Drive, He Said: American Writers and their Cars PDF
In American culture, cars are symbols of status, sex appeal, liberation, danger, and more. If the Ford Mustang suggests youth, freedom, and rebellion, a station wagon or minivan may call to mind more traditional family adventures—there may be as many associations as there are highways crisscrossing the nation. American writers have played no small part in creating our culture’s ongoing fascination with automobiles, driving, and the road.
Photographs, drivers’ licenses and learning permits, related ephemera from Eugene O’Neill Papers (including photograph of Carlotta O’Neill); Richard Wright Papers; Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Archive; Olga Rudge Papers (photograph of Ezra Pound); Mable Dodge Luhan Papers; Thornton Wilder Papers; Langston Hughes Papers; Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers; James Weldon and Grace Nail Johnson Papers; Dorothy Porter Wesley Papers; Edith Wharton Papers; Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Société Anonyme Archive; Eighteen Photographs, 1905-1938 portfolio, James Van Der Zee
Objects
Eugene O’Neill—French License
YCAL MSS 123 Box: 108, Folder: 1827
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4742665
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O’Neill photo in car
YCAL MSS 123 Box: 108, Folder: 1841
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4742666
Alternative: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3524977
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Carlotta O’Neill with car
YCAL MSS 123.111.1983
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Richard Wright
JWJ MSS 3 Box: 113, Folder: 1814
GROUP:
–small orange visitor to Great Britain license
–learners permit
–May 7 reciept for lessons
–trifold French license
–rent a car
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O’Keeffe and Stieglitz
YCAL MSS 85 Box 133 Folder 2558
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3520137
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Ezra pound in car – Olga Rudge Papers
YCAL MSS 54 Box 148 Folder 3482
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3580908
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Mable Dodge Luhan
YCAL MSS 196 Box 64 Folder 1745
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3591009
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Thotnton Wilder photo by Jill Kremintz
YCAL MSS 108 Box 152 Folder: 3663
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3544841
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Harold Jackman and Hughes and others
JWJ MSS 76 Box 6 folder 75
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Gertrude Stein
YCAL MSS 77 Box 19 Folder 318
https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3523429
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G. Stein French Drivers License
76 Box 140 folder 3295
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James Weldon Johnson Drivers license and insurance card
JWJ MSS 49 Box: 91, Folder: 736
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Dorothy Porter Wesley Nigerian drivers license
JWJ MSS 93 Box: 290, Folder: 2659-2660
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Wharton
YCAL 42 Box 51 Folder1538
DL: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4010681
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Katherine Dreier
Automobile Club of America. Membership card, 1929
Call Number: YCAL MSS 101 Boc 68 Folder 1763
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Van Der Zee – couple in furs with car
JWJ MSS 44
