Search Results: Titles starting with U from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

1918 UKRAINE EMPLOYMENT/GOVERNMENT FORM KYIV/KIEV DISTRICT COURT, for a woman named Olga Vladimirovna Dyaskoronskaya who worked as a clerk at the court, front cover rough translation from Cyrillic (using Google translate) printed "Service Form" with typewritten below this the name of the woman and reference to the Kyiv/Kiev district court, pages 2-3 are the columns for varied information about the individual, last page is blank, total 4 pages, 8-1/2" x 13-1/2" printed form with typescript and limited handwritten entries for some of the 14 columns over pages 2 and 4, columns for family and birth (1897), religion, graduation from high school (or Ukraine equivalent, 1918), medical condition, criminal record, military service, marital status, etc., the latest date is 1918 handwritten in one of the columns, varied information on the individual sought with responses as applicable presumably by the woman Olga shortly after she graduated from high school (or equivalent) when she would have been about 20 years… Read More

[THEODORE LYMAN WRIGHT BELOIT COLLEGE 18 LINE HANDWRITTEN POEM ON SAINT GAUDEN'S STATUE ROCK CREEK CEMETERY WASHINTON, D.C., 1920s] THEODORE LYMAN WRIGHT, unpublished 18 line/3 stanza handwritten poem on the back of a 10" x 8" black-and-white photograph of the statue commonly known as "Grief" by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens for the Adams Memorial in Washington D. C.'s Rock Creek Cemetery, the poem was presumably written for Wright's friend Theron J. Damon (see notes and provenance below) who worked in D. C. for the Office of War Information (OWI) during World War I, initialed twice"TLW", at the end of the first stanza and the end of the third stanza/end of poem, excerpts "She might have stormed, as Shakespeare's ladies should / In tears and laughter striding down the scene — She calmly sitteth in her little wood… 'Life and Grief are — good'…She sits above them in a Deathless mood…How many marvels glisten in God's sun…To hear the clatter of the stones and fame — But Time nor… Read More