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Speck, William A. (William Alfred), 1864-1928

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1864 - 1928

Biography

William A. Speck (1864-1928), founder of the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : general ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 27
Abstract: The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: General Ephemera is an artificial collection of miscellaneous, non-book materials long associated with the Speck Collection but previously uncataloged. The collection demonstrates how Goethe and his works entered into the popular culture in the late nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. The collection includes a few items relating directly to Goethe, such as pens that he used and his grandfather Textor's seal, as well as items...
Dates: 1766-1999
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : general ephemera

William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : theater ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 24
Abstract:

The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Theater Ephemera consists of eighteenth- through twentieth-century theater playbills, programs, broadsides, posters, and other ephemera documenting performances of plays, operas, magic and puppet shows, burlesques and lectures based on works by Goethe (primarily Faust) and other German and European writers and composers.

Dates: circa 1725-1984, bulk 1829-1940
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : theater ephemera