ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

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The essay and photographs trace the history of the public toilets in Montparnass during the Belle Epoque. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator Luar Kruger contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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John Furnival's print, "Woful Dane Bottom," that deals with the small town that the Welsh poet W.H. Davies spent the last years of his life is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is based on the inner-city alley in Pittsburgh where the artist lives. The work is made from the street where Samuels both draws minute sections of the roadway and also casts sections of the street using black rag-paper pulp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent several pieces to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Alain de Botton contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was a gift of John Dixon Hunt when he visited the Sackner Archive to study the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Professor Hunt is the editor of Penn studies in Landscape Architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Some of Patterson's text works are reminiscent of those by Ian Hamilton Finlay. The fold-out is Patterson's "The Great Bear," map of the London underground. Patterson often uses the names of Hollywood celebrities and political figures in his text works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book of imaginative maps surveys a shared world of thoughts and emotions. The atlas is based on traditional cartography, but substitutes the names of cities, rivers and seas for concepts, feelings and everyday experiences. There are 21 maps with names such as secrets, knowledge, home, health, passion and chaos. The book was initially published in Dutch in 1999. According to the publisher, "while adhering to the conventions of cartography, this atlas invites the traveler to follow routes through familiar-looking topography into hitherto uncharted realms of imagination, ideas, feelings and experience. Cradled by the Ocean of Possibilities, the Sea of Plenty and Still Waters, this strangely familiar place has its capital Boom, its airports Escape and Freedom. It encompasses beautiful regions like the Peninsular of Pleasure as well as desolate wastes such as the Swamps of Boredom and the Bay of Melancholy. Then again there are the well-known Mountains of Work and the Safe Harbour...

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Paula Scher has painted large maps with dense and colorful geographic names of the locations. The maps include Africa, Europe, Florida, Los Angeles and Long Island. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.