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Mesostic

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

for john furnival (120763) [MATCHBOXES], 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56060-9999508
Scope and Contents

One image is a rectangle of the words MATCHBOXES and a second image is a free form composed of red m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Mail Connection 1 , 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19231-19614

Me Yes You No Us (090663), 1963

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-09833-10027
Scope and Contents

This lettered hand-drawn poem is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Mesostic Book, 1984

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02587-2629
Scope and Contents

Each page has been cut to four horizontal segments. A single word, white in color, has been cast into the white background of the page. A mesostic is formed from the middle letters of these four words. Reading down the center of the cover is the word alto which is the second part of the street name for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984