Inventor Name
Loy, Mina
Repository
Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
203-432-1775
http://www.library.yale.edu/special_collections/
Physical Description
4.25
Summary
The Mina Loy Papers contain prose, poetry, drawings, designs, and copyright inventions documenting the life of modernist poet and artist Mina Loy. The papers span the dates 1914-1960. Series II, Other Papers contains drawings and notes. Her drawings include fashion designs, a collage, and more than a dozen unidentified portraits in pencil and wash. A collection of copyright inventions include a corselet or armour for the body to correct "middle-age figure curvature," a stage set for the lyrical line "coloured folk have the moon in their eyes," and a valentine that ticks. There is one lampshade design decorated with an airplane.
Finding Aid
http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.LOY.nav.html