1930s Michigan Lesbian Snapshot Album,1930-1939
Collection Number: 7675
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
Title:
1930s Michigan lesbian snapshot album,
1930-1939.
Collection Number:
7675
Quantity:
1 v.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Small, intimate snapshot album of Till and Esther. Twenty-one photographs chronicle their relationship beginning with their
high school graduation pictures. Seven photographs feature the two women together, one in a passionate kiss. Early pictures
show them in skirts and dresses, while later pictures show them in pants and baggy shirts. Other people in the photographs
include two men, possibly Hilma's brothers, one of whom was named Matthew; and Hilma with her and Ralph Tweedie's daughter,
Marilyn, as a baby. Also included is a 7x9 1/2" photograph portrait, probably of Esther, 5 loose photographs, and 1 negative.
Language:
Collection material in English
From the estate of a woman in Alma, Michigan, who was the daughter of a woman named Hilma Tweedie. Esther was possibly Hilma's
sister.
Small, intimate snapshot album of Till and Esther. Twenty-one photographs chronicle their relationship beginning with their
high school graduation pictures. Seven photographs feature the two women together, one in a passionate kiss. Early pictures
show them in skirts and dresses, while later pictures show them in pants and baggy shirts. Other people in the photographs
include two men, possibly Hilma's brothers, one of whom was named Matthew; and Hilma with her and Ralph Tweedie's daughter,
Marilyn, as a baby. Also included is a 7x9 1/2" photograph portrait, probably of Esther, 5 loose photographs, and 1 negative.
Subjects:
Lesbians--Ashley, Michigan--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Cite As:
1930s Michigan lesbian snapshot album, #7675. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Collecting Program: Human Sexuality Collection.
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