Gary S. Davis

William S. Burroughs beside typewriter on kitchen table, getting in condition to edit his South American "Yage Letters" and "Queer" epistolary mss. to be published decades afterward - immortality comes later! We slept in striped wallpaper'd tiny rear bedroom, my wooden wardrobe visible behind his shoulder. 206 East 7th Street, Apartment 16, Lower East Side Manhattan October 1953.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.18

Not on view

Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter-Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with The Subterraneans, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed 1990

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.108.2

Not on view

Jack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2011.146.24

Not on view

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of Yage Letters & Queer mss.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2016.184.20

Not on view

Friend Robert Merims early 1950s

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.41

Not on view

Wm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.73

Not on view

Louis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.23

Not on view

Rebecca Ginsberg, Buba, wife of Pincus, laundry-man later tobacco store owner, my paternal grandmother (b. Russia near Kaminetz-Podolska May 1869–d. July 1962) visiting her elder son Louis’ house, here 84 years old at table for Seder preparations. She’d attended Adult Education English classes in Newark 14 years earlier, written patriotic essay declaring “God Blast America!” Younger son Uncle Abe & daughters Aunt Rose, Clara & H.S. teacher Hannah were her children. Dining room 428 East 34th Street, Paterson New Jersey April 1953.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2009.103.3

Not on view

Helen Parker's boys Bruce & Tommy, circa 1953, Greenwich Village, she was my friend when I was in N.Y. Psychiatric Institute a few years earlier, now we'd go to Italian restaurants downstairs on MacDougal Street with Ramblin Jack Eliot.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2015.163.35

Not on view

William S. Burroughs fixing typescript of Yage Letters at kitchen table 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2013.145.45

Not on view

A man sits smiling, cross-legged on a bed with his elbows wrapped around his raised knees in this square black and white photograph. The man’s body is angled slightly to our right, and he looks off, grinning, in that direction. His short dark hair is brushed up and back away from his forehead, and he wears dark, round-framed glasses with thick lenses. The man’s white button-down shirt is rolled up to the elbows, and he wears a tie patterned with dark diamonds against a light background. His hairy legs are bare, and he wears argyle-patterned socks. On one arm, he wears a wristwatch and grips his other wrist with that hand. He holds a nearly burned-down cigarette with that other hand. The bedspread has floral patterns, and curtains are blurry on the far right side of the room. Handwriting below the photograph reads, “Carl Solomon in his Prince Street apartment several years after we were locked up together in residence on Sixth Floor Ward, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He got shock treatments, introduced me to Jean Genet's Miracle of the Rose and Antonin Artaud's Van Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society translations, I stayed eight months, weekends off. Afterwards, working mid-town at his uncle's Ace Books publications, he gave Kerouac small advance on first On the Road sketches (scroll later rejected), saw Jaime DeAngulo's classic Indian Tales first hard-back through press, and edited William Burroughs' Junkie paperback first edition. New York, 1953. Allen Ginsberg.”

Carl Solomon in his Prince Street apartment several years after we were locked up together in residence on Sixth Floor ward, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He got shock treatments, introduced me to Jean Genet’s Miracle of the Rose and Antonin Artaud’s Van Gogh, The Man Suicided by Society translations, I stayed eight months, weekends off. Afterwards, working mid-town at his uncle’s Ace Books publications, he gave Kerouac small advance on first On the Road sketches (scroll later rejected), saw Jaime DeAngulo’s classic Indian Tales first hard-back through press, & edited William Burroughs’ Junkie paperback first edition. New York, 1953.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed 1995

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2008.131.15

Not on view

Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

Allen Ginsberg

1953, printed later

Gelatin silver print Accession ID 2012.118.75

Not on view

Gary S. Davis

Jack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans

Jack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of Yage Letters & Queer mss.

William Burroughs, kitchen table, burlap bag of Yage brought back from Amazonas, 206 E. 7 St. NY. 1953. That's the bedroom standing closet through door behind his shoulder-- we slept there, time of Yage Letters & Queer mss.

Friend Robert Merims early 1950s

Friend Robert Merims early 1950s

Wm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.

Wm. S. Burroughs at Fire Escape Window, Bob Merims on couch 1953 New York.

Louis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.

Louis Marker, Jacksonville Florida. Bill Burroughs friend from Mexico City. I visited December 1953.

Helen Parker's boys Bruce & Tommy, circa 1953, Greenwich Village, she was my friend when I was in N.Y. Psychiatric Institute a few years earlier, now we'd go to Italian restaurants downstairs on MacDougal Street with Ramblin Jack Eliot.

Helen Parker's boys Bruce & Tommy, circa 1953, Greenwich Village, she was my friend when I was in N.Y. Psychiatric Institute a few years earlier, now we'd go to Italian restaurants downstairs on MacDougal Street with Ramblin Jack Eliot.

William S. Burroughs fixing typescript of Yage Letters at kitchen table 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

William S. Burroughs fixing typescript of Yage Letters at kitchen table 206 East 7th Street New York Fall 1953.

Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

Williams Burroughs with a Newspaper 1953 couch 206 East 7th St. N.Y.

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