Yale Collection of American Literature
Dick Griffith, born to a rodeo family in Canton, Oklahoma in 1913
won four consecutive world-championship bull riding titles from 1939-1942.
He stopped in New York to be photographed by Carl Van Vechten in October, 1940.
May 10, 2010
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
From: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
May 4, 2010
Poet H. D.'s writing desk, beside a portrait of her friend and literary executor Norman Holmes Pearson (Deane Keller, n. d.).
April 22, 2010
Joe Louis and Lena Horne canoeing on Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, September 15, 1941.
Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
April 15, 2010
An invitation sent by Mart Crowley to Ruth Ford, 1969.
April 12, 2010
William Carlos and Flossie Williams, portraits on business card (YCAL MSS 116)
April 6, 2010
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