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Lyrasis Special Collections

Lyrasis Special Collections

Lyrasis Library
3390 Park Avenue
New York
NY
10024
USA
collections@lyrasis.org
The Lyrasis Special Collections showcase unique and rare materials curated to support research, education, and the preservation of cultural heritage across member institutions. (DEMO).

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Joe Brainard Archive, 1960-1992

32.20 Electronic file (8 archives boxes, 59 art bin items and 88 oversize folders) 32.20 linear feet (8 archives boxes, 59 art bin items and 88 oversize folders)
Materials collected by Robert Butts consisting primarily of diverse works by and regarding the popular New York artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942-1994). Brainard was the author of fifteen books of writing, the illustrator of numerous other books produced by members of the New York School, and a celebrated graphic artist whose work covered a broad range of sizes, styles and media. The Joe Brainard Archive consists of numerous examples of Brainard's graphic work dating from 1962 to 1979, most of the books illustrated by Brainard, all of Brainard's manuscripts and published writings, notebooks for Brainard's I REMEMBER series and several other books, Brainard's correspondence with members of the Butts family and correspondence to Brainard from Ned Rorem and Virgil Thompson, checklists of Brainard's artistic production constructed by Robert Butts, and a selection of articles devoted to Brainard's career. In addition to the Brainard materials, the Joe Brainard Archive also includes several lithographs by Alex Katz (b. 1927), an oil painting by Tom Clark, and a few ink sketches by poets Ron Padgett and Allen Ginsberg. There are also manuscripts of Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark and Rudy Kikel, in addition to broadsides and books written by New York School writers such as John Ashbery, Edwin Denby, and Kenneth Koch. The accessions processed in 1991 contain primarily original artworks by Joe Brainard in collaborations with Bill Berkson and Kenward Elmslie, including THE BABY BOOK (1965). Also included are correspondence, manuscript materials and photographs. The accession processed in 1993 comprises 16 letters and postcards from Joe Brainard to Robert Butts and one print by Andy Warhol.
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Carry A. Nation collection, 1880s-1920s

2 Linear feet 3 boxes + 1 oversize box
Compiled collection of materials donated by and related to temperance organizer and women's rights activist Carry A. Nation.
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Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1900-2007, circa 1900-2007-1940 - 1991

1 Linear Feet 525.0 linear feet (approx. 525 records cartons; some flat boxes, possibly)
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Jedediah Horcrux Congreave fly fishing correspondence and photographs, 1925-1992

1 Electronic file 1 Box 1 Linear Feet 1 record cartons

Content Description

Correspondence and photographs spanning 1925-1992 and documenting Jedediah Horcrux Congreave's interest in fly fishing. Included in the collection are letters to Congreave's father between 1925-1935; correspondence from and to diverse friends, colleagues, and associates sharing Congreave's interest in fly fishing; and photographs of many of Congreave's fishing expeditiions. More detailed descriptions of the materials are provided below.

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1925-1935 Carton 1, Folder 1-2

 

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Thirty-two letters from Congreave to his father Wilberforce, written during Congreave's school and college years and describing summer fishing trips around New England with his maternal uncle Socrates Whipple. These letters describe materials used in fly fishing during these years, especially materials for tying artificial flies. The letters also contain exquisite, detailed, hand-drawn illustrations of various artificial flies, which Congreave either drew himself or acquired from other sources and then sent to this father.

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1952-1992 Carton 1, Folder 3-17

 

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Correspondence from and to numerous friends, colleagues, and associates during the years 1952-1992. Correspondents include the French philosopher Michel Foucault, a companon of Congreave's on several fly fishing trips to the French Alps; Julia Child, with whom Congreave discussed recipes for serving trout and salmon; and B. F. Skinner, the Harvard behaviorial psychologist, who Congreave met during his final year at Harvard and whith whom Congreave maintained a correspondence, until Skinner's death in 1990, about their mutual passion for fly fishing. One letter from 1960 recounts Congreave's failed attempt to keep a journal during his fishing trips, which was thwarted when the journal fell into the Housatonic River and washed downstream. At that point Congfreave decided that making copies of his outgoing letters was the best way to document his passion for fly fishing; hence the collection typically includes both incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence.

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Richard D. Altick Papers, bulk 1942-2008, 1948-1997

26 Linear feet 26 LF (60 ms. boxes)
This collection consists of research materials, notes, correspondence, reviews, articles, and essays documenting the literary and classroom work conductedb Dr. Altick in his year of teaching at Ohio State University and Franklin and Marshall College. The collection is arranged by topic with materials corresponding to major monographs and serial articles written by Dr. Altick, as well as materials relating to lectures, courses and areas of research interest.
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United Artists (New York, N.Y.) Records, 1977-1983

3.60 Electronic file (9 archives boxes) 3.60 linear feet (9 archives boxes)
Records of a publishing company established by poets Lewis Warsh and Bernadette Mayer in 1977. Successor to Angel Hair magazine and Angel Hair Books, United Artists published works of contemporary poets and writers, including Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Alan Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, and Bill Berkson. Correspondence with these and other United Artist contributors can be found in the collection. Also included are typescripts of works submitted and materials used for production of United Artists publications.
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Harold Scheffler Papers, 1926 - 1981

6.90 Electronic file (16 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize folders) 6.90 linear feet (16 archives boxes, 1 card file box and 7 oversize folders)
The papers of Harold Scheffler, anthropologist and ethnographer, relate to Scheffler's field research on ambilineal descent groups on Choiseul Island in the Solomon Islands between 1958 and 1961 and to his comparative study of religious revitalization movements, especially the Christian Fellowship Church, conducted on Rendova Island between 1967 and 1968. Scheffler studied social structure, kinship and ethnographic semantics among Varisi language speakers on Choiseul Island (1958-1961), among Baniata language speakers on Rendova Island (1967-1968), and among Simbo islanders (1960). Materials include correspondence with colleagues and students; manuscripts of journal articles and published works; ethnographic data collected in diaries, field notes, genealogies, photographs, and audiorecordings. Also included are grammars, vocabularies and linguistic materials for the Varisi and Baniata languages of the Solomon Islands. Of particular interest are manuscript notes by Bernard Deacon, a British anthropologist, and typescript transcriptions of Deacon's notes by Camilla Wedgewood on Ambryn Island, New Hebrides. The papers span the period from 1926 to 1981 with the bulk of the material generated between 1958 and 1971. The papers are arranged in eight series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY SCHEFFLER, 3) CHOISEUL ISLAND FIELDWORK, 4) RENDOVA ISLAND FIELDWORK, 5) MISCELLANEOUS FIELDWORK, 6) WRITINGS OF OTHERS, 7) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 8) AUDIORECORDINGS.
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Wayward Family papers, 1847-1963

2.0 Linear Feet 2 Box 2.0 Linear feet 2 record cartons

Scope and Contents note

The Wayward family papers includes material from several Wayward descedents living in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was collected by variou family members. Document types in the collection include correspondence, diaries, clippings, posters and audio tapes about the Wayward family and their various activities.

See the scope and content note for each series for more details about the collection contents.

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The O'Brien Family Papers, 1835-1987

77 Box 38 Maps
The O'Brien Family Papers document the remarkably parallel lives of three generations of the O'Brien men. George, Chenault, and Chilton O'Brien were leaders who improved Southeast Texas by their service in the military, political, business, religious, and organizational life of Beaumont, Texas.
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Flannery O'Connor Collection, 1930-2015, 1930-2015

.21 Linear Feet 4 boxes of contents: Correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, pictures and notes by and about Flannery O'Connor

This is a collection of papers, manuscripts, correspondence and clippings by and about Flannery O'Connor.

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