Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst records of censorship cases, 1927-1948.

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Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst records of censorship cases, 1927-1948.

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Printed and typewritten briefs, legal opinions, memoranda, and other legal documents surrounding censorship and related cases in which Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst were the attorneys for the defendant. The cases were argued at the local (Manhattan), state, or national level. The cases involve the books What Happens, by John Herrmann, and The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall; the distribution of contraceptives by employees of the Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan; The Sex Side of Life, by Mary Ware Dennett; Casanova's Homecoming, by Arthur Schnitzler; Reigen or Hands Around, also by Schnitzler; Married Love, by Marie Stopes; Eastern Shame Girl, a collection of Chinese stories translated from the French; Celestine, by Octave Mirbeau; Pay Day, by Nathan Asch; Contraception, by Marie Stopes; From a Turkish Harem, a collection of Turkish and Persian stories; The Adventures of Hsi Men Ching, and abridged version of the Chinese classic Kin Ping Meh (or Chin P'ing Mei); Flesh, by Clement Wood; Female, by Donald Henderson Clarke; A Story-Teller's Holiday, by George Moore; November, by Gustave Flaubert; the magazine The Nudist; If it Die, by André Gide; Minsky's Burlesque, at the Republic Theatre; and Forever Amber, by Kathleen Winsor. Also, legal documents from the case of People of the State of New York vs. Jay Mitchell, Margaret Acquista, and Jessica Norman, involving a photographer who used nude models in his photography classes.

5 v. ; 27 cm.

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