From the 16th century, books of alchemical secrets were published in almost every European language. Explore texts that demonstrate the extraordinary presence of alchemy in European popular culture.
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The Amistad captives, Africans who were enslaved despite the abolishment of slavery throughout the Spanish dominions in 1820, revolted on board ship. William Townsend made these sketches as they awaited trial in New Haven.
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A selection of writings and photographs documenting Anderson’s life, work as editor of the Little Review, and romantic relationships with many noted writers, poets, artists, photographers and performers of the twentieth century.
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Selected manuscripts, correspondence, and photographic potraits documenting the career of American essayist, novelist, and playwright James Baldwin.
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Over 500 photographs depicting the physical construction of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 1960-1963.
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Sketches created by Connecticut artist Robert Templeton documenting the Black Panthers trial in New Haven, Connecticut in 1971.
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A Book of Her Own, based on an exhibition held in 2006, explores an unusual aspect of book history: books owned by women before the year 1700.
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A database of one of the world's distinguished collections of playing cards, card sheets, wood blocks, metal plates, ephemera, and prints collected by Melbert B. Cary, Jr. his wife, Mary Flagler Cary.
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200 photographs, in four complete volumes, which document the people and landscapes of 19th century China.
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A collection of 199 drawings and watercolors by Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, Cheyenne, and Kiowa artists, much of it student work, collected by Elizabeth Willis DeHuff.
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A selection of photographs, postcards, correspondence, and ephemera documenting the life of artist, art collector, and patron of the arts, Katherine S. Dreier.
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Writings and artifacts documenting the life of Jonathan Edwards, Colonial American theologian, leader of the Great Awakening, and Native American missionary.
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A selection of engravings, charts, diagrams and texts detailing European observations of the heavens from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century.
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Photographs from the archive of Robert Giard, reknown for his portraits of gay and lesbian writers.
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Correspondence, writings, personal papers, and photographs from the archive of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), Polish emigre novelist and author.
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Photographs, scrapbook pages, and ephemera documenting the life of American poet, H.D.
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Letters, manuscripts, personal items, photographs, clippings, artworks, and objects that document the life of the African-American poet.
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A selection of photographs, photograph album pages, and other items from the papers of Kathryn Hulme, American novelist and humanitarian relief worker.
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72 full-color hand-painted images of men and women of the various castes and religious and ethnic groups found in Madura, India in 1837.
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Books produced between the 16th and 19th centuries documents religious, civic, and public festivals in the towns and provinces of Italy.
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Jewish marriage contracts, or ketubah (plural ketubot), from the Beinecke Library’s collection ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
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Selections drawn from a 2007 exhibition, focusing on the life and works of Rudyard Kipling, the English author and poet.
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Music manuscripts, literary drafts, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists, collected by Frederick R. Koch.
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Nearly 100 manuscript maps and related material, dating from ca. 1803 to 1810, detailing the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Coast and back.
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A collection consisting of lobby cards and fliers promoting mostly silent westerns from the 1910’s and 1920’s.
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A selection of letters, manuscripts, photographs and personal papers documenting the life and work of Mabel Dodge Luhan and spanning the years 1859-1961.
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Mammoth plate photographs chiefly created by American photographers Carleton E. Watkins and William Henry Jackson documenting various locations in the American West, ca. 1874-1898.
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Photographs, postcards, and writings relating to the work of Marinetti and to the Futurist art movement.
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Images derived from slides taken of seven scrapbooks compiled by Marinetti between 1905 and 1944. These slides were acquired and are catalogued separately from the Marinetti papers.
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Walter McClintock began documenting the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana in the late 1890s. Over the next twenty years, McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot and their homelands.
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Postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
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A collection photographs providing a window into the lives of artistic and literary Americans at home and abroad throughout the Modernist period.
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Over 1,000 color and black and white photographic postcards taken throughout North America.
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Photographs, papers, and correspondence pertaining to the life of the American dramatist, Eugene O’Neill.
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Examples for the study of English handwriting from the 16th through the 18th centuries.
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Formed gradually over the years since 1889 when it was founded, the Yale Papyrus Collection now numbers over six thousand inventoried items and is cataloged, digitally scanned, and accessible online for close study.
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Samples of portolan charts, or vellum charts illustrating the harbors and trade routes of the Mediterranean, ranging in date from the 14th through the end of the 16th century.
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Letters, photographs, and manuscripts documenting the literary career and political interests of Ezra Pound.
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Twenty-five illustrated book covers from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction.
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Photographs recalling popular divertissements in all their variety and vivacity including minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, magic shows, and outdoor arena performances.
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The Olga Rudge Papers document the life and activities of the musician Olga Rudge and her fifty-year relationship with the poet Ezra Pound.
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In the midst of the revolutionary upheaval of 1905, graphic artists illustrated satirical magazines with powerful imagery of anguish and defiance.
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The Randolph Linsly Simpson Collection presents a vivid picture of black life and American racial attitudes from the 1850s-1940s through many formats including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and card photographs.
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A selection of prints and ephemera from the William A. Speck Collection of Goetheana, probably the largest outside of Germany devoted to the poet.
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A variety of photographs, paintings and drawings, and letters and ephemera documenting the lives and careers of the photographer/publisher/gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz and the painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Selected manuscripts, letters, photographs, printed materials, personal papers, and art and objects which document the life and work of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, principally up until 1946, the year of Stein's death.
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Vivid photographic portraits of artists, entertainers, activists, educators, and public intellectuals taken by Carl Van Vechten, American writer and patron of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Created between 1428-1447, these lavishly hand-painted, gold and silver tarot cards are one of the oldest sets in existence.
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A mysterious, undeciphered manuscript dating to the 15th or 16th century.
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A selection of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton.
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Selected manuscripts, correspondence, and artifacts documenting the life of the American poet, Walt Whitman.
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A selection of family photographs, three dimensional artifacts, and documents from the personal papers of Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), American literary critic and author.
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Kurt Wolff, a German publisher, established Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1913 and Pantheon Books in 1942. He kept correspondence with authors of the German Expressionist artistic movement including Franz Kafka, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, and others.
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Posters, photographs, pamphlets, commemorative books, maps, government reports, and a rich array of colorful vintage ephemera covering a century of world expositions.
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Illustrated books depicting the flowering of Yiddish secular culture in Russia between the years 1912-1928.
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