Adolph Oko collection of Spinoza materials, 1610-1958, bulk 1914-1958

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Series III: Ephemera, 1632-1955, bulk 1932-1955

Contains portraits of Spinoza, photographs of Spinoza statues/busts, bios of artists who created Spinoza works, as well as photographs and postcards depicting Spinoza-related places such as graveyards, the Domus Spinozana, and the Societus Spinoza. Also included are portraits of various men in science, government, philosophy etc. The series includes a bust of Spinoza as well as a death mask.



Box 6 Folder 1 Materials used for The Face of Benedictus Spinoza by Simon L. Millner

Numbered photos/portraits of and related to Spinoza used in The Face of Benedictus Spinoza (1946)


Box 6 Folder 2 Spinoza related photos, portraits, postcards

Photos of grave, portraits of Spinoza, postcards, enevlope w/ photos and writing on their backs


Box 6 Folder 3 Professor A. S. Oko Whipstick Road Ridhefield, Conn. - Envelope

Bios of artists who created Spinoza works, poratrits, newspaper clippings, Low Library envelope w/ postcards


Box 6 Folder 4 Photos, Portraits and Letter

Letter from March 16, 1894


Box 6 Folder 5 Torture Instrument Postcards


Box 6 Folder 6 Oko Gebhardt Photos, Illustrations, Philisophical Portrait Series


Box 6 Folder 7 The Connoisseur, Der Kunstwanderer, Jerusalem Post Articles, Paul Shrecker Letter, Nov. 1932


Box 6 Folder 8 Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, Portraits from same book, additional portraits

Portraits of men in philosopy, science, gov't etc.


Spinoza death mask

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Spinoza bust

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