Photograph of an inscription in the lobby of the Thames Polymer Science Building, which reads: "Research is to see what everyone else has seen and think what no one else has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobelist 1937.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Retold by Capt. Edric Vredenburg and others. Illustrated by Frances Brundage, E.J. Andrews and others. Published in London by Raphael Tuck & Sons, LTD., circa 1900. Publisher's advertisements at...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1871. Title and imprint from cover. Date from inscription. "Picture books for little children for sale at all book stores. 66 different...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Ink drawing (6 x 7.5 cm.) matted in oval gilt frame (15 x 16.5 cm.) inscription on back: "1882. Drawn for the first Programme of the concert-recitation parties given by the M.H. Spielmanns at 16 Porchester Terrace,...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Mattie Hardy Lott standing in front of a house. Inscription at bottom of photo says: “The house where my father was born.”
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Inscription on back says, “My mother's grave and the monument -Paulding, Miss." Probably the gravestone of Sally Ann Hardy.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Inscription says: “House where my mother died." Probably the home where Sallie Ann Hardy died. Back says: "The house where my mother died and I spent my childhood."
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. A Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster. Photo by Danny Lyon of John Lewis with two others demonstrating at the "all white" swimming pool in Cairo Illinois in the summer of 1962....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of the Man in the Yellow Hat in the jungle from H.A. Rey's Curious George (1941), which was inscribed "to Lena Y. de Grummond" in May, 1972. 8.5" x 10.5"
