Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow.
Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection Citation:
Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Photograph album depicting Helen Louise Schneider as a contestant in various New Jersey baby beauty contests.
Content Description:
Photograph album documenting Helen Louise Schneider as a contestant in various New Jersey baby beauty contests. There are some newspaper clippings about these contests. The album also contains photographs from other places the family lived and visited, including Detroit, Florida (mainly St. Petersburg), Philadelphia, and Virginia. Many of these photos include other family members and friends the family had. There are photographs of the family's pets and Helen in costume. There are certificates from schools Helen attended and a class photo from Longstreth School in Philadelphia in 1933. It also includes loose photographs of her later childhood and one of her wedding. The photographs are captioned for the most part.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into one series.
Biographical / Historical:
Helen Louise Schneider was born in 1922, in Philadelphia, to Frank and Florence Schneider who ran a yarn shop on the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey. Helen competed in various baby contests in New Jersey. She married George Rauch (1917-2000). She later worked as a clerk for a retail florist. She died in 1997 in Delaware co, Pennsylvania.
Provenance:
Collection purchased in July 2018.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Detailed ledger and documents relating to the work of early watchmaker Josephus Gill in Missouri.
Content Description:
Ledger documents watchmaker, Josephus Gill and his repair work undertaken in several small western Missouri towns from 1838-1852.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged in one series.
Provenance:
Ledger purchased from from Between the Covers, through Tom Congalton, owner, 2019.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World Search this
Extent:
0.15 Cubic feet (1 box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1957
Summary:
Collection documents aBlack Elks' Labor Day parade in Philadelphia in September 1957.
Content Description:
Thirty photographs (3.5" x Order of the Elks of the World (known colloquially as the Blacks Elks). The images were taken on the corner of Spruce and Broad Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Featured are various Elk Club chapters, drill teams, marching bands, dignitaries in convertibles, and banners identifying marching groups from New York, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into one series.
Provenance:
Collection purchased from Between the Covers Rare Books, January 2020.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
