Typescript photocopy mock-up with autograph corrections and annotations. The notes describe text sources and other information about the poems, and instructions for typesetting the manuscript. Also includes a front cover and additional pages of front matter created by Berrigan. The cover incorporates a clipped image from a newspaper and drawings in red and black pen; the front matter includes a black and white photograph of Berrigan by an unidentified photographer. The front cover is, according to a note by Berrigan on the item, "accidentally on back upside down".
Description:
Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), American poet. He was married to the American poet Alice Notley (1945-)., In English., Title from title page., and With a dedication from Berrigan to Alice Notley on the verso of the penultimate leaf: "This copy completed (for Alice) 3-4 a.m., Thurs., Apr. 24th, in Needles, California.".
The collection includes photographs of many of Edmond Quinn's sculptures, including portrait busts and statues of Cass Gilbert, Edwin Markham, Clayton Hamilton, Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Clay, Brander Matthews, James Whistler, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, and Victor Herbert. The collection also includes one photograph of Quinn in his studio with Vicente Blasco Ibáñez; a pencil sketch of James Stephens; letters from Edwina Booth Grossman, Charles De Kay, Winthrop Ames, and others; a draft biography for Who's Who; and clippings documenting the reception of Quinn's work
Description:
American sculptor and painter Edmond Thomas Quinn was born December 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, to John and Rosina McLaughlin Quinn. He studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and under Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. Major works include the statue of Edwin Booth as Hamlet in Gramercy Park, New York City, and the World War Memorial in New Rochelle, New York. He married Emily Bradley, of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1917 (she later married Shepherd Stephens). Quinn died in New York City in September, 1929, an apparent suicide by drowning. and In English.
Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in October 1921. Incised at the back of the base: "MVW Fuller" and a copyright symbol
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. and Title from Renée Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
"The Story Behind the Composing," typescript, photocopy, summary written by Myers in 1986 describing his experiences in composing God's Trombones and early performances, with printed programs, photocopies of correspondence, and other documentation appended; printed score, published by Eastlane Music Corp., [1966?]; and a "Written Analysis," typescript, photocopy, submitted as part of his dissertation, 1965. Also present are three audio cassettes: performances by the Pascack Valley Regional High School Select Choir, at Columbia University, Feb 21, 1964, and by the First Congregational United Church of Christ Choir, Washington, D.C., at Howard University, Jun 19, 1970, both with Myers as baritone soloist; and an undated copy of a 1938 recording of sections from the text read by James Weldon Johnson
Description:
Baritone, composer, and educator. Myers composed a setting of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones for solo voices, mixed chorus, solo trombones, and orchestra [i.e. brass ensemble]. The score and an analysis were submitted in 1965 to Columbia University, Teachers College, as a doctoral dissertation.
Subject (Name):
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. and Myers, Gordon.
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explaining the letters, dated 1906 October 5.
Description:
Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. and In English.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Photograph portrait of African American author James Baldwin by Anthony Barboza, 1975. The photograph belongs to Barboza's Black Borders series of portraits of Black artists
Description:
Anthony Barboza (1944-) is an African American photographer, historian, artist, and writer. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and moved to New York City to study photography. In 1963, he joined the Kamoinge Workshop photography collective, and became president of the collective in 2004., Caption in English., Title from caption., Place of creation supplied by cataloger., and Date of creation from caption.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 and Barboza, Anthony, 1944-
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, African American photographers, and Authors
The collection consists of correspondence, scripts, contracts, photographs, a production program, press clippings and other materials documenting the script development and production history of John Charles Brownell's play, Mississippi Rainbow. Correspondents include Rowena Woodham Jelliffe of the Karamu Theatre, Playhouse Settlement, Cleveland; Frank J. Sheil of Samuel French Play Publishers and Authors' Representatives; Richard Madden of the Richard J. Madden Play Company; staff members of the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Theatre Project in New York and Chicago, including Shirley Graham (later Shirley Graham DuBois), Thomas J. McElhany, Bennet R. Finn, George Kondolf, and Hallie Flanagan; Theodore Ward, an actor in the Chicago production of Mississippi Rainbow, and an aspiring playwright whom Brownell mentored; New York theater critic Brooks Atkinson; and other correspondents from whom Brownell sought financial and professional assistance. Undated typescripts for Mississippi Rainbow and a one-act play, The Closet, are also included. Photographs include portrait photographs of Brownell and production photographs from the New York production of Brainsweat and the Chicago production of Mississippi Rainbow
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John Charles Brownell was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1877. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art in New York City, and worked as a professional actor and scenario editor for film companies before undertaking a playwrighting career. His plays include The Nut Farm, Her Majesty the Widow, and A Woman of the Soil. His play Mississippi Rainbow, a comedy written for an all-black cast, was first produced as Nothin' but Trouble by an amateur cast at the Karamu Theatre, Playhouse Settlement in Cleveland, Ohio in 1934. The play went through rewrites and title changes, and was produced on Broadway as Brainsweat (1934), and by the Federal Theatre Project in Chicago as Mississippi Rainbow (1937). He was married to Estelle Wyne of Cincinnati. Brownell died in Starksboro, Vermont in 1961. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Brownell, John Charles., Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977., Finn, Bennet R., Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969., Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham., Kondolf, George., McElhany, Thomas J., Sheil, Frank J., Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983., Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.), Federal Theatre Project (Chicago, Ill.). Negro Unit., Federal Theatre Project (New York, N.Y.), Playhouse Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio), Richard J. Madden Play Service., Samuel French, Inc., and United States. Works Progress Administration.
Subject (Topic):
African American actors, African American theater, Dramatists, American, Literary agents, Theater, Production and direction, and Theatrical producers and directors
Papers include typescript carbon film treatment for "Love Story," by John Fante and Norman Foster (August 8, 1941); treatment (August 7, 1941) and shooting script (September 17, 1941) for "My Friend Bonito" by Norman Foster and John Fante; report with treatment of "Carnaval" subject by Orson Welles (June 22, 1942); and connecting scene treatments (September 2, 1943) and scene breakdowns (September 14, 1943) for "Its All True" by Orson Welles. Additional documents include a typescript list of members of the RKO company involved in the production of It's All True, noting their travel dates to Brazil, passport information and military draft status (1942); Mercury Productions, Inc. contracts with Louis Armstrong (October 2, 1941) and Hazel Scott as performers in the film (October 2, 1941); and Mercury Productions, Inc. contract with Dante Orgolini as "coach and advisor" on the film (December 31, 1941).
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It's All True was a film project undertaken by Orson Welles and Mercury Productions, Inc. for RKO Pictures in 1941. The film was initially conceived by Welles to consist of four medium-length films based on true stories, including a short history of jazz. His appointment as goodwill ambassador to Latin America and head of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs later in 1941 resulted in his focusing his multi-story project on Latin American subjects, some of which had been part of the initial project. Welles shot segments of the film before RKO terminated the project, and his subsequent attempts to complete the film were unsuccessful. and In English.
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 173 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); James Russell Lowell (1896, modeled by Charles Calverley, 17.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 372 copies in bronze and 3 in silvered bronze); Edgar Allan Poe (1909, modeled by Edith Woodman Burroughs, 18 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 277 in bronze and 3 in silver); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909, modeled by Victor D. Brenner, 18.5 cm. in diameter, issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver); and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1911, modeled by John F. Flanagan, 19 x 14.5 cm., issued in an edition of 300 copies in bronze and 3 in silver). There are two copies each of the Emerson and Longfellow plaques, and one copy each of the Hawthorne, Lowell, and Poe plaques
Description:
The Grolier Club was founded in New York on January 23, 1884, by Robert Hoe and eight other bibliophiles to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, and their art, history, production, and commerce., Title supplied by cataloger., and Captions in English.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Victor D. 1871-1924. (Victor David),, Burroughs, Edith Woodman, 1871-1916., Calverley, Charles, 1833-1914., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Flanagan, John F., 1865-1952., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Ringel d'Illzach, Jean Désiré, 1847-1916., and Grolier Club.
