RBSC/SPX. Special Collections

Scope and Contents James D. Tobin Collection consists of manuscripts, catalogues, cards, correspondence, price lists, notes, negatives, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, cassette tapes, journals, and drawings.  His research and collection focused on Japanese print artists from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods (1868-1989), which are the ‘Modern’ Japanese artists and their prints.  Tobin’s correspondence was mostly with other Japanese Art collectors, researchers, and dealers, such as...

Scope and Contents This collection provides documentation on the works of Un-ichi Hiratsuka and his family.  It also follows his family’s friendship with the art collector Theodore Van Zelst and his family.  This collection outlines Hiratsuka’s work in the United States and Japan through multiple exhibition catalogues and correspondence related to these exhibitions.  Documents in this collection include press releases, advertisements, catalogues, newspaper articles, posters, books, invitations, and a video...

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The collection contains 100 stereograph cards of Colorado that mainly document sites in the late 1800s. The stereograph cards containing images of Colorado have copyright dates from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Colorado areas in the front range of the Rocky Mountains are well represented.

Scope and Contents The John Cumming Private Press papers consist of printed (paper-based) published materials, financial records, correspondence, oversized materials, and miscellaneous materials.  The collection is divided into series based upon format.  Series I contains Publication Materials such as publication drafts of his books and materials printed by his private press, such as advertisements and programs.  This series is ordered by title apabetically and then by date if no title was given.  Series II...

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Northern Illinois University acquired some 36 books and several envelopes of manuscripts and letters relating to 20th-Century Anglo-Irish writers, especially George Russel (A.E.), from Alan Denson in 1970. Denson was the editor of AE's letters, as well as having published a bibliography on AE. Denson's correspondence with writers and notes are indexed.

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The collection consists of Starrett's novels, bibliographies, essays, poems, correspondence and letters, biographies, autobiographies, and miscellaneous odds and ends such as greeting cards and book plates.

Scope and Contents The Patric Dickinson papers contain poetry manuscripts ranging from his early years as a poet to the manuscripts of poems included in his 1970 book, More Than Time. Much of the poetry is on loose leaf paper, though there are two bound notebooks with handwritten poetry. Also included in the collection are a number of radio play manuscripts, a typescript of his play The Golden Touch, and manuscripts of essays. The radio play manuscripts aired on the BBC Third Programme Radio between 1958 and...

Scope and Contents This collection provides extensive documentation of several of Hanley’s typescripts and unpublished works. The manuscripts contain typescripts for plays Hanley wrote for television and radio. The last two sections of the manuscript collection include letters from Hanley to Norman Unger and from Hanley to K. A. Ward. Besides original materials, over 100 published items individually cataloged and listed on the library’s online catalog compliment the manuscripts and are held in the...

Abstract The Oxford University Socratic Club was founded by Stella Adwinckle in 1941 and was an establishment where Iris Murdoch and C.S. Lewis gave talks and developed theories that would later influence their writings.  The Socratic Club was created with the purpose of an open discussion of the conceptual ambiguity associated with religion (Christianity in particular).  The Socratic Digest was the club's magazine that published talks by various people, such as C.S. Lewis, Iris Murdoch, H.H. Price,...

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The Historic Scenic Collection contains intriguing documentation, photos, blueprints, and advertisements of the Chicago Opera dating back to the early 1900s.  This collection is 250 linear feet that spans an entire century of theatre performances.  Some of the highlights ­­are production photos of scenes and play actors, blueprints of the sets and stages, and old-time programs that were handed out to avid theatre goers.