Scrapbook for Celeste Neuffer, 1938-1940 : Scrapbook; Correspondence 1938-1940.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Summary:

Description: Cover: Red leather cover with "Scrap Book" printed on it, with tag "Neuffer, Celeste, Album 3, 1938-1940."Contains travel & performance memorabilia from donor's time in Europe from 1939-1940 including performance & travel memorabilia from Berlin, Dortmund, Milan, Egypt, travel orders & instructions from American Consulate re: donor's trip on USAT American Legion, 1940. Newspaper clippings about Panama and the Panama Canal. A newspaper article about Celeste Eichling (donor) with an enormous fish she caught in the Canal Zone; membership certificate for the Cuban Association of Theatrical Artists; pressed flower; Several articles regarding the death by auto accident of Count Covadonga, the heir to the Spanish crown, and the ensuing charges pressed against the driver, a young "cigarette girl" from a Miami nightclub (September 1938); sheet music; booklet of pin-up style photographs; several telegrams regarding preparations for her trip abroad; Winter Garden magazine from Berlin, November 1938, with several signatures; passenger list of the S.S. Europa; luggage identification tags; menus from the ships; anti-Hitler propaganda cartoon; Performance programs; Propagandistic Lufthansa (airline) advertisement; A cardboard sign that reads "Hier gilt der deutsche Gruss: Heil Hitler!"; A coin purse with a 2 lire coin; Letters indicating that Celeste's family thought she was stranded and destitute in Italy, and a scathing response letter from the Hollywood Blondes; Souvenirs from the trip to Egypt; Paperwork for travel in Milan; Personal letters in which donor tells a friend she is in Berlin, but wants her mother to believe she is in Italy; Several postcards sent to donor; A pencil drawing of the donor; Newspaper articles about Hitler and Mussolini meeting at the Brenner Pass in March 1940; A letter from March 1940 warning all Americans to leave Belgium, or else stay at their own risk; A large propaganda poster from Copenhagen; Scraps of an American uniform; An article entitled "Finns regain land lost to Reds" from 17 August 1941; Life magazine from 9 September 1940 with a photo of donor and friend asleep on a ship; A copy of Skating Review magazine from January 1941 with a photo of the Four Hollywood Blondes on the back cover; Danish newspaper from 9 April 1940 (Nazi invasion of Denmark); Several personal letters and telegrams.

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Description based on online resource (viewed on June 12, 2019).