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1.
Copy of a short account....of Ann Abbott of Ives, [ca. 1792].

Creator:
Abbott, Ann
Call Number:
Osborn c559
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, in the hand of John Abbott, of some of the "accounts of Divine occurrences" written by his wife Ann. Topics include her first religious awakenings, temptations, and conversion; experiences of the Spirit at Quaker meetings; her struggles wi...
Description:
Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Christian life, Conduct of life, Quakers, Spiritual biography, Women, Religious life, and Religious life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Copy of a short account....of Ann Abbott of Ives, [ca. 1792].

2.
[Commonplace book], [ca. 1639].

Creator:
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639
Call Number:
Osborn b197 1
Image Count:
522
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript of a collection of about 250 primarily light, satirical, or amatory English poems by various authors. In addition to twelve poems by Robert Herrick, primarily on love, the manuscript also contains poems by Thomas Carew, John Donn...
Description:
Tobias Alston (1620-ca. 1639), was the sixth son of William Alston of Sayham Hall, Suffolk, by his second wife, Anne Neuce. Many of the items in the commonplace book may have been transmitted to him by his half-brother Edward, who was a contemporary ...
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Alston, Tobias, 1620-ca. 1639., Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1592-1628., Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?, Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Donne, John, 1572-1631., Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631., Harington, John, 1589-1654., Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674., Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Wither, George, 1588-1667., and University of Cambridge
Subject (Topic):
Authorship, Bawdy poetry, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epigrams, English, Epitaphs, English, Love, Political satire, English, Songs, English, Verse satire, English, Women, Conduct of life, and Latin poetry
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Commonplace book], [ca. 1639].

3.
La passe solitaire

Creator:
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
Published / Created:
[between 1509 and 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1201
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
178
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, t...
Description:
In Middle French.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire

4.
"Just a question of directing that energy into another field-- quilting, for example" [art original]

Creator:
Arno, Peter, 1904-1968, artist
Published / Created:
[1936]
Call Number:
Print10163
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Drawn for publication in The New Yorker, 19 December 1936.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatrists, Women, and Aggression
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Just a question of directing that energy into another field-- quilting, for example" [art original]

5.
Cicely [graphic]

Creator:
Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Published / Created:
[25 November 1783]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 33. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyon...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Writing, Cats, and Dwellings
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Cicely [graphic]

6.
Adelaide Bartelme papers relating to camping tours of the Canadian Rockies, 1924-1931

Creator:
Bartelme, Adelaide
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2481
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Adelaide Bartelme papers relating to camping tours of the Canadian Rockies, 1924-1931

7.
Adelaide Bartelme papers relating to camping tours of the Canadian Rockies, 1924-1931

Creator:
Bartelme, Adelaide
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2481
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
16
Abstract:
Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Adelaide Bartelme papers relating to camping tours of the Canadian Rockies, 1924-1931

8.
Winter [graphic]

Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, engraver
Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
788.00.00.36
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Half-length young woman, looking three-quarter to right, wearing a hat; her hands concealed in a large muff in front of her chest; after F. Wheatley."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cold, Hats, Clothing & dress, Women, and Young adults
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Winter [graphic]

10.
Diary and household notebook, 1758-1766

Creator:
Barton, Miss
Call Number:
Osborn c663
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript notebook in a single hand. All versos and some rectos are divided into two columns and filled with very brief diary entries recording household work, pastimes, meals, illnesses, visitors, weather and local events, and trips to neighboring t...
Description:
Miss Barton apparently lived in a town in Suffolk, England.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England, Great Britain, Suffolk (England), Women, and Social conditions
Subject (Name):
Barton, Miss.
Subject (Topic):
Cooking, English, English diaries, Women authors, Recipes, Single women, Ecomonic conditions, Social conditions, and Social life and customs
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary and household notebook, 1758-1766

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