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Handwritten letter from Frances Lord Bond to Amy Kirby Post, July 1, 1860.
Handwritten letter from Frances Lord Bond to Amy Kirby Post, July 3, 1860.
An early draft of the book cover for Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee, artwork done by Daphne Poulin-Stofer
Blue morocco grain cloth binding stamped in gold. Vignette of family playing charades on covers
Photograph mounted on front cover. Cover and spine engraving by John Leighton [signed JL]. Binder's ticket: Virtue and Co., London
Bookends depicting Watts' Sir Galahad
Philip Bornarth, painting, for his retrospective exhibition, "Earth, Air, and Water: Drawings and Paintings of The American Landscape," shown at The…
Bound in blue-green morocco grain cloth stamped in blind and gold
Handwritten letter from Ansla F Bowen to Isaac Post, June 28, 1852.
Handwritten letter from Elizabeth E Bowen to Amy Kirby Post, September 5, 1857.
Handwritten letter from Elizabeth E Bowen to Amy Kirby Post, November 17, 1857.
Handwritten letter from J. S. Bowen to Sojourner Truth. This letter is one of a number of responses Truth received after placing an advertisement in…
Handwritten letter from Eliot A Brewster to Amy Kirby Post, March , 1867?
Brian Dettmer will speak on Sunday of Meliora Weekend at the Memorial Art Gallery on University Avenue on the topic of "ReMixed Media." Dettmer…
BRIDGES: LITERATURE ACROSS CULTURES. Co-edited with Gilbert H. Muller. New York: McGraw-Hill (1994). First edition.
Handwritten letter from A O ? Briggs to Amy Kirby Post, April 16, 1870.
Handwritten letter from A O Briggs to Amy Kirby Post, n.d.
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel, The Mothers, is an emotionally perceptive…
Brown linen grain cloth binding stamped in black, white and gold
The broadsheet is for an event held on Saturday, November 5, at Washington Hall.
[Broadside]. Boston: Boston Museum [July 1879]. The Boston Boys and Girls Pinafore Company in H.M.S. Pinafore.
[Broadside]. New York: Fifth Ave. Theatre, [Feb. 1887]. D'Oyly Carte's original New York production of Ruddygore.
[Broadside]. [Auburn, NY: Opera House, May 5, 1882]. San Francisco Minstrels in Frank Dumonts burlesque Patients
Handwritten letter from Sarah Broagh to Amy Kirby Post, September 17, 1853.
BROOKS, Gwendolyn. Typed letter, signed, enclosing poem "Medgar Evers," undated.
Handwritten letter from Brown William Wells to Amy Kirby Post, September 20, 1848.
Handwritten letter from Joseph W Brown to Willet E Post, December 12, 1891.
Handwritten letter from Joseph W Brown to Willet E Post, March 18, 1893.
Handwritten letter from Joseph Brown to Willet E Post, February 4, 1872.
Handwritten letter from Mary Brown to Frederick Douglass.
Handwritten letter from William Wells Brown to Amy Kirby Post, June 23, 1844.
Handwritten letter from William Wells Brown to Amy Kirby Post, September 3, 1844.
Letter from William Wells Brown to Amy Kirby Post, July 16, 1848.
Whiteman has published extensively as a poet and reviewer, and has written a number of books about bibliography, printing and literary history. He is…
Handwritten letter from William W ? Bruff to Isaac Post, May 12, 1858.
Handwritten letter from Alice L Bunker to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Very brief note apologizing for delay in answering Amy Post's request for copies of The…
A bronze cast of a rabbit sculpture, created by Helen Hooker as a child.
Handwritten letter from T H Burgess to Willet E Post, April 1, 1864.
Carleton Burke, literature, for Symphony Iroquoian, a volume of poems based on ancient Indian legends. Rochester: Rochester Museum of Arts and…
Handwritten letter from John W Burn to Amy Kirby Post, October 11, 1846.
Handwritten letter from Eleazer Burnham to Isaac Post, May 5, 1835.
Handwritten letter from Arthur Burtis to Isaac Post, July 22, 1855.
Handwritten letter from Sarah Anthony Burtis to Amy Kirby Post, February 5, 1864.
Handwritten letter from R J Burton to Willet E Post, December 21, 1893.
Handwritten letter from Abigail ? Bush to Amy Kirby Post, May 3, 1860.
Handwritten letter from Abigail Bush to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Abigail is suffering a sickness, but has sent a box to Charlotte with some things in it…
Handwritten letter from Abigail Bush to Amy Kirby Post, n.d.
Handwritten letter from Abigail Bush to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Abigail describes her trip aboard The Star of the West on her way to California. Abigail…
Speech given at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Forum, Los Angeles, California
Business Card: "J. Williams / 327 W. 85th St. New York 24, N.Y. / Public Relations / Marketing / Promotion / Advertising." 1955.
Excerpt from the 26th Annual Convocation Address on receipt of the Civic Medal
Speech given at First Unitarian Church, Wilmington, Delaware
Bust of Williams by James Reed, 6 September 1988. A reproduction of the bust was used for the Safari West jacket art.
Herman J. Butler and Norman Lindner of Pike Stained Glass Studios, stained glass, for windows in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 549 Humboldt…
[Button.] [American, n.d., ca. 1885]. Metal button with oriental figure based on portrait of Geraldine Ulmar as Yum-Yum.
[Button]. [American, n.d., ca. 1885]. Brass button with relief figures of the "Three Little Maids from School." Based on photograph of Geraldine St.…
Button worn by a "Page" in the Knighthood of Youth
Buttons with the image of King Arthur
Advertising poster for "To have & to hold, by Mary Johnston," published in 1900
Red vertical rib cloth binding stamped in black and gold
[Cabinet photograph]. London: Barraud, [1889]. Courtice Pounds as Marco in the original production of The Gondoliers.
[Cabinet photograph.] Boston: Notman &
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Falk [1885]. Courtice Pounds as Nanki-Poo and Geraldine Ulmar as Yum-Yum in DOyly Cartes New York production of The…
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Falk [1885]. Courtice Pounds as Nanki-Poo in his second act costume.
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Falk [1887]. Courtice Pounds as Richard Dauntless in DOyly Cartes New York production of Ruddygore.
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Sarony [1884]. Florence Bemister as Lady Psyche and chorus members in DOyly CartesNew York production of Princess Ida.
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Sarony [1887]. Geraldine Ulmar as Rose Maybud in DOyly Cartes New York production of Ruddygore.
[Cabinet photograph]. Boston: Warren, [1879]. Rose Temple as Ralph in the first American production of H.M.S. Pinafore.
[Cabinet photograph]. New York: Anderson, [1882]. Portrait of Lillian Russell in the Bijou Opera House production of Patience
[Cabinet photograph]. London: Barraud, [1885]. "Three Little Maids From School Are We."Sybil Grey, Leonora Braham and Jessie Bond in the original…
Handwritten letter from Cadding Milo Defany to Amy Kirby Post, May 11, 1867.
Handwritten letter from Milo Defany Cadding to Amy Kirby Post, January 6, 1850.
Handwritten letter from Milo Defany Cadding to Amy Kirby Post, February 18, 1850.
Handwritten letter from Milo Defany Cadding to Amy Kirby Post, April 1, 1850.
Handwritten letter from Milo Defany Cadding to Amy Kirby Post, January 14, 1866.
Bound in green and black printed cloth, stamped in blind and gold
Kathy Calderwood, painting, for oils shown at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
Green vertical rib cloth binding pictorially stamped in white, red, black and gold
"MORE JOURNEYS WITHOUT TITLE,"
Callaloo #21. Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1984); 83-85.
Callaloo #21. Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1984); 83-85.
Camelot (1960) at the Majestic Theatre, starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.
The cameo was cut by Pio Siotto of Rome, set in gold by the London jeweler George Blogg & Co., and inscribed on verso to Mary S. Anthony. Siotto…
Camp Robert Smalls, Great Lakes Naval Training Center; with Williams's signed inscription: "To My Best Girl - Mom from Jon." May 1943.
Green linen finish cloth binding stamped in brown, dark green, off white and gold
Presentation inscription: "Josephine H. Carleton From Granville & Guy Christmas 1897." Cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman
Handwritten letter from S Capkin to Amy Kirby Post, n.d. Letter mentions sick baby. Mr. Capkin also describes an encounter with an Indian "who hates…
Handwritten letter from Eliab Wilkinson Capron to Margaret Smith Fox, February 10, 1850. Capron writes to Mrs. Fox to convince her to send her…
Handwritten letter from Rebecca M C Capron to Amy Kirby Post, April 19, 1850.
Handwritten letter from Rebecca M C Capron to Sarah L Kirby Hallowell Willis, December 6, 1847.
CAPTAIN BLACKMAN. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday (1972). First edition.
CAPTAIN BLACKMAN. New York: Bantam Books (1974). First paperback edition.
CAPTAIN BLACKMAN. Original typescript with the author's corrections and additions.
Tan linen finish cloth binding pictorially stamped in white, green, red, black and gold
Carl W. Peters in his U.S. military uniform to fight in World War I, in 1917.
Two newspaper clippings from a pile of newpaper clippings saved in the Carl W. Peters Papers at the University of Rochester's Rare Books and Special…
Selected pages from Carl Peters' Scrapbook of various photgraphs of paintings, newspaper clippings, and awards.
A set of rough, undated sketches from Carl W. Peters
A collection of small, unfinished watercolors by Carl W. Peters.
Carl Peters working on the mural "Algonquin Fishermen" for Charlotte High School's mural set, "The History of the Lake Ontario Region"
Carl W. Peters working on his mural "Seneca-Iroquois" for Charlotte High School from the mural set "The History of the Lake Ontario Region"
Carl Peters painting the Science and Humanity mural for the Rochester Academy of Medicine (1941).
Two pages from a 1947 sketchbook of Carl Peters' depicting a woman's face and upper body.
Our brains are the foundation for who were are—they store our memories, give rise to our emotions, and enable us to look to the future. But our brains…
Carla Yanni will discuss her most recent book, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. Yanni tells the story of therapeutic…
Carol J. Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. First published in 1990, the book has been…
Handwritten letter from Davis ? Carpenter to Isaac Post, March 14, 1867.
Handwritten letter from Phebe K Carpenter to Amy Kirby Post, June 24, 1837.
Handwritten letter from Phebe K Carpenter to Isaac Post, n.d.
Handwritten letter from Phebe K Carpenter to Isaac Post, September 17, 1836.