Scope and content Diary sporadically kept by Edna Lucille Stein, née Smith when she was a student at Cornell University in 1927. The diary describes student activities such as coursework, exams, professors, social events including dinners and shows, and sorority life. Smith discusses her desire to fall in love, contemplates her future, and reflects on life as an eighteen year old, also some mention of being a Jewish student. Outside of life on campus, the diary covers her travel back home during breaks....

Scope and content Letters Clemens received while at St. Mary's-of-the-Woods, a Catholic school in Indiana, in 1924, her first year away from her home in Pittsburg, Kansas. Correspondents include Clemens's mother and sister and a number of female friends, especially Velma Lough, who signs her letters as "Pewee" and who writes both about dating numerous boys and about her passion for LaVon. An October 11, 1924 letter from Lough includes a description of a heated debate among friends about the equality of...

Abstract

A collection of photographs and postcards from various sources, primarily of unidentified women by unidentified photographers that show women in various homosocial poses or in gender transgressive dress or behavior. Some images may be of sisters, relatives, or female friends; some are explicitly lesbian in nature. Together, they give visual documentation of women's relationships, body language, and dress. Specific descriptions follow.