Black Gods of the Black Metropolis

Digitized campus publications, including the University of Chicago Record, Magazine, Cap and Gown (yearbook), and the Daily Maroon (1902-1920)

The Goldsmith, Joel. Papers consist of 1.5 linear feet and contain materials that date from 1949 to 1964. Goldsmith, a one time Christian Science healer, was an independent mystic who founded a movement called the Infinite Way. The collection includes letters written by Goldsmith to Lorraine Sinkler and Ann Darling Kuys, both of whom were followers of the movement. The collection also contains copies of a few Masonic talks given by Goldsmith in 1958 and 1959.

Israel Solon, American writer of fiction and critical prose, was associated with the literary and artistic avant-garde of the 1910s-1920s. The collection contains art and literary publications, manuscripts, proofs, artworks, photographs, correspondence and ephemera. Included are proofs of the April 1920 issue of the Little Review; copies of Three Worlds Monthly in which the first three parts of James Joyce's Ulysses were published; photographs of Jane Heap; a program for an artists' ball inscribed to Heap; journals and manifestos produced by the Dadaist and Futurist movements; correspondence and ephemera related to the mystic philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff; and a preservation photocopy of a circa 1934 typescript of Gertrude Stein's Portraits and Prayers, with an Elucidation.