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Collection Title:
Creator:
Bakelite Museum
Inclusive Dates:
1985-1994
Abstract:
Printed material and a photograph from the Bakelite Museum in England
Type of Material:
Posters.
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Brochures.
Subject:
Plastics
Bakelite.
Plastics -- History.
Plastics -- Museums.

Creator:
Becker, Ronald G.
Inclusive Dates:
1836-1960
Abstract:
More than one thousand photographs of 19th century sideshows and circuses, most by photographer Charles Eisenmann or his successor Frank Wendt, the remainder by unknown photographers. Most of the photographs depict the physical abnormalities of humans and animals featured at these shows. Subjects include P.T. Barnum, the P.T. Barnum Firm (Barnum and Bailey Circus), and Tom Thumb. Also included are Becker's research notes, an 1865-1868 run of The New York Clipper (forerunner of Billboard Magazine), and various print (broadsides and posters) and non-print circus memorabilia.
Type of Material:
Advertising fliers.
Albumen prints.
Broadsides (notices)
Cabinet photographs.
Cartes-de-visite.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Ephemera.
Gelatin silver prints.
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Posters.
Salted paper prints.
Subject:
New York clipper.
Photographers.
Photography
Abnormalities, Human -- Photographs.
Advertising, Circus.
Amusement parks -- Photographs.
Animals -- Abnormalities -- Photographs.
Broadsides -- 19th century.
Cabinet photographs.
Carte de visite photographs.
Circus -- Collectibles.
Circus animals -- Photographs.
Circus performers -- United States -- Photographs.
Deformities, Artificial -- Photographs.
Dwarfs -- Portraits.
Freak shows -- Photographs.
Giants -- Portraits.
Photography of the grotesque -- United States.
Portrait photography.
Posters -- 19th century.
Printed ephemera.
Conjoined twins -- Portraits.

3.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Buffington, Kath, 1951 or 1952.
Inclusive Dates:
1963-2000
Abstract:
Correspondence, printed material and posters/memorabilia relating to non-violent direct action and war/tax resistance.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Newsletters.
Posters.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.)
Rome (N.Y.)
Nuclear times.
Peace newsletter.
Activism and social reform
New York State
Civil disobedience -- New York (State)
Civil disobedience -- United States.
Civil disobedience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Direct action.
Government, Resistance to.
Nonviolence.
Nuclear disarmament.
Passive resistance -- United States.
Pacifists -- United States.
Peace -- Societies, etc.
War tax resistance.

4.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bultmann, Rudolf, 1884-1976.
Inclusive Dates:
1929-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the German dialectical theologian. Correspondence, manuscripts (mostly in German), lectures, notebooks, and published material; correspondence includes three letters from Albert Schweitzer (1929-1931).
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Essays.
Lectures.
Notebooks.
Posters.
Subject:
Theologians.
Religion and Philosophy
Dialectical theology.
Theologians.
Theology -- History -- 20th century.