Series II: Authors M-S

Series — Box: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse with woodblock print or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size, 4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight to forty-eight pages. The content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines. The booklets are examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or “string literature,” because of being attached to strings as a means of displaying them for sale. The content, meant for peasant audiences, is about real and imaginary events and characters.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

540 of Richard Graham's slides of Rio de Janeiro were added to the collection in 2019.

Dates

Creation: circa 1960-1990

Creator

From the Collection: Unknown (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.