The Susan Lautmann Hertel Collection contains illustrated poems, preliminary sketches, photographs and posters of oil paintings, and other materials by and relating to the artist Susan Lautmann Hertel (1930-1998), Scripps College class of 1952. Of note are her poems, most of which reference the animals she kept and her life on the ranch. Hertel illustrated these poems and addressed most of them as holiday/New Year’s cards from herself and her family. The following poems are included in the collection: "Anatomy, Geography, Reflections," "The Bodies of the Animals," "Dawn/Noon/Night," "Desert Angels," "The Dogs Bark Like Angels," "A Feeling in the Bones," "Glimmerings," "Grid," "Hide and Seek, Lost and Found," "Horse and Rider-Both," "In the Hills: Three Poems," "It Seems To Me," "Look Out Above," "The Lord is My Shepherd and I Am His," "A Lot of Weather Passing Through," "Maka (In Praise of Mothers)," "Mandala," "Menage," "Morning, Changing," "Morning/Evening/Swinging," "Prayer for Small Hope," "Reflections," "Signs," "These Days," "'What’s Happening, How Are You Feeling?' -- A Partial Answer," "Winter Moon," "Yang/Yin," "Untitled (The two white doves…)," "Untitled (These days as I move…)," "Untitled (This day blazes…)."