James Weldon Johnson Collection

Poets' corrected manuscripts and working drafts H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Helios" (YCAL MSS 24) ***

Phillis Wheatley, An Elegiac Poem: on the Death of that Celebrated Divine and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Reverend and Learned George Whitefield..., [Boston: Ezekeil Russel, 1770]. (JWJ Zan W56 +77OE; view all images in this set)

Ezra Pound (YCAL MSS 178) *** Jean Toomer (JWJ MSS 1) ***

Production photographs, film stills, and program from Borderline, an experimental silent film produced in 1930 by Pool Films. Posted in conjunction with the Beinecke Library's current exhibition, Paper Trail: Documenting 20th-Century Film in the Archive (February 9 through March 31, 2009). The exhibition features  scripts, notes, photographs, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting the work of such filmmakers as Boris Kaufman, Mary Ellen Bute, Stan Brakhage, Gerard Malanga, and H.

Writers' Notebooks Walt Whitman, "Pictures" holograph notebook, corrected (YCAL 202) ***

Photographs of dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus dancing "Hard Time Blues," her dance based on a folk song about sharecropping by singer Josh White. Primus was well known and widely celebrated for her dance performances based on important African American poems and songs, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes and "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allen. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 1943.

William Carlos Williams