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An image of a high school classroom depicting 4 rows of tables, with 2 tables in each row, each seating 2 students. There is an older adult shows reading a packet of papers in the photo. The mostly have their heads down, looking at papers on the table or reading from books, some of who appear to be writing.
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An image taken from inside a building, looking down on a row of buses. Children can be seen getting into the buses. The back of one bus is visible where "School Bus" is stenciled on the back. The side of another bus is visible where "Lincoln Consolidated School" is stenciled on the side.
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An image of 6 school-aged children and 1 adult crafting and painting a display titled "Farming in the British Isles".
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An image of a classroom, where twenty-five first grade children and three adults are sitting around an easel with a large, poster-sized drawing propped on it. A sheet of poster paper in the background says "The Gingerbread Boy Puppet Play" and the drawing is titled "The Gingerbread Boy". A reflection in a window of a door at the front of the classroom shows the flash of camera and the person taking the photo.
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An image of 8 school-aged children sitting outside on the ground looking up at a teacehr. The group is seated on the right-hand side of the Abraham Lincoln statue placed outside of the Lincoln Consolidated School building.
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Theodore Helzerman
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
James B. Whitmer
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
George Shuban (?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Ed. E. Lindermam (?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Donald Raymond
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Forest Beauregard
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Michael Kierzak
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Murray Day
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Ed. E. Lindemam (?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Court McDougall
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Earl Jewell
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Earl E. Schuman (?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Dale Hammond
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
This image is titled "Plowing" written in pencil with a signature at the bottom of the page "Ed. E. Lindermann". The relief print features a recognizable house, tractor and plow, along with a stylized sky and fields. The print is on white paper with black ink.
Ed. E. Lindermann (?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
This image is titled "Silo Filling" written in pencil with a signature at the bottom of the page "Joe (?) Beard". The relief print features a recognizable barn, silo and pathway, along with a stylized sky. The print is on white paper with black ink.
Joe (?) Beard
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
This image is titled "Dairying" written in pencil with a signature at the bottom of the page "By- Watson Lovelace". The relief print features three cows, fields, a fencerow, and a human figure holding a farming tool. The print is on white paper with black ink.
Watson Lovelace
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
Image of the front page of booklet, with a relief print of a carving that states "A SERIES OF BLOCK PRINTS BY THE EIGHTH GRADE BOYS OF LINCOLN SCHOOL 1929". The relief print is rectangular in shape and shows signs of uneven pressure, with the grain of the background showing through in spots with less ink. The print is on white paper with black ink.
Ted H. (Theodore Helzerman?)
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The item is a booklet, bound in brown paper, measuring approximately 4.75x5.75 inches. The front and back cover paper itself is brittle and has cracked and separated from the staples holding the booklet together. This booklet was created in 1929 by boys in the eighth grade class of Lincoln Consolidated School.
This is an image of the front cover of the booklet, titled "BLOCKPRINTS of MICHIGAN FARMS". In pencil, there is a note at the top of booklet that reads "Lincoln School" as well as a signature on the bottom of the print which seems to read "Earl Jewell". The print is made in black ink and shows signs of being a pressure print, with some uneveness in the background showing the grain of the tile that was carved to make the print.
Earl Jewell
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During the fall term of 1920, Harriett Ellen Norton (nee Wallace) kept a scrapbook while attending the Michigan State Normal College (MSNC). Harriett Wallace, known to most as Ellen, was from Bay City, Michigan and a member of the Delta Sigma Epsilon sorority, Le Cercle Francais club, and History club.
She graduated in June of 1922 and remained in the area after graduation with her husband Stanley Norton whose family owned and operated Norton's Flowers. Stanley Norton, a member of the Arm of Honor fraternity, also attended the MSNC but withdrew to enlist in the military during World War I.
Materials in the scrapbook include invitations to on and off campus events, dance cards, correspondence, clippings, receipts, and photographs. Many of the campus invitations are from the Arm of Honor and Kappa Phi Alpha fraternities.
Please note, the book was scanned so that on pages where items were folded the page was scanned multiple times each time exposing more of the materials in the scrapbook.
Harriett Ellen Wallace
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Handwritten letter from Denise Levertov to Louise Kertesz written on a half-sheet of green paper.
Denise Levertov
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Letter from Richard Eberhart to Ms. Beverly Jarrett, detailing that he would like to give her a blurb for the jacket. He notes that he will be wintering in Gainesville, Florida, for the winter term.
Richard Eberhart
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Handwritten envelope from mh north to Louise Kertesz
Mary Haynes North
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Typewritten envelope from mh baldwin north to Louise Kertesz, badged September 12th, 1978.
Mary Haynes North
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A photocopy of a typewritten letter, dated September 12th, 1942. The letter is from Albert Einstein to Muriel Rukeyser. The background information on this letter is that Muriel Rukeyser wanted Albert Einstein to write a foreword to her poetry book, Willard Gibbs, which was about the eponymous scientist. Rukeyser asked Einstein to “...lend his name to her effort to make Gibbs known to a time that needed the story of his achievement”. Without reading Rukeyser’s book, Einstein refused, saying that “In my view, there is but one way to bring a great scientist to the attention of the larger public: it is to discuss and explain, in language that will be generally understood, the problems and solutions which have characterized his life-work. This can only be done by someone who has a fundamental grasp of the material”. Einstein acknowledges that the personal side must be taken account of, but it can't be the whole focus of the book, or the work becomes “....banal hero-worship, based on emotion and not on insight” and that Einstein has learned “...by my own experience how hateful and ridiculous it is, when a serious man, absorbed in important endeavors, is ignorantly lionized”. In the end, Einstein completely denies Rukeyser’s request, saying that “...I cannot give my public endorsement to such an undertaking. It would seem to me less than honourable. That sound harsh: I even fear that you will take my inability for unjustifiable unkindness. But so I am, and cannot be otherwise”. The first part of the letter is bracketed, while on the back of the paper, a sticky note says, “Einstein”
Albert Einstein
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A two page, original, typewritten letter, dated January 16th, 1984. The letter is from Kate Daniels to Louise Kertesz. The letter begins by saying that it has been a while since Kate had received Louise’s letter, which she sent on July 20th which indicated that Louise would be willing to correspond with Daniels about the biography of Rukeyser that she is working on, Daniels apologizes for the long delay in responding. Daniels briefly updates Louise, saying that the biography, tentatively titled Muriel Rukeyser: A Life of Poetry, will be published by Random House Inc. Bill Rukeyser, Muriel’s only heir, is cooperating with Daniels fully in the making of the biography, and Daniels will be going to California on March 9th to meet with him and tio go through the Rukeyser materials in the Berg Collection, which Daniels remarks must have been totally uncataloged when Louise worked with them, and Daniels thinks about what a hard time Louise must have had. Daniels will begin working with the Library of Congress Collection in the next few weeks. Daniels has contacted numerous colleagues and friends of Muriel’s, all of whom have consented to speak with Daniels and share manuscripts. Daniel has noticed that in The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser, Louise had spoken to and corresponded with Muriel several times. Daniels asks if Louise would share the information about the correspondences with her,and for Louis to write to her about her relationship with Muriel. Daniels wonders what Rukeyser was like to work with, and any impressions Louise had of her, professionally and personally. Daniels considers Louise’s input to be enormously impersonating as Louise was the first, and so far only critic and writer to complete, a full length study of Rukeyser, Daniels asks if Louise would be willing to share some letters with her, and to share any materials that Louise might have. Daniel is willing to pay any fees that Louise may incur by doing this. such as the fees for xeroxing and postage. If Louise would be more comfortable speaking with her on the telephone, Daniels would be willing to do that. Daniels asks if Louis could respond to her more quickly than the time that Daniles took in responding to Louise’s July letter. Daniels apologizes for the long delay in responding, and says that it has not been due to the lack of interest, but only the desire to tell Louise more specifically about the outlines of the book that she is writing. Daniels also says that Louise may be interested to know that Poetry East, the literary magazine that Daniels edits and publishes at the University of Virginia, will be publishing a special issue on Muriel Rukeyser and her poetry in the Spring of 1985. Miriam Riek, a long time friend who had gathered a number of essays after Muriel’s death but never published them, will be guest editing it. Daniels ends the letter by saying that if Louise is interested in contributing something, or if she knows of someone who might be, Daniels hopes that Louise tells them about the issue of the literary magazine. The adaddres to Daniels is at the English Department for the University of Virginia. Daniels says that she hopes to hear from Louise soon,and she hopes the best for Louise for the New Year. Near where Daniels mentions that she got Random House Inc. to publish her book, someone, possibly Louise, has underlined that section and written on the letter, “Did she?” in all capital letters.
Kate Daniels
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An original, typewritten letter dated January 26th, 1984. The letter is from Louise Kertesz to Kate Daniels. Louise begins the letter by saying that she is happy that Daniles is working on a biography of Muriel, and Louise will help in any way she can. Louise also congratulates Daniels for getting Random House as he publisher. Louise will send Daniels xeroxes of her correspondence with Muriel. She will also xerox letters some of her colleagues wrote about her and her work. Louise will have to locate some of these items, since she has moved. Louise has a xerox machine, and she just asks Kate to reimburse her for the postage. Louise has also taped interviews with Muriel. They are precious to her. She will allow Daniels to listen to them, but she doesn't have equipment that would let her make transcriptions, and she is nervous about mailing the originals. They can discuss this at a later date, and Louie is sure that hearing Rukeyser with an interviewer will interest Daniels. While she was writing her book about Rukeyser, Louise describes her relationship with Muriel as “...a student trying to understand her work in its context. I grew to admire it and her more and more a I read her work and interviewed her and spoke to her on the phone. She was very strong, despite strokes. I felt she had the inner strength and insight and the “magic” of utterance of the true artist”. Louise is sure that people close to Rukeyser can describe her personality and mind in greater detail. Louise was with Rukeyser, in person, not more than 10 times, and maybe less. Louise had lunch with Rukeyser in her apartment once, drinks once, and the rest of the time they worked and Louise had a bus or plane to catch. They did speak on the phone frequently. Louise describes Rukeyser as “...warm, welcoming, generous”. Her standard exclamation when Louise announced she was on the phone was “Oh, Good!” She never said anything about anyone, or took swipes at her detractors on the phone. As Daniels may know, Louise’s book is about Rukeyser’s work and her critics. Besides showing the interconnecting themes of her work, she also wanted to illustrate the phenomenon of the verbal abuse of a great artist by small (sexist) minds. Louise has enclosed a review of Rukeyser’s Collected Poems, which was her last published book, that appeared in the Hudson Review. The review demonstrated how disgraceful “respected “ critics could be, until the very end. Muriel mailed Louise that review, with no comment. Prichard used to teach, or maybe still does, at Amherst College. Muriel saw all of Louise’s chapters before they went to press. The books were published and a copy appeared in Louise’s mailbox two weeks after Rukeyser died. Her secretary, a woman from Sarah Lawrence called Jan Levi, was reading Rukeyser Louise’s page proofs on the last week of her life, and she was weeping and saying, ”Right on.” Jam Levi told Louise this when she phoned with the news of Muriel’s death. Louise ends the letter by saying that she will mail Daniels anything she has on hand that might interest her. Louise wishes Daniels good luck on her book. Louise has also handwritten more questions and comments on the sides of the letter, such as “Why have you decided to write your book?”
Louise Kertesz
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An original, typewritten letter from the University of California in Santa Cruz, dated January 9th, 1980. The letter is from Carolyn Stroebe to Louise Kertesz. Stroebe introduces herself by saying that she is a graduate student working on her doctoral dissertation, an extension of her Master’s Thesis, titled “The Giving and Taking of a Poem: A Psychological Impression of the Life and Work of Muriel Rukeyser”. The dissertation will be based on psychological data provided by Muriel during a University of California studies of creative individuals in 1958, on an interview that Rukeyser gave Stoebe in 1979, and on impressions from people who knew her. Stoebe had just finished reading Louise’s book on the life and work of Muriel Rukeyser for the first time, and the book had proven to be one of her most important resources. Stroebe would love to talk with the author. She will be interviewing people in New York in May, but she doesn't think she can afford to travel to Michigan this year. If Louise decides to grant Stroebe an interview, they could perhaps meet at a later date. Stroebe wonders if Louise can help her by filling out a few psychological measures which call for Louise’s perceptions of Muriel. The forms will be brief and would not take a great deal of her time, Stroebe would be grateful. In closing, Stroebe says she is looking forward to hearing from Kertesz.
Carolyn Stroebe
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An original copy of an obituary for Muriel Rukeyser by Wolfgang Saxon, called “Muriel Rukeyser, Poet of Social Protest, Is Dead at 66” dated February 14th, 1980. It contains an outline of Rukeyser’s life.
Wolfgang Saxon
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An original copy of an article. Dated June 19th, 1978, called “The Fear” by Muriel Rukeyser. The article is about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, alleged spies for Russia, who had died by execution 25 years before the publication of the article.
Muriel Rukeyser
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A postcard, dated January 5th, 1981 from Marge Piercy to Louise Kertesz. The postcard is short, an dsays, “Thank you very much for understanding what I wrote you about your fine book. Thank you also for sending me the poem”.
Marge Piercy
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A postcard dated July 1981. The postcard is from Carolyn Kizer to Louise Kertesz. Kizer starts the postcard by thanking Louise, and saying what an angel someone named Esther is. She looks forward to the book, and suggests some places that could review it, such as the Ohio Review, Iowa Review, or Georgia. Kizer says that William Prichard goes to the top of her ‘hit list’ and that she is ashamed of the Hudson Review, but hat no one “...reads the bloody thing any more” Kizer states that if only Prichard had called Fred Morgan was one of the great bores, but Kizer says ‘Fat chance’. A postscript says “What a fine press L.S.U. is!”
Carolyn Kizer
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A ripped piece of paper from a notepad labeled 1 PM Wed. with miscellaneous info handwritten on it. Some information is on the back of the sheet as well.
UNKNOWN
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A ripped out sheet of paper from what could be a notepad with Bill Rukeyser’s name and presumably his phone number handwritten on it.
UNKNOWN
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Small note card that has handwriting on it with Bill Rukeyser (Muriel’s son)’s information on it, and what looks like a phone number and his job.
UNKNOWN
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A photocopied sheet, dated May 1981, that contains a copy of a review of Louise Kertesz’s book by Annette Colodny from American Literature. The review is not complimentary, and someone, presumably Louise, has underlined parts of the review that say, statements such as, "Instead, she chose to waste precious space quoting and responding to criticisms or reviews long since faded from memory (if indeed, we never attended to them in the first place) One of the most jarring parts of the review states that, “So, too, in a way, does Muriel Rukeyser in Louise Kertez’s The Poetic Vision of Muriel Rukeyser. The timing of the Kertesz study happily coincides with the publication of Rukeyser’s Collected Poems (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1979) and, less happily, with the year in which we wish to commemorate the achievement of a woman whose passing we have only to recently mourned. The problem with the book is that it fails to do full justice to that achievement”.
Annette Colodny
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An original, handwritten letter, dated August 21st, 1980. The letter is from Richard Eberhart to Louise Kertesz. In the beginning of the letter, Eberhart tells Louise that he was happy to meet her and her husband and talk about her stunning work on Muriel. To Eberhart, it was an unexpected pleasure that happens too seldomly. Eberhart wishes he could help get the book reviewed, but he doesn’t review books any more. He used to review in the 50’s and 60’s, but nowadays, nobody asks Eberhart to review. If Eberhart has any clout, he will use it. He also says that heavy books take a long time to review articles. Eberhart still receives good ones about his Of Poetry and Poets from Illinois Press that was published in 1979,and he suspects that Louise will get reviewed in the quarterlies in 1981. Perhaps Louise will be content, since the main joy is in the work itself, or the labor of love, in knowing that her book will be ensconced in 1000 libraries and be read for decades, off and on. The book will be a ‘grand mine’ for miners in Rukeyser in the future. When Eberhart returns to Hanover, he will see if the first copy is still there and ask Louise what she would like to have done with the 2nd. Eberhart ends the letter by saying, “Now if you would give me about three years of your life and do an RE as splendidly as you did MR”.
Richard Eberhart
