Documents every American film from 1893-1958 and 1961-1970.
Over 1,100 (mostly unpublished) scripts. Also includes detailed and fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts, and facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Gift of Mary Wickes in honor of her parents Isabella & Frank Wickenhauser.
Digitized books in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, sourced through partnerships with major world libraries. Monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.
Full-page images of US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater, as well as film fan magazines and music press titles. Primary sources from the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
Wordsworth’s manuscripts and working notebooks, as well as some annotated editions and materials from other Romantic writers and painters. Materials from the Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, UK.
Over 100,000 of the most important and influential poems representing the full range of movements and traditions in American poetry from 1900 to the present day including Maya Angelou, John Ashbery Gwendolyn Brooks, Clark Coolidge, Rita Dove, Susan Howe, Langston Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Content includes: Epistolary novels, Gothic novels, Documentary fictions, Allegorical narratives, and satires.
Comprised of four separate sections: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic, Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks, Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment, and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.
