Box AFAM OS-2

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The Jewish New Year Card Collection consists of four pop-up New Year cards that have the Hebrew greeting “Le-shanah tovah tikatevu” and “Happy New Year” in English. These cards were printed in Germany (c. 1910), and do not have personal inscriptions.

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The Delmer C. Wilson Sabbathday Lake Photographs is a collection of nine photographs taken by Delmer C. Wilson of the landscape at the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of supplemental research material related to the Encyclopedic Palace, including early photographs, correspondence, and forms between Auriti’s attorney Hyde W. Ballard and the Department of Commerce Patent Office, and Auriti’s handwritten description of the Monumento Nazionale Progetto Enciclopedico Palazzo. Also included is correspondence with two different invention promotion companies that reached out to Auriti about the purchase of the patent to Encyclopedic...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Henry Darger Papers measure approximately 110 linear feet and range in date from 1909 to 1971. The bulk of the material in the series Writings/Manuscripts, and Resource and Visual Materials are undated. The collection holds the complete manuscripts of Darger’s books. See the catalogue raisonné of “The writings of Henry J. Darger” in Appendix A for notes regarding the assumed order of the manuscripts. The manuscripts are both handwritten and typed, some of which are elaborately...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Henry Darger Papers measure approximately 110 linear feet and range in date from 1909 to 1971. The bulk of the material in the series Writings/Manuscripts, and Resource and Visual Materials are undated. The collection holds the complete manuscripts of Darger’s books. See the catalogue raisonné of “The writings of Henry J. Darger” in Appendix A for notes regarding the assumed order of the manuscripts. The manuscripts are both handwritten and typed, some of which are elaborately...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Henry Darger Papers measure approximately 110 linear feet and range in date from 1909 to 1971. The bulk of the material in the series Writings/Manuscripts, and Resource and Visual Materials are undated. The collection holds the complete manuscripts of Darger’s books. See the catalogue raisonné of “The writings of Henry J. Darger” in Appendix A for notes regarding the assumed order of the manuscripts. The manuscripts are both handwritten and typed, some of which are elaborately...

Scope and Contents Justus DaLee writes about his family, his wife, and his children: Mary Ann, Amon, Cornelia, Almanzon, Harriet, William, and Albert Waterman who was called "Waterman," and about his life as a painter and the times in which he was living, his scarcity of money, and the difficulty to make a living as an artist as well as detailing the fact his work habits could not include painting at night since candle light was insufficient. Excerpted: "Troy, Dec. 17 1837, I am pursuing my daily...