Postcard portrays a young girl embodying Lady Justice, seated in a chair, holding a scale in her right hand and a sword in her left
Alternative Title:
Themis, Déesse de la justice, Déesse de la justice, Postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair, and Legally themed postcard depicting a girl as Lady Justice seated in a chair
Description:
Date from postmark and manuscript notes., Lillian Goldman Law Library's copy 1: addressed: Monsieur Ch Delbare ... Lille Nord; copy 2 addressed to [illegible] Lesper Cette Suzanne[?] and postmarked: Ceintrey, Meurthe et Moselle., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281770, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.14 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Lillian Goldman Law Library has 2 copies, each with manuscript notations.
Series of 10 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice and Legally themed postcards a pierrot, poking fun at contemporary legal practice
Description:
Date from postmark., Some cards include manuscript notations., Card number 6 mentions Berenger, a reference to René Bérenger, a French lawyer and politician who campaigned for public decency and virtue., Card number 8 mentions Magnaud, a reference to Paul Magnaud, a French judge., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281725, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.9 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Édition Phototypie A. Bergeret et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole de Nancy (Group of artists), Bérenger, René, 1830-1915., and Magnaud, Paul, 1848-1926.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Lawyers, Conduct of court proceedings, and Mimes
Paul Krueger, Paul Kruger, and Photographic postcard of the President of the South African Republic Paul Kruger
Description:
Date from postmark., Manuscript notations in Italian on front of card., Postcard addressed to "Mademoiselle Avonio Irma Maria Varollo (Serzia) Italia.", Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281768, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.12 tall., In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Dog (Springer Spaniel) delivering a verdict in the courtroom
Alternative Title:
Postcard depicting dog posed as judge and Legally themed postcard depicting dog posed as judge
Description:
"Rotograph series" B1626., The Rotograph Co., a major printer and publisher of postcards, was active in New York City, 1904-1911., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281871, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019. LM Z Postcards v.1 no.4 tall, and Online resource; description based on print version record.
Publisher:
Rotograph Co.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Law, Judges, Conduct of court proceedings, and English springer spaniels
5 autograph letters, signed, to Thomas M. Pratt, including 2 from Charles Jones, 1 from F. B. Bigeler, 1 from Charles L. Jackson, and 1 from G. W. Mentot. Letters from Jones, Jackson, and Mentot detail the writers' lives as cowboys in Dakota Territory, particularly in Rapid Valley, Rapid City, and Rockerville. Letters from Charles Jones detail his sexual and romantic relationships with Thomas M. Pratt and Charles L. Jackson, and include the use of slang to describe these relationships and Jones's attempts to find a woman to marry. Letter from F. B. Bigeler describes the sale and consumption of alcohol in Bangor, Maine, the suicide of an acquaintance, and anecdotes involving sex and prostitution. Included are 3 photographic postcards of Mill Creek Ranch in Livingston, Montana.
Description:
Purchased from Michael Vinson on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2009, and on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013. and Thomas M. Pratt was a cowboy in Dakota Territory, circa 1879-1881.
Subject (Geographic):
Bangor (Me.), Livingston (Mont.), Rapid City (S.D.), Rapid Valley (S.D.), Rockerville (S.D.), South Dakota--Social life and customs., and West (U.S.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Bigeler, F. B., active approximately 1879, Jackson, Charles L., active approximately 1881, Jones, Charles, active approximately 1881, Mentot, G. W., active approximately 1881, and Pratt, Thomas M., active approximately 1879-1881
Subject (Topic):
Cowboys--Sexual behavior--South Dakota, Cowboys--Sexual behavior--West (U.S.), Cowboys--South Dakota, Cowboys--West (U.S.), English language--Slang, Frontier and pioneer life--South Dakota, Gay men--Sexual behavior--United States, Gay men--Slang, LGBTQ resource, Male homosexuality--United States, Men--Sexual behavior--United States, Prostitution--United States, and Sex--United States
Laura Riding letters to Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | 9-10
Image Count:
81
Abstract:
Collection of letters to the Hutchinsons from Laura Riding.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Laura Riding (1901-1991), poet., and Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Name):
Aldridge, John W., Graves, Robert, 1895-1985, Hodge, Alan, 1915-1979, Hutchinson, Dorothy, Hutchinson, Ward, Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960, Reeves, James, and Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century
