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Yale Collection of American Literature

Type Cast
Writers at their typewriters. From the Beinecke Digital Image database: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex William Carlos Williams, 1940s Eric Knight, [1942?] H. L. Mencken, 1913
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June 12, 2008
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, typewriter, writers
Hard Time Blues
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.
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May 28, 2008
Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Carl Van Vechten, dance, Hard Time Blues, Josh White, Pearl Primus
Writers at Work
William Carlos Williams 
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May 12, 2008
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Joseph Brodsky, Ruth Stephan, William Carlos Williams, Witold Gombrowicz, Beinecke Top Tens
Fore-edge
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April 28, 2008
Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, American Poetry, William Heyen, Writer's Forum
Their Best Friends
Billie Holiday and Mister, photographed by Carl Van Vechten  ***
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February 25, 2008
Beinecke Library, General Modern Collection, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Top Tens
Love Notes
From Gertrude Stein to Alice B.
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February 14, 2008
Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature
Digging
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"
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February 4, 2008
Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature

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