Contract for dance performance by Isadora Duncan, represented by Direction Vereinigter Künste, January [no year], signed by a representative [illegible]for Theater des Westens, Charlottenburg, 5 December [no year].
Proposal for dance performances in Germany, December 1 and 15, 1904 and January 2, 13 and 19, 1905. Signed [illegible], 25 April 1904, Die Direction der Philarhmonie.
Proposing a December performance by Isadora Duncan for annual fundraising on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Abused Children, suggesting this as the best environment for her first performance in Russia.
This "Steck" cartoon depicts a naked woman and a naked man, with their arms around each other, seated on a hilltop, gazing upward with a started look on their faces. Snow is falling around them, but they are sitting under the "protection" of a condom, which is keeping them safe from the snowfall, and safe from the darkness, as light is eminating down from the condom above. Since the snowflakes can be suggestive of sperm, the couple can be thought of as being kept safe from the transmission of AIDS through the use of a condom.
A color image of the needle end of a hypodermic syringe. The syringe contains a brownish liquid, and the needle itself has a knot in it. One drop of liquid has come out from the end of the needle, and it forms the "o" in the word "stop." The message emphasizes that one way to stop AIDS is to never share needles.
A color photograph shows a man dressed in a suit and tie seated behind a desk in an office, surrounded by shelves full of books. His closed right hand is raised with thumb pointing up in a "thumbs up" sign; on his thumb is a condom. The word "ohne" (without) is next to the condom. The man is probably in his thirties, wears glasses, and has a professional desk job, perhaps as an archivist, lawyer or accountant. The message is that a mature, well-educated professional gay man will not have sex unless condoms are used for protection.
Agreement between Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan and [illegible] Kaeferstein, incomplete. Possibly dated April 1894-February 1898?, but inconsistent with Duncan's biography.
Image of one woman embracing another, they are possibly lesbians. Inset photos show the women playing with gloves and dental dams. Red AIDS ribbon placed at end of text.
Poster divided into four different colored quadrants; inside each quadrant is an oval shafe in a contrasting color with the words: Powern statt Mauern.
Price list for tickets addressed to Direktion Vereinigter Künste for an unspecified performance by Isadora Duncan, dated 24 November 1906, signed by A. [illegible], representative for Der Vorstand Der Warschauer Philharmonie.
Receipt, January 21, 1904 for 1200 Marks to Miss Duncan for 2 performances, signed by representative [illegible] for Suddeutscher Bühnenverlag Mohr & Comp., Munich, 21 January 1904.
Contents:1. ff. 1-3v, [Dowry and wives’ rights, ff. 1-2:] //[I]sta securitas potest continuari ad superiora ista forma(?). De quibusdam renuntiationibus ab uxore factis in precedentibus ... et non valent si ex intervallo apponentur etc. Presens securitas potest continuari ad superiora ista forma(?). De personis presentibus qui habent ... non tam competit actio mandata sed actio magna gesta. [Emphiteusis, ff. 2-3v:] [I]n isto instrumento auctor facit de concessione facta in emphiteosim a monasterio ... renovationes tamen fiunt sine predictis solennitatibus etc. [f. 3v:] [Q]uia quam fiunt renovationes ceteris temporibus ... et sic nota quod non dominus vincit dominum. [D]e concessione in emphyteosim facta ab ecclesia in precedentibus est ... consensus capituli interveniat si solvatur pensio per multis annis.//2. f. 4r-v, [Perhaps part of the introduction to this commentary:] Questiones et ad istas lites deducendas et resecandas ... et de ista loquamur. Am[illeg., 1or 2 words covered with offset from another text]. [E]xpositis generalibus documentis que in principio aliorum librorum solent dici ... quod ipse facere dignetur qui vivit per infinita secula seculorum Amen. Amemus. [U]sis generalibus documentis et exposita nostri libri ... quia scio quod meo erunt//3. ff. 5-6v, [Alienation, ff. 5-6v:] [P]resens instrumentum potest continuari ad superiora ista forma. De vendicionibus factis a privatis personis ... nichil ad presens. [I]stud instrumentum potest continuari ad superiora ista forma. De vendicione facta ab ecclesia in precedentibus est dictum ... et hic facias idem quo in precedenti dixi. [H]ic incipit secunda pars et ultima istius capituli in qua auctor ponit de alienationibus rerum mobilium ... in quibus habeo usufructum, incendio combuste sunt vel(?) earum vicio cerverunt tunc usufructus perit. [Serfdom, f. 6v:] [I]n isto presenti instrumento et sequenti auctor tractat de servitutibus et hoc dupliciter. Primo tractat de servitute rustica ... sed nostro modo accepta sic diff//4. ff. 7-8v, [Commercial law; text on 7r-v and 8r-v badly rubbed, making it impossible even to distinguish recto from verso. Two headings are legible; f. 7;] Pro certo pretio debet esse triplex ... [f. 8:] Questiones fidejussoris prestationes ...5. f. 9-12v, [Contracts:] //aliqua non bene dicta nam impossibile est ... suscepi vehementi affectione ut accedat demum(?) institutis ruina itaque ope(?) etc. [V]isis que in nostro prohemio restat nunc ut veniamus ad instrumenta ... et nota cum dicit arrarum conventione verborum [1 word illeg.] inter partes. [f. 9v:] [H]ic auctor noster voluit(?) tractare de prima parte note scilicet de contractibus et pactis ... [f. 11v:] si vere sunt date nomine arrarum// [lacuna of one or more folios; f. 12r:] Quia facit venditio in scriptis alias [hole] et hoc de secundo. Venio ad tercium ... quod quedam sunt voluntates(?) et// [catchword: quedam necessaria]
Large image of a person putting a hypodermic needle into their arm. Panel of images down the left side of the poster show how to use hypodermic needles safely.
Poster depicts the legs of several men, some standing in front of and some behind a wrought iron fence. The men are wearing shorts, leather pants or jeans and leather chaps. The suggestion is that they are having anonymous sex.
Yellow lettering on white background. Word "Sexualität" appears in large capital letters on left side, printed sideways running from bottom to top. Other text appears in smaller type, in paragraphs going down right side. Provides contact information for 4 AIDS-Hilfe centers in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.
Reproduction of painting of African nude woman with two African men in suits on either side of her, surrounded by many images--dying man, skeleton, etc. Dark colors. In small text on bottom right of illustration, "La Prostituta, Art Bodo, 92." Advertises exhibit held at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde in Cologne, Germany, Oct. 19, 2003-Jan. 25, 2004