Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

Collection contains memorabilia relating to Alex Bradford and Arthur Alexander assembled by music publisher Richard S. Becker and some of Becker's personal papers. The memorabilia, such as framed albums and printed ephemera, relates to Alex Bradford's and Arthur Alexander's better known works, including Bradford's theatrical work, "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope," and covers of Alexander's songs by The Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On") and The Beatles ("Anna"). Becker's personal papers include awards and a small number of photographs and letters from political figures.

This collection documents the research and writing of Richard Slotkin chiefly related to his historical studies and works of historical fiction, 1959-2005. Material includes his research notes, his typed drafts, and proofs of works. Other material includes Slotkin's course notes and papers from his doctoral work at Brown University.

The Richard Wright Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence with other writers such as Nelson Algren, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Gunnar Myrdal and Margaret Walker, photographs, financial and legal documents and printed materials relating to the life and work of Richard Wright. Included are drafts of such works as Black Boy and Native Son, photographs of trips to Spain and Ghana, various items of personal memorabilia such as Wright's Spingarn Medal, and a film of Wright's screen test for the movie version of "Native Son".

Photographs created by Marion Belanger, 2006-2012 and printed 2015 that document tectonic shifting of the North American Plate in California and Iceland.

The River of No Return Collection consists of photographs created by Laura McPhee that document sites and persons in the Sawtooth Valley of Idaho, 2003-2008, related to her work as the initial Artist in Residence in the area underwritten by the Alturas Foundation, as well as project files, 2003-2014, which contain material related imagery and products from the project, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2006, and her book, River of No Return (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009). Photographic material in the collection includes color and black-and-white photographic prints, transparencies, and film negatives. Project files include research, correspondence, and print lists as well as preparatory and promotion material related to exhibitions of her images and production of her book.

The collection consists of photographs taken by Roberta Price of communes in the southwestern United States from 1969 to 1970, including black and white and color prints, negatives, and transparencies. The collection also includes drafts, correspondence, and printed material relating to Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture; additional photographs; interviews and other born digital audiovisual materials; and other papers.

The Robert Bartlett Haas Collection on Gertrude Stein and the Conference Press contains correspondence, drafts of writings, notes, photographs, printed material and papers relating to Getrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and the production and distribution of Conference Press publications, including Stein's What Are Masterpieces?

Correspondence, photographs, printed materials, drawings, and other papers, by or relating to Missouri banker, Robert Beverly Price. Includes 60 autograph and typescript letters, signed, 1860-1922, undated. Letters concern either the Boone County National Bank of Columbia or the Price family, with most letters being from Robert Beverly Price to his wife, Evaline Hockaday Price, or granddaughter, Emily Blair Henrotin. There are also newspaper articles (loose and in a scrapbook) regarding Price and the Boone County National Bank of Columbia, 1914-1964, undated. Present are an ambrotype of Price, salt print honeymoon portrait of Price and Evaline, tintype and 7 cartes-de-visite of the Price family, 2 ambrotypes of Florence Price, and 7 other photographs of Price and his family, with individuals identified, circa 1850-1925. Also in the collection is typescript correspondence, signed, from Mrs. Lawrence B. Cummings concerning the gift of painted portraits of Price family members to the College of William and Mary, 1942; 4 framed reproduction prints of the portraits, undated; the Price family coat of arms, undated; and 3 typescript works on the history of the Price family, 1910-1928. Also included are 17 pencil drawings, signed, made by Price while a draftsman, circa 1853-1858, with a copy of The first and second annual reports of the geological survey of Missouri (Jefferson City [Mo.]: James Lusk, public printer, 1855). In addition to depicting geographical features and landscapes of the state, Price's sketches show views of Palmyra, Quincy, Hannibal, and Parkville, Missouri. Accompanied by a Missouri broadsheet concerning the 1885 mayoral election, 1885 March.

This collection chiefly consists of photographs collected by Robert B. Fisher, but also includes his subject files and a small quantity of writings related to the history of photography, 1840-1998.