Collection: Dorette Schlidt Collection | UAH Archives and Special Collections

Dates

1938 - 2018

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Conditions Governing Use

This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.

Extent

2.25 Linear Feet (3 boxes.)

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Dorette Schlidt was the wife of Rudolf Hans Schlidt and was Wernher von Braun's first secretary. She and her husband survived the bombing of Peenemünde.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Christel McCanless, 2017.

Processing Information

Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, and competing priorities. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.