Elsa Dossenbach’s diary from her European trip of 1911

On July 26, 1911, fifteen-year-old Elsa Dossenbach—along with her mother Daisy, her older sister Alma, and her younger sister Hazel—begins her long journey to Berlin. They were accompanying her father, Hermann Dossenbach, who was scoping out the European music scene. A group of eminent Rochesterian...