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Western Americana card photograph file

 Collection
Call Number: WA Photos File
Abstract:

This collection consists of card photographs of various sizes and formats, as well as unmounted photographic prints, circa 1851-1965. The collection documents a broad range of commercial photography between 1860 and 1910, mainly created by regional operators and traveling photographers. The collection also includes examples by renowned photographers, such as Frank Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Alexander Martin, Isaiah West Taber, and Carleton E. Watkins.

Dates: circa 1850-circa 1970, bulk 1860-1910

Western film lobby card and poster collection

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2607
Abstract: The collection consists primarily of lobby cards, posters, and promotional fliers, relating to western films made from 1916 to the 1980s. There are also some pressbooks and photographs in the collection. Represented within the collection are works by notable directors, such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Allan Dwan, Henry King, Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski, William S. Hart, Sergio Leone, André de Toth, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, and Sam Peckinpah. Also represented are works...
Dates: 1916-1981

Edith Wharton collection

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 42
Abstract:

The Edith Wharton Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, as well as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, Percy Lubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and Louis Auchincloss.

Dates: 1868-1981 (inclusive)

Monroe Wheeler papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 136
Abstract: The Monroe Wheeler Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts,personal and financial papers, photographs, graphic items, clippings, and objects which document Wheeler's life and work, principally at the Museum of Modern Art.Series I, Correspondence, contains letters found in Monroe Wheeler's archive following the processing of the Glenway Wescott Papers (YCAL MSS 134), which holds the majority of letters to and from Wheeler. Series II. Writings, gathers together material from...
Dates: 1890-1995

Edmund White papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 808
Abstract:

Includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, research files, biographical material, financial papers, photographs, slides, audio visual material, ephemera.

Dates: circa 1905-2016

Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon papers

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 38
Abstract:

The Walter White and Poppy Cannon Papers document the careers and lives of Walter White and Poppy Cannon and span the dates 1910 to 1956. The Papers contain correspondence, writings, other papers, and photographs documenting Walter White's career as the Secretary for the N.A.A.C.P. and as a writer. Poppy Cannon's career as an editor, writer, and publicity consultant is also documented in the Papers.

Dates: circa 1910-1956

Walt Whitman collection

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 202
Abstract: The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are...
Dates: 1842-1949

Donald Whittaker collection relating to 20th century culture

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1702
Abstract: The Donald Whittaker collection relating to 20th century culture contains photographs, stereographs, printed materials, and other papers documenting late 19th and 20th century culture. The collection includes photographs of art, architecture, and landscapes in locations across Europe and Africa, headshots of actors, film stills, nude and erotic photographs, and erotic stereographs. Also included are printed materials, such as books in German and Italian, and broadsides advertising American...
Dates: 1873-1993 and undated

John Greenleaf Whittier Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 986
Scope and Contents:

The John Greenleaf Whittier collection contains correspondence, writings, and other papers by or relating to the nineteenth-century American poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. Correspondence consists entirely of autograph letters, signed or initialed. Writings include autograph manuscript drafts or copies of poems and proofs, many also signed or initialed. Other papers include artistic and photographic portraits of Whittier.

Dates: 1831-1942, bulk 1837-1892

Ron Whyte papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 670
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, audiovisual material, and personal papers that document the life and work of playwright, editor, and activist Ron Whyte (circa 1942-1989). The largest series, Writings, includes drafts and circulating versions of dozens of works of drama and prose by Ron Whyte, including many unproduced plays. The documentation of Whyte's writings also includes material from his time as a student, spanning from high school to...
Dates: 1939-1995

Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, personal papers, printed material, and electronic files by or relating to Mary Hoyt Wiborg. Materials document her life as an expatriate in France, service as a volunteer nurse in both World Wars, and work as a playwright. Included are letters from Wiborg to her father Frank Bestow Wiborg in 1918, describing her experiences at a French military hospital during World War I, and correspondence with her sisters Sara Murphy and...
Dates: circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964

George W. Wilbur family papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-1611
Abstract:

The George W. Wilbur Family Papers consist of correspondence, case files, financial papers, notebooks, documents, writings, diaries, maps, photographs, and printed material which document the life of George W. Wilbur and his family.

Dates: 1737-1954, bulk 1870-1931

Amos Niven Wilder and Wilder Family Papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 1114
Scope and Contents:

The Amos Niven Wilder and Wilder Family papers consist of materials once owned and created by the members of author Thornton Wilder’s family: his parents Amos Parker and Isabella, his brother Amos Niven, his sisters Charlotte, Isabel, and Janet, his extended family members, and his contractual agreements with the Freedman Dramatic Agency, and the Wiggin and Dana law firm.

Dates: 1776-2015

Thornton Wilder papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 108
Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of correspondence with family, friends, and literary colleagues; and writings, accompanied by related material. There are smaller amounts of personal papers, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, and audio recordings. The material documents Wilder's life and work, in particular his career as a successful novelist and playwright.Series I, Correspondence, consists of four subseries: Family Correspondence; General Correspondence; First Name Only and...
Dates: 1892-1991, bulk 1935-1975

William Wildschut papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2386
Abstract: Photographs, writings, clippings, and other material related to Wildschut's study of North American Indians. Includes 64 photographs, most of them portraits of Native Americans, primarily Crow Indians, including Plenty Coups and Two Leggings. Other photographs are of encampments, ceremonies, medicine bundles and other objects, the grave of Two Leggings, cavalrymen at the monument at Little Bighorn, and Wildschut handing Marshal Ferdinand Foch a portrait of Plenty Coups. There are eleven...
Dates: 1878-1927

Mo Willems papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1003
Abstract:

The collection includes writings, artwork, photographs, audiovisual material, electronic media, a drawing table, correspondence, personal papers, and other papers by or relating to Mo Willems.

Dates: circa 1962-2013, bulk 1981-2011

Jonathan Williams photographs

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 757
Abstract: The Jonathan Williams Photographs include portraits of persons in his social circle, principally poets, painters, writers, artists, and friends, as well as images of outsider art and artists, architecture, gravesites, and landscapes, circa 1951-circa 1997. The collection includes photograph albums of Polaroid prints, as well as loose Polaroid prints, color transparencies, black and white negatives, copy slides, and copy negatives. Overall, the images in the collection document Williams' work...
Dates: circa 1951-2007, bulk 1951-1997

Terry Tempest Williams papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2700
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, including manuscripts and proofs, journals, notebooks, day books, research files, photographs, printed materials, awards, artwork, and audiovisual materials related to the life and work of Terry Tempest Williams.

Dates: 1872-2015, bulk 1967-2015

William Carlos Williams papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 116
Abstract: The William Carlos Williams Papers document the life and work of poet, prose writer, dramatist, and physician William Carlos Williams. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, medical records, artwork, sound recordings, newspaper clippings and printed material, and personal papers. The papers primarily document Williams's life as a prolific writer, including drafts of prose, poetry, drama, lectures and readings; and correspondence and writings of others that reveal his...
Dates: circa 1880-1985, bulk 1930-1973

John Willis photographs

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4516
Abstract: The collection documents Willis’ career as a photographer from the 1970s through 2019. It contains approximately 20,000 film negatives and corresponding contact prints. Photographs by Willis include black and white 35mm negatives, medium format 6x6cm, 6x7cm, 6x17cm negatives, and large format 4x5”, 5x7” and 8x10” negatives and contact prints for all images published in Recycled Realities and Views From the Reservation, as well as...
Dates: 1880-2019, bulk 1980-2019