Beinecke Library

Poster designed by Alfred Jarry for the premiere of Ubu Roi, 1896.   and a later poster advertising the "Expojarrysition" organized by the Collège de Pataphysique in 1953.

Drawings of jazz performers, on wood, by Ted Joans. (Uncat JWJ MS 55) "Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman 1959, with Leroi Jones and A.B. Spellman Digging" *** "Roscoe of Chicago"

and girls' stunts. From the diaries of Margaret Mellor.

Volumes in the Black Series issued by Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950s, each with a die-cut cover showing the author.

Scrapbooks kept by Jack Lamb, world-famous bass and fly-fisherman, who was said to have fished every day for 17 years, straight. Lamb was hired by Gulf Oil Co. to travel and lecture around Texas and Louisiana. The 13 scrapbooks, ranging between 1933-1943 document his career as a professional sportsman and as a commercial photographer, focusing on sports, wildlife, and car crashes.

Words by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake, Didn't the Angels Sing, NY: Leo Feist, Inc., 1968.

...a dog named Basket A portrait by Marie Laurencin of Basket II, Gertrude Stein's and Alice B. Toklas's poodle (admired by curator Tim Young).