Astrid Arnoldson Papers,ca.1920-1929.
Collection Number: 7726
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
Library
Title:
Astrid Arnoldson papers, ca.1920-1929.
Collection Number:
7726
Creator:
Astrid Arnoldson
Quantity:
0.6 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Scrapbooks, loose photos, yearbooks, diary, university
booklet.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Two scrapbooks full of photographs and mementos giving a
glimpse of the life, friends, and lesbian loves of a female mountaineer exploring the
mountains around Missoula, Montana and Yellowstone and Glacier National parks in the
1920s. Includes photographs of her mannishly dressed female friends and lovers and her
male alter-ego "Bob." Also, class year books from Missoula High School, and loose
photographs.
Language:
Collection material in English
Born in Sweden, Arnoldson emigrated to the United States as a young girl and later
studied at Stanford, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of
Montana. She never married and lived in the home her parents had built in Missoula,
Montana, near Sacajawea Park. She dressed like a man and wore jodhpurs and leather
boots. She did a lot of mountaineering, and had various lesbian lovers.
Two scrapbooks full of photographs and mementos giving a glimpse of the life, friends,
and lesbian loves of a female mountaineer exploring the mountains around Missoula,
Montana and Yellowstone and Glacier National parks in the 1920s. Includes photographs of
her mannishly dressed female friends and lovers and her male alter-ego "Bob." Also,
class year books from Missoula High School, year book from Monmouth College, Louise
Arnoldson's booklet from studying in Paris 1929-1933, and Astrid Arnoldson's five-year
diary for 1927-1931.
Names:
Arnoldson, Astrid.
Subjects:
Lesbians--Montana.
Mountaineers--Montana.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Cite As:
Astrid Arnoldson papers, #7726. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection.
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