Yale Collection of American Literature

Marjorie Lauderdale, daughter of J.V. Lauderdale, in a wicker baby carriage on the verandah ***

Rent party cards from the Langston Hughes Papers (JWJ MSS 26)

Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage Scrapbooks, compiled by Jane (Brakhage) Wodening, [1958–67].

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A handmade journal of poetry, paintings, designs, and photographs created by a group of young women, including poet Sara Teasdale who later won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1918). Images: Teasdale’s “Guenevere,” with accompanying illustrations by Williamina Parrish in The Potter’s Wheel;  Teasdale’s and Parrish's signature marks, 19 April 07 (Sara Teasdale Papers, ZA Teasdale); photograph of Sara Teasdale, 1914 (Uncat ZA Ms 140).

Play de Blues / Misery -- Image by Aaron Douglas, poem by Langston Hughes, from Six Poems, [1926]. (detail)

Photographs of poets by poet, editor, and photographer Jonathan Williams (collection record in Orbis:  Jonathan Williams Photographs; view additional images from this collection). Robert Duncan