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Postcards.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

William Alvin Bachmann memorabilia

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088349323]
Identifier: 37-5-3255
Scope and content

Student memorabilia includes postcard set, pennants: The Cornell Engineer, December 1940; Announcement of the Dept. of Military Science, 1940-1941; Book of Rules of the College of Engineering, 1940-1941; Sampson vs. Cornell football program, September 1943; Engineering at Cornell; and two copies of the Cornell Daily Sun; and "Cordelt," history of Delta Tau Delta.

Dates: 1940-1944.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Alvin Bachmann memorabilia

William H. Andriette papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7725
Scope and content Files relating to Andriette's experience with Deep Springs College and the Telluride House at Cornell and controversies over his views on child sexuality. Also, files relating to his work in Boston as a volunteer with GAY COMMUNITY NEWS' prisoner project, editor and publisher of GAYME, editor of NAMBLA BULLETIN, and writer for THE GUIDE, 1989-2004. His issue files include correspondence, legal briefs, and news stories about different cases related to pedophilia, pornography, and sexuality. ...
Dates: 1951 - 1990
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William H. Andriette papers

William Henry Miller miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2811
Abstract Includes drawings and blueprints for Cornell buildings, including Sage infirmary medical building and the Cascadilla School in Ithaca, New York; unidentified drawings; details of two fireplaces in the Ithaca Conservatory of Music (now Ithaca College); two small hand carved wooden panels presented by Miller to the College of Architecture at the time of its semi-centennial (1921); a scrapbook of clippings and plates from architectural magazines; a book of architectural postcards, including...
Dates: 1879-1916.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Henry Miller miscellany

William Henry Wales memorabilia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-3770
Scope and content

Photographs, postcards, programs, and other items documenting his Cornell experience.

Dates: 1908-1912.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Henry Wales memorabilia

William S. Foster papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065330635]
Identifier: 14-23-3223
Scope and content

Four scrapbooks of photographs and memorabilia documenting his undergraduate, graduate, and teaching career at Cornell and his World War I service; postcard album; and album of clipped autographs.

Dates: 1905-1919.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William S. Foster papers

Women's travel scrapbooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113569150]
Identifier: 8589
Scope and content Two scrapbooks of photographs, postcards, and ephemera documenting the travels of three women friends in and around the Great Lakes region, through New York State, and into Canada. The albums contain of 150 black and white silver gelatin photographs and approximately 100 pieces of clipped ephemera. Volume 1 documents two trips, beginning on August 17, 1925, the first one by steamship in and around the Great Lakes, the second one to Watkins Glen, New York. Places visited include Buffalo,...
Dates: 1925-1930.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Women's travel scrapbooks

WWI racist postcard

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070576529]
Identifier: 7886
Abstract

Postcard depicts a black prostitute with caricatural giant red lips coming on to a soldier who pulls away in alarm. The caption reads: "Les 10 commandements du soldat / 6 - Plaisir d'amour ne donneras / Qu'aux poules blanches seulement!"

Dates: 1914 - 1918
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / WWI racist postcard

WWII sexual humor postcards

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - Folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070576537]
Identifier: 7887
Abstract

Seventeen illustrated postcards from a series depicting French and British soldiers propositioning or making out with French women, largely on farms and in villages but with a few urban scenes, as well. Each card includes a caption giving dialogue, often with sexual double-entendres, sexist comments, and mockery of types of female bodies suggested to be unattractive. Some of the scenes depict street prostitution, and many portray the young women in various states of undress.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / WWII sexual humor postcards

Wyndham Lewis postcards

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065332540]
Identifier: 6347
Scope and content

20 postcards depicting or relating to author Wyndham Lewis.

Dates: ca. 1993-1997.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Wyndham Lewis postcards

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