Ethel Granger archive of photographs and ephemera, [ca. 1933-1980]
Collection Number: 7772
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Ethel Granger archive of photographs and ephemera, [ca. 1933-1980]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7772
Abstract:
Includes cardboard box addressed to Ethel Granger from Kurt Ingerl, containing a ring-binder
with 87 gelatin silver prints, ca. 1970. (Ingerl, an Austrian artist, used these photographs
as the basis for a series of sculptures.) 2 c-type (chromogenic color) and 91 gelatin
silver prints showing candid photographs of Granger from ca. 1933-ca. 1980; a pencil
sketch of Granger signed by J.G. Wolcott, 1957 and 5 photographic reproductions of
other works by Wolcott; 67 gelatin silver prints of other like-minded individuals;
"Tiny Waist Stories," typed manuscript (4 leaves); two of Granger's earrings (which
appear in some of the photographs), a belt buckle, and a button.
Creator:
G., Ethel (Ethel Mary), 1905-1982.
Ingerl, Kurt.
Quanitities:
.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Ethel Granger was a British woman who, through the practice of tightlacing, achieved
a waist measurement of thirteen inches. She was listed in the Guinness Book of World
Records as having the smallest waist on record until 1998, when the category was changed
to "smallest waist on a living person."
Includes cardboard box addressed to Ethel Granger from Kurt Ingerl, containing a ring-binder
with 87 gelatin silver prints, ca. 1970. (Ingerl, an Austrian artist, used these photographs
as the basis for a series of sculptures.) 2 c-type (chromogenic color) and 91 gelatin
silver prints showing candid photographs of Granger from ca. 1933-ca. 1980; a pencil
sketch of Granger signed by J.G. Wolcott, 1957 and 5 photographic reproductions of
other works by Wolcott; 67 gelatin silver prints of other like-minded individuals;
"Tiny Waist Stories," typed manuscript (4 leaves); two of Granger's earrings (which
appear in some of the photographs), a belt buckle, and a button.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Ethel Granger Archive of Photographs and Ephemera, #7772. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Photography -- History.
Corsets -- History.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
Body art.
Body image -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Earrings (jewelry).
Chromogenic color prints.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
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