In April 1934, Pickering traveled to Dessau, Germany, with his friends John Barney Rodgers and Ruth Easton. The photographs, taken by Rodgers, feature Bauhaus structures and other buildings, as well as street life in Dessau. The donor supplied a typed excerpt about the trip transcribed from Pickering's diary (the diary, itself, is not included in the collection and is presumably in the donor's possession). In the excerpt, Pickering writes that the main Bauhaus building, designed from plans by Walter Gropius, had become the headquarters of the Nazi Party. Indeed, in 1932 the National Socialist government had shut down the Bauhaus activities in Dessau, and, according to Wikipedia, the building became a Gauführerschule, a government leadership training institute, for the region. The folder also includes a copy of Moderne Bauformen, Vol. 32 no. 8 (August 1933), a German periodical about architecture and interior decoration.