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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1882-1999
(Bulk: 1920-1950)
Creator:
Gertzman, Jay A., Collector
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Jay A. Gertzman is professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University. This collection includes research material collected
and used by Jay Gertzman to produce his book Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940;. Documents collected
here pertain to the proliferation and censorship of erotic material in the era between the two World Wars.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1708-1955
(Bulk: 1923-1955)
Creator:
Weisberger, Siegfried, 1896-1984, Author
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
This collection includes material collected by Siegfried Weisbeger (1896-1984), proprietor of the Peabody Book Shop in Baltimore
Maryland and confidante of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), a noted writer, editor, and social provocateur, famous for his disdain
for common morals and received wisdom. The collection contains correspondence between the two men and other correspondents
of the Peabody Book Shop, manuscripts and published writings by and about Mencken (many of them signed), and autobiographical
writings and poems written by Weisberger.
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