Skating

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...

Content Description

This collection consists of a scrapbook and loose material collected by figure skater Ernest Berry documenting his amateur ice skating career. Materials include photographs of Berry and other skaters, ephemera—like programs, tickets, participant information, and other material—about ice skating competitions and events, primarily in California and the Midwest, clippings, and some personal material about Berry.