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Box GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized)

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Auschwitz Prisoner Letters

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-20211119
Scope and Contents The collection consists of seven letters written by political or criminal prisoners of the Nazi regime who resided in the Auschwitz camp system. The authors of these letter were prisoners who had the “privilege” of receiving and sending censored mail. Unlike the majority of the prisoners in the Auschwitz camp complex, these prisoners were allowed mail and food parcels. Since these letters were read and censored by the camp administration, the letters focus on such topics as weather, food...
Dates: 1943 - 1944

Saturday Evening Post article by William Peter Blatty

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 5
Identifier: GTM-20231116
Scope and Contents

1 issue of the Saturday Evening Post (March 29, 1958) featuring an article by William Peter Blatty titled "They Believed I Was an Arab Prince."

Dates: 1958

Frances Perkins Article and Portrait

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-20231219
Scope and Contents

One copy of an article by Frances Perkins titled "Eights Years As Madam Secretary" from Fortune magazine, September 1941. It includes a reproduction of a painted portrait of Perkins by Arthur Syk.

Dates: 1941

Katie Louchheim, 1963-2012

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Materials related to William F. Claire and Katie Louchheim, then the highest ranking woman in the U.S. State Department, and a poet. Various items, including correspondence to William F. Claire, a letter from Georgetown University professor George O'Brien about his publications, and a copy of a review in "The Irish Times" by John Monagan. One photograph of Katie Louchheim is housed in GTM Shared Box 19.

Dates: 1963-2012

Mark Van Doren portrait photograph, 1972

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials collected by William F. Claire that relate to Mark Van Doren (portrait photograph, obituary, Life magazine issue), Katherine Garrison Chapin (photograph) (aka Katherine Biddle), and others. It also includes materials related to Claire's art and poetry.

Dates: 1972

Life Magazine - Van Doren Family, 1959

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Materials collected by William F. Claire that relate to Mark Van Doren (portrait photograph, obituary, Life magazine issue), Katherine Garrison Chapin (photograph) (aka Katherine Biddle), and others. It also includes materials related to Claire's art and poetry.

Dates: 1959

Photograph of Edward Rice and Robert Lax at Orlean, NY, by Thomas Merton; and one additional photograph, 1939

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is comprised of correspondence received by William Claire from Robert Lax, Thomas Merton, and Mark Van Doren. Other materials relate to the special double issue of "Voyages" magazine (Volume 2, Numbers 1 and 2, September 1968) focussing on Robert Lax, with an introduction by Claire, a brief biography on and writings by Lax. The collection also includes, typescripts and correspondence pertaining to "The Essays of Mark Van Doren (1942-1972)" edited by Claire (Conn.: Greenwood...
Dates: 1939

Portrait photograph, circa 1950s-1960s

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of the personal papers of William Harding Jackson. Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents. Some typed manuscripts by Jackson, a few photographs of him, and a series of printed materials round out the collection.

Dates: circa 1950s-1960s

Publicity items related to Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet, 1969-1970

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of promotional materials and other ephemera related to the National Book Awards. It includes press kits (1959, 1971-1973), programs (2001, 2011), publicity items related to Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet (1969-1970), a signed broadside copy of Mary Lee Settle's National Book Award acceptance speech (1978), and a set of National Book Award medallion stickers (2023).The collection also contains a handbook titled "Writers in Indian Country: A...
Dates: 1969-1970

Mary Lee Settle's National Book Award acceptance speech, 1978

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of promotional materials and other ephemera related to the National Book Awards. It includes press kits (1959, 1971-1973), programs (2001, 2011), publicity items related to Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's Planet (1969-1970), a signed broadside copy of Mary Lee Settle's National Book Award acceptance speech (1978), and a set of National Book Award medallion stickers (2023).The collection also contains a handbook titled "Writers in Indian Country: A...
Dates: 1978

Aramco World, 1971 March/April

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains publications related to the Saudi Aramco company, dating from 1948 to 2008. It includes reports, periodicals, and a Pocket Guide to Arabic. The materials were created for an English-language audience.

Dates: 1971 March/April

Fantasy music manuscript, 1985

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of music manuscripts of compositions by Eugene W. Hancock. It also includes biographies of Hancock and other Black composers, a letter from Robert J. Batastini (G.I.A. Publications), "Spiritual Lullaby" by William B. Cooper, "Funf Stucke fur Orchester" by Anton Webern, and the 1990-1991 choral music schedule for West End Presbyterian Church.

Dates: 1985

Portrait photographs of Graham Greene., circa 1950s

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 12
Identifier: 53413
Scope and Contents

4 black-and-white portrait photographs of Graham Greene.

Dates: circa 1950s

Portrait photographs of Graham Greene., circa 1950s

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 13
Identifier: 53418
Scope and Contents

2 black-and-white portrait photographs of Graham Greene.

Dates: circa 1950s

Portrait photographs of Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh., circa 1950s

 File — Box: GTM Shared Box 19 (Oversized), Folder: 14
Identifier: 53419
Scope and Contents

Contains 2 b/w photographs of Greene signed by the photographer Yousuf Karsh.

Dates: circa 1950s