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(1.0 Volumes)This volume (34 pages) contains the manuscript of John Fiske's essay "John Milton." The essay, later published in Fiske's [i]Essays Historical and Literary[/i], discusses Milton's life and literary works. The volume includes an engraving by Caroline Watson, which features a portrait of Milton based on Samuel Cooper's painting, as well ...
(2.0 Items)This collection contains a two-volume manuscript draft (500 pages) of [i]The Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards[/i], authored by Washington Irving (1783-1859) between 1829 and 1832. It includes passages in both Irving's and an unidentified copyist's hands, as well as the author's annotations and ...
(2.0 Items)License granted to the Repertory Theatre, Nottingham by the Lord Chamberlain allowing them to perform the play "A Tale of Young Lovers." Also included is the receipt for purchasing the license. Dated November 24, 1921.
(2.0 Boxes)1) A cassette tape of a 780RPM of "An atheist speaks," broadcast over station KQW San Francisco, CA Nov. 17, 1946. 2) A Vinyl Record of "An atheist speaks". Former Shelfmark: Baskette Uncat.
(1.0 Items)Original manuscript by Arnold Wolman. Pages are loose and unnumbered. Given as a gift to the Library by Arnold Wolman.
(1.0 Items)Photograph of the Rhetor Stone, currently preserved in the National Epigraphical Museum at Athens. This photograph of the Stone was first published in the December (1965) issue of The Quarterly Journal of Speech.
(1.0 )Photograph of the Rhetor Stone, currently preserved in the National Epigraphical Museum at Athens. This photograph of the Stone was first published in the December (1965) issue of The Quarterly Journal of Speech.
(1.0 Items)More complete cataloging can be found at: [url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77330657]http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77330657[/url] Full Title: [Abstract, in Latin, of the Statutes of Queen Elizabeth for Westminster School, with letter, in English, dated July 4th 1568, of William Cecil, 1st baron Burghley, to the governing bodies of Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge : also ...
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(1.0 Items)This volume is a nautical lexicon composed by Sir Henry Manwayring (or Mainwaring).The lexicon, which predates John Smith's [i]Sea-Man's Grammar and Dictionary [/i](1691), includes the first known instances of several terms. This copy, which differs from the 1644 printed edition, was transcribed by Ralph Crane.
(1.0 Letters)A.L.S from "Mariano Herrera" to Harrison S. Kerrick dated Jan 16, 1926. Col. Harrison Summers Kerrick created the code of conduct on how to properly handle and display the U.S. flag which was adopted by the United States Congress.
(1.0 Letters)Autograph letter sent by H.G. Wells from London to Burke. Dated October 18, 1923. Contains picture of H.G. Wells.
(1.0 Items)Caption title. Prepared by Michael Gorman for the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. Holograph. Gift of Michael Gorman, August 1988. Published as ch. 4 of: Anglo-American cataloguing rules / prepared by the American Library Association ... [et al.] ; edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler. 2nd ed. Chicago : A.L.A., ...
(1.0 Items)Holograph. Caption title. Gift of Michael Gorman, August 1988. Published as ch. 24 of: Anglo-American cataloguing rules / prepared by the American Library Association ... [et al. ] ; edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler. 2nd ed. Chicago : A.L.A., 1978. Prepared by Michael Gorman for the Joint Steering Committee for Revision ...
(1.0 Items)Provisional record
(0.75 Cubic Feet)The collection consists of paper ephemera, books, and music records related to activist movements in the United States. It includes items related to Angela Davis, the Diggers, the Rainbow People's Party (formerly known as the White Panthers), the Yippies, Situationist International and many others.
(1.0 Items)A collection of clippings, photographs, and autographs of actors and actresses from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
(1.0 Items)Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. A collection of legal texts, mostly parliamentary acts, copied from several manuscripts. Exemplar shelfmark is often given in the margin at the beginning of a text. Fol. 1r-1v: Acta concilij tempore Henrici sexti (from Cotton Cleopatra F.4). Fol. 2r-2v: Authoritas senescalli anglie (from Cotton Tiberius E.8 fol. 34b). Fol. ...
(457.5 Cubic Feet)Collection of materials used by WNET/Thirteen's documentary film producer and director Perry Miller Adato (1920 - 2018) in the creation of films including [i]Picasso: A Painter's Diary [/i](1980), [i]Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences [/i](1982), [i]Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me [/i](1970), [i]Georgia O'Keeffe [/i](1977), [i]An Eames Celebration - Several Worlds of Charles and Ray Eames [/i](1973), [i]Dylan Thomas - The World I Breathe [/i](1968), [i]Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts [/i](1986), [i]Mary Cassatt - Impressionist From Philadelphia[/i] (1978), [i]Frankenthaler - Toward a New Climate [/i](1978). Also contains a significant portion of manuscripts dedicated to the history of cinema in the United States including flyers and film programs from the underground and independent filmmaking movements of the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, brochures for post-production vendors, and resumes of working artists.
(1.0 Items)Ms. Text occupies first 42 leaves only. Former shelfmark: x 016.33 H71e adden. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library).
(2.0 Items)[Vol. 1]. Adolf Hitler und seine verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen ber Maria Anna Lager aus Krems a.d. Donau, der Mutter Franz Liszt's, zu Richard Wagner [manuscript] ([6] folded leaves, bound : coat of arms, geneal. table ; 44 cm.). [Vol. 2]. Adolf Hitler und seine verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen ber Maria Anna Lager aus Krems ...
(1.0 Items)A proud, rich man gives Tommy a gift of an elephant after Tommy saves his life. Holograph, signed. A manuscript with watercolor drawings written at Spade House, Sangate, Kent for Marjory Hick, daughter of Dr. Henry Hick of New Romney, who cared for H.G. Wells when he became ill in 1898. Title from ...
(1.0 Volume)This volume (158 pages) contains spiritual advice directed to the anonymous author's "most deare and affectionate friend." The text examines numerous aspects of Christian morality, in conjunction with relevant passages from the Bible. A brief introduction implies that the intended recipient may have been the author's fiancé or husband.
(1.0 Items)Full Title: Advis pour juger des inscriptions en faux [manuscript] : ou comparaison des escritures et signatures pour en faire & dresser, les moyens, voir et descouvrir toutes falsifications & faussetez. Plus pour cognoistre & deschiffre les lettres cachees & occultes. Ms. codex. Probably a later edition of a 1604 Paris imprint ...
(1.0 Items)Three brief tracts on the attributes of youth, middle age and old age. Ms. leaves. Three caption titles from fols. 1r, 1v and 2r. Script: In an early 18th century English hand. Origin: Location and date based on script. Provenance: Removed from shelfmark IUQ01232: The works of Joseph Hall, B. of Exceter (London : Printed ...