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    Responses to Emma Lazarus Memorial Issue of The American Hebrew

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    Includes “To the Memory of Emma Lazarus,” by S. Morais; “The Dead Singer,” by Allen Eastman Cross; “Emma Lazarus,” by M.J. Savage; “A First Visit to the Poet” by Mary M. Cohen; “Emma Lazarus” by John G. Whittier; "To Emma Lazarus" by Charles de Kay; and “To Emma Lazarus: 1905” by Richard Watson Gilder. Also includes letters from Claude G. Montefiore, editors of The Atlantic Monthly, John Hay (calling her early death “an irreparable loss to American Literature”), Helen Gray Cone (thanking the editor for the opportunity of paying a “trifling tribute to the noble memory of Emma Lazarus”), Charles A. Dana of New York Sun (about conversations with Lazarus), Julian Hawthorne, Joseph B. Gilder (stating that "morally as well as intellectually, she moved on a decidedly higher plane than the average man or woman whom one meets in cultivated society"), Jeannette L. Gilder, E.L. Godkin (describing Emma’s "masculine vigor" in defense of the "Jewish race"), John Burroughs, Maurice Thompson, Charles Dudley Warner, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mariam Del Banco, Charles de Kay, J.B. Gilder, Edmund C. Stedman, M.J. Savage, George William Curtis, G.W. Cable, Mary A. Dodge, and Frances Hellman.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available

    On Site/ Sight Mural; Emma Curtis

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    (Venue) South Caples/ Felsmann wall courtyard(Funding) Created for Professor Kim Anderson's On Site/ Sight Mural Painting course(Internal Comments) "Inspired by Sandhill Cranes which can often be seen on campus during their migration, I aim to represent a strong sense of community. I am inspired by the way they dance and pair up to perform their bird calls as duets. The temporality and migration of Sandhill Cranes reminds me of the college experience. Like these amazing birds, college students come from all over to temporarily group together as a flock, and transform over our four year stay, before taking flight into the world. I also included a colorful Florida sunset as another element of a temporary or ever changing setting in order to represent the constant evolution of life on campus." -Emma Curti

    [2010.30.03] Curtis and Emma (Rudel) Corey

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    Photographic print. Black and white. Image of Curtis and Emma (Rudel) Corey. Image of a man and a woman standing next to each other. The woman (on the left) is wearing a dark dress, floral pin, and a spangled ornament on her belt. Man (on the right) is wearing a striped 3-piece suit with a floral tie. Woman is identified as Emma (Rudel) Corey, and the man is identified as Curtis Corey. Circa 1940s. Courtesy of Pamela (Matthews) Ryan Collection, 2010.30, GRHC.Photographic print. Black and white. Image of Curtis and Emma (Rudel) Corey. Image of a man and a woman standing next to each other. The woman (on the left) is wearing a dark dress, floral pin, and a spangled ornament on her belt. Man (on the right) is wearing a striped 3-piece suit with a floral tie. Woman is identified as Emma (Rudel) Corey, and the man is identified as Curtis Corey. Circa 1940s. Courtesy of Pamela (Matthews) Ryan Collection, 2010.30, GRHC

    In researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought

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    In researching the history of rum and rum cocktails, author Wayne Curtis bought an out-of-print copy of Trader Vic\u27s Book of Food & Drink that once belonged to Maine author Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957). On a blank page, Curtis discovered Roberts\u27 well-crafted description of inventing a recipe, with scratched out and recast words

    Schmitz Park near Alki Point, Seattle, probably between 1912 and 1920

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    Schmitz Park, consisting of 30 acres, was donated to Seattle between 1908 and 1912 by Ferdinand and Emma (Althoff) Schmitz. Caption on image: c. Asahel Curtis On verso of image: Schmitz Park, 20 minutes from downtown Seattle A. Curtis 7 PH Coll 1286.Curtis7To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Numbe

    Curtis Blanton, Mountain Humorist

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    Author Curtis Blanton has a wonderful sense of humor. Herewith, listen to this interview from 2009 about how he came to publish the stories he heard the old timers tell when he was a kid

    Trip account

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    Trip account - AMs, 15 pp. “I am attempting to give you some account of a recent vacation trip which we were privileged to enjoy - Rose, Mother and I…” As the account of the trip to view the eclipse is unsigned, we can’t say for sure but as the author states “Rose, Mother and I” one could logically assume that the author is a sibling of T. Rose Curtis

    Curtis Wilkie Letter and Map

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    A nine-page letter from journalist and author Curtis Wilkie, written to his parents, containing a first-hand account of the integration of the University of Mississippi. Wilkie was a student at the university at the time. Included is a hand-drawn map showing the places on campus where various events occurred during the riots

    Program for the Curtis Picture Musicale

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    Printed on title page: Edward S. Curtis. Author of "The North American Indian". Music composed by Henry F. Gilbert. The program for Edward Curtis's "musicale" or "picture-opera" featuring a foreward by Curtis, dissolving slide shows, motion pictures and music. The music was composed by Henry Gilbert and based on the wax cylinder recordings Curtis had made of Native American music with his photographic subjects. This program which toured the country during the winter of 1911-1912 included such productions as "Dream of the Ancient Red Man", and "Evening in Hopi Land". Also in PH Coll 484.AD

    [Letter] 1859 December 12, Roxberg / George William Curtis.

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    Curtis thanks the sender for the little book, stating that it makes him wish and hope that the fraternity of good thinking will not be dissolved. An author and an orator who spent two years at the utopian Brook Farm community, Curtis published novels like _Trumps_ [1861] as well as delivering addresses on William Cullen Bryant, Robert Burns, Washington Irving, and James Russell Lowell. He befriended Emerson, edited _Putnam\u27s Monthly_ , actively wrote about New York and national politics in periodicals like _Harper\u27s Magazine_ , and wrote travel narratives
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