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Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts

Business, Literary, and Local History Manuscripts

Manuscripts, records, and papers primarily related to businesses and people of New York and New England.
Chiefly 19th-century New York and New England local history manuscripts and business records, primarily for craftsmen and railroads; papers of children's book writer and illustrator Marcia J. Brown and two original manuscripts by Maud and Miska Petersham; papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy; papers of Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 19th century social reformer; and papers of Benito Perez Galdos, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Evengi Zamyatin, and other writers.

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A weblog that includes single numbered sentences published at a usual rate of one per day. The weblog's prospectus describes the blog as "Footnotes to a nonexistent book, a series of observations, a novel without the plot, the autobiography of an imagination, linked poetry of the everyday world, an impossible goal". URL: http://onemillionfootnotes.blogspot.com

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Films, 1981-1982 0.2 cubic ft.

Includes super-8 and 16mm films (along with related reel-to-reel audiotapes) created by Geof Huth at Vanderbilt University. Includes seven reels of super-8 film (most with accompanying reel-to-reel or cassette audiotapes) and six 16mm films (five collaged films and one hand-drawn film).

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Includes school, professional, and art publications by Geof Huth (except for books) as well as numerous publications documenting underground art and literature (especially visual poetry) from the mid-1980s on. Some paper publications include audio or other media. Includes occasional correspondence with Geof Huth that is either written directly on the publications or is slipped into the pages. Includes one cubic feet of odd-sized publications and a loose box in the form of a triangular prism, which stores the mailart assembling, Killer Whale.