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1.
Chinese life!!! : Dupont Street : San-Francisco, Cal

Creator:
Beutler (Artist), artist
Published / Created:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
Call Number:
WA Prints 383
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A group of Chinese men in traditional attire stand and sit around a table, smoking and apparently gambling, with two Chinese women standing in a nearby doorway
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Fishbourne & Co. lithog.rs.
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco
Subject (Topic):
Chinese and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chinese life!!! : Dupont Street : San-Francisco, Cal

2.
Dia de los muertos

Creator:
Royal Chicano Air Force, artist
Published / Created:
[1975]
Call Number:
WA Prints +439
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Poster shows image of a skeleton wearing a hat with United Farm Workers iconography, a shirt with a large green circle with a smaller red circle inside, and pants. The skeleton appears to be hanging up a poster with information about a parade. The interior poster includes five panels, four with information, and one with images of skulls and bones. Title information is above. Around the information is a border of bones. "RCAF" in lower center of poster
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +168: Variant 1., BEIN WA Prints +439: Variant 2., At least two variants exist. Variant 1 has background of "Dia de los muertos" fully in orange, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in orange on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in red on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in red. Variant 2 has background of "Dia de los muertos" half in red and half in yellow, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in red on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in yellow on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in yellow., "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m.", "From Hiram Johnson to St. Mary Cemetery.", "Respeto a la raza!", "1st annual procession, for more info: 442-7651.", "Boycott CocaCola.", "¡Boycott Gallo!", "¡Para la gloria de mi raza!", "The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) is a Sacramento, California-based art collective, founded in 1970 by José Montoya and Esteban Villa. It was one of the 'most important collective artist groups' in the Chicano art movement in California during the 1970s and the 1980s and continues to be influential into the 21st century.", and Text in English and Spanish.
Publisher:
RCAF
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sacramento, and Sacramento.
Subject (Topic):
All Souls' Day, Mexican Americans, Social life and customs, Politics and government, Parades, All Souls' Day in art, and Serigraphy
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dia de los muertos

3.
Dia de los muertos

Creator:
Royal Chicano Air Force, artist
Published / Created:
[1975]
Call Number:
WA Prints +168
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Poster shows image of a skeleton wearing a hat with United Farm Workers iconography, a shirt with a large green circle with a smaller red circle inside, and pants. The skeleton appears to be hanging up a poster with information about a parade. The interior poster includes five panels, four with information, and one with images of skulls and bones. Title information is above. Around the information is a border of bones. "RCAF" in lower center of poster
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +168: Variant 1., BEIN WA Prints +439: Variant 2., At least two variants exist. Variant 1 has background of "Dia de los muertos" fully in orange, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in orange on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in red on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in red. Variant 2 has background of "Dia de los muertos" half in red and half in yellow, "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m." in red on green, "respeto la raza!" and "¡Boycott Gallo!" in yellow on green, and background behind skulls and bones in lower right in yellow., "Nov. 1, 1975 at 4 p.m.", "From Hiram Johnson to St. Mary Cemetery.", "Respeto a la raza!", "1st annual procession, for more info: 442-7651.", "Boycott CocaCola.", "¡Boycott Gallo!", "¡Para la gloria de mi raza!", "The Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) is a Sacramento, California-based art collective, founded in 1970 by José Montoya and Esteban Villa. It was one of the 'most important collective artist groups' in the Chicano art movement in California during the 1970s and the 1980s and continues to be influential into the 21st century.", and Text in English and Spanish.
Publisher:
RCAF
Subject (Geographic):
California, Sacramento, and Sacramento.
Subject (Topic):
All Souls' Day, Mexican Americans, Social life and customs, Politics and government, Parades, All Souls' Day in art, and Serigraphy
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dia de los muertos

4.
Happiness is being Mexican : typescript photocopy

Creator:
López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000
Published / Created:
1983.
Call Number:
WA MSS S-4481
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
88
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Photocopy of a typescript memoir by Margarita López y Galarza containing over 20 brief chapters reflecting on her life and identity as a Mexican American, 1983. López y Galarza recounts her family history in Jalcocotán, Mexico and describes her parents, brothers, and extended family members, many of whom were ranchers and railroad workers in California. Many of the stories concern her childhood in Sacramento, including her mother's role in the household, her experiences with religion, and her education. Several sections describe López y Galarza's elementary education in detail, including learning English and the program of Americanization at her elemenary school, which had a significant population of immigrant children, including Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Mexican Americans. Other sections describe her father's opposition to her choice to attend college and become an American citizen, her career as a health educator at Los Angeles County General Hospital, and a visit to her birthplace in Jalcocotán with her daughter in 1972. Accompanied by a manuscript note from López y Galarza to a friend describing the process of writing the memoir and sharing family news, 1984
Description:
Margarita López y Galarza de la Vega Linsley (1916-2000) was born in Jalcocotán, Mexico and immigrated to Sacramento, California with her family in 1920. She earned her bachelor's degree from University of California, Los Angeles and master's degrees from University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture and was a health educator for Los Angeles County General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente, and the World Health Organization. López y Galarza was forced to legally change her first name to Marguerite when she became a United States citizen in 1940, because her American elementary school teachers had insisted on using the name Marguerite on her school records. She went by the nicknames Mago and Margo to family and friends., In English., and Title from title page.
Subject (Geographic):
California., West (U.S.), California, Jalcocotán (Mexico), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
López y Galarza, Margarita, 1916-2000. and Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Subject (Topic):
Americanization, Education, Elementary, Elementary schools, Health counselors, Immigrant children, Education, Immigrants, Mexican American children, Mexican American women, Mexican Americans, Religion, Railroads, Employees, Ranchers, Women, Race relations, Religious life and customs, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Happiness is being Mexican : typescript photocopy

5.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
50
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

6.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 3
Image Count:
69
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

7.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
40
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

8.
Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

Creator:
Paley, Natalie
Published / Created:
circa 1930-1966.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 574
Container / Volume:
Box 4 (Oversize)
Image Count:
80
Abstract:
Three photograph albums documenting vacations and activities in Europe and southern California and Connecticut, loose photographic prints, and correspondence of Natalie Paley, circa 1930-1966, Two albums contain photographs of locations in Europe document the marriage of Paley with Lucien-Camille Lelong as well as their circle of friends, 1930-1932. Friends include actress Lady Iya Abdy (formerly Iya De Gay) and fashion model Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, also known as Baba de Lucinge, as well as art patrons Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles and Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles. One of the European albums also documents her relationship with Russian dancer Serge Lifar, and includes images from a vacation by Paley, Lelong, and Lifar in Venice, Italy, as well as two portrait drawings of Paley by stage designer Oliver Messel, 1931. The other album includes images of a vacation to Biarritz, France, and a skiing vacation. The European albums also include photographic prints and halftone images from society magazines, A series of loose photographic prints by Studio Dorvyne documents a masquerade ball hosted by Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife, Comtesse Edith de Beaumont, during the summer of 1931, with portraits of individuals in costume that include the Beaumonts, Liliane de Faucigny-Lucinge, Nimet Eloui Bey, Coco Chanel, Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Serge Lifar, Natalie Paley, Howard Sturges, and Julian West, as well as Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas Porter, An album of locations in Hollywood, California and Connecticut documents the activities of Paley and her friends, 1935-1938. The album includes images from the set of the movie, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), in which she had a role, and includes images of Paley, actors Brian Aherne, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as director George Cukor and producer Pandro S. Berman. Images of her friends in informal settings, probably parties hosted by Cukor, include Cukor, his parents Victor F. Cukor and Helen Gross Cukor, Hepburn, Zoë Akins, Freddie Bartholomew, Cecil Beaton, Ethel B. Borden, Ina Claire, Constance Collier, Gary Cooper, Lily Damita, Liev de Maigret, Marlene Dietrich, Tom Douglas, Peggy Fears, Winsor French, Clark Gable and his wife (Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham Gable), John Gilbert, Frances Howard Goldwin, William Haines, Rowland Leigh, Louis Mason, Oliver Messel, Carmel Myers, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Louella Parsons, Margaret Perry, Basil Rathbone, Dolores del Río, Ruth Selwyn, James Shields, Hugh Walpole, Victor William (Peter) Watson, Clifton Webb, and Julian West. There is a series of images of John Chapman Wilson, the second husband of Paley, and the business manager and confidant of Noel Coward, at the Fayreways estate on Sasco Hill, Fairfield, Connecticut, circa 1937-1938, Loose photographic prints include portraits of Serge Lifar by Studio Lipnitzki, Paris, France, and portraits of Natalie Paley and Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge Baba d'Erlanger, by Foto Giacomelli, Venice, Italy, 1931, as well as promotional photographic prints from movies that include images of Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer in Break of Hearts (1935), and Hepburn and Brian Aherne for Sylvia Scarlett (1935)., and Correspondence in the collection consists of a letter to Paley from an unidentified correspondent in French, May 194?; a condolence letter from Boris Kochno on the death of her husband, November 1961; and a letter from Noel Coward, April 17, 1966
Description:
Natalie Pavlovna Paley (1905-1981) was a French-born fashion icon, socialite, and film actress, as well as a granddaughter of Russian tsar Alexander II and cousin of Russian tsar Nicholas II. In 1927, she became the second wife of French couturier Lucien-Camille Lelong (1889-1958); they divorced in 1937, the same year she married theater producer John Chapman Wilson (1899-1961)., Title devised by cataloger., One of the European albums is missing many prints from its leaves, which may represent many of the loose photographic prints., Many of the halftones duplicate photographic prints in the European albums., The album of locations in the United States is disbound and has many manuscript inscriptions., and Letter in folder 21 formerly described as written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is now described as from an unidentified correspondent
Subject (Geographic):
California, Biarritz (France), Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Abdy, Iya, d. 1993., Aherne, Brian., Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958., Baba d'Erlanger, Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1901-1945., Bartholomew, Freddie, 1924-1992., Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980., Beaumont, Étienne de, 1883-1956., Beaumont, Edith de., Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996., Borden, Ethel B., 1898-1953., Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971., Claire, Ina, 1892-1985., Collier, Constance, 1878-1955., Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961., Coward, Noel, 1899-1973., Cukor, George, 1899-1983., Cukor, Helen Gross., Cukor, Victor F., Damita, Lily, 1904-1994., Dietrich, Marlene., Douglas, Tom, 1896-1978., Eloui, Nimet, d. 1943., Fears, Peggy, 1903-1994., French, Winsor, 1904-1973., Fulco, 1898-1978., Gable, Clark, 1901-1960., Gilbert, John, 1897-1936., Goldwin, Frances Howard, 1906-1976., Grant, Cary, 1904-1986., Gwenn, Edmund, 1875-1959., Haines, William, 1900-1973., Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003., Kochno, Boris., Langham, Ria Franklin Prentiss Lucas, 1884-1966., Laure, Marie, 1902-, Leigh, Rowland., Lelong, Lucien-Camille, 1889-1958., Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986., Maigret, Liev de., Mason, Louis, 1888-1859., Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978., Myers, Carmel, 1899-1980., Niven, David, 1910-1983., Noailles, Charles, vicomte de, 1891-1981., Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979., Paley, Natalie, 1905-1981., Parsons, Louella O. 1881-1972. (Louella Oettinger),, Porter, Cole, 1891-1964., Porter, Linda Lee Thomas, 1883-1954., Perry, Margaret, 1913-2007., Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967., Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944., Selwyn, Ruth, 1905-1954., Shields, James, 1905-1974., Sturges, Howard., Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941., Webb, Clifton, 1893-1966., West, Julian, 1904-1981., Wilson, John Chapman, 1899-1961., and Watson, Victor William (Peter), 1908-1956.
Subject (Topic):
Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture industry, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Natalie Paley photograph albums, photographs, and correspondence

9.
William Shawn papers relating to Lousie Brooks, 1956-1986

Creator:
Shawn, William
Call Number:
YCAL MSS 886
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
57
Abstract:
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 production file of approximately 130 letters between Brooks, Shawn, and others, including Brooks's agent Robert Lantz, Robert Gottlieb and others at Knopf, and Jean-Pierre Sicre. There are typescript drafts (or clean copies) of over a dozen essays by Brooks, originally published from the mid 1950s through late 1970s, and copies of writings by others. Brooks appears to have submitted the essays to Shawn; several essays also have corrections by Shawn. Other papers include clippings, consisting chiefly of reviews of Lulu, material relating to production of the book, a photograph of the book cover, and printed ephemera
Description:
Louise Brooks (1906-1985), American dancer, actress, and author., William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (1952-1987)., and Chiefly in English; some material in German.
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
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William Shawn papers relating to Lousie Brooks, 1956-1986