Scope and Contents Early proofs for Jorge Luis Borges’ essay “Elementos de preceptiva,” which was first published in Sur Year III, No. 7, April 1933 and later reprinted in several collections of Borges’ work. In the essay, Borges analyzes four passages in verse, including a close reading of a line from Paradise Lost, “El estudio de la venganza, el odio inmortal,” and a stanza from e.e. cummings. In the section in which he examines cummings, the proofs contain...

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5 photographs of Walters at Johns Hopkins University circa 1934-1937, one newspaper clipping from 1934 describing his four-year fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and a photocopy of a biographical sketch of Winston Danae Walters published after his death in 1968.

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A series of 12 numbered black-and-white postcards published by G. Sternfeld depicting scenes associated with the second trial of the Dreyfus affair. Depicted individuals include Alfred Dreyfus, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Godefroy Cavaignac, Henri Rochefort, Émile Zola, Fernand Labory, Georges Clemenceau, Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, and Georges Picquart. Contains two copies of card #3.

Content Description A collection of seven items from the 1972 Children’s March for Survival, which was organized by the National Welfare Rights Organization to protest the Nixon administration's policies on welfare, education, and child care. Items include a flyer with information about participation in the march; informational handouts about student rights, the H.R. 1 welfare reform bill’s impacts on low-income families, the free and reduced price school lunch program, environmental health impacts on children,...

Scope and Contents Three mailer items produced by the Baltimore 2 Defense Committee which was organized in 1976 in defense of Ray Ceci and Mike Pione, Baltimore activists who were assaulted by Thomas Fannin while putting up flyers for a public meeting on wealth inequality. Ceci and Pione were subsequently arrested and charged with assault, littering, and illegal posting; Fannin was not charged for his assault on Ceci and Pione. In these campaign materials, the organization asks for financial assistance for...

Scope and Contents These two badges have the same design of a laurel wreath topped with a heraldic sun surrounding an image of two clasped hands holding a pike topped with a Phrygian (or liberty) cap. One badge is gold in color and the other is silver. Both have fastenings on the reverse for sewing onto clothing. The coat of arms of Argentina was originally designed in 1813, and it uses imagery popularized during the French Revolution, such as the Phrygian cap on a pike, which was included in the symbol of the...

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An anti-Dreyfus articulated caricature printed on thin cardboard, depicting a soldier in red pants and cap plunging the writer Émile Zola into a barrel of molasses bearing the word "Vidange", with a brad fastener used to move the soldier's arm (and thereby the figure of Zola) up and down into the barrel. The text reads, "Zola dans la Mé...lasse!" Art by P. Dous-Y'nell (also known as P. Douzy-Nell and Paul Pierre Marie Joseph Doussinelle). Published by Léon Hayard.