"Though many aspects of June Jordan's unique and dynamic forms of work and activism have been well documented, "Life Studies," traces a through line of her creative interventions to form a fuller portrait of her complex and interrelated engagements. T...
Alternative Title:
Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 7, number 3 and Works. Selections. 2017
Description:
"Writer and educator, June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936, grew up there and in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She began her teaching career as a poet working with New York City public school students, following a few years of work as an organizer a...
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State)--New York
Subject (Name):
Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series, City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, issuing body, City University of New York--History, Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Lawrence, Stephon, managing editor, Mangum, Megan, book designer, and Morgan, Kate Tarlow, consul
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Education (Higher), African Americans--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--New York--20th century, College students--Political activity, College students--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Discrimination in housing, Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--New York--20th century, Education, Education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary), and Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--New York (State)--New York--20th century
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 1st Jany. 1778.
Call Number:
Bunbury 778.01.01.03++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing la...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[27 February 1799]
Call Number:
Bunbury 799.02.27.05++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on Grand Tourists: scene outside an inn in France, with a sign reading "Poste Royale", where a young English gentleman, holding a copy of "[Lord] Chesterfield's Letters", arrives with his tutor. He is greeted by the smiling inkeeper wearing la...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Feby. 27th, 1799, by J. Harris, Sweetings Alley, Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Grand tours (Education), Ethnic stereotypes, Education, Taverns (Inns), Clergy, Tutoring, Servants, Boots, Whips, Postillions, and French
Correspondence and drawings from students, business records and official correspondence accumulated by A.W. Smith while teaching in La Push, Neah Bay, and Mora, Washington (Territory and State). Significant correspondents include Myron Eells, Samuel G...
Description:
A.W. Smith was a teacher in the United States Indian School Service, and established a school in La Push, Washington Territory in 1882.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State), La Push (Wash.), Neah Bay (Wash.), and Mora (Wash.)
Subject (Name):
Smith, A.W. (Allison W.)
Subject (Topic):
Quileute Indians, Social life and customs, Makah Indians, Indians of North America, Children's art, Education, and Indian agents
Manuscript of a brief introduction to the Linnean system of botanical classification. Opening with a defense of botany against those who think it "a trifling insipid amusement and almost childish," Boutell argues that botanists seek to understand "the...
Description:
Possibly by the Rev. Charles Boutell (b. 1772), later rector of Litcham in Norfolk and father of the author of Boutell's Heraldry.
Subject (Name):
Boutell, Charles, b. 1772., Hayward, Matilda., and Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Botany, Study and teaching, Education, Women, and Intellectual life
