Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Notes from and relating to Mistral which he sent to Edmond Lefevre to aid him in his bibliographic work on Mistral and the language and literature of Provence. A descriptive notation at the beginning of the volume reads "524 fiches (environ 4,500 indications) autographes de Frédéric Mistral dont plusieurs continent de mombreus indications. Notes écrites de la maine même de Frédéric Mistral pour signaler à E. Lefever les documents composant la BIBLIOGRAPHIE MISTRALIENNE et ses autres publications bibliographiques. - Livres, brochures, articles de journaux, revues, etc. Français et étrangers." The notes are written on full sheets, half sheets, and scraps of paper. Also, some memorabilia relating to ceremonies honoring Mistral, particularly the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in 1904. The material is all mounted on the blank leaves of one volume.

The Marc and Evelyne Bernheim Photography Collection of black and white photographic prints, contact sheets, color slides, negatives, correspondence, notes, and excerpts of "pix stories" documents the 1960s experience of peoples primarily on the continent of Africa. The collection also includes photos of people and places in parts of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of the United States, especially New York City. The bulk of this image archive highlights the challenges of modern development in African societies and on traditional and modern African artistic and cultural expression in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. There are also files on tourism and wildlife management in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The collection is organized by country, region, and photographic assignments carried out during the period 1961-1969 on the following main themes: the new educated African elite—both men and women---a few presidents and other famous politicians, development workers, "youth leaders", business people, doctors, midwives, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, university professors, radio announcers, school children, etc. in West, East, and Southern Africa; the new urban architecture and housing developments in parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; public health projects in urban and rural areas of West, East, and Southern Africa; traditional and modern developments in education in various parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; livelihoods in farming and pastoral areas of West Africa; the daily lives of non-elites, especially children and their families facing the challenges of development in parts of West, East, Southern and North Africa; life and landscapes under apartheid in South Africa—Cape Town and the wine country and Johannesburg—segregated "Europeans Only" places, the Black townships, and the nearby mines; the intersection of African traditional forms of healing and "modern medicine"; other aspects of religion in Africa (traditional African, Christian, and Islamic)—especially in West Africa and Ethiopia; and, the arts in Africa---traditional and modern architecture, sculpture and painting, including images of important landmark historical sculptures and buildings, as well as portraits of modern artists and crafts people in West, East, and northeast Africa. The collection also contains images from trips taken to document people, places, and the challenges of development in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, India, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as images from a private collection of African sculpture in the USA, scenes from Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, an animal research center in Texas, interiors and people at the United Nations headquarters in New York, composers and musicians at work inside the newly constructed Lincoln Center—especially the Julliard School, and other people and places in the New York City area.

The collection is composed of 66 letters from Haggard to various members of his family, primarily to his sister-in-law, Agnes Barber Haggard, who had been his secretary. There are nearly 250 letters addressed to Haggard, to Coulson Kernahan, and to others. Among the correspondents are: James Barrie, Hall Caine, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Joseph Chamberlain, Wilkie Collins, Marie Corelli, Austin Dobson, A. Conan Doyle, J.A. Froude, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, C.J. Longman, J.E. Millais, William Morris, Ouida, Grant Richards, Rafael Sabatini, and John Tenniel. There are several manuscripts by Haggard and printed materials relating to him. There are 20 letters from Haggard to his oldest sister, Ella Green, and about 110 to his brother, Col. Andrew C.P. Haggard.

Art--Audio--Book Mock-up--Ephemera--Mixed--Moving Images--Music Scores--Original Papers--Photos--Printed--Sketches and prints for postcards--Art--Memorabilia.

The collection -- composed of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs and printed materials -- sheds light on the anti-Bolshevik campaign in the Kuban ́region, Siberia and the Far East. The correspondence is chiefly from the early 1920s and includes letters from Viktor Pokrovskiĭ to his brother Boris. Among the manuscripts are biographical sketches of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ, especially accounts of his assassination in Bulgaria in 1922; information circulars sent out by Ataman Grigoriĭ Semenov, "Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Armies;" and reports written by Boris Pokrovskiĭ on events in Europe, particularly Eastern Europe, and the Far East. The documents are comprised primarily of decrees (prigovory) from local Kuban ́Cossack groups and the photographs are chiefly portraits of Viktor Pokrovskiĭ. Included among the printed materials are clippings from the Russian and emigre press, a large number of Civil War broadsides and political pamphlets published in Siberia in 1919. Several of the latter are by and about Ataman Semenov.

Collection includes material by and related to Albert Rhys Williams. The bulk of the materials in the collection appear to be Albert Rhys Williams' writings and published materials (in English and Russian). A small amount of correspondence, photographs, and other materials is also present in the collection.

Incoming correspondence of Henry Smith Munroe (born Henry Munroe Smith) composed of personal letters from various family members, chief correspondents being his father, Horatio Southgate Smith, his mother, Susan Dwight (Munroe) Smith, his brother "Ned", apparently Columbia professor of international law (Edmund) Munroe Smith, and William Allen Smith. These letters date from 1855 through 1875, covering his childhood, school days, and first positions as an assistant chemist in the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1870-1872, and as a member of the geological survey in Yesso, Japan, 1872-1875. After a lapse of fifteen years, correspondence resumes for the period 1890-1896. Other correspondence includes letters from friends, 1865-1875; letters of a business and professional nature, 1870-1875; 1890-1899; and letters relating to a School of Mines alumni project, the Trowbridge Memorial Fund, 1894-1898. Also, incoming letters from Munroe's paternal grandparents to his father while he attended Dartmouth College and Bowdoin Medical School from 1837 to 1844.