John Steinbeck: The Collection of  Preston Beyer: Donated to the Princeton University Library   
 By His Daughters:  Barbara A. Rice,  Marilyn S. Shuffler,  Lynne B. Sagalyn.
 Annotated Catalogue of the Collection
 
POSTERS AND PICTURES 
The Moon is Down. Starring Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon, and Margaret Wycherly. Directed by Irving Pichel. Screen writer, Nunnally Johnson. 20th Century Fox. 1943. 14 3/4" x 36 3/4".
Of Mice and Men. Berkshire Performing Arts Center. Presents Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Lenox, MA. Dates announced then changed. Note written in, performance held over. No date. 10"x14", mounted on white board.
Steinbeck Film Festival. Salinas Chamber of Commerce. Announcing performance dates of East of Eden, Viva Zapata, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, The Moon is Down The Red Pony, The Pearl, The Forgotten Village, and The Grapes of Wrath. Green paper
Lifeboat. Four posters, in color on board, each showing different scenes from the movie. Twentieth-Fox Film Exchange. An Alfred Hitchcock production. Starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, and Canada Lee.  Produced by Mac Gowan.  14" x 11".
Of Mice and Men. Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, Illinois. Performances September 11 to October 18 (no year given). White with green/black color. 11" x 17".
The Grapes of Wrath. Steppenwolf Theatre Company. World Premiere performance of The Grapes of Wrath adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati. Performance beginning September 7, 1988 at the Royal-George Theatre, Chicago, IL. Multi-colored poster mounted on board.  22" x 34".
The Journey of the Joad Family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: From Mclester, OK. to Pixley, CA. Approximately 1640 miles traveled. Map drawn by Graphic Department of the University of Florida per Betty Perez, Ph.D. 15 1/2" x 36". Wide heavy stock mounted on white board.
Viking Penguin Celebrates John Steinbeck. April 1989. The 50th Anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath. Publicity poster, mounted on board. Deep brown and off-white. Photograph by Robert Capa/Magnum Photos.
Locales for Some of Steinbeck's Books. Black printing with red markings as location points on white board. Taken, with permission, from the conference at University of Lowell, Lowell, MA. April 18th and 19th, 1986. 20" x 32".
The Wayward Bus. Starring Joan Collins, Jayne Mansfield, Dan Dailey, Rick Jason. Produced by Charles Brackett, directed by Victor Vicas, screenplay by Ivan Moffat. 20th Century Fox. No. 257-252.
The Wayward Bus. Stars as above. No. Y 57-252. Multi-color photos. A Cinema Scope production. 30"x 38 3/4" as above same size with multi-color pictures.
Multi-colored poster displaying scenes from various Steinbeck writings. Steinbeck Theatre, Cannery Row, Doc's laboratory, Wing Chong's, Floria's. A pictorial with mention of the characters and scenes as mentioned above. 21 1/2" x 34 3/4". Monterey, CA.
Quotation from Cannery Row. "Lee Chong's grocery while not a model of neatness ... the one commodity Lee Chong did not keep could be had across the lot at Dora's." Printed in red ink on white paper. 8" x 12".
Framed poster of Doc Rickett's Laboratory. Etching, black on white. Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 1971. 11" x 14".
Framed photo of JS, shoulders and head. Inscribed by Steinbeck to "Lenny Lyons Mezzano straordinario from John Steinbeck." Photo is 9"x 11 1/2". Red on yellow.
John Steinbeck. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Large photo of a young Steinbeck from the Granger Collection, New York. Light green border surrounding black & white photo. 17" x 22".
Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Monterey, California. Large postcard featuring oil painting of Cannery Row by Bruce Ariss. Glossy. Black border. Postcard to Preston Beyer signed by assorted friends including the artist Ariss, Bob DeMott, John Steinbeck IV, Bob Morberger, John Ditsky, and Tetsumaro Hayashi.  Copyright 1984, Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Postmarked Salinas, California, August 7, 1990.
Travels With Charley. From Thom Tammaro speech of Morehead State University, John Steinbeck Conference at University of Lowell, April 18-19, 1986. Map of the U.S. tracing Steinbeck's route across the country. 14" x 10 7/8".
'Arroyo Del Ajo' -- Historic John Steinbeck Estate. 16250 Greenwood Lane, Monte Sereno, California. Large photo card containing photographs of Steinbeck's estate. Also paragraphs describing estate's origin and history. Glued to grey paper backing.

The Steinbeck Country. The Settings of John Steinbeck's Novels and P/aces Associated with His Life. Map. Black & white. 8" x 10".

The Grapes of Wrath. Shubert Organization, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Suntory International Corporation, and Jujamcyn Theaters present the Steppenwoif Theatre Company production of The Grapes of Wrath. Adapted and directed by Frank Galati. Black & white poster, title in red. 14" x 22".  Thick cardboard, glossy poster mounted on black wood board.

Pencil sketch of John Steinbeck, head and shoulders. In folder.

Two photocopies of a picture of bronze bust of JS by Ron Machin.

Framed photo of Doc Ricketts' laboratory. Black & white, 11 1/2" x 10". Cannery Row, Monterey, California.

Penguin cardboard standing poster advertising John Steinbeck, Working Days.  Quote from Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times at bottom.  Brown with white lettering. Red highlights. 15 1/4" x 23 7/8".

"Doc" Ricketts' Cannery Row Theatre presents John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. June 25-September 14, 1970. In conjunction with the Old Monterey Bicentennial. Yellow poster with red lettering. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2".

White poster board titled CALIFORNIA. Assorted maps of California and the Monterey Peninsula, a chronology of Steinbeck's life and work, and photocopied pictures of the Salinas Valley, Cannery Row's fishing shacks and canneries pasted on. The cover of Steinbeckiana also pasted on. 22" x 28".

Robert Hayden. Monday, February 18. Franklin Patterson Lounge, Hampshire College. 8 pm. Poster announcing lecture/reading. Taupe with blue lettering and deep blue picture of a window. Titled "Writers Reading."

NEXA Fall 1992. Poster advertises lectures. "Nexa 398: Steinbeck and Doc Ricketts: Literature and The Sea." Lecture by James Kelley (Geosciences) and Jesse Ritter (English). Two copies.

The New York Times. June 10, 1990. Large advertisement announcing The Grapes of Wrath as winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play, and Frank Galati as recipient of the Tony Award for Best Director. Mounted on white 11"
x 14" posterboard.

1981 cloth calendar. John Steinbeck's picture at top.
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