Jean Toomer papers 1898-1963 (inclusive) 1920-1954

Latimer, Laurie Bodine.

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Bunnell, Elise.

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Walcott, Eugenia B.

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Campbell, Berta Ochsner.

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Latimer, Clark Watt.

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Kelm, Karlton, 1908-1987

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Authors. From the description of Papers of Karlton and William Kelm, 1928-1986. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233106814 ...

Hood, Evelyn M.

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Schubart, Dorothy Obermeyer.

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Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990

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Chicago dancer, poet and painter. From the description of Mark Turbyfill papers, 1911-1985. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 317711431 Mark Turbyfill was born in Oklahoma in 1896 and educated in local schools there until he moved to Chicago at the age of 14. He attended high school in Chicago and remained in the city to pursue poetry and dancing. His early poems were somewhat in the Imagist style, but he also wrote satires in free verse. His most famous poems are Livi...

Dupee, Katharine Green.

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Fauset, Jessie Redman.

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Dupee, Gordon.

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Walker, Dorothy

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Unidentified person. From the description of Letter, 1938 Mar. 25. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 27077427 ...

Kelm, William.

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Hergenham, Mildred.

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Dupee, Charles.

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Grove, Shirley.

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Greene, Felix

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Wright, Mae.

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Bliss, Caroline Mirza.

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Ware, Ruth.

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Smith, Harrison (Musician)

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Jones, Rachel Latimer.

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Baldwin, Louis Fremont.

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Green, Mildred Sarah, 1929-

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Dupee, Yvonne.

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Goldsmith, Lide.

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Grove, Max.

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Lane, Jeremy F.

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Content, Marjorie, 1895-1984

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Marjorie Content (1895–1984) was an American photographer from New York City active in modernist social and artistic circles. Her photographs were rarely published and never exhibited in her lifetime. Since the late 20th century, collectors and art historians have taken renewed interest in her work. Her photographs have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chrysler Museum of Art; her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions. She was married several times, incl...

Toomer (Family : Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967)

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Nathan Pinchback Toomer was born in Washington, D.C. in 1894, the son of Nathan Toomer (1839-1906), a mixed-race freedman, and his third wife Nina Elizabeth Pinchback (1866-1909), also of mixed race, whose parents were people of color free before the Civil War. Toomer's father, the senior Nathan, was born into slavery in Chatham County, North Carolina, and sold when young to Col. Henry Toomer. Nathan worked for Henry Toomer as a personal valet and assistant before and after the Civil War, lea...

Combes, Nina Eliza Pinchback, 1866-1909

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Nathan Pinchback "Jean" Toomer was born in Washington, D.C. in 1894, the son of Nathan Toomer (1839-1906), a mixed-race freedman, and his third wife Nina Elizabeth Pinchback (1866-1909), also of mixed race, whose parents were people of color free before the Civil War. In 1893, the widower Nathan at age 54 married 28-year-old Nina Elizabeth Pinchback, a wealthy young woman of color. She was born in New Orleans as the third child of people of color who had been free before the Civil War. Her fa...

Toomer, Nathan, 1839-1906

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Nathan Toomer (1839-1906), a mixed-race freedman, and his third wife Nina Elizabeth Pinchback (1866-1909), also of mixed race, whose parents were people of color free before the Civil War were the parents of Nathan Pinback "Jean" Toomer. The senior Nathan, was born into slavery in Chatham County, North Carolina, and sold when young to Col. Henry Toomer. Nathan worked for Henry Toomer as a personal valet and assistant before and after the Civil War, learning the ways of the white upper class. ...

Crane, Hart, 1899-1932

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At the time of his early death at thirty-two in 1932, Hart Crane was already recognized as a major American poet, though he had published only two volumes of poetry and a handful of poems in various magazines. Born in the small town of Garretsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, the only child of Clarence A. and Grace Hart Crane, Harold Hart Crane experienced an unsettling childhood and adolescence that undoubtedly affected his adult personal life and poetical career. Though he was freed of economi...

Grove, Shirley.

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Dupee, Gordon.

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Latimer, Clark Watt.

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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967

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Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles ...

Lane, Betty.

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Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932

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Walcott, Eugenia B.

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Hubben, William, 1895-1974

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Prominant Quaker educator, speaker, editor of Friends Intelligencer and later the Friends Journal, and author of books and articles in the fields of religion and literature. Before emmigrating from Germany in 1933, he had been the editor of the German Quaker Monthly, Der Quaker. Born in Germany in 1895, William Hubben joined the small but growing movement of German Quakers in 1923 and participated in a number of international religious and peace conferences. In 1928 he w...

Bunnell, Elise.

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Cayce, Edgar, 1877-1945

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Derleth, August, 1909-1971

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August William Derleth, 1909-1971, was an author. Although Derleth's literary strengths are exemplified in his nostalgic writings about the Midwestern prairies, he is best remembered for his "weird" fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. From the guide to the Derleth mss., 1958-1965, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly) American author. From the description of Typed letters signed (108) : Sauk City, Wis., to Edw...

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

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Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor, publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her p...

Walker, Dorothy

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Lane, Jeremy

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Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949

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Baldwin, Louis Fremont.

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Green, Mildred O.

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Bliss, Caroline Mirza.

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Content, Harry, d. 1941.

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Author, newspaper editor. From the description of Letter to Maurice Hanline, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349777 American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. From the guide to the Sherwood Anderson miscellany, 1981, undated, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Author. From the description of Death in the woods : annotated short story, circa 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Kelm, Karlton.

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Ware, Ruth.

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Dupee, Charles.

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Goldman, Perry M.

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Dupee, Katharine Green.

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Frank, Waldo David, 1889-1967

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0003a9 Author and critic Waldo Frank was born in New Jersey and attended Yale. After graduation he worked for the New York Evening Post, wrote plays and prose, and co-edited the short-lived journal, Seven Arts. He found success with a series of complex novels, and became one of the most influential literary and social critics of his day, promotin...

Burke, Kenneth

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Kenneth Burke was an American literary critic and philosopher of language. From the description of Kenneth Burke letters to Stanley Weintraub, 1971-1984. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 768251269 From the description of Towards looking back [manuscript], 1976. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 768131282 From the description of An Eye-poem for the ear [manuscript] / Kenneth Burke. (Pennsylvania State Univers...

Fauset, Jessie Redman.

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Bennett, John G. (John Godolphin), 1897-1974

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Wright, Mae.

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Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....

Hood, Evelyn

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Goldsmith, Lide.

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Campbell, Berta Ochsner.

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Kelm, William.

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Walcott, Russell S.

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Greene, Felix

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Hergenham, Mildred.

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Grove, Max.

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Latimer, Laurie Bodine.

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Schubart, Dorothy Obermeyer.

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Smith, Harrison

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Harrison Smith was a jazz concert promoter and booking agent. Jelly Roll Morton hired Smith as a New York partner in a booking agency whose main office was to be in Los Angeles. Accordingly, they shared an office in New York for a brief period during the late 1920s or early 1930s. The partnership was apparently shortlived but was the basis upon which Smith’s claims of copyright ownership of 20-30 Morton’s compositions were founded. Smith later contested Morton’s will over royalties compositions ...

Exman, Eugene.

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Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-

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Cane, Melville, 1879-1980

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Lawyer and poet. From the description of Letters 1936-1957. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 703899109 Lawyer, poet, and Naumburg's brother-in-law. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1922-1975. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585399 Lawyer, poet. From the description of Reminiscences of Melville Henry Cane : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). Worl...

Dupee, Yvonne.

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Jones, Rachel Latimer.

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