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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6186
Abstract
"J'ai Toujours Ma Boule." Nouveau Tue-Boches. An unusual game, dating to the First World War, in which the aim is to launch a ball at five chromolithographed wooden heads representing the "Boche" (or Germans) and the leaders of the other Central Powers, consisting of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, with the goal of knocking the heads over to reveal the word "Kamerad!" printed to the base of each figure. The game was produced by Perplexité in Paris, circa 1916. This...
Dates:
circa 1916
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6243
Abstract
A collection of three posters portraying Joseph II (1741-1791) and Louis Phelypeaux (1705-1777). All of the posters incorporate reproductions of earlier paintings and engravings with French or Latin text describing the subject matter of the images. Two of the posters relate to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and use visual works by Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) and Theodorus Vallery. One poster portrays Louis Phelypeaux, comte de Saint Florentin--who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in...
Dates:
circa 1764-1970
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2535
Abstract
Collection consists of photographs and clippings of American theatre and film actress Madge Kennedy.
Dates:
1922 - 1929
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: 6257
Abstract
January 13, 1898 issue of L'Aurore in which Emile Zola's letter to the President of the Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, who was accused of treason by the French Army.
Dates:
1898 January 13
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1014
Abstract
Collection consists of various vocal scores, press clippings, photographs, programs, awards, correspondence, scrapbooks, and recordings belonging to American soprano Maralin Niska (1926-2016).
Dates:
1915 - 2014
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3390
Abstract
Collection consists of travel brochures, slides, trading cards, and postcards of North Korea.
Dates:
1980s-1992
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6187
Abstract
The Space Race tabletop game is a midcentury educational game based on the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s between the Soviet Union and the United States, housed inside of a hinged wooden box illustrated with planets and Soviet and U.S. rockets. Players are intended to use the game's revolving spring-loaded wooden launcher to launch small plastic rockets into target cups representing various planets and rockets. The Space Race officially began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union...
Dates:
circa 1960s
Collection
Identifier: 6006
Abstract
A collection of correspondence to and from Voltaire, as well as three pages of poetry written by Voltaire. Many letters in the collection are either to or from Frederick the Great, who was the King of Prussia from 1740-1786. The correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick, as well as all the other correspondence in the collection covers such topics as freedom of expression in 18th Century France and wars which were going on in Europe at the time. Voltaire was sick and apparently bed-ridden...
Dates:
1741 - 1777
Collection — Oversize-folder: 1
Identifier: 0574
Abstract
Collection consists of four color lithographs from von Humboldt’s 1813 book Vues des Cordillères, et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique.
Dates:
1813
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0367
Abstract
This collection includes pamphlets, booklets, posters, periodicals, and literature regarding the United States involvement and sentiments of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
Dates:
1914-1970