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1. (Circular) North Star Office, Rochester : my dear friend: your deep interest in the cause of the perishing slave, and in the improvement and elevation of the nominally free colored people of our land, is my apology for invoking your aid and assistance in the work of extending the circulation of the North star

Creator:: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, author
Published / Created:: [1850]
Call Number:: BrSides Box 2022 2
Image Count:: 4
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: My dear friend your deep interest in the cause of the perishing slave ...
Description:: BEIN BrSides Box 2022 2: Manuscript letter on page [3] from Julia Griffiths, dated, "Rochester, Sept. 18th." Manuscript address of Dr. Bardee [i.e., Dr. Henry Barden], postmark stamp, and wax seal remnant on page [4]., Circular letter soliciting additional subscribers for the publication of the North star, a newspaper edited by Frederick Douglass., Title from caption and opening lines of text., Signed at end: Frederick Douglass., The North star began publication in 1847, and the letter mentions that the newspaper is in its third volume, which began in December 1849, giving this a likely publication date of 1850., and Printed on page [1] only.
Publisher:: North Star Office
Subject (Topic):: African American press, African Americans, and Social conditions
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > (Circular) North Star Office, Rochester : my dear friend: your deep interest in the cause of the perishing slave, and in the improvement and elevation of the nominally free colored people of our land, is my apology for invoking your aid and assistance in the work of extending the circulation of the North star

2. A search for truth, or an inquiry for the origin of the African nation : an address, delivered at New-Haven in March, and at New-York in April, 1817

Creator:: Oson, Jacob, 1765 or 1766-1828
Published / Created:: 1817.
Call Number:: Slavery Pamphlets 61
Image Count:: 8
Resource Type:: text
Alternative Title:: Search for truth and Inquiry for the origin of the African nation
Description:: BEIN Slavery Pamphlets 61: No. 7 of 16 titles bound together., Cover title., and "Published for, and by the request of, Christopher Rush, a descendant of Africa"--Cover.
Publisher:: Printed for the Proprietor
Subject (Topic):: Black people, History, African Americans, Race identity, and Social conditions
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A search for truth, or an inquiry for the origin of the African nation : an address, delivered at New-Haven in March, and at New-York in April, 1817

3. A sweep-ing reform among the clergy [graphic]

Creator:: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:: [approximately 1833]
Call Number:: Folio 75 G750 833 Copy 2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two policemen are shown arresting chimney sweeps, roughly pulling one by the arm and another pushing an adult chimney sweep away while carrying four little boys on his back or in his arm. Two chimney sweeps on the left and one on the right complain of the crackdown on their trade
Alternative Title:: Sweeping reform among the clergy
Description:: Title from item., Initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant in lower left corner of design., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue., Wood engraving with letterpress text., and No. 55.
Publisher:: Printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Houghton Street, Clare Market
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain., England, and London
Subject (Topic):: Chimney sweeps, Legal status, laws, etc, and Social conditions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A sweep-ing reform among the clergy [graphic]

4. Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

Creator:: Irene Rose
Call Number:: YCAL MSS 1126
Container / Volume:: Box 3
Image Count:: 142
Abstract:: Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:: Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):: United States. and United States
Subject (Name):: Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):: African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

5. Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

Creator:: Irene Rose
Call Number:: YCAL MSS 1126
Container / Volume:: Box 1
Image Count:: 396
Abstract:: Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:: Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):: United States. and United States
Subject (Name):: Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):: African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

6. Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

Creator:: Irene Rose
Call Number:: YCAL MSS 1126
Container / Volume:: Box 4
Image Count:: 9
Abstract:: Collection consists of correspondence (boxes 1-3), photographs, and printed and other materials relating to Irene and William ("Billy") R. Rose. Correspondents include African-American artists and cultural figures such as Beauford Delaney, Elton C. Fax, Charles Holland, Frederick O'Neal, and Vereda Pearson, among others. Other noteworthy correspondents include Brooks Atkinson and Eleanor Olson. There are photographs (box 4) of Irene and Billy Rose, family, and friends, including Delaney and Holland. Printed materials (box 4) relate to correspondents in the collection and, more generally, to the experience of African-Americans in the middle decades of the twentieth century. For example, there is ephemera relating to events, including performances and exhibitions, to organizations such as the N.A.A.C.P., and to social justice issues, including the Civil Rights movement. In addition, there is one autograph poem to Delaney, signed, by Alfred Stieglitz
Description:: Chiefly in English; some material in French.
Subject (Geographic):: United States. and United States
Subject (Name):: Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984., Delaney, Beauford, 1901-1979., Fax, Elton C., Olson, Eleanor., O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992., Pearson, Vereda., Irene Rose., Rose, W. R., Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946., and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject (Topic):: African Americans, Civil rights, Social conditions, and Civil rights movements
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Irene and William R. Rose papers, 1941-2000 (bulk 1945-1969).

7. Johnny New-come in the island of Jamaica [graphic]

Published / Created:: Octr. 1, 1800.
Call Number:: 803.10.01.02++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his relapse and eventual death from the fever
Alternative Title:: Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:: Title from caption below image., Date altered on this impression from 1800 to 1803., Companion print to: Martial law in Jamaica., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill., and Date in imprint altered in ms. from "1800" to "1803."
Publisher:: Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):: Jamaica
Subject (Topic):: Social conditions, Black people, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, Yellow fever, and Hunting
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Johnny New-come in the island of Jamaica [graphic]

8. Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

Published / Created:: Nov. 6, 1776.
Call Number:: 776.11.06.01+
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:: Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):: Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

9. Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

Published / Created:: Nov. 6, 1776.
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:: Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 10., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):: Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].