Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections
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Examples of buckram fabric library bindings
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Among Yale’s plentiful holdings on Soviet life, there is a significant amount of material relating to Soviet theater and filmmaking, dating back to its earliest development. In the early Soviet period, directors, writers, and other artists paid attention to cinematic developments in the West and cultivated interest in the great stars of the era, including the comedians Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the famed dramatic actresses Lillian Gish and Gloria Swanson, and many others. One Soviet writer interested in American cinema was Alisa Rosenbaum, later known as Ayn Rand. This pamphlet, titled Hollywood: the American movie city, was published the same year Rand relocated to the United States and embarked on a screenwriting career. Though she would become much more well-known for her novels and Objectivist philosophy, she remained an active presence in the world of Hollywood as, among other things, a member of the anti-Communist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.
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This multilingual map of the Great War plays on a trope that was popular in mapmaking during the Age of Imperialism – the depiction of countries as representative animals or anthropomorphized stereotypes. Here, the various actors of WWI are depicted as soldiers in uniform, with the exception of Germany as a giant bulldog in military regalia. The map is approximately dated to the earliest days of the war in 1914, as evidenced in part by America’s passive observation of hostilities. These caricature maps are popular collectors’ items not only for their visual appeal, but also for the ways in which they reveal aspects of cultural life and popular opinion in the period of Western imperial expansion.
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Published / Created
circa 1800-1900
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A Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts a white Tārā accompanied by four figures above in clouds.
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