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Pages from the Past: original leaves from rare books and manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_pages
Abstract

Primarily individual leaves from European or Near Eastern manuscripts or printed books, but also contains leaves from newspapers, pamphlets, as well as several ancient Near and Middle Eastern artifacts, including a Babylonian cuneiform tablet and cylinder seal.

Dates: 2500 BCE-1894 CE; Other: Majority of material found in Bulk 1500-1800 CE

Seamus Cooney Black Sparrow Press Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti...
Dates: 1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004

Sister Jane Patricia Freeland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: exws-sisterjanepatriciafreeland
Scope and Contents The collection documents the academic work and education of Sister Jane P. Freeland, who was a nun, lover of music, and a medieval scholar recognized worldwide as the translator of medieval religious works never before available in English. The vast majority of the items are drafts of her translations and notebooks full of her jottings. She particularly loved medieval songs and hymns of Abelard.The collections also contains personal material including correspondence with her home...
Dates: approximately 1970s-2010s

The Shadow Archive

 Collection
Identifier: 05-exws_shadow
Abstract

Press kit for the 1994 Universal Studios film, The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin, John Lone and Penelope Ann Miller, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. The archive alsos includes four issues of the detective fiction serial The Shadow published the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1932-1994

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Correspondence 5
Proofs (Printing) 5
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 4
Authors, American -- 20th century 2
Books -- Reviews 2
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Catalogs 2
Children's books -- United States 2
Ephemera 2
Illumination of books and manuscripts 2
Illustration of books 2
Letters 2
Poetry 2
Publishers and publishing 2
Small presses 2
Typescripts 2
manuscripts (documents) 2
Academic writing 1
Advertisements 1
America, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
American poetry -- 19th century 1
Animated films 1
Artists -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
Authors, American -- 21st century 1
Avengers (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Batman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Beer labels -- Design 1
Bibliographies 1
Book designers--United States 1
Book industries and trade--United States--20th century 1
Bookbinding 1
Books 1
Books -- History 1
Business records 1
Catwoman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Certificates 1
Children's literature -- United States 1
Children's literature, American 1
Children's periodicals 1
Children's poetry, American 1
Children’s stories, American 1
Cistercian glass painting and staining -- France 1
Cistercians 1
Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Graphic novels 1
Cuneiform tablets--Specimens 1
Detective and mystery stories 1
Diaries 1
Donald Duck (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Dummies (Bookselling) 1
Etching -- 20th century 1
Etchings 1
Exhibition catalogs 1
Glass painting and staining 1
Green Arrow (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Green Lantern (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Illustrators, American 1
Incredible Hulk (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Interviews 1
Iron Man (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Ives Street Press -- Records and correspondence 1
Justice League of America (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Labels 1
Letterpress printing 1
Letterpress works 1
Manuscripts -- Facsimiles 1
Manuscripts -- Specimens 1
Manuscripts, Arabic (Papyri) -- Specimens 1
Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Specimens 1
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Facsimiles 1
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Pictorial works 1
Motion picture plays, American 1
Nightwing (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Obituaries 1
Pamphlets 1
Personal correspondence 1
Picture books for children 1
Poetry -- Illustrations 1
Poets, American -- 20th century 1
Printing -- History 1
Printing -- Specimens 1
Printmakers -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
Prints 1
Private press books -- Specimens 1
Private presses 1
Scrapbooks 1
Serial publications 1
Sermons 1
Shadow (Fictitious character) 1
Shadow (Motion picture : 1994) 1
Sketches 1
Spider-Man (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Stained glass windows 1
Superman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Toy and movable books 1
Wonder Woman (Fictitious character) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
X-Men (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc. 1
awards 1
color slides 1
detached leaves 1
drawings (visual works) 1
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Language
English 13
French 1
Latin 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Abbaye de Lachalade (Meuse, France) 1
Abbaye de Pontigny 1
Abbaye de la Bénisson-Dieu 1
Allen, Thomas B. (Thomas Burt), 1928-2004 1
Baldwin, Alec, 1958- 1
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Berlin, Lucia 1
Black Sparrow Press 1
Blackburn, Paul 1
Blake, Trevor 1
Boutilier, Nancy, 1961- 1
Bowles, Jane (Bowles, Jane Auer), 1917-1973 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1
Bromige, David 1
Bukowski, Charles T. 1
Cash, Barbara 1
Catholic Church--Clergy 1
Christensen, Paul, 1943- 1
Clark, Tom (Thomas Willard), 1941- 1
Club Konrad Haebler‏ 1
Codrescu, Andrei, 1946- 1
Coleman, Wanda 1
Cook, Ferris 1
Cooney, Seamus 1
Corman, Cid 1
Cossery, Albert, 1913-2008 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
DC Comics, Inc. 1
Dawson, Fielding, 1930-2002 1
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1
Dorn, Edward 1
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 1
Edwards, Paul, 1950- 1
Eigner, Larry, 1927-1996 1
Enslin, Theodore 1
Episcopal Community of St. John the Baptist (Mendham, N.J.) 1
Eshleman, Clayton 1
Everson, William, 1912-1994 1
Faas, Ekbert, 1938- 1
Faksimile-Verlag Luzern 1
Fante, John, 1909-1983 1
Field, Edward, 1924- 1
Frank, Thaisa 1
Freeland, Jane Patricia, 1910-2004 1
Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972 1
Grossinger, Richard, 1944- 1
Hanka, Ladislav 1
Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943 1
Ives Street Press 1
Jaffe, Sherril, 1945- 1
Joel Oppenheimer, 1930-1988 1
Kelly, Robert, 1935- 1
Koller, James 1
Lally, Michael, 1942- 1
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 1
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 1
Lifshin, Lyn 1
Loy, Mina 1
M. Moleiro Editor, S.A. 1
Malanga, Gerard 1
Martin, John 1
Marvel Comics Group 1
Miller, Penelope Ann 1
Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981 1
Morris, Wright, 1910-1998 1
Morrow, Bradford, 1951- 1
Mrabet, Mohammed, 1940- 1
Mudd, Harvey, 1940- 1
Myles, Eileen 1
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- 1
Olson, Charles, 1910-1970 1
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990 1
Owens, Rochelle 1
Palmer, Michael, 1943- 1
Parker, Tyler 1
Pommy-Vega, Janine 1
Purdy, James, 1914-2009 1
Rakosi, Carl, 1903-2004 1
Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 1
Roditi, Edouard 1
Sanders, Ed 1
Sanford, John B. 1
Saroyan, Aram 1
Schuyler, James 1
Shelnutt, Eve, 1943- 1
Small, David, 1945- 1
Smith, Fred, 1933- 1
Sorrentino, Gilbert 1
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 1
Spicer, Jack 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 1
Stepanchev, Stephen 1
Stewart, Sarah, 1939- 1
Street and Smith Publications 1
Tarn, Nathaniel 1
Top Cow Productions 1
Turk, Joseph, 1895-1951 1
Universal City Studios 1
Wakoski, Diane 1
Walt Disney Company 1
WildStorm Productions 1
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