Poet H. D.’s writing desk, beside a portrait of her friend and literary executor Norman Holmes Pearson (Deane Keller, n. d.). A recent gift to the Yale...
A curious addition to the Beinecke Library’s collection: This miniature booklet displays a cover title declaring it to be a “thumb dictionary” of French...
Joe Louis and Lena Horne canoeing on Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, September 15, 1941. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used...
Issue #3 of Bikini Girl (February 1979), when the L.E.S. was the Lower East Side, and the Mudd Club was the Mudd Club. (With paper doll cutouts of Fred and...
A photograph of the gallerist Anatole Jakovsky and two friends astride a car-like contraption in Paris, ca. 1950. (The shop, named for Jacques Damiot, might...
Gerald and Sara Murphy, on the beach in Antibes. In honor of the 122nd anniversary of the birth of the stylish expatriate American painter and taste-maker,...
Tea with André Leon Talley, Editor-at-Large, Vogue magazine at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street, New Haven Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 4:00 p.m.Co-Sponsored by...
