Collection: SC-0076

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LOTTE JACOBI PHOTOGRAPHS circa 1930-1959

Accession Number: NA4 Repository: University of Massachusetts Boston. University Archives and Special Collections Creator: Lotte Jacobi Title: Lotte Jacobi photographs Date [inclusive]: circa 1930-1959 Extent: 1 linear foot (one flat case) Language: English Citation: Courtesy of the University Archives and Special Collections Department, Joseph P. Healey Library, University of Massachusetts Boston: Lotte Jacobi photographs Processing Information: Processed by Kim Brookes in February 1995. Finding aid updated by Abigail Austin in April 2020. Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open for research. Copyright: The University of Massachusetts at Boston does not own copyright of these photographs. The university cannot make copies or lend these images to exhibits off campus. To do so, individuals must obtain permission from Lotte Jacobi’s literary heir(s) who own(s) copyright and Jacobi must be credited in any exhibit that includes her work. Copyright of at least one of these photographs belongs to Folkwang Archive, .

PROVENANCE The Lotte Jacobi photographs may have been purchased by University Archives and Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston prior to 1990.

PROCESSING NOTES Dates and other information were added to the photograph list by the processor, based on information in Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise (Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1978). The photographs were numbered by a librarian when the Healey Library acquired them; when this inventory was made, there were two number fours and no number seven.

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Collection: SC-0076 JACOBI

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Photographer Lotte Jacobi was born in Thorn, West , in 1896. From a family of photographers, she had a studio in Berlin before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1935 (1). In the United States she worked in , and Deering, New Hampshire. Jacobi’s portrait subjects have included many well-known men and women in Europe and the U.S. (1). Jacobi died on May 6, 1990 in Deering, New Hampshire. For additional biographical information, see Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise (Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1978).

SOURCES OF INFORMATION 1. Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise (Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1978)

SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection consists of thirty-five black-and-white portraits, most of well-known American and European men and women, taken in Berlin and the United States. Jacobi signed some of the photos and etched her signature into the negatives of others. All of the photographs are matted and some are framed. Few of the photographs have more than the subject’s name and Jacobi’s name and address (which may help researchers date the prints) on the back.

RELATED MATERIALS The following source provides additional information on Lotte Jacobi: Lotte Jacobi Papers, 1898-2000, MC-58, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

CONTAINER LIST 1. W.H. Auden (1907-1973), writer, framed, 1, circa 1940-1949 2. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893-1973), 2, undated 3. (1887- ), artist 3, circa 1942 4. Theodor Daubler (1876-1934), writer 4, undated 5. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), writer, NY, framed, 4, 1944 6. W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963), historian, writer. Framed. 5, undated 7. Alfred Einstein (1880-1952), physicist, Princeton, N.J., framed, 6, 1938 8. Alfred Einstein (1880-1952), physicist, and (1875-1955), writer, Princeton, N.J., 8, 1938 9. Howard Melvin Fast (1914- ), writer, 9, undated 10. Antonio Frasconi, artist, writer, 10, undated 11. Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet, framed, 11, 1959 12. Robert Frost (1874-1963), poet, 12, circa 1959 13. Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), 13, 1934 14. Fanny [Fannie] Hurst (1889-1968), prize: $50., 14, undated

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15. Freda Kirchway, editor, The Nation, 15, undated 16. Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948), journalist, Berlin, 16, circa 1930 17. Karl Krausl, framed, 17, undated 18. Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), Czech writer, 18, undated 19. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), writer, framed, 19, circa 1930-1939 20. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), writer, 20, undated 21. Thomas Mann (1875-1955), writer, and wife Katja, Princeton, N.J., 21, circa 1936 22. Eng. Emilio Filippo Tommaso Marinetti [Filippo Tommaso Marinetti] (1876-1944), Italian poet, 22, undated 23. Karen Michaelis (1872- ), 23, undated 24. Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) and unidentified men, 24, undated 25. Christopher Morley (1890-1957), 25, undated 26. Scott Nearing (1883- ), writer, naturalist, 26, undated 27. Helene (von Hindenburg) von Nostitz (1878-1944) (and unidentified man), 27, undated 28. Max Pechstein (1881-1955) and wife, German writer, 1932, Berlin. Copyright Folkwang Archive, Berlin, 28, undated 29. Gustav Reglaer (1898-1963), German writer, photoflood, 29, undated 30. (1912- ), writer, 30, undated 31. C.P. Snow, writer, 31, undated 32. (1864-1946), photographer, 32, circa 1938 33. Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) and family, Berlin, 33, circa 1930 34. Unidentified man, framed, 34, undated 35. Unidentified woman: probably Lotte Jacobi, framed, undated

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