Italy

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A pen and ink rendering of the view from Jacques Parker’s balcony of his room in San Benedetto, Italy, featuring the church tower that had held a sniper.

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Silent black and white film includes partial clips of: a comedy including chimpanzees in typically human roles, a lesson on the eruption of Mt. Etna in Sicily, the Grand National Steeplechase horse race in Aintree, England, stop motion animated comedy "Down on the Farm," featuring The Wooden Man character, and the silent stop motion animated comedy "Mush On," featuring Snap the Ginger Bread Man character.

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Manuscript leaf recovered from binding. Leaf contains commentary on canon law.

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Carla Fracci leaps across the stage in the American Ballet Theatre production of ''Coppelia.''

Abstract Album of 125 mounted photographs from Switzerland, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy, 54 relating to winter sports in St. Moritz. Other scenes include yachting in Cannes, holidays in Rome, Castel Gandolfo and Peruga. The sequence begins in the winter of 1908-1909, and ends in July 1911. With a loose menu card in French from the Palace Hôtel (St. Moritz? Lucerne?), showing an 11-course meal for February 6, 1909. The card (folded to 13 x 15 cm.) is autographed by around 25 fellow...

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Photographs of American Ballet Theatre dancer Carla Fracci with her infant son and also performing on stage.

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Autographed portrait of Italian ballet dancer Rosina Galli.

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Informal photograph of Jose Greco.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 3 contains copies of speeches given by Jack Foster over a period of almost thirty years.