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Seven Myths That Made Us Modern

beineckepoetry wrote 1 week ago: From Search & Destroy, #11, 1979. … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, destroy, modern, Myths, Punk, Search

Tweet

beineckepoetry wrote 1 week ago: The Beinecke Library is now on Facebook and Twitter. Become our Facebook fan. And then subscribe to … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature

Icteric

beineckepoetry wrote 1 month ago: The first issue of Icteric, an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who woul … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, 1967, Art, David, Icteric, Jaundice, King, Magazine, mob

Shoot your own shadow

beineckepoetry wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Brooks, Photographer, Romaine, Shadow

Air travel etiquette

beineckepoetry wrote 2 months ago: Two photographs from the papers of Bettina Bergery, always in fashion. … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, 1930s, Air, airplane, bergery, Bettina, Congo, Fashion, flight

Fountains

beineckepoetry wrote 2 months ago: Washington, DC   Macon, Georgia   Brussels, Belgium   Sevilla, Spain   Rome, Italy   New York, NY … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, Fountain, photograph, Postcard

Daily Bul

beineckepoetry wrote 2 months ago: Pages from two runs of Daily Bul, a magazine produced by the sculptor, Pol Bury, from the late 1950s … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Artist, 1960s, Magazine, 1950s, Daily, Bul, Pol, bury

Fuli, Kimbo, Saby, and Marqu

beineckepoetry wrote 3 months ago: Pen-and-Ink drawings of the so-called Amistad prisoners, Africans, who,  after being abducted from t … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection

Town Tarrydiddles

beineckepoetry wrote 3 months ago: An amateur newspaper, done in manuscript, from 1882. The authors, Guy and Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, 1882, Amateur, Cusack, Eccleston, London, Newspaper, Samoa, Smith

Mess kit

beineckepoetry wrote 3 months ago: An artist’s book/kit/agit-prop piece against the Vietnam War. Mess kit by William Ogue Mustill … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, 1971, Artist, book, mustill, Poster, Vietnam, War

Martha Becker Finney

beineckepoetry wrote 3 months ago: New works by writer/artist/designer/architect/sculptor  Martha Becker Finney. The Beinecke Library h … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Artist, book, Design, Finney, Martha, Poetry

Dance, Dance, Revolution!

beineckepoetry wrote 3 months ago: Peter Pan: The Pillow Dance, by John Hassall 1907 *** [Navajo Social Club Dance], by Stanley C. Mitc … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Shirley Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature, cowboy, Dance, image, minuet, pan

Speedway!

beineckepoetry wrote 4 months ago: A photo scrapbook of cars, drivers, and photographers at the Thompson Speedway in Thompson, Connecti … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Car, connecticut, CT, Photographer, Racing, Speedway, Thompson

Don't rain on my

beineckepoetry wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Yale Collection of American Literature, Parade

Liquid accounting

beineckepoetry wrote 4 months ago:  H. L. Mencken inscribes a book for Carl Van Vechten and totals the amount of water under the bridge … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Alcohol, Amount, Drinking, Liquor, Mencken, van, vechten

A Garden by the Sea

beineckepoetry wrote 6 months ago: Selected poems and images from a privately distributed volume from 1935: Noailles, Anna Elisabeth de … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, 1935, berque, Comtesse, Flower, Garden, noailles, Paris, pochoir

Modern Poetry in Review1 comment

beineckepoetry wrote 7 months ago: Modernist Little Magazines & Poetry Reviews Little Review, September 1917 *** Blast, June 20, 19 … more →

Tags: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Modern General Collection, Poetry, Little Review, BLAST, New York Dada, The Egoist

The crowd outside the bordello

beineckepoetry wrote 8 months ago: A peepshow (or kullisentheater) by Martin Engelbrecht, circa 1750, showing the exterior of a bordell … more →

Tags: Beinecke Library, Germany, bordello, Brothel, peepshow, Perspective, Engelbrecht, 1750's, 18th Century

Passport

beineckepoetry wrote 8 months ago: Ezra Pound (YCAL MSS 178) *** Jean Toomer (JWJ MSS 1) *** Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (YCAL MSS 3) ** … more →

Tags: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, James Weldon Johnson Collection


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