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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to the Great Dead: Ars Longa Vida Blue Ave Atque Vale! / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan; Oppenheimer J., 1989

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Identifier: CC-13152-13453
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts Joel Oppenheimer in baseball regalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Letters to the Great Dead: The Feast / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan; Smith Sv., 1985

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Identifier: CC-13144-13445
Scope and Contents

The ink color in each line of poetry becomes greener and relates to green vegetables (verdure). Apparently, Stevie Smith was a vegetarian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Letters to the Great Dead: Un Paisaje Para Frederico Mompou / Furnival, John., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30258-31662
Scope and Contents

Mompou was a Catalan composer from Barcelona who was greatly influenced by Erik Satie. The image on this print is a portrait of Mompou with the caption, blue wings - falling through - orange clouds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Lettre Internationale. No.30/Jul / Williams E., 1995

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Identifier: CC-07634-7779
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed bu Emmett Williams. This issue also includes several concrete poems by Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Libro Quemado (Burnt Book) / Katz, Leandro., 1995

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Identifier: CC-08142-8303
Scope and Contents

The book is dedicated to "the memory of the uncountable codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa, in Mani, Yucatan in June 1562, as a part of a series of autos-da-fe carried out under his orders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

LTD. Interchangeable in Eternity / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-29904-31291
Scope and Contents

Each page has a handwritten, brief poem in black, blue, red, or yellow colored ink. Although the poems were all written by Hirschman, he attributes the poems to his family, e.g., Ruth, David, and Celia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Marat / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12094-12318
Scope and Contents The poem first two letters of this poem (MA) of MARATAPLAN! are printed in black and the remainder in red. Wikipedia 2011: During the constitutional monarchy, there were two radical groups vying for power, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Although both groups were more radical in their views than the moderates who had designed the constitutional monarchy, the Girondins were somewhat less radical. In late 1791, the Girondins first emerged as an important power in France. At first the two parties were united in their views. The Girondins were concerned about the plight of the blacks in France's colonies and were instrumental in passing legislation granting equal rights to all free blacks and mulattoes. They wanted the declaration of war against Austria in early 1792 in the hopes that a show of strength would give them leverage with the King. The Jacobins grew increasingly critical of Girondin policies. During the September massacres later that year, the Girondin leaders tried to...
Dates: 1986

Mein Kalli Graphycs / Silveira, Walter., 1994

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Identifier: CC-31069-32534
Scope and Contents

The cover title indicates that the portfolio was made by Walt B. Blackberry aka Walter Silveira. The work was given to the Sackners during a visit in October 1998 to the archive in the company of Augusto and Cid de Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Merry / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15817-16148
Scope and Contents

The card is addressed to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Mom! Mimi! / Sackner, Sara; Sackner RK., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47777-68796
Scope and Contents

Seventy-second birthday greetings from Sara to Ruth Sackner -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Mower Is Less / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973

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Identifier: CC-11975-12198
Scope and Contents

This pun is printed in green to suggest grass being mowed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

New York Times Book Review: Book Review Summer Reading. June / Fella E., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33912-35584
Scope and Contents

Edward Fella contributed colored calligraphic drawings for the cover of this newspaper review and seven additional drawings for selected sections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999