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What Work Is : Poems
Volume dedicated and Inscribed by the author to Larry Levis. From the Larry Levis Collection.Inscription:
April 11, ‘91Dear Larry,I wanted you to have the first copy of this book because (Turn 2 pages, please) … You know WHAT WORK IS, & no one…
What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors.
Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 "The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational…
An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed to Give the United States Power to Safeguard the Child Life of the Nation.
Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.Text from back of pamphlet: A federal minimum will give to American Children all the advantages of our federal form of government.Every state may wish to give its…
What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work.
Handbill showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the…
Sit-in Songs : Songs of the Freedom Riders
Songs recorded by participants in CORE's Freedom Highways project in the summer of 1962. The project was designed to open chain restaurants along major federal highways to all persons.
Vinyl LP and songbook.
Dauntless DM 4301, a division of Audio…
Vinyl LP and songbook.
Dauntless DM 4301, a division of Audio…
Soldier Attention: A Private Word with You
World War I pamphlet warning soldiers of the effect of sexually transmitted diseases.
From the William E. Blake Collection.
From the William E. Blake Collection.
Conversations with Tom Robbins
Special Collections and Archives copy of this title is inscribed by Tom Robbins.
Jitterbug Perfume
Epigraphs:
The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms.
--Ernest…
B is for Beer
PS 3568 .O233 B4 2009
Still Life With Woodpecker
Epigraphs: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll…
Skinny Legs And All
Epigraphs: The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed. --Franz Kafka It's the end of the world as we know it (And I feel fine.) --R.E.M.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation.
--The Encyclopedia Britannica
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
--Isaac Bashevis…
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
I want God, I want poetry,
I want danger, I want freedom,
I want goodness, I want sin.
--Aldous Huxley
Another Roadside Attraction
Epigraphs:"And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written."-- John 21:25"Incidentally, Reggie Fox, who runs…
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Epigraphs:The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.The nakedness of women is the work of God.Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.-- William BlakeI told Dale, "When I go, just skin me and put me on top of Trigger." And Dale said, "Now don't…
Villa Incognito
Epigraph:You never know to whom you're talking. -- Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaPS 3568.O233 V55 2003
Wild Ducks Flying Backward: The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
Epigraphs:Your true guide drinks from an undammed stream. --RumiNever enter a house that does not have furniture music. -- Eric Satie
Zoo, Volume 1, No. 1
The Zoo was a short lived literary magazine published in 1960 by students at Richmond Professional Institute (now VCU). In fact, volume one, number one, may have been the only issue. The magazine contains 15 poems including one by Tom Robbins…
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
"This is not an autobiography. God forbid! Autobiography is fueled by ego and I could make a long list of persons whose belly buttons I'd rather be contemplating than my own.... I'd like to think Tibetan Peach Pie isn't a memoir either, although it…
Portraits and Lives of Remarkable & Eccentric Characters.
A collection of stories about eccentric characters such as
Martin Van Buchell, “surgeon, dentist, and professor in the art of cutting fistulas, &c, &c.”
Francis Battalia, The Stone-Eater, who“devoured about half a peck of…
Deutsches Jungvolk at public event, 1937
Event most likely in Schongau, Bavaria
Georg Sponsel and other party officials at the Schongau train station to welcome the children
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Public Welfare Office, Munich-Upper Bavaria Region
NSV Regional Photographic Archive
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Public Welfare Office, Munich-Upper Bavaria Region
NSV Regional Photographic Archive
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Royalty to:
NSV Regional Photographic Archive
Munich-Upper Bavaria
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