Medals
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Small pieces of metal, usually gold, silver, or bronze and bearing a relief design on one or both sides and having a commemorative purpose; resembling a coin, but not used as a medium of exchange.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Ephemera collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1879
Overview:
The collection contains primarily political, military, and commemorative ephemera, including but not limited to pins, ribbons, buttons, cuff links, and medals.
Dates:
1792-1992
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ephemera collection
International Imperial Court System collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1840
Overview:
The collection consists of programs, fliers and handbills, tickets, leaflets, certificates, medals, pins, and other ephemera and memorabilia related to the LGBTQ group the International Court System (ICS), also known as the International Imperial Court System. Materials primarily document activities of individual courts in California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s and 1980s, including annual Coronation Balls, drag shows, and other charitable or social events.
Dates:
1971-2008
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Overview:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers publishing...
Dates:
1640-2001
William A. Speck collection of Goetheana : medals and medallions
Collection
Call Number: YCGL MSS 28
Overview:
The William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana: Medals and Medallions consists of 178 medals, coins, medallions, and reliefs depicting Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and other figures, mostly literary. By date, the pieces range from 1740 (a Gutenberg medal commemorating the tercentennial of the invention of printing) to 1934. The earliest Goethe items are a circa 1775 tin medal by Boltschauser and an 1808 medallion modeled by the painter Gerhard Kügelgen (1772-1820). Many medals...
Dates:
1740-1934
Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe archive
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 85
Overview:
The Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe Archive contains correspondence files, manuscripts, documentary ephemera, photographs, art and realia related to the lives and careers of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, his second wife, and to other members of Stieglitz's family.The first subgroup, Alfred Stieglitz Papers, consists of material documenting Stieglitz's life's work: correspondence with artists, photographers, and writers; manuscripts by Stieglitz and others describing the art...
Dates:
1728-1986, bulk 1880-1986
Mary Hoyt Wiborg papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1408
Overview:
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 Olga...
Dates:
circa 1910s-2017, bulk 1914-1964
Edmund Wilson papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 187
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts, subject files, financial records, photographs, and personal and family papers documenting Wilson's life and work. The papers span the years 1829-1986, encompassing early family documents through materials concerning posthumous publication of Wilson's books and journals. The bulk of the collection dates from the beginnings of Wilson's literary career, ca. 1920, through his death in 1972.Series I, Correspondence, contains...
Dates:
1829-1986, bulk 1920-1972