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Collection
Identifier: MS-0040
Abstract
Adolf Katzenellenbogen, internationally known art historian, was born in Germany in Frankfurt-am-Main on August 19, 1901. He was educated at the universities of Freiburg, Leipzig, Munich, Frankfurt and Giessen in 1924, and he received a doctor of philosophy degree in 1933 at the University of Hamburg. Katzenellenbogen joined the faculty of Vassar College in 1940 and remained there until 1958 when he came to Johns Hopkins University as full professor and department chairman. A specialist in...
Dates:
1933-1964
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0026
Abstract
Born in 1884 in Wales, Amy Evans was an operatic soprano who performed in Britain and the United States in the early 20th century. The Amy Evans papers contain personal documents, correspondence, greeting cards, address books, and photographs from Evans and her husband, baritone Fraser Gange.
Dates:
1907 - 1986
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MS-0680
Abstract
Numbered series of fifteen chromolithographic postcards depicting bullfighting in Mexico, circa 1900.
Dates:
approximately 1900
Collection
Identifier: MS-0689
Abstract
A collection of about 1,000 20th century postcards, chiefly depicting libraries but also featuring about 100 postcards depicting scenes related to book reading, bookselling, and book collecting. The collection was named in honor of Charlotte Tufts, the librarian and deltiologist who created the collection.
Dates:
20th century
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: MS-0823
Abstract
This collection contains seventeen postcards published by the Central Museum of the Revolution in Moscow, printed in Leningrad in approximately 1932. There is no biographical or historical information available on the creator at this time.
Dates:
approximately 1932
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0566
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 399 letters written from Corporal Bernard E. Rabinowitz (179th Infantry Band)to his family in Baltimore, MD. The letters are dated from 1942-1945 and were sent from US bases, Sicily, North Africa, France, and Italy. This collection gives a first-hand account of one soldier's experiences during World War II. There are 230 letters, 140 V-mail, and 29 postcards.
Dates:
1942-1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0736
Abstract
Starting in the spring of 1915, during World War I, some women in unoccupied France volunteered for the role of "war godmothers," marraines de guerre. To provide the moral support these men, so-called "war orphans," could not receive from their families, women in unoccupied areas became their pen pals. Berthe Schuster was one of these war godmothers and lived during the war on 51 Malakoff Avenue in Paris. This collection includes 124 pieces of correspondence, including illustrated letters,...
Dates:
1912 - 1919
Collection — Box: BW-1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MS-0977
Scope and Contents
This collection of six postcards inscribed by the Modernist writer Djuna Barnes date from 1918-1945. One, addressed to M. E. Fitzgerald in 1924, features a scene of the Strand in London; the message discusses the weather on Barnes’ trip and inquires whether Fitzgerald had received a gift. Three postcards are addressed to her mother, Elizabeth Chappell Barnes; these date from between 1918 and 1945 and were sent from Tarrytown in New York, Berlin, and Nice, featuring photographic scenes from...
Dates:
1918 - 1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0233
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook (1914) which forms this collection was assembled by Baltimore judge, Emory Hamilton Niles. Many of the items in the scrapbook are in German and reflect a brief but significant few months, July to November, in 1914. The scrapbook contains tickets, postcards, photographs, and newspaper clippings collected in Europe prior to and immediately following the outbreak of World War I. Tickets and photographs in the scrapbook indicate that Niles traveled from London to...
Dates:
1914
Collection
Identifier: MS-0629
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, ephemera, a small collection of material related to the "Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina," photographs, and a scrapbook. Correspondence is primarily written by and to members of the Floyd and Urner families from the 1890s to the 1930s. The small collection of materials relating to the "Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina" spans 1896 to 1915 and...
Dates:
1800-1984; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1945
