General Modern Collection

A graphic vocabulary list intended for "sourds-muets" (deaf-mutes) printed in Nancy, France, in 1830.

A guide for producing street theater, ca. 1970 with guidance on the various uses of masks:

From the Beinecke Digital Images Online database:  http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/   Title Key to private, sound-proof room in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Place of origin n.p. Date undated Physical Description 1 object. 9 cm. Genre/Form Artifacts

An issue of Black Mask from January, 1967 [not cited in Greil Marcus's "Lipstick Traces"]  

Selections from scrapbooks (ca. 1910s)  kept by the writer Carolyn Wells, author of, among other titles,: "The Seven Ages of Childhood," "The Happychaps," "Folly in Fairyland," and "Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat".

A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923, focusing on the subject of "inversion" or homosexuality.

Montmartre en 1925 by Jean Gravigny A guide to the high life and low life in a fabled section of Paris in the 1920s. [Illustrations "de RM" - otherwise unsigned.] With jazzy illustrations . . .