Finding aid for the American Literature ephemera 6045
Marissa Chavez and Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Special Collections
2023 February
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: American Literature ephemera
Creator:
University of Southern California
Identifier/Call Number: 6045
Physical Description:
2.875 Linear Feet
3 boxes + 6 oversize folders
Date (bulk): c.1910s-1990s
Abstract: Collection consists of various literature publications, journals, posters and broadsides, articles, and other publications,
related to 20th century American writers.
Language of Material:
English.
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of various literature publications, journals, posters and broadsides, articles, and other publications,
related to 20th century American writers. Materials include Allen Ginsberg broadsides.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access. Materials described within box 1 are not currently available.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], American Literature ephemera, Collection no. 6045, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
American literature
American literature -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Clippings
Ephemera
Literature, Modern -- 20th century
Pamphlets
Printed ephemera
Publications
Publications (documents)
University of Southern California -- Archives
Box 1
"The Academy." National Academy of American Literature, Issued 509793
1933
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Box 1
"Ask A Potato." 509794
1967
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Box 1
"Wear a Poppy." 509774
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Box 1
"Poet News."Sacramento's Literary Calendar and Review." 509805
1986
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Box 1
Cobb, Harrison Susan "Tourist Accommodated." 509552
1927
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Box 1
"The Beats." News and Reviews of the Small Press." 509807
n.d.
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Box 1
Silliman "Abacus." 509767
1985
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Box 1, Folder 1
"The Design of the American Dream"
Betrayal of the American Dream
509534
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 1.1
Lestrud, A. Vernon "Rendezvous."
Journal of Arts and Letters: Special Hemingway Issue
509132
1970
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Box 1, Folder 1.2
Maupin, Armistead "The Blossoming of the Trade Paperback." 509133
1984
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Box 1, Folder 1.3
Hume, Cyril and Maibaum, Richard "Ranson: A Drama In Three Acts." 509134
1954
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Box 1, Folder 1.4
Barnstone, Aliki, and Getty, Jennifer and Kirk, Glaser, and Lee, Pricilla "The Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in Poetry." 509135
1989
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Box 1, Folder 1.5
"Playboy." 509136
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 1.6
Poets & Writers "The Working Vacation-Summer Writers' Conference."
Coda: Poets & Writers Newsletter
509137
1984
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Box 1, Folder 1.7
Poets & Writers "Books Don't Need Batteries, So Are They Obsolete?"
Coda: Poets & Writers Newsletter
509138
1984
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Box 1, Folder 1.8
Poets & Writers "The Rapid Evolution of the Paperback: All to the Writer's Good."
Coda: Poets & Writers Newsletter
509139
1984
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Box 1, Folder 1.9
Fields, J. Uriah "Mutuality: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Human Relations." 509140
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 2
Corwin, Norman "'The Tangled Weave'"
The Rivalry
509141
1958
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Box 1, Folder 2.1
Fox, Hugh "Countdown On An Empty Streetcar." 509150
1969
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Box 1, Folder 2.2
"Poet." Vol. 2. No. 3 509151
1990
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Box 1, Folder 2.3
"Visions of Kerouac." 509154
1992
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Box 1, Folder 2.4
Stewart, R. George "Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile." 509156
1931
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Box 1, Folder 2.5
Gale, VI "Nineteen ING Poems."
Prairie Schooner
509158
1970
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Box 1, Folder 2.6
White, William "Walt Whitman to U.S. Grant " 509159
1960
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Box 1, Folder 2.7
Dupuy, Georges "L'Amour De La Vie Traduction de Paul Wenz LA Foi Des Hommes." 509160
1912
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Box 1, Folder 2.8
Locklin, Gerald "The Clubfooted Midget Shoots Pool." 509161
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 2.9
"Truely Fine." 509162
1984
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Box 1, Folder 3
Nichols, Cleo "Framer's Almanac: (NOV 26) Thanksgiving." 509163
1968
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Box 1, Folder 3.1
Markham, Edwin "The Joint Committee of Literary Arts." 509164
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 3.2
Gullans, Charles "A Bibliography Of The Published Works Of J.V. Cunningham 1931-1988." 509165
1988
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Box 1, Folder 3.3
Rikki "From The Star Chamber." 509166
1974
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Box 1, Folder 3.4
Bradbury, Ray "The Meadow." 509167
1960
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Box 1, Folder 3.5
R.L. Barth, Barth, Susan, Gullans, Charles "A Bibliography Of The Published Works of Turner Cassity." 509168
1988
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Box 1, Folder 3.6
"Ulysses At Buffalo." 509169
1982
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Box 1, Folder 3.7
"A Meeting of Poets & Theologians to Discuss Parable Myth & Language." 509170
u.d
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Box 1, Folder 3.8
"The Enriched Uranium Poems"
Bern Porter
509171
1983
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Box 1, Folder 3.9
Hirschman, Jack "Haight Ashbury Literary Journal." 509172
1983
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Box 1, Folder 4
Vagabond "Back Moon A Lost." 509174
1986
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Box 1, Folder 4.1
Remick, Jack "USA also: Anglo + Saxon Rythms in Screed." 509175
1983
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Box 1, Folder 4.2
Sanders, Ed "Thirsting For Peace In A Raging Century." 509539
1960-1985
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Box 1, Folder 4.3
Heiney, Donald "Fiction: The Double Domain of the Real." 509541
1986
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Box 1, Folder 4.4
"Enfant Terrible." 509542
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 4.5
"In the House of Representatives." 509543
1931
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Box 1, Folder 4.6
"A Preliminary Hand-Book of The Art Collections." 509544
1929
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Box 1, Folder 4.7
" Paul Bowls AT 80." 509545
1990
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Box 1, Folder 4.8
"A Call To the American People." Theodore Roosevelt Centennial." 509546
1958-1958
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Box 1, Folder 4.9
Laura, Ladd "The U.S.A. Forever." 509547
1956
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Box 1, Folder 5
"Overland Monthly Founded by Bret Harte in 1868."
And Out West Magazine
509548
1927
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Box 1, Folder 5.1
Brooks, Wyck "The Confident Years 1885-1915." 509549
1952
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Box 1, Folder 5.2
"Coronet." 509550
1957
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Box 1, Folder 5.3
"Westways" 509551
1955
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Box 1, Folder 5.4
Cobb, Harrison Susan "Tourist Accommodated." 510727
1927
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Box 1, Folder 5.5
"The Emily Chamberlin Cook Prize in Poetry." 509553
1986
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Box 1, Folder 5.6
White William "Robinson Jeffers's Space"
The Personalist Vol. 44
509554
1963
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Box 1, Folder 5.7
Blevins, Richard "Clarel's Motel: Travel & Poetry In The USA." 509557
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 5.8
Whylie, Philip "Castles In The Air." 509646
1965
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Box 1, Folder 5.9
"The World Game." 509558
1969
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Box 1, Folder 6
"The Writings of Tennessee Williams."
Evolving Texts
509559
1988
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Box 1, Folder 6.1
Allen, Gay Wilson "Editing: A Million Dollar Project Without a Million Dollars." 509562
1955
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Box 1, Folder 6.2
"Dear Father & Comrade--Unpublished Letters From Soldiers To Walt Whitman." 509564
1962
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Box 1, Folder 6.3
Hartmann, Sadakichi "Conversations with Walt Whitman."
The Daily Collegian
509565
1963
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Box 1, Folder 6.4
Banfield, De Raffaello "Lord Byron's Love Letter." 509566
1955
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Box 1, Folder 6.5
Eliot, T. S. "Murder In The Cathedral."
Mercury Theatre
509567
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 6.6
"Sea Odea: A Collection of Poems." 509568
1960
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Box 1, Folder 6.7
Miller, Juanita "About 'The Heights' with Juanita of the Woods" 509569
1919
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Box 1, Folder 6.8
"First Time in Print A Short Story" 510742
1963
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Box 1, Folder 6.9
"Seas And Seasons Adolph Gottlieb." 509652
1951
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Box 1, Folder 7
Eliot, Thomas Stearns O.M. 1967 509570
1967
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Box 1, Folder 7.1
Hearn, Lafcadio "An Orange Christmas." 509571
1941
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Box 1, Folder 7.2
"ASYNC - 86 User's Guide." 509721
1982
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Box 1, Folder 7.3
"Achievements and Challenges." Institute For Transitional Studies." 509723
1980-1981
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Box 1, Folder 7.4
"Program Announcement and Solicitation." 509725
1984
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Box 1, Folder 7.5
Kamp, De K. John "Proceedings of the Attorney General's Crime Conference." 509731
1985
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Box 1, Folder 7.6
"Adries Overview: Vehicle Classification." 509732
1984
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Box 1, Folder 7.7
Schubert, R.C. "Hypothetical Advance Missions." 509741
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Box 1, Folder 7.8
"My Bulgarian Friend." Penny Poems From Midwestern University 509742
1966
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Box 1, Folder 7.9
"The Magazine of Innovative Management." 509748
1983
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Box 1, Folder 8
Decision Structuring Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of a Foreign Location Decision." 509749
1977
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Box 1, Folder 8.1
"Science 84" 509752
u.d.
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Box 1, Folder 8.2
"Death by Attrition."
Penny From Midwestern University
509755
1965
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Box 2
Sources of Morbidity Data 510057
1962
Box 2
"Drinking Drivers And Their Traffic Records." 510334
1974
Box 2, Folder 1
A Prospectus from The Limited Editions Club Concerning the Fine Books to be published In Its Eight Series." 510371
1936-1937
Box 2, Folder 2
Modern Language Notes XXXI 510372
1916
Box 2, Folder 3
Diana Turbay was a Colombian Journalist and an honorary member of PEN Center USA West. On January 25 she was murdered." PEN 510373
1953-1991
Box 2, Folder 4
"Statewide." Criminal Justice Profile 510377
1984
Box 2, Folder 5
Data Book on Community Committees Affiliated with the Chicago Area Project." 510379
1961-1962
Box 2, Folder 6
Sources of Morbidity Data." 510059
1960
Box 2, Folder 7
Samejima, Fumiko "A General Model For Free-Response Data III." 510058
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 12
"Ask a Potato." 510066
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 13
Ezra Pound: Composer 510067
1983
Box 2, Folder 14
"Emergences"
Studies In Frank Waters-VIII
510068
1986
Box 2, Folder 15
Poetry Now Vol. 1 No. 3 510070
1995
Box 2, Folder 16
Poetry Now Vol. 1 No. 4 510084
1995
Box 2, Folder 17
Poetry Now Vol. 1. No. 5 510072
1995
Box 2, Folder 18
"Can I recall the Millenium Instead of today?"
The Tule Review
510075
1995
Box 2, Folder 20
"Decisions Processes In Communication Nets."
The Journal and Social Psychology Vol. 54
510407
1957
Box 2, Folder 21
"Catalogue of K.B.S. Publications." 510088
1939
Box 2, Folder 22
Matsue (The City of Hearn) 510092
1950
Box 2, Folder 23
Orientalia: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, Paintings and Dolls." 510093
Box 2, Folder 24
"Hunger in America."
The New York Times
510096
1985
Box 2, Folder 25
The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson 510101
1968
Box 2, Folder 27
"Drinking Drivers and Their Traffic Records." 510415
Box 2, Folder 28
Burke, Kenneth "A Grammar of Motives." 510335
1945
Box 2, Folder 29
"Beatniks from Space #4." 510336
Box 2, Folder 30
"Representation of Perceptions of Risks"
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, forthcoming.
510337
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 31
Spivak, E. Lawrence "Meet the Press." 510338
1959
Box 2, Folder 32
Bulletin of Bibliography Vol. 21 510340
1954
Box 2, Folder 34
"Toaz Students Feature Whitman Birthday Program." 513043
Box 2, Folder 35
135 Anniversary of Whitman's Birth is Observed here 513044
1954
Box 2, Folder 36
Crane Reports Garland on Howells 513045
Box 2, Folder 37
Dedication Ceremonies 513046
1952
Box 2, Folder 38
The Twainian 513048
1942-1946
Box 2, Folder 39
Citrus Grove Green Belt will vanish by 2020 513049
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 40
The House that B-Built 513050
Box 2, Folder 41
His Fits of Madness: Without Gratitude of Morality, He made Stanch Friends 513051
Box 2, Folder 42
VermontTradition: The Biography of An Outlook on Life." 513052
Box 2, Folder 45
"Succint Account of the Life and Execution of Daniel Davis Farmer." 513080
Box 2, Folder 47
Courting In The Rain 513082
Box 2, Folder 48
Churchhill, Randolph "The Anglo-Saxon Review." Vol. 1 513006
1899
Box 2, Folder 52
End of the Book Covers 513170
Box 2, Folder 53
Department of the Mental Institute For Juvenile Research 513249
Box 2, Folder 54
Project Listings, Their Arrangement And Use 513250
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 55
Bibliography Cards Prepared by L.J. Savage to Supplement the Bibliography of Foundations of Statistics 513252
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 57
Penny Poems from Midwestern University 513254
Box 2, Folder 58
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground 513255
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 59
Kiss Me Mother, Kiss Your Darling 513256
Box 2, Folder 61
When The Corn: is Wavering As Sung Mr. Ashton 513258
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 62
Dan McGann and Uncle Sam 513259
Box 2, Folder 65
Life of Isaac W. Sprague 513262
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 66
Tommy, Make Room For Your Uncle 513263
Box 2, Folder 67
Pop Goes the Weasel 513264
Box 2, Folder 68
Private Dispatches End Song 513265
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 69
What is Home Without a Mother? 513266
Box 2, Folder 70
To the Delaware Indians 513267
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 71
Upon Our North C. Street 513268
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 72
'Lay me down and Save the Flag 513269
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 74
SKidmore Guard 513272
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 75
Silver Treads Among the Gold 513273
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 76
The Battle Cry of Freedom & Battle Hymn of the Republic 513274
Box 2, Folder 77
Christmad Doggerel 513275
Box 2, Folder 78
Christmas Carol 513276
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 80
When Johnny Comes Marching Home 513340
Box 2, Folder 81
Vincent Starrett 513341
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 82
Vincent Starrett 2 513345
Box 2, Folder 83
Rikki Knife Notebook 513342
Box 2, Folder 84
Honors work in the Colleges 513343
Box 2, Folder 85
A Night At The Inn A Christmas Play 513344
Box 2, Folder 87
Poet News: Bob Kaufman: 1925-1986 A Remembrance 513519
1986
Box 2, Folder 88
Professional Judgement Expertise and Auditing Research 513520
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 89
Joseph Hergesheimer Newspaper Clippings 513875
Box 2, Folder 90
Mr. Arvidson Photograph 513886
Box 2, Folder 91
Mr. Bristol and Mrs. Brown Letters 513888
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 92
Memorabilia of the Presidents 513891
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 93
Wilcox, N. Owen "The Great Unrecognized Member of Lincoln's Cabinet."
The Brief
513935
1949
Box 2, Folder 94
Decision Analysis of Contractor Xs Proposal X-1234 514416
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 95
Edwin Markham Bibliography Part I 514418
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 96
Thomas Eakins Portrait of Walt Whitman 514422
Box 2, Folder 97
New York herald Tribune book Review 514424
Box 2, Folder 98
A Time of the Assains A Study of Rimboud 514427
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 99
Southland's Sweetest Singer 514430
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 100
The Heart That Did not Break 514433
1949
Box 2, Folder 101
When Nature Wants A Man 514435
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 102
The Passing of the old Back-House 514438
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 103
The Nation's Future 514441
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 104
The Step Ladder 514443
1923
Box 2, Folder 105
Teenage Death-Lust
1969-08
Box 2, Folder 106
The Crescent Journals (by David Ossman)
1966
Box 2, Folder 18.7
Author Rejects Publisher: Caroline Kirkland and the Gift 514733
u.d.
Box 2, Folder 18.8
Western Books 19th Exhibition 514739
1960
Box 2, Folder 18.9
From Atlanta to the Sea: Verse By a Soldier-Poet 514740
Box 3
Arkansas Gazette, State Centennial Edition
1936
Box 3
The Bee, New York, May 1898, vol. 1 no. 1
1898 May
Box 3
Broun's Nutmeg
1939 August-November
Box 3
"Columbus and After: Rethinking the Legacy", California Council for the Humanities and Oregon Council for the Humanities
circa 1992
Box 3
Poster for An Evening with Ramdass
1982 April 2
Box 3
The Canal Courier
circa 1967
Oversize-folder 1
Beat Generation Poets : The Prints of Peter LeBlanc [poster]
Oversize-folder 2
4 Changes [Gary Snider "Chofu" broadside, variant title "Changes 4 Changes"]
Oversize-folder 3
"Incredible, Poetry Reading, Nourse Aud. Ferlinghetti … Ginsberg, June 8" [poster by Victor Moscoso for poetry reading]
[1968]
Oversize-folder 4
"Love Lion, Lioness" [poster for "The Beard" by Michael McClure]
[circa 1964]
Oversize-folder 5
"Message II" [Allen Ginsberg broadside]
March 1965
Oversize-folder 6
"Who Be Kind To" [Allen Ginsberg broadside, Cranium Press]
[circa 1965]
