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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 13
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Clippings file of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 89
Abstract: The Clippings File of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection includes pamphlets and clippings documenting the African American experience in the twentieth century. The collection especially highlights the achievements of individual African Americans, the work of community and education organizations, and areas such as film, theater, music, sports, politics, and civil rights. The clippings were collected primarily by Langston Hughes, James Weldon and Grace Nail Johnson, Ollie Jewel...
Dates: circa 1920-1993

Currier & Ives Darktown Prints

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 158
Scope and Contents: A collection of caricatures of African Americans published by the firm Currier & Ives as a series of "Darktown" comics. The drawings were made by artists associated with the firm, primarily John Cameron (1828-1906) and Thomas Worth (1834-1917). Also present are restrikes of "Darktown" images published later by Joseph Koehler in New York and S. Lipschitz & Son in London.At the folder level, references are provided to the two standard Currier & Ives...
Dates: 1880-1907, bulk 1880-1896

Mina Kirstein Curtiss papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 14
Abstract:

The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence.

Dates: 1917-1966 (inclusive)

Earl E. Fisk papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 342
Abstract: Collection includes correspondence, writings, and other materials by and relating to book collector, anthologist, writer, and insurance agent Earl E. Fisk. Correspondence contains letters to and from writers, publishers and others, including Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Warren Beck, John Chipman Farrar, Farrar, Straus and Company, Harry Hansen, Robert Cortes Holliday, H. L. Mencken, A. Edward Newton, Carl Van Vechten, and Eudora Welty. Many of the letters concern Haldane Macfall. Writings include...
Dates: 1911-1953

Lawrence Gilman papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 407
Abstract:

The papers consist of letters to Lawrence Gilman from various writers, poets, editors, and musicians, including Winifred Welles, Carl Van Vechten, Winston Churchill, John Farrar, Otto Klemperer, Marian MacDowell, H. L. Mencken, Ezra Pound, Bruno Walter, John Butler Yeats, and William Butler Yeats. A small amount of letters are from Gilman family members and an unidentified correspondent. Other papers include a draft of Gilman's "Bach the Great Modern," two notebooks, and clippings.

Dates: 1886-1971, bulk 1913-1939

Isa Glenn and Bayard Schindel papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 309
Abstract: The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Isa Glenn and her son, Bayard Schindel, in the course of their literary activities. Material includes typescripts of writings by Glenn and Schindel; correspondence with writers, editors, publishers, literary agents, friends, and family; material relating to Colonel S. J. B. Schindel's military career and to Glenn's travels to the Phillipines and South America; photographs of Schindel likely dating from his time at the Institute...
Dates: 1898-1936

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers

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Call Number: MSS 21
Abstract:

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the African-American musician, writer, actor, and educator J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954).

Dates: 1879-1975 (inclusive)

James Weldon Johnson collection files

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 114
Abstract: The James Weldon Johnson Collection Files contain manuscript correspondence, literary works and other documents relating to African Americans, dating from 1809 to 1979. The collection contains several letters to James Weldon Johnson from aspiring poets asking for feedback on their writing. Correspondence sent to Langston Hughes, Harold Jackman, Grace Nail Johnson, and Carl Van Vechten is also prominent in the collection. The collection includes broadway actress Rose McClendon's scripts used...
Dates: 1809-1979

Leon Katz papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1409
Abstract:

The Leon Katz Papers contains research files, writings, personal papers, professional papers, correspondence, subject files, photographs, printed materials, computer media, and audiovisual materials by or relating to Leon Katz.

Dates: 1914-2016 and undated

Bruce Kellner papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 709
Abstract:

The Bruce Kellner Papers consist of letters to Kellner and other papers, including two poems by Fania Marinoff, actress and wife of Carl Van Vechten, a list of Marinoff's appearances on stage and in films, and a portion of Marinoff's last will and testament. Correspondents include Donald Angus, Donald Gallup, Tom Hachtman, Fania Marinoff, Alice B. Toklas, Carl Van Vechten, Donald Windham, and others.

Dates: 1929-2016, bulk 1952-2000

Anna Marble-Pollock cat collection

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1541
Abstract:

The collection contains photographs and other visual materials, objects, papers, printed material, and sound recordings relating to cats, Anna Marble-Pollock, and Carl Van Vechten.

Dates: 1827-circa 1966

Dorothy Norman papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 792
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, writings, literary manuscripts, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material documenting Dorothy Norman's activities, writings, and publications including the journal she founded and edited, Twice A Year: a Book of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties. The papers also document Norman's relationships with the photographer Alfred Stieglitz and his circle of artists and writers, in particular her involvement with his...
Dates: 1903-1996

Bernardine Szold-Fritz correspondence

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 544
Abstract:

The collection contains correspondence to Bernardine Szold-Fritz from well-known cultural figures from the 20th century.

Dates: circa 1917-1973

The Virgil Thomson Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 29, MSS 29A
Abstract:

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

Dates: 1804-1990 (inclusive)

Carl Van Vechten Letters to Saul Mauriber

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1144
Abstract:

The Carl Van Vechten Letters to Saul Mauriber date from April 1943 to December 1965, and include typed and manuscript notes, letters, greeting cards, postcards, and telegrams documenting their relationship over twenty years.

Dates: 1943-1965