• Utopian Youth

    Updated: 2010-05-27 15:59:25
    Undated photograph of W. H. Auden.

  • The Great Leap (downwards)

    Updated: 2010-05-20 20:43:58
    A letter written on an illustrated flyer advertising Dr. Carver’s High-Diving Horse, Klatawah!, and the Girl in Red, a popular fairground attraction that began in the 1880s and lasted through the mid 20th century, with a changing cast of performers. William “Doc” Carver’s daughter-in-law, Sonora became a fixture on Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, and her memoir became the [...]

  • The Deplorable Deck of Clifford

    Updated: 2010-05-18 17:25:55
    A deck of etched, printed, hand-colored playing cards created by the artist Nicholas Kahn while a student at Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri. The Story of Hextor, Clifford, Duncan, and Serge unfolds within . . . Decifer the sordid tale while engaging in poker, hearts or gin . . . Scenes of intimate pain, [...]

  • Mementos

    Updated: 2010-05-13 20:18:05
    Pages from an album of drawings given to Robert Browning by André-Victor-Amédée, marquis de Ripert-Monclar, ca. 1830s-1860s, with later additions.

  • Two Wheels Good

    Updated: 2010-05-04 20:23:57
    From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection From: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection From: Wilder Family Papers

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