican and Civil Wars. There are some earlier family papers, silhouettes of his mother and father, and a daguerrrotype of Parrott. ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject (Name):
Parrott, Enoch Greenleafe,--1780-1828. and Parrott, Susan Parker,--1780-1852.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Silhouette, daguerreotype

10.
The glory and happiness of the saints in heaven, or, A discourse concerning the blessed state of

Creator:
Ranew, Nathanael, 1602?-1678
Published / Created:
1692
Call Number:
Mhc9 R16 P6
Image Count:
116
Description:
In his Practical discourses concerning death and heaven ... London, 1692.
Publisher:
Printed for Nathanel Ranew,
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The glory and happiness of the saints in heaven, or, A discourse concerning the blessed state of the righteous after death ...

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