Manuscript contract, signed, in the hand of William Smith, between Smith and Andrew C. Barnett, for relocation of one hundred sixty enslaved African American plantation workers and farming property owned by Smith from his plantations in Alabama to his plantations in Louisiana
Description:
William Smith (1762-1840), plantation owner and member of the Alabama House of Representatives, 1836-1840. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Alabama., Louisiana., Louisiana, and United States
Subject (Name):
Barnett, Andrew C. and Smith, William, 1762-1840.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Farmers, Slavery, History, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
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
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
Holograph diaries of a year in Clifton, and journeys to Hanover and Germany. The first volume, a diary dated at Clifton in 1807-1808, details the child author's daily social and educational activities. She studies French verbs and reads Roman history as well as practices her dance steps each day; elsewhere, she arranges her doll's clothes and buys accessories for it; goes out on walks with other young ladies; plays cards; and describes and often criticizes her meals. She also mentions the social activities of her mother, the names of visitors to the house, and the daily visits from a cake-seller. Inside the front cover is written, "Susan North. Clifton. Given me by my dearest grandpapa who beged me always to keep a journal.", The third volume is a travel diary dated 1821, in which the writer records her journey from England to Hanover with her son John. She describes the landscapes, the quality of the horses, the price of travel, and the state of the inns in which she stays, as well as her opinions of the attractiveness of the towns and inhabitants she sees. She says of Liege that it "is the oldest, ugliest, dirtiest, & poorest town I ever saw, & filled with beggars. The women less handsome than in any place I ever saw," while she praises Dusseldorf for its cleanliness, good houses, and large shops well-supplied with goods, and The second volume is an undated travel diary from Hanover to Gottingen, Cassell, and Marburg. Written in pencil, with a few corrections in ink, the writer primarily discusses landscapes and buildings; she says of the town of Munden that its situation was the most beautiful thing she ever saw and calls Leibenberg Castle "very curious--old painters, old furniture." The volume contains about 24 sketches in pen and pencil, primarily of landscapes and buildings, but also including profiles of several women. At the beginning of the volume are several pages of travel expenses
Description:
In English. and Binding: decorated paper covers.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Germany
Subject (Topic):
Children's writings, English, Education, Travelers' writings, English, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Holograph of a diary recording primarily family comings and goings and routine social activities of the East family, including visits from friends and family, tea drinking, dining, races, plays, and balls; as well as traveling by the family and neighbors, descriptions of the weather, and frequent updates on Sir William East's numerous illnesses, including two substantial bouts of the gout, several serious toothaches, a cold, and pain in his fingers, ankle, leg, and heel. Elsewhere, she mentions servants' wages, their livery, and the arrival and firing of a housekeeper who becomes inebriated on his first night of employment. On October 16, 1784, she goes to London to see Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascend in a hot air balloon. The writer also makes frequent mention of members of the Clayton family throughout the volume, most often visits by the "Miss Claytons." The volume also contains a list titled Rules & maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness, and a verse excerpt from the Ladies Magazine in 1786 titled A young lady's advice to an acquaintance lately married. Throughout the manuscript, in a different hand, and sometimes tipped, are notes on landownership, law terms, and legal concepts such as the laws on inheritance
Description:
Lady East, née Hannah Casamajor (1746-1810), was the wife of Sir William East, 1st. Bart. (1738-1819), of the Hall Place in Hurley, Berkshire; they married on 29 June 1763. Their daughter, Mary East (1765-1833), married Sir William Clayton, 4th Bart. (1762-1834) in 1785. Sir William was succeeded by his elder son, Sir Gilbert East, 2nd Bart (1764-1828). The younger son, Augustus Henry East (1766-1828), married Caroline Anne, daughter of George Vansittart, who is mentioned in the diary., In English, some Latin quotations., Available on microfilm, Binding: full parchment with a pencilled number '2' and the date '1776' on the cover. Written on a paper label on front cover: Diary. Feb. 8 1776 to April 16th 1785. On spine: Law., On front flyleaf recto, quote attributed to Sir Edward Coke, followed by a summary of the maxim as mathematical statement: Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus aquis, / Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duos, / Quod superest ultra sacris largire Camcenia. To sleep 6. To law 6. To prayer 4. To [?] 8. 24, Biographical details provided by Neil Jeffares, art historian. See also: Iconographical genealogy, (http://www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/East.pdf)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Clayton family., Clayton, William, Sir, 1762-1834., East, Lady, fl. 1776-1785., and East, William, Sir, 1737 or 8-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Family, Domestic relations, Households, Inheritance and succession, Land tenure, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Weather
Café de la Paix in all its glory and Dick Wildfire and Jenkins in a theatrical pandemonium
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., and Temporary local subject terms: Theatres -- Orchestra pits -- Tightrope dancer -- Clowns -- Audiences -- Performances.
Publisher:
Published May 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Dick Wildfire and Squire Jenkins seeing "real life" in the galleries of the Palais Royal
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate from: Carey, D. Life in Paris. London : Printed for John Fairburn ..., 1822., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Ms. heading added to print above image: Life in Paris.
Publisher:
Published April 15, 1822 by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Views of natives, landscapes, and ethnographic objects of the Northwest Coast of America, Pacific Islands, China, and South America. Half of the drawings are fully rendered watercolors, others are rough sketches with detailed notes on coloring, dates of anchorages, and occasionally events on board ship or shore. Ten watercolors are of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, eight of them signed by Bacstrom and fully executed after his return. There are ten views of the Northwest Coast of America, including Nootka Sound and Queen Charlotte's Island, and Native American villages at Norfolk Sound and Fitzhugh Sound. There are two maps of Queen Charlotte's Island, six watercolors of canoes from the Northwest Coast and the Pacific Islands, and four drawings of Native American and Pacific island ethnographic objects and There are eighteen watercolor sketches and drawings of the coast of South America and the islands in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Staaten Island near Cape Horn. Other drawings include ten watercolors of Chinese men and women, a pencil drawing of a Chinese junk, and a watercolor of an American tea plant. The drawings are accompanied by a highly finished watercolor of the Greenland Whale Fishery not made during the voyage, and a manuscript catalog of "some accurate and characteristic original drawings" made on the voyage with prices; not all of the drawings listed correspond to drawings present in the collection
Description:
Bacstrom, a protégé of Sir Joseph Banks, served as surgeon on a private fur-trading ship which sailed around Cape Horn to the South Seas, Nootka Sound, the East Indies, and the Cape. Bacstrom left the ship at Nootka Sound and later served as surgeon on several ships, visiting China, India, the Cape, and the Americas., Accompanied by a container list., Manuscript captions., and View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific, Hawaii, China, Islands of the Pacific, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.), South America, and Greenland
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Clothing and dress, and Whaling
Print shows a Native American villiage near the edge of woods on right, grass land to left, hills in background; in foreground, a Native American holds a horse by its halter; on left, a small group of women and children by a fire; on right, five men talking, two are seated; near tipis in center image, a man of European descent sits on a horse beside a Native American man
Description:
Title from caption above image.
Publisher:
Verlag von J. F. Schreiber
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America and Social life and customs
