A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series, written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark). These copies were the author's own, specially bound in limp suede covers.

May 1, 2008

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 1910s, anderson, boston, captain, fiction, ginger, isabel, juvenile

Fore-edge

April 28, 2008

Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, American Poetry, William Heyen, Writer's Forum

Thunder Riders & The Ramblin' Galoot

Selected posters and lobby advertisements featuring key scenes and lead actors in silent western films, circa 1910-1930. Complete description of the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection (Call Number: WA MSS S-2553); additional images from the collection: Western Silent Film Lobby Card Collection Images.

April 24, 2008

Beinecke Library, advertisments, posters, silent film, westerns, Yale Collection of Western Americana

Yawp!

Selected manuscript fragments from the Walt Whitman Collection (YCAL MSS 202) As in a Swoon

April 21, 2008

Beinecke Library

la gente grita

Mural painted by Native American writer Leslie Silko (detail, context) (Uncat MSS 705 Box 11)

April 17, 2008

Beinecke Library

Little Sunbeams

. . . and harried pets. [circa 1890, in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman's sample book, including Young People's History of the World. Possibly never published.]

April 14, 2008

Beinecke Library, Shirley Collection, 19th, century, children, illustration