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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Piazza San Marco, Venice, circa 1908
 Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers Manuscripts, letters, photographs, art and objects documenting the lives and works of Stein and Toklas.
Gertrude Stein home movie, circa 1927
 Gertrude Stein Home Movie A short movie featuring Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Kathryn Hulme Papers Selections from the papers of Kathryn Hulme, novelist and relief worker.
Langston Hughes Papers, 1862-1980 Letters, manuscripts, and photographs that document the life of the African-American poet.
Lesbian Pulp Novels, 1935-1965 Twenty-five illustrated book covers from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction.
Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Photographs of artists, entertainers, activists, educators, and public intellectuals taken by Carl Van Vechten.
Mabel Dodge Luhan Papers Letters, manuscripts, and photographs documenting the life and work of Mabel Dodge Luhan.
[Photograph of Olga Rudge], undated
 Olga Rudge Papers Items documenting the life of the musician Olga Rudge and her fifty-year relationship with the poet Ezra Pound.
Picturing Literary Modernism Photographs documenting the lives of artistic and literary Americans at home and abroad throughout the Modernist period.
[Black woman seated with white child] Montrose, Pennsylvania, ca. 1890
 Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and card photographs depicting black life from the 1850s-1940s.
Ruckus! American Entertainments at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and the Bonnie and Semoura Clark Black Vaudeville Collection Photographs recalling popular divertissements, including minstrel shows, vaudeville, and burlesque.
Savannah, or, the Form of a Servant Draft, holograph, corrected, of a novel about a young woman from New York who learns of her African-American ancestry

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