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Box BW 52

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Contains 7 Results:

Leonard H. Robinson memories photo album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16772
Content Description This collection contains one photo album documenting the late adolescence and early adult years of Leonard H. Robinson from 1913 to 1919. Robinson, a Black man, was born and raised in Ohio. Robinson was light-skinned, which allowed him to be a part of the black and white communities of Marietta, Ohio, where he was raised, and his life in Akron, Ohio, where he lived for a short time. The album documents himself and his life, including pictures of his family and friends of both races, him as a...
Dates: 1913-1919
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Dick Miller copy of "The Premature Burial" screenplay

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16771
Content Description This collection contains Dick Miller's working copy of the original screenplay for the 1962 film "The Premature Burial." Miller's only annotation to the script is blood dripping from the title in red holograph ink. Miller played the part of "Mole" in the film. This film was the director Roger Corman's third of seven Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, known collectively as the "Poe Cycle." Based on the 1844 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and adapted to the screen by Charles Beaumont, noted horror...
Dates: c. 1962
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

William Gowans letter to Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16766
Dates: 1845-11-03
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Helen Barry autograph album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16767
Dates: 1922 - 1925
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Amelia Donges album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16764
Content Description

Forget Me Not friendship album Owned by Amelia Donges, "affectionately dedicated by her friend William F. Harman." 42 pages used for autographs, inscriptions, and verse. Locations signed include Campbelltown, Cornwall, Harrisburg, Attica, Stroudsburg, York, Mechanicsburg, and Princeton.

Dates: 1857 - 1860
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Malinda Caperton album

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16769
Content Description This collection contains a friendship album for Malinda "Lin" Caperton (1842-1922) of West Virginia. The album contains approximately thirty pages of autographs with dates throughout, 1855-1861. The autographs are almost certainly all from young girls, some noted as likely classmates from the Virginia Female Institute, although a lengthy two-page poem is more likely a male student at the University of Virginia.Caperton was the daughter of Allen Taylor Caperton, 1810-1876, the...
Dates: 1855 - 1867
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Rush Nutt speech

 Collection — Box: BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16770
Content Description This collection contains a speech by Dr. Rush Nutt delivered in Greenville, Mississippi Territory on March 4, 1809. Nutt celebrates the just-concluded Jefferson Administration and commemorates the inauguration of James Madison. The address, fifteen and one-half pages in length, celebrates the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson and attacks the preceding Adams administration which Nutt believed brought the Nation to the brink of tyranny and despotism. Dr. Rush Nutt, planter,...
Dates: March 4, 1809
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library