A Voice of Her Own

Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784)
Poems on Various Subjects,
Religious and Moral. . .
London, 1773
Rare Book & Special Collections

We're Off to See the Wizard

Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago and New York: G. M. Hill, 1900
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

A Whitman Notebook

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Holograph notebook,
ca. 1847-1854
Manuscript Division

The Poetry of Robert Frost

Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"The Gift Outright"
Holograph
Manuscript Division

Groucho's Letters

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1963
Manuscript Division
Gift of Groucho Marx,1967 (140A)

A Voice of Her Generation

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
"Renascence,"
Pencil holograph of the unfinished
original draft, ca. 1912
Manuscript Division

Moby Dick Literary Map

Everett Henry (1893-1961)
The Voyage of the Pequod from the
book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Cleveland: Harris-Seybold, 1956
Geography & Map Division

Anne Bradstreet, colonial poet

Anne Bradstreet (1613-1672)
Several Poems Compiled with
Great Variety of Wit and Learning . . . .
[Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America].
Boston: John Foster, 1678
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (177A)

Capturing the Old West

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
to Owen Wister, ca. January 1895
Ink on paper, illustrated letter
with sketches by Remington
Manuscript Division
Gift of Frances Kemble
Wister Stokes, 1952 (179.7)

The Virginian

Owen Wister (1860-1938)
The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains.
New York: MacMillan Co., 1902
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1948 (180.3)

MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
1924-1925 Paris
Notebook
Manuscript Division
Gift of the author (177.3)

The Virginian, A Literary Map

Everett Henry (1893-1961), illustrator
The Virginian from America's First "Western" Novel, Written by Owen Wister.
Cleveland: Harris-Intertype, 1962
Color offset lithograph
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (183.6)

Philip Roth's Patrimony

Philip Roth (b. 1933)
Patrimony [1991]
Typescript with holograph emendations
Manuscript Division
Gift of the author (179.5)

Langston Hughes Requests
Loan for Tuition

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
to Walter White, October 29, 1925
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division
Gift of the NAACP, 1964 (181D.3a)

A Harsh Picture of America

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Martin Chuzzlewit
London: Chapman & Hall, September 1843
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, (181A.5a-t)

Charles Dickens's Walking Stick

Charles Dickens's walking stick
Wood with ivory head
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of John Batchelder, 1936 (180.4)

Charles Dickens's Traveling Kit

Charles Dickens's traveling cutlery kit
Ivory and metal
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of John Batchelder, 1936 (181D.5)

The Bookman

The Bookman--April
Color lithograph, 1896
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Estate of J. H. Corning, 1940 (139.14)

John Steinbeck Map of America

Molly Maguire
The John Steinbeck Map of America [Literary map collection]
Color lithograph map
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986
Geography & Map Division (181.10)

A Booklover's Map

Amy Jones (Designer and illustrator)
Booklover's Map of the United States
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1949
Color lithograph map
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (181.12)

Provincetown Printmakers

Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937)
Love Apples
Color woodcut, ca. 1915
Prints and Photographs Division
Purchase, 1998 (139.9)

June Roses

Blanche Lazzell (1892-1957)
June Roses
Color woodcut, 1922
Prints & Photographs Division (140.10)

Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Under the Horse Chestnut Tree
Drypoint and aquatint in color, ca. 1896
Prints & Photographs Division
Pennell Fund purchase (139.10)

Clarence H. White School of Photography

Wynn Richards (1888-1960)
Preparing Yarn for Weaving, 1948
[published in the June 1948 issue of Vogue]
Gelatin silver photo collage
Prints & Photographs Division (195.4a)

Libertad

Ester Hernández
Libertad
Etching, 1977
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the artist (82.5)

The Art of Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (1911B1988)
At the Window, 1971
Collage, mixed media
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation (139.12)

A Romare Bearden Collage

Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
The Calabash, 1970
Collage, mixed media
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation (140.13)

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible

A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Janus Press

Barbara Luck
Night Street
Vermont: Janus Press, 1993
Mixed media
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Master Typographer

Frederic William Goudy (1865-1947)
"A Specimen of Monotype Kennerly."
Philadelphia: Progressive
Composition Company
Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Purchase, 1944 (174.3)

Manuscript for Baum's Last Book

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Glinda of Oz
Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1920
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Baum Family, 2000 (182.4a,b)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
First Edition

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, cover
Chicago and New York: George M. Hill, 1900
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (184)

Jefferson's Pasta Machine

Thomas Jefferson
["Maccaroni" machine with
instructions for making pasta]
Holograph drawing and text, 1787
Manuscript Division

Culinary Arts

Marie Martinelo.
The New York Cook Book.
New York City: 1892
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Martha Jefferson's
Personal Effects

Thomas Jefferson, Martha Jefferson,
and Anne Cary Randolph
Holograph manuscript notebook, 1772-1782
Manuscript Division

Jefferson's Recipe for
Vanilla Ice Cream

Holograph recipe,
1780s
Manuscript Division

World War I Gardners

Maginel Wright Enright (1877-1966)
Follow the Pied Piper
Color lithograph, 1918
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-3691

A First American
Cookbook

Amelia Simmons
American Cookery.
Hartford, Connecticut, 1796
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

The Millinery Trade Review,
1876-1938

The Millinery Trade Review
March 1897
New York: The Gallison &
Hobron Co., 1897
General Collections
Copyright deposit, 1897

The Home Sewing Machine

Home Excels All Others
Lithographic Poster, ca. 1877
Prints & Photographs Division (201.3)

Culinary Arts

Manuscript cookbook,
ca. 1770
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (198.2)

Arbiter of Fashion

"Fashions for December 1884,"
Delineator, A Monthly Magazine.
Vol. 24, no. 6.
London and New York:
Butterick Publishing Co.
General Collections
Copyright deposit (202.1)

"America Eats"

Federal Writer's Project photographs for
the "America Eats" project
Anthony V. Ragusin
Oysters and a political rally, No. 1
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1930-1941
Prints & Photographs Division,
WPA Transfer (199A.2c)

First Yiddish Cookbook in America

Hinde Amchanitzki
Lehr-bukh Vi Azoy Tsu Kokhen un Baken
[Textbook on How to Cook and Bake].
New York: 1901
African & Middle Eastern Division (199.6)

Nineteenth-Century Product Labels

Patent medicine label
Get Fat on Lorings Fat-ten-U and Corpula Foods
(204.5f)
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposits

Making Tamales

Carmen Lomas Garza (b. 1948)
Tamalada (Making Tamales), 1990
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the artist (204.7)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09899

Culinary Arts

G.C. Marson
Attractive Meals Without Meat.
London: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1932
Rare Book & Special Collection Division (201.5a)

Doublemint Gum

Otis Shepard (1894-1969)
Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertisements
Color offset bus posters, ca. 1939
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Rebel Randall (204.8a,b)

Brand-Name Product Advertising

Jell-O Strawberry Flavor.
Leroy, New York: The Genesee Pure Food Company
Chromo-lithograph poster, ca. 1905
Copyright Office
Copyright deposit (205.3a)

Dime Novels

Buffalo Bill's Special
Service. No. 243.
New York: Buffalo Bill Stories,
1906
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (190.1)

Tarzan

Burne Hogarth (1911-1996)
Tarzan
Ink, pencil, and white-out with scraping
out on layered paper board,
May 9, 1948
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-98552
©1948, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

Krazy Kat

George Herriman (1880-1944)
Krazy Kat
Ink over Pencil with scraping out
and paste-on, June 8, 1941
Prints and Photographs Division
©1941, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Gift of George Sturman

The Kin-der-Kids

Lyonel Feininger
(1871-1956)
[The Kin-der-Kids]
How the Jimjam relief expedition set out
Published in the Chicago Tribune,
June 24, 1906
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1906 (194.7)

The Yellow Kid

New York Journal's Colored
Comic Supplement
Color lithographic poster
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1896 (192B)

The Funnies

The Funnies,
Vol. 1, no. 57
Dell Publishing Co., July 1941
Copyright deposit
Serial & Government
Publications Division (194.5)

New York's Skyline, September 11, 2002

Rebecca Minnich
[Fourteen drawings of the New York skyline showing the destruction of the World Trade Center towers during the September 11^th terrorist attacks], 2001
Photomechanical prints with ink, ink wash, porous point pen over graphite under drawing on paper. Published with text in: World War 3 Illustrated, #32
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist, 2002 (194.6a-n)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-01868-1-14

Drawing on Tragedy

Mac McGill
IX XI MMI, 2001 (fourth of five published drawings)
Ink, opaque white, and overlays
over graphite on paper
Published in: World War 3 Illustrated, issue #32. Sacramento: Mordam Records, ca. 2001
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist, 2002
Shown online with permission
of the artist (225.2a)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-01752
[digital ID# ppmsca-01752]

Early Baseball Card

Charles H. Williamson (1826-1874)
Champions of America
Albumen silver print, 1865
Prints & Photographs Division

Endless Summer

Toni Frissell (1907-88)
[The Whites and the Smiths Crossing
Bridge from Watch Island for
Tennis at Rum Point]
Gelatin silver print, July 1957
Prints & Photographs Division

Baseball Cards

American Tobacco Company
Joe Tinker, John Evers, and Frank Chance, autographed cards
Color relief halftones mounted on cards, 1911
Prints & Photographs Division

Baseball Songs

Jack Norworth, lyrics
"Take Me Out to the Ball-Game,"
1908
Music Division

Breaking The Color Line

Jackie Robinson-Rookie of the Year
Vol. 1, no. 6.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett
Publications (July 1950)
Serials & Government Publications Division

The Jackie Robinson Story

Lobby card promoting
The Jackie Robinson Story
[showing umpire arguing with Dodgers
manager as Robinson looks on]
Color lithograph
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division
Copyright deposit, 1950 (214.2)

A Letter from Jackie Robinson

Autograph Letter Signed,
Jackie Robinson to Ralph Norton,
May 5, 1947,
Manuscript Division,
Jackie Robinson Papers (196C)

"This I believe..."

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
Typed Speech, "This I Believe...,"
by Jackie Robinson, n.d.,
Manuscript Division,
Jackie Robinson Papers (196A)

An American Pastime

H.F. Peck (active 1900s)
Carlisle, '05
Gelatin silver print, 1905
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-6022

Grand Baseball Match

Concord Base Ball Club. Concord, Massachusetts
4th of July 1879! Grand Base Ball Match!
Concord: 1879
Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Rules of the Game

Chadwick's Base Ball Manual.
London: George Routledge, 1874
Rare Book & Special Collection Division (213)
Purchase, 1991

Dempsey and Baer in The Ring

The Ring.
Vol. 14, no. 4, May 1935
Gift of Australian Institute of Sport, 1997

Dempsey in The Ring with Firpo

The Ring.
Vol. 2, no. 9, October 1923
General Collections
Copyright deposit (210.4)

Dempsey and Firpo

George Bellows (1882-1925)
Dempsey and Firpo
Lithograph, 1923-1924
Prints and Photographs Division (206.1)

The Cincinnati Reds

First Nine of the Cincinnati (Red Stockings) Base Ball Club.
New York: Tuchfarber, Walkley & Moelmann
Color lithograph, 1869
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1869 (207.1)

The Washington Senators

Schutz Group
Photographers
Washington Senators
Gelatin silver print, 1913
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1913
LC-USZ62-102418 (213 A.1)
[digital ID# cph.3c02418]

The Mighty Casey

William Schuman (1910-1992)
The Mighty Casey
Full score and sketch for
"Peanuts, Popcorn, Soda, Cracker Jacks"
Music Division
Gift of the composer (207.4a,b)

Fashions for Cycling

The Ladies Standard Magazine
Vol. XVII, No. 4 (June 1897)
General Collections
Copyright deposit, 1897 (209.2)

Master Illusionist

Kellar's Startling Wonder
New York: Strobridge Lithograph
Company, ca. 1894
Prints and Photographs Division (217A)

Spinner Play

Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904-1967)
Spinner Play
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the Alfred Bendiner
Foundation and Mrs. Alfred
Bendiner, 1982-1992 (217A.1)

Swan Dive

Mabel Wellington Jack (1890-1970)
Swan Dive
Lithograph, ca. mid-1930s
Prints & Photographs Division
W.P.A. transfer (217B.1)

Bob Hope's Script for
His First Radio Series

Bob Hope's First Radio Series Script
Manuscript, January 4, 1935
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division
Gift of Bob and Dolores Hope, 2000 (195.1)

A Spalding Guide

[Student basketball players of the National Training School for Women and Girls, Washington D.C.]
ca. [1900-1920]
Prints & Photographs Division (209.3)

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

"I am Coming"
Courier Lithograph Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1900
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (207.6)

The Barnum's American Museum Illustrated

Barnum's American Museum Illustrated Magazine
New York: 1850
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (207.8)