Germany -- Social life and customs.
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Adna Ferrin Weber papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2872
Scope and content
Collection includes photographs; notebooks; professional and popular writings, 1899-1913; correspondence, notes, references, and reviews concerning Weber's GROWTH OF CITIES; student exams, notebooks, papers, and treatises from Cornell University; and miscellaneous items relating to Cornell, including one handwritten letter from President Jacob Gould Schurman.
Dates:
1884-1966.
Charles E. Bennett papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-9-596
Scope and content
Lecture notes concerning Greek and Roman history, civilization, archaeology, and language; speeches and writings on education in the United States and Germany, some of which were written while Bennett was a secondary school teacher and principal in Nebraska; notes and manuscripts for Bennett's works on Greek grammar and dialects, the Archaeological Institute of America, and similar topics; a long reminiscence, "An American Student in Europe," describing student life, customs, and cities in...
Dates:
1882-1918.
Postcards of German female impersonators
Collection
Identifier: 7636
Abstract
Sixty-two late-Wilhelmine male transvestite postcards portraying thirty individuals in their Damen-Imitator personas, including three images of "Gauze, Canadian Indian Soprano." Sixteen are signed or inscribed by the subjects, with references to gay cabarets in Berlin, Cologne, Kiel, and throughout the country. Five are addressed to Paul Shafer and one to Asta, female impersonators of the period, who are also pictured on some of the cards. One postcard depicts Man de Wirth in costume, circa...
Dates:
1900-1920