Exhibit Contents Introduction Ready to Combat the World Ablaze with Adventure and Verve Life as a Lucy Stoner It Must Be Human An Audience with an Emperor The Legacy She Left Behind Special Collections Home About the Exhibit Copyright Notice & Image Use Statement
	Subpoena to appear before the U.S. District Court for violation of the National Prohibition Act, August 13, 1926. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.	Recipe for gin from a friend, November 17, 1925. Jane Grant was responsible for obtaining alcoholic beverages for the communal house at 412 West 47th Street, a risky yet challenging responsibility during prohibition. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
	Jane Grant and Harold Ross on a Sunday outing at Phalanx, New Jersey, after being secretly married in March 1920. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.	Alexander Woollcott, drama critic, friend, colleague, and housemate of Jane Grant and Harold Ross, from the window of Grant and Ross's apartment at 412 W. 47th Street in New York city. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
	Harold Ross when he was the editor of the American Legion Weekly,ca. 1923. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.	Series of photographs taken of Jane Grant and Harold Ross in the courtyard of their brownstone apartment building at 412 W. 47th Street in New York city. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
	Series of photographs taken of Jane Grant and Harold Ross in the courtyard of their brownstone apartment building at 412 W. 47th Street in New York city. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.	Series of photographs taken of Jane Grant and Harold Ross in the courtyard of their brownstone apartment building at 412 W. 47th Street in New York city. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
	Jane Grant and Harold Ross in 1926. Portrait by Nickolas Murray. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.	Jane Grant in the 1920s after bobbing her hair in the fashion of the times. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
	Alexander Woollcott, in the hospital in 1923, told friends he was having a baby, so they sent him this cartoon of congratulations. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.	A Christmas card of one of the tenants at 412, Bill Powell, who had an apartment "third floor back." Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
	Sketch of Jane Grant by Ruth Hammond, ca. 1920. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.	Thanatopsis, A Play in Two Acts. An unpublished skit that spoofed the poker games of the Thanatopsis Pleasure and Inside Straight Club, of which Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, and others of the Algonquin Round Table Crowd were members. The author is probably Alexander Woollcott. The Thanatopsis, as it was usually called, was a poker club that got its start in France during World War I, and continued in New York in the 1920s. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
	Thanatopsis, A Play in Two Acts. An unpublished skit that spoofed the poker games of the Thanatopsis Pleasure and Inside Straight Club, of which Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, and others of the Algonquin Round Table Crowd were members. The author is probably Alexander Woollcott. The Thanatopsis, as it was usually called, was a poker club that got its start in France during World War I, and continued in New York in the 1920s. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.	Thanatopsis, A Play in Two Acts. An unpublished skit that spoofed the poker games of the Thanatopsis Pleasure and Inside Straight Club, of which Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, and others of the Algonquin Round Table Crowd were members. The author is probably Alexander Woollcott. The Thanatopsis, as it was usually called, was a poker club that got its start in France during World War I, and continued in New York in the 1920s. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
	No Sirree!Playbill for "An Anonymous Entertainment by the Vicious Circle of the Hotel Algonquin." Jane Grant is listed as "First Nighter" in "Between the Acts" and as a "Guest" in "Big Casino is Little Casino." April 1922. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
	Back to the top