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Roos (Norma L.) and Virginia C. Kaitchuck photographs
Coll2017-006
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Norma L. Roos and Virginia C. Kaitchuck photographs
creator:
Roos, Norma L., 1919-1999
creator:
Kaitchuck, Virginia C., 1919-2001
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2017-006
Physical Description:
1.3 Linear Feet
5 boxes.
Date (inclusive): 1919-1990
Abstract: Photographs, negatives, correspondence, and drawings, circa 1919-1990, from Norma Roos and Virginia Kaitchuck, who lived together
in Chicago, Illinois. The photographs document Roos and Kaitchuck's personal life in Chicago, Illinois; particularly, their
social and leisure activities, including all-women house parties, visits to bars, softball games, outings to the zoo, trips
to swim in a lake, and their daily life around the house.
Norma L. Roos was born in Illinois in 1919, and she died in 1999. Virginia C. Kaitchuck was born in Illinois in 1919 and
died in 2001. The couple lived most of their lives together at their home in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago,
Illinois.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Patrick Gourley, February 22, 2017.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Norma L. Roos and Virginia C. Kaitchuck Photographs, Coll2017-006, ONE National Gay and Lesbian
Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Sophie Frank, 2017.
The collection includes photographs, negatives, correspondence, drawings, circa 1919-1990, from lesbian couple Norma Roos
and Virginia Kaitchuck. The photographs document Roos and Kaitchuck's personal life in Chicago, Illinois; particularly, their
social and leisure activities, including all-women house parties, visits to bars, outings to the zoo, and trips to swim in
a lake. These photos also depict scenes from their daily life around the house and visits from their biological relatives.
This collection includes photographs from Roos' childhood and adolescence, as well as her participation in the National Girls
Baseball League during the 1940s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chicago (Ill.) -- Photographs
Lesbian couples -- Illinois -- Chicago
Women baseball players