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John T. Ackerson (George Jarrboe) papers
African Heroes and Heroines printing plate by Lois Mailou Jones
This collection contains a steel printing plate mounted on a block for the dust jacket of Dr. Carter G. Woodson's "African Heroes and Heroines," published by Woodson's publishing imprint Associated Publishers, Inc. in 1939. The cover illustration was created by Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), who illustrated many projects of Woodson, and the block has her name, "Lois M. Jones," in the plate's lower right corner.
Caroline Ticknor collection of American authors and publishers
John D. Casey letters to Marcia McGhee
Ralph Cohen papers and "New Literary History" records
John William DeForest papers
Collection of documentaries on Anne Spencer's garden
This collection contains two VHS tapes titled "Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden" and a segment from "Garden story with Rebecca Frischkorn" titled "Anne Spencer Garden." The documentaries focus on the impact and importance of Spencer's garden to herself, her community, and other artists and writers.
Tape 1 contains Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden
Tape 2 contains Garden Story "Anne Spencer Garden"
Nicholas Gouin Dufief letter
This collection contains a letter from Dufief about discounts for his 4th edition of "Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man" to the bookselling firm Beers & Howe in New Haven, Connecticut. This letter was written to find subscriptions for a new printing, and a fourth edition was published in 1820.It is folded for mailing with the address and return address on verso.