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Paul Engle letters and enclosures to Alex Williams

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0943
Abstract

American poet Paul Engle (1908-1991) wrote to Canadian book collector Alex Williams regarding his published poems and frequently enclosed copies of his privately printed work.

Dates: 1947-1962

John Furnival papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0746
Abstract John Furnival (1933-2020) was a British visual artist whose work is associated with the Concrete Poetry, Mail Art, and Fluxus movements, as well as with the American Beats. In 1964, Furnival, along with Dom Sylvester Houédard, founded Openings Press, a small Gloucestershire press dedicated to publishing concrete poetry and similar work. The John Furnival papers encompass nearly fifty years of the artist’s personal and professional activity and document his involvement with the International...
Dates: 1941-2016; Majority of material found within 1970-2016

Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0472
Abstract

The attorney and author Joseph Gold was born in London, England, on July 12, 1912; he died on February 22, 2000, in Bethesda, Maryland. The Sir Joseph Gold political and miscellaneous ephemera collection comprises .67 linear feet of newsletters, pamphlets, posters, blank letterhead, and typed pages from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Dates: 1960-1996; Majority of material found within 1960-1970

Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0431
Abstract

The Frederick G. Nixon-Nirdlinger Scrapbook chronicles the 1909 cruise taken by Philadelphia resident and theatrical manager Nixon-Nirdlinger and his wife from New York City to France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and Hungary. The scrapbook records various aspects of the early twentieth-century travel business and is particularly rich with theatrical ephemera, indicating Nixon- Nirdlinger’s trip combined theatrical business interests with pleasure.

Dates: 1909

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Michael Tarachow letters to Ray Freed

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0774
Abstract

Over twenty letters written by Michael Tarachow to Ray Freed between 1976 and 1978. Some of the letters are written on the verso of broadside cards with printed poetry, mostly concerning Tarachow's solicited submission for Toward a Further Definition and his small press in New York City, Doctor Generosity Press, from 1969 to 1972.

Dates: 1976-1978

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Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
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Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
British Airways 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Clark, Laurie 1
Clark, Thomas A. 1
Clay, Steven, 1951- 1
Cohen, Ryosuke, 1948- 1
Conz, Francesco, 1935- 1
Cudworth, Nick 1
Cummins Limited 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Doctor Generosity Press 1
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991 1
Engle, Paul, 1908-1991--Correspondence 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) 1
Freed, Ray 1
Fuller, Ron 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Furnival, Astrid, 1940- 1
Furnival, John, 1933-2020 1
Galántai, György 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gold, Joseph, 1912- 1
Graham, Bill, 1931-1991 1
Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harvard College (1780- ) 1
Hell's Angels 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
International Monetary Fund 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005 1
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012 1
Mitchell, Adrian, 1932-2008 1
Muir, John 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Nixon-Nirdlinger, Fred G. (Frederick G.), 1877-1931 1
Openings Press 1
Openings-Closings Press 1
Oxfam 1
Pan Am Corporation 1
Pentagram Press 1
Pénard, Rémy 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Poltroon Press 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Rees, Darrel 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry 1
Sackner, Marvin A., 1932- 1
Sackner, Ruth 1
San Francisco Mime Troupe 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Skuber, Berty 1
Socialist Workers Party 1
Tarachow, Michael 1
United Farm Workers of America 1
Volta, Ornella 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Williams, Alex 1
Williams, Alex--Correspondence 1
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1
Zelevansky, Paul 1
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