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The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925

Starting in the early 1920, writers and other literary types who stopped by Frank Shay's bookshop in Greenwich Village began autographing one of the doors in his store. Eventually 242 different artists and others signed the door, and it eventually found its way to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The door is a fascinating document "that defined this slice of Bohemia...

https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/bookshopdoor/