Somewhere in the Museum Archives were supposed to be a photograph of Japan's Emperor Meiji and his son Yoshihito, who would ascede him to the throne (the Meiji era ended; the Taisho era began); assorted sketches by Georges Bracques of geometric shapes -- arcs, spindles, shafts, and trapezoids; original drawings of "The Katzenjammer Kids," Hans and Fritz, by Rudolph Dirks and Harold Knerr; two original drawings by Charles Addams for cartoons that appeared in the New Yorker; drawings and cels from Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas from early short works like "Mickey's Elephant" and "The Brave Little Tailor" to feature films "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Pinocchio", "Bambi", and "Peter Pan"; a poster advertising the 1912 Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden; two Will Bradley posters, one advertising "Will Bradley’s Art Service for Advertisers" and the other "Will Bradley’s Print Shop"; a poster advertising George M. Cohan in "Broadway Jones"; a poster advertising Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" playing in the old Boston Opera House; a poster advertising the Irish Players production of Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World" at the Adelphi Theatre in Philadelphia; a poster for the 1912 Ziegfeld Follies; a poster advertising Winsor McCay's animated film "Gertie" ("Greatest Animal Act in the World: she's a scream. She eats, drinks and breathes! She laughs and cries. Dances the tango, answers questions and obeys every command!"); a poster advertising Deutsche Bioscop's Babelsberg glass studios film "Der Totentanz" ("The Death Dance"); a poster advertising the first foreign feature film exhibited in the U.S. (in New York), "Queen Elizabeth"; a poster advertising "Richard III," one of the first feature films ever made in the U.S.(the oldest surviving American feature film, the second ever to be produced in the U.S., and the world's first Shakespeare film); a poster for the first film known to have starred Lon Chaney, "The Honor of the Family"; three posters advertising Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" movies; a poster advertising the "Garden Industrial City" of Torrance, California; a 1912 Progressive Party convention placard reading, "I want to be a Bull Moose / And with the Bull Moose stand / With antlers on my forehead / And a big stick in my hand." The library held sheet music for "Broadway Jones" (George M. Cohan's ); "That Haunting Melody" (Al Jolson); "Ring, Ting-a-ling" (Ada Jones); "Bagdad" (Billy Murray); "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" (Ada Jones and Billy Murray); "Hitchy-Koo" (American Quartette); "Moonlight Bay" (American Quartette); "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" (Bob Roberts); "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (Heidelberg Quartette); "Memphis Blues" (W.C. Handy [who called himself "the Father of the Blues." Though Handy did not invent the blues form, he was one of the first to use the term "blues" in a song title and include "blue notes" -- flatted thirds and sevenths -- in a published composition]); "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" (Harry Lauder); "Whispering Hope" (Alma Gluck and Louise Homer); and "Love Is Mine" (Enrico Caruso). Sheet music for the "Internationale" and "The Marsaillaise." Among the Library's holdings were twenty-six newspaper-clippings-filled scrapbooks documenting the launch of the Titanic from Belfast, its departure from Queenstown for New York, news of the ship's sinking, and subsequent reports, including personal accounts from survivors; an original copy of an Ulster, Ireland "Covenant" (advocating for "obduracy, political radicalism, even rebellion" and "any means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a Parliament being forced upon us we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to refuse to recognise its authority."); early copies of the Soviet Communist Party's propagandist newspaper, "Pravda" (“Truth”); numerous assorted labor strike posters and fliers issued by the I.W.W. -- the Industrial Workers of the World; rare early copies of Emma Goldman's magazine, "Mother Earth"; a copy of the issue of St. Nicholas magazine in which Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Renascence" first appeared; two issues of the Socialist paper "The New York Call" carrying Margaret Sanger's column "What Every Girl Should Know"; rare early copies of Max Eastman's magazine, "The Masses"; a copy of the May 25, 1912 issue of "Harper's Weekly magazine" carrying Charlotte Perkins Gilman's essay "Are Women Human Beings?"; an official U.S. Customs Department printing of the 1912 Plant Quarantine Act; a New York Tribune clipping from September 30, 1912 announcing record cold for the city on that day (39ø Fahrenheit); a facsimile copy of Teddy Roosevelt's notes for a speech delivered October 14, 1912, after he'd been shot in the chest (breaking a rib and narrowly missing his heart) from sx feet away by a fanatical former New York saloon-keeper later judged to be insane); seventeen newspapers from around the world carrying obituaries of Joseph Pulitzer, endower of the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prizes; every issue, from 1912, of Elbert Hubbard's magazine "The Philistine"; a Christmas card from Dard Hunter and his wife Edith to Elbert Hubbard and his wife Alice; a Christmas card sent to an unnamed recipient from Rudolf Steiner in Cologne, Germany, announcing the birth of his Anthroposophical Society; ten letters exchanged between G. I. Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky and a poster advertising Gurdjieff's Paris Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man; an original L.L. Bean mailer with a personal note from founder Leon Leonwood Bean ("Ralph, the boots I told you about"); a Levi Strauss & Company mailer advertising "Koveralls," the first product ever sold nationwide by Levi's.; a note from Gene Stratton Porter, on Authors League of America stationery, to Arnold Bennett, seeking advice on "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day"; a brief "note to self" written by Albert Einstein; a short letter from Albert Einstein, in Prague, to Marcel Grossman, forecasting that new evidence would soon be proving their theories to be true; a letter from rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun to physicist Niels Bohr discussing Ernest Rutherford's theory of the atomic nucleus and Max Planck's quantum theory; two pages of obviously hastily written notes exchanged between the physicist Frank Oppenheimer and his rocket scientist brother Robert Oppenheimer; a carefully written note by Alexander Graham Bell, apparently a draft version of a telegram sent to N.C. Kingsbury, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York ("I was very much touched by the action of the board of Directors in electing me a Director of the American Bell Telephone Company but found myself unable to accept. A facsimile copy of Kingsbury's return telegraph: "We regret exceedingly that you have found yourself unable to accept the position of Director of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company."); a copy of the September 21, 1912 issue of "Electrical Review and Western Electrician," carrying a story about "Phonographic Music Transmitted by Telephone," announcing "The New York Magnaphone & Music Company has inaugurated the central-station generation and distribution of music, thus carrying out a scheme proposed by Edward Bellamy in his book 'Looking Backward'."; an April 9, 1912 dedication program from the opening of Boston's Fenway Park (at which the Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders before 27,000 fans, 7-6, in 11 innings), and four separate newspaper acccounts about the new ballpark and the opening game; seventeen copies of The New York Times, each carrying a review, by Carl Van Vechten, of a ballet or modern dance performance; five pages filled with scribblings from the hand of Henri Poincaré, puzzling over chaotic motions that had arisen in a standard celestial mechanics experiment (three matching objects had been launched from three different positions and their orbits had taken three different paths); seven pages scientific data from a diary kept by the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener during an expedition that found him on the northeast coast of Greenland climbing a moving glacier; a sheet of indecipherable scribblings attributed to the Swedish author August Strindberg; two hand written letters by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen (one beginning "Untrodden under their unmarked mantle of ice the polar regions have slept the sleep of death since the dawn of time," and the other his declining to becoming the next Norwegian president); hand-drawn maps of Greenland, Spitzbergen, and Novaya Zemlya, also by Nansen; a facsimilie copy of Robert Scott's Antarctic diary; a letter from art critic Bernard Berenson to Henry Duveen of the New York office of the Duveen Brothers ("I want to be absolutely aboveboard. It would be fatal to cheapen me to the rank of salesman. I practice business only as a means to an end. The end is not to enlarge my business and pile up money but to pile up understanding"); correspondence between Harvard Professor of Surgery Harvey Cushing, the Polish scientist Casimir Funk, and the English biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins, discussing obesity, diet, good health, and vitamins; an original, handwritten copy of Vachel Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven"; a facsimile copy of Salvation Army founder Booth's notes for a speech delivered on May 9, 1912 at London's Royal Albert Hall; thirteen pages of correspondence between Hull-House founder Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr (exchanging views on Hull-House, philanthropy, political action, widespread indifference, and the real needs of the poor); an invitation to Virginia Stephen's August 10, 1912 marriage to Leonard Woolf; a letter to William James from George Santayana confessing an increasing desire to resign from Harvard in order to move to Europe to devote himself to writing; fifteen short letters variously exchanged between Irving J. Gill, John Charles Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., Frank P. Allen, Jr., and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (each touching on either the experimental industrial community of Torrance, California or the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego); unused 1912 stationery from the Beverly Hills Hotel; a copy of Samuel B. Flagg's brochure, "City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement," published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines; a dozen copies of the Daily Worker, all with articles contributed by Woody Guthrie in his regular column, "Woody Sez"; a letter sent to Woody Guthrie by TV personality Art Linkletter; a menu from the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League in Chicago, signed and inscribed by Madame C.J. Walker, the nation’s first Black millionaire ("Shirley, I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings"); an official press release, on "National Association of Rotary Clubs" stationery, announcing the Club's reorganization, on April 13, 1912 in Duluth, Minnesota, into the International Association of Rotary Clubs; a facsimile Chinese document written on the Order of the Chinese president Yuan Shikai declaring, in 1912, that the Republic of China would henceforth consist of mainland China and ("as Nationals of the Republic") Mongolia, Tibet, Huijiang, and the Huis in Xinjiang; four handwritten invitations by pioneer Zionist Henrietta Szold to the study circle meeting at the Temple Emanu-El in New York City (at which Szold would urge her colleagues to embrace “practical Zionism,” forming “The Hadassah chapter of the Daughters of Zion”); authentic Masonic documents telling of certain "Antient and Primitive Rite of Mizraim," the "Oriental Order of Memphis," and the making of "a magickal child" or "homonculus" through prescribed esoteric practices; a facsimile copy of a charter issued by a Masonic Order, "The Illuminati," granting "Theodore Reuss," the "Sovereign Grand Inspector General" of the German "Societas Rosicruciana High Council" authority to form lodges of masons under his "Obedience" both in and out of Germany; eight letters written to Reuss by Rudolf Steiner in Berlin, seeking "to renew the Eleusinian Mysteries" by combining "the Terrestrial with the Celestial and the Visible with the Invisible" through saving, for the future, the Masonic "Misraim-Dienst"; two letters written to Theodore Reuss by Aleister Crowley in London (Crowley, nicknamed "the Great Beast," reputed "the most wicked man alive"), mentioning his first wife, Rose (who'd entered an insane asylum in 1911) and the "Eyes and its Brains of esoteric Freemasonry, who deemed me worthy of partaking in the Greater Mysteries"; an undated letter written by Crowley boasting he'd taken complete control of the O.T.O., the Ordo Templi Orientalis, proclaiming himself "O.H.O. Frater Superior of the Order of Oriental Templars" (signed "Baphomet O.H.O."); correspondence exchanged between Massachusetts lawyers Arthur Thad Smith, Harvey H. Pratt, Jeremiah S. Sullivan, and Charles W. Bartlett concerning the trial of Chester S. Jordan, convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death (his lawyers argued their plaintiff had been denied due process of law under the 14th Amendment, as he'd been tried by a jury that had included Willis A. White, whose sanity they questioned. The Supreme Court would find juror White's mental capacity sufficient, concluding that Jordan, not having been denied due process of law, would have to pony up, and be electrocuted); several scrapbooks with newspaper clippings about a former pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church of Cambridge Massachusetts, Reverend C.V.T. Richeson who, after confessing to poisoning with cyanide potassium his former fiance, Avis Linnell, was indicted of murder in the first degree and subsequently electrocuted; copies of Edwin Grozier's Boston Post investigating Avis Linell's "suicide" (including the issue in which reporters announced their discovering the druggist in Newton that had sold Clarence Richeson cyanide and, and calling for Reverend Richeson's arrest); a copy of "True Detective Stories from the New England Police Annals," issue 5:2 (carrying John W. English's story, "Avis Linnell and her murder by Reverend Clarence V.T. Richeson"); a copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's pamphlet, "The Case of Oscar Slater" (arguing that Oscar, the operator of an illegal London gambling operation convicted of stealing a brooch from an elderly woman, Miss Marion Gilchrist, prior to bludgeoning her to death and leaving the country, was innocent. A medical examiner at the crime scene had declared a large chair dripping with blood must have been the murder weapon, but Slater stood accused of having used a ball-peen hammer. "The whole case will," Conan Doyle wrote, "remain immortal in the classics of crime as the supreme example of official incompetence and obstinacy." Conan Doyle and others gave money to Slater for legal fees. Slater was finally cleared of all charges, and awarded compensation. When Slater refused to reimburse Conan Doyle, or even to thank him, the author wrote Slater, "you are the most ungrateful as well as the most foolish person whom I have ever known.") a copy of a 1948 newspaper notice regarding Oscar Slater's death ("Oscar Slater Dead at 78; Reprieved Murderer; Friend of A. Conan Doyle."); a note from D.H. Lawrence, apparently to Frieda Weekley ("I love you and you love me. You are the most wonderful woman in all England."); two artist's notebooks full of drawings and writings from young Khalil Gibran (with transcendental esoteric jottings in both Syriac and Arabic describing naked women, swirling cedars, rugged cliffs, cascading waterfalls); eleven pages of correspondence between William Butler Yeats and Ezra Pound (who'd introduced Yeats to Japanese Noh drama, enormously influencing Yeats's work in the Irish theater); two fliers, one promoting Sonia Delaunay's "Casa Sonia" shop for interior decoration and accessories, and the other promoting her Paris shop, "L'atelier Simultané"; two fliers, one announcing the "Blaue Reiter" group’s first exhibition, held at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie in Munich, and the other announcing the second Blaue Reiter show, held at the Galerie Hans Goltz in Munich; a flier announcing Wassily Kandinsky’s first solo show, in 1912, at the Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin; an original copy, in French, of painter Robert Delaunay's 1912 manifesto "On Light," with a copy of the magazine "Der Sturm" containing Paul Klee's German translation of "On Light" (and a facsimile copy of Klee's 1912 diary entry, accompanied by an English translation, "Do not laugh, reader! Children also have more artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it!"); a facsimile copy of a 1912 letter from Robert Delaunay to Kandinsky (noting, "First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm. Seeing is in itself a movement. Vision is the true creative rhythm."); a handwritten note from George Bernard Shaw to an unnamed recipient disparaging the Titanic's Captain Smith for failing to be "a super-hero, a magnificent seaman, cool and brave, delighting in death and danger"; original, unused (duplicate?) one way tickets for the Titanic: First-Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350; First-Class (berth) £30/$150; Second-Class £12/$60; Third-Class £3 to £8/$40; four personal scrapbooks and three notebooks from an unidentified collector/scribbler apparantly compiling notes and illustrations for a book (unpublished) about the millionaire industrialist George Dunton Widener, his wife Eleanor, and their son the young Philadelphia book collector, Harry Elkins Widener (Harry and George were among the 1,502 passengers who died in the Titanic disaster. Harry had amassed a remarkable collection of literary rare books and manuscripts. George, heir to probably the largest fortune in Philadelphia, had run a successful street-car firm); canceled stock shares (and other related miscellaneous ephemera) of The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, the International Navigation Company, the International Mercantile Marine, and the White Star Line. The Widener family patriarch, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, ahd been a part-owner of the Titanic. (The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company owned the White Star Line. All Oceanic Steam Navigation shares, except six shares individually held, were owned by the International Navigation Company, which was controlled by a holding company called the Fidelity Trust Company of Philadelphia. All the International Navigation Company's stock was owned by the International Mercantile Marine, whose president was J. Bruce Ismay, who was also Chairman of the White Star Line. His father had owned the company at one time. Among the International Mercantile Marine's officers were five voting trustees: Ismay, Charles Steele, William J. Pirrie, J.P. Morgan, and Peter Arrell Brown Widener -- George Dunton Widener's father, Harry Elkins Widener's grandfather).

Somewhere on the shelves of the Museum Library were supposed to be a first edition copy of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyám's "Rubáiyát" illustrated by Eliku Vedder; a Bible that had belonged to Gerhart Hauptmann; a first edition copy of of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"; a first edition copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" with an original copy of the "All-Story" magazine issue in which "Tarzan" had first appeared in print; first edition copies of the first five Tom Swift books (by "Victor Appleton"): Tom Swift In the City of Gold; Tom Swift and His Air Glider; Tom Swift in Captivity; Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; and Tom Swift and His Great Search Light. A first edition copy of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice"; a first edition copy of Zane Grey's "Riders of the Purple Sage"; a first edition copy of Gene Stratton Porter's "The Harvester"; a first edition copy of Arnold Bennett's "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day"; a first edition copy of Arnold Bennett's "Your United States"; a first edition copy of Mary Antin's "The Promised Land"; a first edition copy of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"; a first edition copy of John Muir's "The Yosemite"; a first edition copy of Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises's "The Theory of Money and Credit"; a first edition copy, in Italian, of Giovanni Papini's "Un Uomo Finoto" and an English edition titled "A Man Finished" and an American edition titled "The Failure"; a first edition copy of Maurice Maeterlinck's "On Emerson; and Other Essays"; a first edition copy of Henri Bergson's "Creative Evolution"; a first edition copy of Maria Montessori's "The Montessori Method"; a first edition copy of Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour"; a first edition copy of Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy"; first edition copies of the three volumes that would constitute "Principia Mathematica," by Russell and A. N. Whitehead; a complete first edition set of Havelock Ellis' "Studies in the Psychology of Sex" in seven volumes; a first edition copy of Jane Addams's "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil"; first edition copies of Booker T. Washington's "My Larger Education" and "The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe"; a first edition copy of James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"; Viscount James Bryce of Dechmont's "South America"; a first edition copy of J. H. P. Murray's "Papua, or British New Guinea"; a first edition copy of William James's "Essays in Radical Empiricism"; a first edition copy of Carl Gustav Jung's "Symbols of Transformaton"; a first edition copy of Joseph Conrad's "A Personal Record" (the second of Conrad's autobiographical memoirs); a first edition copy of James Joyce's short story collection, "Dubliners"; a first edition copy of Amy Lowell's collected poems, "A Dome of Many-Colored Glass"; a first edition copy of Ezra Pound's self-published book of poems, "Ripostes"; a first edition copy of Robinson Jeffers' self-published book of poems, "Flagons and Apples"; a first edition copy of Theodore Dreiser's "The Financier" inscribed by him to an unnamed prisoner at Sing Sing; and a first edition copy of John Cheever's "Falconer," inscribed by him to an unnamed prisoner at Sing Sing.