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 Jonathan Edwards Collection Writings and artifacts documenting the life of the theologian, missionary, and leader of the great Awakening. 
Pass of Rattlesnake Mountains and Devil's Gate. Volume 2, 1849 August 5 - November
 Joseph Goldsborough Bruff Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks Sixteen illustrated diaries describing an 1849 expedition by a draftsman in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers.
Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Société Anonyme Archive Photographs, correspondence, and ephemera documenting the life of this artist, art collector, and patron of the arts.
Kathryn Hulme Papers Selections from the papers of Kathryn Hulme, novelist and relief worker.
[Postcard] 1918 November [to] Kurt Wolff, Leipzig, [from] Franz Kafka, Prague.
 Kurt Wolff Archive, 1907-1938 Correspondence from the archive of the German publisher who established Kurt Wolff Verlag and Pantheon Books. 
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.
Lewis and Clark Expedition Maps, ca. 1803-1810 Manuscript maps detailing the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Coast and back.
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1946
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.
Mammoth Plate Photographs of the North American West Mammoth plate photographs, chiefly created by Carleton E. Watkins and William Henry Jackson, ca. 1874-1898.
The Medieval Book Images from The Medieval Book, the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Beinecke Library in 1988.

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