Figure 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...