Formative Years

• Sigismund Schlomo Freud. Birth certificate, May 6, 1856. Manuscript Division, (2)
• The Jacob Freud family, Vienna, ca. 1878. Copyprint Freud Museum, London (7)
• Amalia Freud. Cabinet card, 1903. Prints and Photographs Division (8)
• View of Tabor Street, ca, 1899. Copyprint Austrian National Library, Vienna (14)
• Engagement album photographs of Martha Bernays in 1880 and of Freud and Martha in 1886. Sigmund Freud Collection. Prints & Photographs Division (12) (LC-USZ62-119769) (LC-USZ62-119772)
• "A Project for a Scientific Psychology". Holograph manuscript, 1895 [published 1950]. Manuscript Division (22)
• Sigmund Freud. Carte-de-visite, ca. 1895. Prints & Photographs Division, (24)
• Freud's sketch of his room at the General Hospital in Vienna. Prints & Photographs Division, (15)
• Contribution to the Knowledge of Cocaine. Vienna: 1885 [with Freud's inscription to Josef Breuer]. Manuscript Division (18)
• Envelope with prescription and wrapper that held cocaine, ca. 1883. Carl Koller papers. Manuscript Division (20)
• Patient record with comments by Freud, General Hospital in Vienna, 1883. [ page one ] [ page two ]. Manuscript Division (17)

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The Individual: Therapy and Theory

• Freud's translation of Charcot's lectures into German. Holograph manuscript, 1886. Manuscript Division (35)
• Images of hysterics under hypnosis at Salpêtrière, from D.M. Bourneville and P. Régnard. [ Upper Left, Upper Right, Lower Left, Lower Right ] Photographic Iconography of Salpêtrière. Paris: 1876-1880. Copyprint. General Collections (29)
• Hippolyte Bernheim. On Suggestion and Its Curative Effect. Leipzig: 1888. Rare Book & Special Collection Division (30)
• Hippolyte Bernheim. Picture postcard, n.d. Prints & Photographs Division (31)
• Bertha Pappenheim [Anna O.], ca. 1880. Copyprint (38)
• Bertha Pappenheim. The Tragic Moment: Three Vignettes. Frankfurt am Main: 1913. [ book cover | title page ]. General Collections (39A)
• Bertha Pappenheim. Battles: Six Tales. [ book cover | title page]. Frankfurt am Main: 1916. General Collections (39B)
• Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer. Studies on Hysteria. Vienna: 1895. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (36A)
• Portrait of Josef Breuer. Oil painting, 1880s. Manuscript Division (36)
• "Architecture of Hysteria." Holograph manuscript, 1897. Manuscript Division (37)
• "Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis." Holograph manuscript, 1910. Manuscript Division (33)
• "Rat Man [Ernst Lanzer] Process Notes." Holograph manuscript, 1909. Manuscript Division (40)
• "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis." Holograph case history, 1909. Manuscript Division, (41)
• Images of Sergei Pankejeff. With sister Anna, ca. 1894. With family in Odessa, n.d. Self-portrait watercolor, ca. 1919. With wife Therese, ca. 1910. Sergei Pankejeff Papers. Manuscript Division (45, 46, 47, 48)
• "Constructions in Analysis." Holograph manuscript, 1938. Manuscript Division (42)
• Freud in a chair next to his analytic couch in an unidentified summer residence, 1932. Copyprint, Sigmund Freud-Museum, Vienna (C)
• Ida Bauer [Dora] and her brother Otto, 1890. Copyprint. Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung. Vienna (50)
• Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. Vienna: 1905. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (51)
• Letter from Freud to Wilhelm Fliess on Dora case. Holograph letter, October 14, 1900. Manuscript Division (53)
• "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis -- Transference." Holograph manuscript, 1916 1917. Manuscript Division (51B)
• Hilda Doolittle. Tribute to Freud. New York: 1956. Holograph letter, October 14, 1900. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (54)
• Letter from H.D. to Freud. Holograph letter, 1939. Manuscript Division (58)

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• "Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through." Holograph manuscript, 1914. Manuscript Division (52A)
• Sigmund and Anna Freud on holiday in the Dolomites, Italy, 1913. Sigmund Freud Collection. Prints and Photographs Division (A)
• "Analysis Terminable and Interminable." Holograph manuscript, 1937. Manuscript Division (58B)
• Freud's letter to Wilhelm Fliess, November 2, 1896. Holograph letter. Manuscript Division (27)
• Freud, his three sisters, and mother at his father Jacob's grave, 1897. Copyprint. Freud Museum, London (28)
• Freud and his mother, Amalia, in her apartment in Vienna, May 5, 1926. Sigmund Freud Collection. Prints and Photographs Division (181) (LC-USZ62-119777)
• Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig and Vienna: 1900. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (62)
• "A French Nurse's Dream", illustration in The Interpretation of Dreams. Printed cartoon with notes in the hand of Sàndor Ferenczi, n.d. Manuscript Division (63)
• Über Den Traum [On Dreams]. Wiesbaden: 1911. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (65)
• Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. New York: 1916. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (66)
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Berlin, 1904. Interleaved with Freud's notes. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (67A)
• The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Berlin, 1901. [ page one | page two | page three ]. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (67)
• "War Jokes." Holograph manuscript, n.d. Manuscript Division (68)
• "The Unconscious." Holograph manuscript, 1915. Manuscript Division (72)
• Sigmund Freud, ca. 1921. Max Halberstadt, photographer. Prints & Photographs Division (75)
• "The Ego and the Id." Holograph manuscript, 1910. Manuscript Division (73A)
• "Repression." Holograph manuscript, 1915. Manuscript Division (70)
• "The Economic Problem of Masochism." Holograph manuscript, 1924. Manuscript Division (87)
• "On Narcissism, An Introduction." Holograph case history, 1914. Manuscript Division (85)
• "Wunderblock." Holograph manuscript, 1925. Manuscript Division (74)
• Freud letter to Wilhelm Fliess. Holograph letter, September 21, 1897. Manuscript Division (77)
• "Sexualschema." Holograph diagram (included in Freud's "Melancholia" manuscript), 1895. Manuscript Division (78)
• "The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex." Holograph manuscript, 1924. Manuscript Division (82)
• Bookplate designed for Freud with inscription: "He who comprehended the famous riddle and is the most excellent of men." Luigi Kasimir, artist. Copyprint. Austrian National Library, Vienna (83)
• Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Vienna: 1905. Holograph manuscript, 1916-1917. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (79)
• Freud's letter to the mother of a homosexual. [ page one | page two ]. Holograph letter, April 9, 1935. Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington (90)
• "Beyond the Pleasure Principle." Bound holograph manuscript with typescript, 1920. Manuscript Division (86)
• "Female Sexuality." Holograph manuscript, 1931. Manuscript Division (88)

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From the Individual to Society

• "The Committee:" Berlin, 1922 Becker Maas, photographic studio. Prints & Photographs Division (124) (LC-USZ62-119779)

Coming to America

• Group photo taken at Clark University; Worcester, September 10, 1909. Prints & Photographs Division (116) (LC-USZ62-119767)
• Telegram Freud sent to his wife Martha from Worcester, 1909. Manuscript Division (119)

Psychoanalysis Expands Internationally

• International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar. Photograph, 1911. Prints & Photographs Division (123) (LC-DIG-ppmsca-10504)
• Freud at a psychoanalytic congress in The Hague, 1920. Henry Verby, photographer. Sigmund Freud Collection. Prints and Photographs Division (B) (LC-USZ62-119775)
• International Psychoanalytic Congress, The Hague. E.Visser von Weeren, Jr, photographer. Photograph, 1920. Prints & Photographs Division (132A)
• International Psychoanalytic Congress. Oxford Panoramic photograph, 1929. Prints & Photographs Division (134)

The Psychoanalytical Press

• Sigm. Freud Gesammelte Schriften. [Freud's Collected Writings]. 1924 (146a)
• Dr. E. Hitschmann and Dr. E. Bergler. Die Geschlechtskälte der Frau. [The Frigidity of Woman], 1934 (146d).
• Vera Schmidt. Psychoanalytische Erziehung in Sowjetrussland. [Psychoanalytical Education in Soviet Russia]. Leipzig: 1924 (146g)

Conflict and Break-Up

• Letter from Freud to Carl Jung. Holograph letter, January 3, 1913. Manuscript Division (131)
• Carl Jung. Hand-colored photograph, ca. 1910. Prints & Photographs Division (130)
• Alfred Adler's U.S. immigration card, 1933. Alfred Adler Papers. Manuscript Division (132)
• Alfred Adler. Praxis und Theorie der Individual Psychologie [The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology]. Munich: 1920. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (129)
• Gegen Psycho-Analyse"Against Psychoanalysis." South German Monthly. (Munich: August 1931). General Collections (199a)
• "Some Elementary Lessons in Psychoanalysis," written for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Holograph manuscript, 1926. Manuscript Division (141)
• "An Autobiographical Study." Bound holograph manuscript, 1925. Manuscript Division (140)
• "An Outline of Psycho-Analysis." Holograph manuscript, 1938. Manuscript Division (143)
• "The Question of Lay Analysis." Holograph manuscript, 1926. Manuscript Division (137)
• James G. Frazer. "Taboo and the Perils of the Soul," Part II of The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. [ page one | page two ]. London: 1936. General Collections (160)
• Charles Darwin. On the Origin of the Species. London: 1859. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (159)
• Andrew Lang, Social Origins and J.J. Atkinson, Primal Law. London: 1903. General Collections (201a)
• Wilhelm Wundt, Völkerpsychologie [Elements of Folk Psychology]. Leipzig: 1923. General Collections (201b)
• Photo of Freud in his study in Vienna, 1937. Marie Bonaparte, photographer. Prints & Photographs Division (114A)
• "Totem and Taboo." Holograph manuscript, 1912 1913. Manuscript Division (154)
• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Vienna: 1921. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (158)
• "The Acquisition and Control of Fire." Holograph manuscript, 1932. Manuscript Division (161)
• Sigmund Freud, 1926. Chalk on paper. Ferdinand Schmutzer, artist. Freud Museum, London (91)
• Freud contemplating figure [possibly Javanese], 1937. Marie Bonaparte, photographer. Prints & Photographs Division (162)

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• "Future of an Illusion." Holograph manuscript, 1927. Manuscript Division (172)
• "Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood." Holograph Manuscript, 1910. Manuscript Division (164)
• "The Moses of Michelangelo." Holograph manuscript and pen and ink sketch, 1914. Manuscript Division Library of Congress (168a,b)
• Portrait of Freud with inscription in Freud's hand: "There is no medicine against death, and against error no rule has been found." Robert Kastor, artist. Pen and ink, 1925. Prints & Photographs Division (153)
• "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death." Holograph manuscript, 1915. Manuscript Division (175)
• Freud with sons Ernst (left) and Martin. Salzburg, August 1916. Carl Ellinger, photographer. Prints & Photographs Division (176) (LC-USZ62-119768)
• Freud's daybook, November 1918. Manuscript Division (177)
• On the Psychoanalysis of War Neuroses. Leipzig: 1919. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (178)
• Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Warum Krieg [Why War?]. Paris: 1933. Rare Book & Special Collections Division (179)
• "Civilization and Its Discontents." Bound holograph manuscript, 1930. Manuscript Division (180)
• "A Word about Anti-Semitism." Holograph manuscript, 1938. Manuscript Division (190)
• "Burning in Berlin (note on Nazi book burning)," May 11, 1933. Freud's short diary entries. Manuscript Division (183)
• "Hitler in Vienna," March 14, 1938. Freud's short diary entries. Manuscript Division (186A)
• Book burning in Berlin's Opernplatz, May 10, 1933. Joseph Schorer, photographer. © 1987 Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (182)
• Adolfine [Dolfi], Marie [Mitzi], Rosa, and Pauline [Pauli] -- Freud's sisters. Prints & Photographs Division (186)
• "Moses and Monotheism -- A Historical Novel and Preface, June 1938." Holograph manuscripts, 1939. Manuscript Division (192a,b)
• Freud at work in his study. London, 1938. Oliver Freud Papers. Manuscript Division (196)
• Freud's psychoanalytic chair, ca. 1900. Freud Museum, London (110)
  Persian rug from Freud's psychoanalytic couch. Freud Museum, London (95)
  Cushions from Freud's psychoanalytic couch. Freud Museum, London (109)
  (on wall) Print of the rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel, after a painting by Ernst Koerner, 1906. Freud Museum, London (111)
• Freud's letter to the editor in Time and Tide, November 26, 1938. Manuscript Division (185)
• "My Subconscious Jewishness." The Current Jewish Record, November, 1931. Manuscript Division (189)
• Freud's speech for the BBC recording. [ page one | page two ]. Holograph notes, 1938. Manuscript Division (193)
• Sound file of Freud's speech for the BBC recording
• Photo of Freud being recorded by a BBC engineer, 1938. Copyprint. Freud Museum, London (194)
• Freud during the last year of his life in Maresfield Gardens, 1939. Oliver Freud Papers. Manuscript Division (G)

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