Buffalo Bill incoming correspondence | Collections | The Huntington

Buffalo Bill incoming correspondence | Collections | The Huntington

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Signature of William F. Cody
Manuscripts
Slip of paper with a signature of William F. Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill. Paper reads: Your friend, W.F. Cody. and appears to have been removed from its original source.
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Buffalo Bill Combination : Buffalo Bill's new drama 20 days or Buffalo Bill's pledge
Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a portrait of William F. Cody as Buffalo Bill sitting at a campfire in a frontiersman costume with a rifle and saddle, surrounded by eight vignettes of different dramatic scenes including a street parade with a horse-drawn cart labeled "Buffalo Bill To Night"; Cody digging at a hill with a knife in the wilderness with the caption "Buried Alive"; Cody holding up the head of a young injured man with the caption "He Still Lives"; a farmer sleeping on a plow pulled by two oxen while holding a book of the "Life of Buffalo Bill" while images of caricatured Native American Indians and a man hanging by a noose while another is burned at the stake appear in his dreams, captioned "The Farmer's Dream"; Cody on horseback cutting the rope of a hangman's noose from a young man’s neck who hangs from a tree, captioned "Whose Picnic Is this?"; a parlor scene where a man is shot while others look on, captioned "The 20 days are up, and my pledge fulfilled"; a man in a fistfight with Cody in the parlor and wielding a knife, captioned "Keep Cool Pard."; and Cody riding on horseback through the plains while a fire burns in the distance and a battle with Native American Indians on horseback goes on; with images of a bison with the caption "Diamond Pin with Diamond Eyes," at bottom of central image, and an eagle that holds a medal that reads "Congress to W. F. Cody Buffalo Bill Scout & Guide" at top; the poster advertises the melodrama "20 Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" (also known as "Twenty Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge") and includes printed date information for performances beginning on December 11, [1882], at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Buffalo Bill’s wild west : Sells Floto circus
Visual Materials
Image of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody riding a white horse.
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Group portrait of Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, and other Wild West Show members
Visual Materials
Standing in back row, from left, Crow Eagle, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Adirondack (a naturalist). Seated in front, from left, is William Halsey (Sitting Bull's interpreter), Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, and young Johnny Baker (later known as the "Cowboy Kid" in the Wild West Show and foster son to Cody). Both Sitting Bull and Crow Eagle wear feather headdresses.
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Incoming correspondence
Manuscripts
39 letters on topics including family matters, an article in the Hellenic Journal, efforts to get into the lecturers' register, a Mediterranean cruise, and new friends.
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Correspondence - friends incoming
Manuscripts
Primarily incoming correspondence from Babitz's friends, admirers, and publishing contacts, including Larry Bell, Joseph Cornell (12 items including envelopes and inserts, plus photocopies), Jean Francois Dalle, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, Peter Eden, "F" (unidentified), Paul Glass, Joseph Heller (6 items including envelopes, plus photocopies), Seymour Lawrence, Erica Spellman (ICM), Leah Spinrad, Paul Ruscha, Dan Wakefield, Victoria Wilson (Knopf), and Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone). There is back and forth correspondence in a few instances. Also included is a folder of other publishing-related correspondence, and get-well faxes and letters Babitz received after her 1997 accident.
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