Yale Collection of American Literature

Prisoners with snow sculpture, Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi, circa 1930-1938 Car trapped in snow

Ogden Nash's "They Don't Speak English in Paris", ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein's writing (including a crude reference to the all African-American cast of "Four Saints in Three Acts")

Facts relating to the only tattooed lady : being a full and complete account of the life and adventures of this young lady, the only tattoed female in the world, together with many extracts from the metropolitan press in reference to her, all clearly proving her to be one of the most remarkable and rarest curiosities now on exhibition or Facts relating to Mlle Aimee, the tattooed lady (New York: New York Popular Pub. Co. [1886?]).

An urgent plea from George Platt Lynes to Monroe Wheeler, on board the S.S. France, February 19, 1927. From the Glenway Wescott Papers.

Advertising pages from the September 11, 1933 issue of TIME Magazine, which featured a profile of Gertrude Stein.

Portraits of Elizabeth Bishop and Louise Crane, circa 1930s, from the Louise Crane Papers.

. . . which would mean both Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. An invitation sent to the couple by Pablo Picasso in 1924. Visit the Beinecke Library digital library to view what he sketched on the verso.