Finding aids for four newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month:
Processed by Monique Duhaime and Melanie Wisner:
W. Clarkson (Firm) costume designs (MS Thr 571)
William Berry Clarkson was born in 1861 into a family of perruquiers (wig-makers) and by the age of twelve was working in the business. Clarkson became best known as a wig-maker but expanded his business into make-up and costumes. For half a century he provided the wigs and costumes for most of the West End theaters. At the peak of his career in the 1920s he may have had 50,000 costumes on hand and employed a staff of close to a hundred; he knew everyone on the London stage.
Processed by Melanie Wisner:
Miscellaneous Documents Concerning American Slavery (MS Am 1278)
Primarily manuscript bills of sale for slaves in Charleston (S.C.) and New Orleans (La.), with a few printed and other documents pertaining to slavery in North America.
Letters to James Haughton Woods (MS Am 2693)
James Haughton Woods (1864-1935) was a Harvard professor and scholar of Greek and Indic philosophy. His correspondents included Henri Bergson, Phillips Brooks, T. S. Eliot, William James, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and George Santayana.
Richard Miller Archive for Tiber Press Poetry Series by Ashbery, Koch, O’Hara, and Schuyler (MS Am 2694)
These papers of Tiber Press publisher Richard Miller relate to the textual component of the 1960 publication of a series of four volumes by four New York School poets with illustrations by four artists: John Ashbery (The Poems, illustrator Joan Mitchell); Kenneth Koch (Permanently, illustrator Alfred Leslie); Frank O’Hara (Odes, illustrator Michael Goldberg); and James Schuyler (Salute, illustrator Grace Hartigan).