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Hamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841–1935), author and journalist
No full textHamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841-1935), author and journalist, was born on 25 January 1841 at Kilmersdon, Somerset, where she was baptized on 12 April 1841, the younger of two daughters of Richard Hamilton (1805?-1859), vicar of Kilmersdon, and his wife Charlotte, née Cooper (1809-1882), the fifth daughter of William Cooper, of Queens County, Ireland. She was of Irish heritage on both sides. Her father belonged to a military family with roots in Strabane (county Tyrone) - his father, John Hamilton, and her father’s four older brothers were all officers in the Fifth Foot – and was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He had been a bright scholar with an aptitude for languages, and as a preacher was praised for his powerful sermons and his ability to bring the Bible to life for his parishioners
Hamilton family collection
No full textThis collection contains documents, photographs, and memorabilia of the Hamilton, Kirkpatrick, and Montgomery families of Sumner County, Tennessee, and the Hamilton and Blakely families of Nevada County, Arkansas
Richard Hamilton
No full textExperimental film with Hamilton’s VO: "I don’t like art films…" Newsreel of Hollywood parade. Experimental film; shot of Marilyn Monroe at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 1957 Cadillac advertisement, Hommage à Chrysler Corp, a painting by Hamilton inspired by 1950s American cars. Skyscrapers, Hamilton reading poetry ("In slots between towering glass slabs…") over, car and other advertisements from magazines. Film of Hamilton’s collage exhibit, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) for "The Face of Tomorrow" show, with slogans superimposed. Close video shot of Hamilton’s mouth as he speaks more poetry. Advertisements, images of sportsmen, astronauts, the police, etc. Video of Hamilton speaking. Strobe effect, extract, with John Baragrey and Patricia Knight, from Shockproof (1949); paintings. Hamilton VO says he like the fact that a painting represents a moment in time. Van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait) (1434) with the two people facing the viewer "across the void of time". Shockproof stills, extracts. Painting, Interior II (1964), based on film images. Hamilton VO says a film still also has the quality of spanning time as well as space. Extract. Painting.. Drawing. Extract. Hamilton talking about the isolation produced by the cinema experience, and the attempt to bridge the gap through the painting. Extract. Intermission advertisement for peanuts, an orange drink, ice cream, Pepsi Cola, hot dogs. Distribution leader for Eros Films, and trailer for The Desert Hawk (1950). Marilyn Monroe at Grauman’s, still and moving images of Monroe; her VO from River of No Return (1954). Collage, My Marilyn (1965), based on contact sheet marked up by Monroe; Hamilton’s VO commenting on the damage to the images. Collage of holiday-makers in the sea; film of people and pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Hamilton VO says he’s more concerned with literary ideas and pure conceptions than with paint for its own sake. Progress in mechanics of visual records giving a second-hand view of the world, and can make the images seem quite different to what they really are. Newsreel of Mick Jagger and others in Chichester at the time of his trial on drug charges. Footage of crowds of girls, policemen, prison van, etc.; newsreel commentary describes defendants’ clothes. Swingeing London ’67 series (1968 and later), processed and painted images based on still of Jagger and Robert Fraser shielding their eyes from camera flash bulbs. Newsreel continues. Coloured still of Bing Crosby from White Christmas (1954); negatives including image of Hamilton superimposed. Hamilton’s VO on his work I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas (1967) inspired by his first sight of a colour negative, the importance of the technical aspects of an artist’s way of thinking, and the different view the negative image gives of Crosby. Hamilton VO reading poem ("Mister Universe takes his place by Miss World…"). Credits
Hamilton College Library Home Notes
No full textCommunal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Hamilton College Library recently acquired a remarkable collection of documents relating to Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) for its Communal Societies Collection. Southcott is considered to have been the first messenger of the Christian Israelite faith
[Group of Aboriginal hunters with their dog] [picture] /
No full textPart of the Hamilton Aikin exhibition print collection, 1968-1978.; Inscriptions: Authentication certificate and copyright stamped on reverse.; Condition: good.; Title supplied by cataloguer.; Oral History Transcript no. 5.; Related material: Margaret Aikin comments on the Hamilton Aikin Photographic Collection ORAL TRC 1961. Photograph is from the Hamilton Aikin photographic collection. The photograph was taken in the Musgrave Ranges and shows three Aboriginal men climbing rocks and carrying spears. The men are accompanied by their dog
Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
No full textHamilton College Library Reopens Rare Book Room
Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions Examination of Prophecies. The prophecies of Joanna Southcott have been closely examined for seven days, by twenty-three persons, chosen by Divine command ... London: printed by J. Greenham, 45, Drurylane. [1803]. Manuscripts and imprints from the Society of Separatists at Zoar, Ohio. “First Work on Linotype By Benjamin Apl 2-07”. Jezreel’s Tower, Gillingham, Kent. Real photo postcard, c. 1900
[Three camels in the Musgrave Ranges] [picture] /
No full textPart of the Hamilton Aikin exhibition print collection, 1968-1978.; Inscriptions: a copyright statement, authentication certificate and an exhibition certificate signed by Margaret Aikin, stamped on reverse. Also "31" written in blue felt-tip on a round label.; Condition: good. Exhibition print mounted on board.; Title supplied by cataloguer.; Oral History Transcript no. 19.; Related material: Margaret Aikin comments on the Hamilton Aikin Photographic Collection ORAL TRC 1961. Photograph is from the Hamilton Aikin photographic collection. Photograph of three camels with the Musgrave Ranges in the background
A Selected Catalog of the Ezra Pound Collection at Hamilton College
No full textThis lavishly illustrated catalog highlights the Hamilton College Library’s holdings of Ezra Pound material. Pound, a Hamilton alumnus (class of 1905), was one of the most important and influential poets of the twentieth century. The first third of the book focuses on materials unique to the Hamilton collection, while the rest of the book identifies works by and about Pound held by the Hamilton College library. This catalog reveals the importance of this collection for Pound scholars and places it among the best in the country.
299 pages, illustrations (some color), portraitshttps://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1064/thumbnail.jp
[Church at Ernabella in the Musgrave Ranges] [picture] /
No full textPart of the Hamilton Aikin exhibition print collection, 1968-1978.; Inscriptions: Exhibition certificate, copyright and authentication Certificate stamped on reverse. Signed "Margaret Aikin"-- beneath exhibition certificate on reverse. "51"-- in pencil on reverse.; Condition: good, exhibition print mounted on board.; Title supplied by cataloguer.; Oral History Transcript no. 56.; Related material: Margaret Aikin comments on the Hamilton Aikin Photographic Collection ORAL TRC 1961
Hamilton College Library Home Notes
No full textThe Communal Societies Collection at Burke Library, Hamilton College, has recently acquired a large collection of materials from the Mazdaznan movement. This neo-Zoroastrian cult was founded by Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish (born Otto Hanisch) at the end of the nineteenth century. Mazdaznan followers were vegetarian, worshipped the sun, practiced breathing and vowel-sound exercises, and attempted to preserve male sexual potency through coitus reservatus, employed as a part of tantric sex
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