Photographic postcards

Content Description This collection consists of 12 letters and 7 pieces of ephemera chiefly about the professional ice skating career of Charlotte Oelschlagel Neumann, a celebrated German figure skater who performed under the stage name "Charlotte" in the first half of the twentieth century. The correspondence began with letters between American ice skater Dick Button and ice skating collector and historian Arthur N. Foxe in the 1960s discussing ice skating books. Foxe subsequently asked Button to put him in...

Scope and Contents This collection includes more than 300 exhibit cards featuring images of boxers. Cards are the size of postcards. The fronts of most cards contain an image of a boxer with his name and sometimes other information like hometown, nicknames, etc. The backs of cards from the 1920s often contain short bios and/or selected match results, and many have a postcard back for mailing. Some of the cards from the 1920s are tinted in different colors. Many cards, especially those printed after 1928,...