Partial Inventory of the Susan Lee Pentlin collection

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Title: Susan Lee Pentlin collection
Date (inclusive): 1961-1997
Collection Number: 2005C35
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In German and English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Pamphlets, serial issues, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to political, social, economic and cultural conditions in East Germany, and to German studies in the United States and the teaching of German as a foreign language. Mainly East German government publications.
source: Pentlin, Susan Lee, 1947-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2005.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Susan Lee Pentlin collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content of Collection

Pamphlets, serial issues, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to political, social, economic and cultural conditions in East Germany, and to German studies in the United States and the teaching of German as a foreign language. Mainly East German government publications.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Area studies -- United States
Germany (East)
Germany -- Study and teaching
Pentlin, Susan Lee, 1947-

box 1, folder 1

25th International Film Festival Berlin photograph, 1975

box 1, folder 1

Grunewald Hunting Lodge, Berlin photograph, 1951

box 1, folder 2

1975 Berlin Festival Weeks photographs

box 1, folder 2

State Porcelain Manufactory Berlin photographs

box 1, folder 2

"The Four Powers Agreement four years on" - documenting increased access to East Berlin by West Berliners. Photo of original agreement proceedings.

box 1, folder 3

Semper Opera House in Dresden reconstruction documents (GDR)

box 1, folder 3

GDR traveling intellectuals and artists

box 1, folder 3

GDR, travel and the countryside

box 1, folder 3

Photographs: Summer in Berlin, Tiergation, FU, windsurfing, Berliner Weiße, outdoor pool, beach at Wannsee, boats on lake

box 1, folder 3

Photographs, youth in museums - bust of Nefertiti in Egyptian Museum

box 1

Printed matter on life in the GDR, 1987

box 1

Journals on foreign language (and German language) instruction and methods, 1976 and 1978

box 1, folder 4

Picture book of the National Youth Festival of the Free German Youth (FDJ), East Berlin, GDR, 1979

Scope and Contents

Includes English captions.
box 1, folder 5

GDR in profile, 1983, 1987

Scope and Contents

Printed matter includes brief overview of various facets of the GDR and life therein with photos.
box 2

Material not yet described

box 3

Material not yet described