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Bound in cream cloth pictorially stamped in green, yellow and black
Warren Benson, music, for Capriccio for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano.
Handwritten letter from Peter Bennett to Amy Kirby Post, December 4, 1856.
The November 1st Neilly Series Lecture will be held in San Francisco, with Benjamin Sáenz as the guest speaker. Sáenz was raised in New Mexico,…
Handwritten letter from June P Bell to Helen M Jarvis, July 15, 1857.
Handwritten letter from E ? Beles to Amy Kirby Post, September 8, 1865.
Bound in pale green paper over boards
Handwritten letter from Emily G Beebe to Amy Kirby Post, June 28, 1869.
Handwritten letter from Emily G Beebe to Amy Kirby Post, July 20, 1859.
Handwritten letter from Emily G ? Beebe to Amy Kirby Post, October 10, 1859.
Handwritten letter from Peter J Becker to Charles D B Mills, July 4, 1859.
Beauty salon interior. Beautician Laura Walker styles Beatrice Simmons’ hair. ca 1960, Rochester.
Blue sand grain cloth binding stamped in blind, black and gold
Bound in dark brown net grain cloth stamped in gold
![Beatrice [Dawkins] Simmons, ca. 1955.](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/43f2c6c3af53811addb4b65481a94ae3.jpg "Beatrice [Dawkins] Simmons, ca. 1955.")
BEARDEN, Romare. Autograph letter, signed, undated.
BEARDEN, Romare. Autograph letter (postcard), signed, to Williams. 1969.
BEARDEN, Romare and Nanette. Christmas card, featuring a reproduction of Bearden's painting Black Mother and Child, signed "Love, Nanette and Romie."
Handwritten letter from Phebe M ? Barney to Esther ? Titus, September 15, 1863.
Handwritten letter from L E ? Barnard to Isaac Post, October 29, 1856.
Wayne Barlow, music, for False Faces, a ballet suite for orchestra, performed by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, October 30.
Handwritten letter from Elijah Baright to Isaac Post, April 28, 1845.
Handwritten letter from Elijah Baright to Isaac Post, May 1, 1844. This letter may have been misdated as May 1, 1844, and instead may be dated "11day…
Handwritten letter from Helen J Barden to Amy Kirby Post, April 26, 1870.
Handwritten letter from M P Barber to Amy Kirby Post, January 3, 1870.
She went before the Supreme Court and won. In 2004, she successfully argued that detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be able to challenge their…
Bookplate: Douglas Maxwell Moffat. Bookseller's ticket: Maclehose 61 St. Vincent St. Glasgow. Autograph: J. K. Tod
Handwritten letter from A. Bales to Isaac Post, December 24, 1857.
Handwritten letter from J C ? Baldwin to Amy Kirby Post, November 13, 1838.
Handwritten letter from Mary Ann Baker to Amy Kirby Post, July 19, 1826.
Handwritten letter from Isaac Baker to Amy Kirby Post, January 7, 1873.
Handwritten letter from Theodore Backus to Sojourner Truth. This letter is one of a number of responses Truth received after placing an advertisement…
Lulu Scott Backus, ceramics, for pottery and new ceramic glazes, shown at the Memorial Art Gallery in May.
Ayad Akhtar is the author of the critically acclaimed, poignant, coming-of-age novel, American Dervish. Since its debut, the book has been embraced…
Awista Ayub will talk about her work forming a young women's soccer team in Afghanistan. In 2003, she founded the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange, a…
The story of HIV/AIDS is likely the most cogent corporeal metaphor for the turn of the 21st century, a story of gender, race, class, identity, access…
Sentiment books were popular in the 19th century – a precursor to high school yearbooks and their personal messages from friends. Martha Colvin’s book…
Arthur Sullivan. Autograph musical quote, signed. December 1895. Three bars of music from The Golden Legend.
W. S. Gilbert. Autograph letter, signed. To [George] Boughton. 39 HarringtonGardens, Dec. 17, 1886. Three pages, small 8vo. With a full page drawing…
[Unidentified correspondent "Will".] Autograph letter signed. To unidentified recipient "George". New York State Senate, June 14, 1879. Four pages,…
Arthur Sullivan. Autograph letter, signed. To [Alfred] Mellon. 3 Ponsonby St. S.W., n.d. (ca. 1863). One page, small 8vo. Sullivan, age 21, promotes a…
W. S. Gilbert. Autograph letter, signed. To Messrs. Dalziel. 8 Essex Villas, August 12, 1870. Two pages, small 8vo. Gilbert requests supplies after…
Arthur Sullivan. Autograph letter, signed. To [George] Cooper. 47, Claverton Terrace. February 10, 1870. Three pages, small 8vo.Sullivan, as organist…
Handwritten letter from C W Austin to Amy Kirby Post, June 2, 1867.
Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let us “rehearse” feelings, states, and emotions that give new tones and…
Photos of workers and their family members at the celebration for Hooker Chemical Company's involvement in the atomic bomb.
A letter addressed to Helen Hooker O'Malley that was inclosed in a package containing materials related to the Hooker Chemical Company's involvement…
Handwritten letter from Edwin A. Atlee to Elias Atlee, n.d. Atlee writes respectfully and in effusive Biblical language to an older man (possibly…
An unidentified assistant to Carl Peters standing with the set of murals titled The History of the Lake Ontario Region, painted to go in Charlotte…
An unidentified assistant in front of Carl Peters' "Science and Humanity" mural for the Dr. John R. Williams Medical Museum at the Rochester Academy…
An unidentified assistant with Carl Peters' "Algonquin Fishermen" mural for Charlotte High School.
ASSESS THE MESS." Original typescript of song lyrics (2003).
Handwritten letter from S ? Asher to Esther ? Titus, October 5, 1862.
Ashendene Press edition of Mort DArthur, illustration of Arthur in the barge to Avalon.
A group of artists, including Carl Peters, at work painting harbor scenes in Rockport, Massachusetts.
Article from publication announcing the American Book Awards, the Before Columbus Foundation, 1998.
An article from the October 10-16, 2001 edition of The City about publishing and working with BOA Editions Ltd.
Arthur Sze will discuss "Tyuonyi: Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry." Tyounyi, a Keresan word, is the name of a meeting place situated in…
Arthur Entrusting Excalibur to Bedivere
Arthur and Guinever Kiss before All the People
Art sheet with Gambian Sword in the Stone stamps
Cover design by Margaret Armstrong [signed MA]
A group of costumed people standing outside of a gallery building. Captioned "Art Gallery Costume ball, July 14th 1923." Likely from one of Carl…
Several photographs from the book "Art for the People," by Jessica Marten. The book was originally published to accompany the Memorial Art Gallery…
Includes testimony by Susan B. Anthony and others before the Senate Judiciary Committee, January 23, 1880.
This document was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and signed by Lydia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, Martha C. Wright and Susan B. Anthony. Stanton…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Mary Post Hallowell. Anthony writes to Hallowell asking her to review the 1848 Seneca Falls and…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony appeals to Post to ensure that members of the Working Women's Association…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post to share with her the proceedings of a recent woman's rights…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, December 24, 1866? Anthony writes that she and her brother Daniel Anthony are…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post about the activists who will speak at an upcoming meeting.
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post about preparations for the Monroe County Convention.
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post about the upcoming eleventh annual National Woman's Rights…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, April 13, 1863.
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post about a meeting planned to encourage women to speak about the…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post. Anthony writes to Post about gathering names on a petition and the details of the…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, June 2, 1857. Anthony writes to Post about an upcoming meeting in Waterloo, New…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, October 1, 1855. Anthony writes to Post asking her to invite certain abolitionists…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, 1853? Anthony share with Post the names of possible speakers at an upcoming woman's…
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Anthony hopes to spend time with Post's family and friends.
![Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to [Joseph W Post?].](https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/files/fullsize/fccd5e33eb0223417982036c42e5ef57.jpg "Anthony, Susan Brownell. Letter to [Joseph W Post?].")
Handwritten letter from Susan Brownell Anthony to [Joseph W Post?]. Anthony writes to "Dear Friends", possibly Joseph Post about Parker Pillsbury's…
Handwritten letter from Matilda Anthony to Isaac ? Post, January 8, 1858.
Handwritten letter from Matilda Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, April 1, 1845.
Handwritten letter from Asa? Anthony to Amy Kirby Post, n.d.
"The Anthony Home Calendar" for 1901 features photographs of the Anthony home taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston and quotations from Anthony’s letters…
The Wednesday, March 20th Neilly Series Lecture guest speaker is Anthony Giardina, the author of the novels Men with Debts (1984), A Boy's…
Under the leadership of our second president, David Jayne Hill, an Extension Department was organized in 1894 to offer evening and Saturday lectures…
Handwritten letter from Mrs. James Annin to Sojourner Truth. This letter is one of a number of responses Truth received after placing an advertisement…
Anne Stiles, an expert on the intersection between science and literature during the Victorian era, presents the Neilly Lecture, “Rewriting the Rest…
Anna Murray Douglass Academy Shawn Dunwoody 2; Photograph by Quajay Donnell.
Ann-Marie MacDonald will begin her North American tour at the River Campus Libraries! MacDonald, author of the best-selling Fall on Your Knees, will…
Animation cels from King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.
Terracotta sand grain cloth binding, stamped in blind, black & gold. Color lithograph inset on front board, bevelled edge boards
Handwritten letter from Ruth Andrews to Sojourner Truth. This letter is one of a number of responses Truth received after placing an advertisement in…
Handwritten letter from Esther B Andrews to Isaac Post, August 3, 1868.
Andrew Scull has held faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of California--San Diego, where…
An interview with Williams about CAPTAIN BLACKMAN: Williams discusses race and World War II
An interview with Williams about CAPTAIN BLACKMAN:
AMISTAD 2. Co-edited with Charles F. Harris. New York: Random House (1971). First edition. Cover art by Sam Middleton.
AMISTAD 2. Co-edited with Charles F. Harris. New York: Random House (1971). First edition, copy proof.
AMISTAD 1. Co-edited with Charles F. Harris. New York: Random House (1970). First edition. Cover art by Romare Bearden
AMISTAD 1. Co-edited with Charles F. Harris. New York: Random House (1970). First edition, copy proof.
American Book Award, the Before Columbus Foundation, 1998.
American Book Award, 1983. Presented to Williams by the Before Columbus Foundation for "excellence in Literature."
America's Independent Electric Light and Power Companies ad, using Guinevere
For much of the Victorian era, girls were encouraged only to copy artwork, not to draw from life. Here, Ruth Sibley Gade (1878-1977), Emily Sibley…
Handwritten letter from Sarah J Alsop to Amy Kirby Post, August 19, 1864.
Handwritten letter from Lydia Allen to Sojourner Truth. Allen writes about her health and recent family events.
“Without time, we cannot learn. Without time, we cannot heal.” -Allen Kurzweil
Novelist, journalist, teacher, and inventor, Allen Kurzweil shares his…
Linda Allardt, literature, for The Names of the Survivors , a volume of poems (Ithaca, N.Y.: Ithaca House).
Green linen finish cloth binding pictorially stamped in pink, brown, white, black and gold
Handwritten letter from D S Aldrich Jr to Amy Kirby Post, March 29, 1881.