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Dichter (Gretl) photographs and personal papers
2004.M.2  
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Series I. Photographs of Locations, 1929-1933

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, containing 95 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

This series of photographs are from various locations across Europe, taken on many of the trips and vacations that Dichter took with her family prior to her emigration to the United States from Austria in 1946.

Arrangement

The photographs in this series are separated into files, arranged alphabetically, based on the subject of the photographs. Items in the files themselves are arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 1

Series I.A. Austria, 1932

Physical Description: (1 box, 4 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations in Austria, including (but not limited to): Heiligenblut am Großglockner.
box 1, folder 2

Series I.B. France (French Riveria), 1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 16 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations in the France, mainly in the French Riveria. Locations include (but are not limited to): Antibes, Avignon, Cannes, Monaco, Monte Carlo, Saint-Honorat, and Vichy.
box 1, folder 3

Series I.C. Germany, undated

Physical Description: (1 box, 2 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in Rothenburg, Germany.
box 1, folder 4

Series I.D. Italy and Dalmatia, 1929-1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 28 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations in Italy and the Dalmatian Coast. Locations include (but are not limited to): Florence, Genoa, Venice, Milan, and Pisa.
box 1, folder 5

Series I.E. Italy and Dolomites, 1930-1932

Physical Description: (1 box, 20 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations in Italy, mainly in the Dolomites. Locations include (but are not limited to): Belvedere, Corinta d'Ampezzo, and Pordoi Pass.
box 1, folder 6

Series I.F. "Snow Scenes," 1931-1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 8 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations across Europe, but are all winter landscapes. Some include location names, while others are undated and unlabeled. Locations include (but are not limited to): Rottenstein, Germany and Arlberg, Austria.
box 1, folder 7

Series I.G. Switzerland, 1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 17 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

These photographs were taken in various locations in the Switzerland. Locations include (but are not limited to): Bern, Geneva, Lucerne, and Montreux.
 

Series II. Photographs of Dichter Family, 1907-1996

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, 62 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of Dichter and close family members from varying times and locations. Included in the photos are Dichter herself, her husband Walter Silton, as well as her sisters Rosl and Edith Silton. Group photographs of the family include her father and other close cousins and relatives.

Arrangement

Photographs are separated into files and arranged alphabetically, based on the subject portrayed in the photograph. Items in the files themselves are arranged chronologically.
box 2, folder 5-7

Family Photographs, 1907-1941

Physical Description: (1 box, 28 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of Dichter and her immediate family, as well as extended family, including but not limited to first and second cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
box 2, folder 3-4

Dichter and Walter Silton, 1930-1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 12 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of Dichter and Walter Silton in various locations. The pictures depict them skiing, posing for photographs, as well as some candid shots. The photos appear to be from their travels in Europe, although many are undated and unlabeled.
box 2, folder 8

Miscellaneous, 1996, undated

Physical Description: (1 box, 9 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

Undated photographs of Dichter's living room in her Bel Air home, as well as photographs taken in 1996 of the commemorative plaque erected in her honor in Brentwood, California.
box 2, folder 1-2

Portraits and Self-Portraits, 1907-1933

Physical Description: (1 box, 13 photographs)

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of just Dichter herself, ranging from a portrait of Dichter as an infant in 1907 to later images from her vacations in the 1930s.
 

Series III Personal Items and Papers, 1932, 1938, undated

Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet (2 boxes, 6 items)

Scope and Content Note

Contains miscellaneous papers from Dichter's life and legacy. Items present include a German driver's license and passport, four photocopies of family pictures, a postcard aquired on a trip to Wisconsin (undated), two original portfolios that originally housed some of the photographic material, as well as a genealogical collage and a three-page typewritten biography about Dichter written and signed by Edith Arlen Wachtel, Walter Arlen, and Howard Myers.

Arrangement

Items are located in three separate files, and are undated.
box 2, folder 9

Personal papers, 1932, 1938, undated

box 4, folder 1-2

Portfolios, undated

Scope and Content Note

Original housing for Dichter's photographs, separated due to fragility.
box 3

Genealogical collage, undated

Scope and Content Note

Undated collage made from reproductions of photos and documents believed to have been created by Edith Wachtel Arlen and Walter Arlen.