Institution: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Event Title: Sexual and Gender Minorities Collections Tour, Oskar Diethelm Library
Date and Time: Monday, October 20, 2025; 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Tour
Location: Payne Whitney 525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065
Registration: Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu.
Event Description: Please join us for a tour focusing on the sexual and gender minorities collections of the Oskar Diethelm Library on October 20, including materials from Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and publications by and about trans people. The Oskar Diethelm Library, part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, is a special collections library devoted to the history of psychiatry. Comprising approximately 35,00 titles, the collection has strengths in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft and related topics, with titles stretching as far back as the 15th century.
Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu. The tour is limited to 10 people, and directions to the library are available at: https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/research-institutes/dewitt-wallace-institute-psychiatry/oskar-diethelm-library/visit-library
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