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José G. Posada chapbooks and chapbook cover collection
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José G. Posada chapbooks and chapbook covers collection
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A collection of four chapbooks and seventeen chapbook covers dating from approximately the 1890s to the 1910s with artwork illustrated by Mexican lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). The materials were all printed for various publications produced by Mexican editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1852-1917). Three of the four chapbooks are part of the same series and are titled: Galería Infantil del Teatro Los Novios; Galería Infantil del Teatro la Almoneda del Diablo; Galería del Teatro Infa[n]til Colección De Comedias para Niños ó Títeres Los Gendarmes. The three chapbooks in this series are printed in black ink on buff paper and include illustrated covers. The fourth chapbook is from the "Nueva Colección de Cuentos Patrioticos" series and is titled "La Gorra del Cuartel." The booklet includes hand-colored details of printed images throughout the interior pages. The chapbook covers in the collection are printed either in black ink or black-and-red ink on various colored papers. Images include satirical and traditional representations of Mexican plays, historical retellings, and comedic stories.
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G. Schirmer music cover proofs
Manuscripts
Three volumes containing rough proofs of covers for music printed for G. Schirmer, New York by the Merrymount Press.
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Journey to Brussels: later draft
Manuscripts
With paper covers, sheets stitched together with thread. The text is written in black ink with numerous corrections by Opie in black and blue ink.
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Biblioteca del niño Mexicano collection
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A collection of twelve staple-bound booklets published from 1899 to 1901 by Maucci Hermanos in Barcelona, Spain, for distribution in Mexico. The booklets are retellings of Mexican historic events written by Heriberto Frías. Each booklet includes a color lithographed cover by José Guadalupe Posada with three black-and-white lithographs in the interior. Images illustrate scenes from medieval and colonial battles, conquests, and events in indigenous history. This collection includes twelve of the 110 total booklets printed in the Biblioteca del niño Mexicano series. Titles include: La Infamia del Rey Tzintzicha ó la Entrega de Michoacan; El Sitio de Tenochtitlán ó el último día de un Imperio; Los Crímenes y Las Epopeyas de México Colonial; El Ilanto de Hernán Cortés ó el Arbol de la Derrota; El Temaxcall de Netzahualcoyotl en la Noche Ante Hernan; La Conspiración del Marqués del Valle; El Año Fatal o los Desastres de la Patria; Las Infamias de la Ambición ó la Cruz de la Aurora; Los Crimenes de la Ambición ó el Anatema de la Víctima; La Piedra Contra el Emperador ó la Sublimidad de un Héroe; Fray Bartolomé de las Casas ó la Protección de los Indios; and La Voz del Heroismo y el Desengaño de la Ambición.
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Biblioteca del niño Mexicano collection
Visual Materials
A collection of twelve staple-bound booklets published from 1899 to 1901 by Maucci Hermanos in Barcelona, Spain, for distribution in Mexico. The booklets are retellings of Mexican historic events written by Heriberto Frías. Each booklet includes a color lithographed cover by José Guadalupe Posada with three black-and-white lithographs in the interior. Images illustrate scenes from medieval and colonial battles, conquests, and events in indigenous history. This collection includes twelve of the 110 total booklets printed in the Biblioteca del niño Mexicano series. Titles include: La Infamia del Rey Tzintzicha ó la Entrega de Michoacan; El Sitio de Tenochtitlán ó el último día de un Imperio; Los Crímenes y Las Epopeyas de México Colonial; El Ilanto de Hernán Cortés ó el Arbol de la Derrota; El Temaxcall de Netzahualcoyotl en la Noche Ante Hernan; La Conspiración del Marqués del Valle; El Año Fatal o los Desastres de la Patria; Las Infamias de la Ambición ó la Cruz de la Aurora; Los Crimenes de la Ambición ó el Anatema de la Víctima; La Piedra Contra el Emperador ó la Sublimidad de un Héroe; Fray Bartolomé de las Casas ó la Protección de los Indios; and La Voz del Heroismo y el Desengaño de la Ambición.
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Dibner Autographed Documents and First Day Covers collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains 74 items, chiefly documents including letters, postcards, typescripts, photographs, handwritten notes, and blank cards, autographed by leading figures in the sciences, including multiple Nobel Prize winners; several documents contain multiple signatures. The collection also includes autographed 20 first day covers, mostly stamps dedicated to science-related themes such as nuclear energy, communications, electronics, space exploration, and naval aviation; dates of these items range from 1948-1973. Signatures on various types of documents include those of British explorer John Franklin (1786-1847); Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; American medical physicist Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011); American medical researcher Albert B. Sabin (1906-1993); polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922); and American president Herbert Hoover (1874-1964). Many of the autographed letters are addressed to R. Frederick Allen of Lewiston, Maine, often in response to birthday greetings or other communications from Allen, and several autographed items are accompanied by information about the signers in the form of clippings or typed or handwritten annotations. The first day covers commemorate developments and events including the Atoms for Peace campaign (initiated in 1953) and the Atomic Energy Act (1962); the launch of Echo I, the world's first communications satellite, in 1960; the dedication of the Palomar Mountain Observatory, Palomar Mountain, California, in 1948; and various other innovations and innovators. Signatures on first day covers include those of Edward Teller (1908-2003), on Atoms for Peace covers; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), on a cover featuring Echo I (1960); J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), on a cover marking the Atomic Energy Act (1962); Jonas Salk (1914-1995), on a cover honoring those battling polio (1957); and Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981), on two covers celebrating the 50th anniversary of naval aviation (1961).
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