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The British Rave Flyers Collection is a collection of 746 flyers and postcards from British raves and nightclubs from the 1990s. This collection contains flyers from a wide range of venues throughout the United Kingdom, as well as a few venues in Scotland, the United States, France, Spain, and Germany. This collection is 6 boxes of materials.

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This small archive of Wilhelm Deffke materials consists of manuscripts on Deffke’s life and work, correspondence, and printed ephemera. Manuscript materials include an autobiographical account of his life and career, and notes and schematic drawings for his project, “Grammatik der Formensprache,” (1945). Correspondence is between Deffke and some associates including Carl Ernst Hinkefuss. Examples of printed ephemera and newspaper clippings with examples of his graphic work are included.

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This collection contains 267 photographs depicting the life of a group of gay men in Czechoslovakia from 1939 to 1979, where same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in 1962. Photographs show the men either clothed, in various stages of undress, or completely nude. Images are taken at the beach, on vacation, indoors, and exploring unidentified places.

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The General Manuscript File Collection consists of 26 boxes of correspondence and other manuscript materials from notable individuals, dating from 1667, 1727, and 1735 to 2012, acquired individually by the department from various sources over several decades.

Abstract This collection consists of publishing prospectuses issued between 1920 and 1940 by German publishers and booksellers, though the bulk of them are most likely from 1930 to 1938. The firms are predominantly from Berlin, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna, and although there are only one or two examples from most firms, a few are represented by several prospectuses. These include Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, A. Anton & Co., Bernina Verlag, Bertelsmann Verlag, Beyer Verlag, Bibliographisches...

Abstract The Nuremberg Trial Collection consists of materials amassed by Charles J. Gallagher (Northwestern University Law School, 1924), a court reporter. Included are his shorthand notebooks for sessions of the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945-1948 to try members of the Nazi regime for crimes committed during World War II. The collection contains copies of some of the transcripts, documents, and affidavits from the trials; some of Gallagher's notes and...

Abstract The Stjopka collages include 301 paper collages from an artist known only as Stjopka (1956-). Presumably a pseudonym, very little is known about the artist. Based on birthdate, Stjopka would have created the work in this collection starting at approximately eleven years old. The collages are composed of colored paper and decorative found elements. The majority of Stjopka’s work depicts scenes of individuals or multiple adolescent boys approximately in their pre-teen to teenage years. All...