Finding Aid for the Red Arobateau papers, 1970-1971
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Title: Red Arobateau papers
Date (inclusive): 1970-1971
Collection number: 1950
Creator:
Arobateau, Red Jordan 1943-
Extent:
1 document box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Red is a transsexual man, born in 1943. He is of mixed race heritage and identifies as White, Native, Hispanic and African-American.
He is a poet, playwright, erotic artist and painter. This collection houses several self published poetry collections by Red
Arobateau.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
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creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Provenance unknown. This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian
Archives, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the UCLA Library.
The
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is an outreach and collection-building partnership between the
June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the
UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) and the
UCLA Library . These collections expand the pool of primary source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This
partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize,
preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
Processed by Stacy Wood, 2011.
[Identification of item], Red Arobateau papers (Collection Number 1950). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Red is a transsexual man, born in 1943. He is of mixed race heritage and identifies as White, Native, Hispanic and African-American.
He is a poet, playwright, erotic artist and painter. He lives with his partner Dalila Jasmin in San Francisco.
This collection houses several self-published poetry collections by Red Arobateau.
Materials are arranged chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Arobateau, Red Jordan --Archives.
The Bancroft library at UC Berkeley has both the Red Jordan Arobateau papers, 1970-2011 (containing 15 boxes and 2 oversize
boxes) and the Red Jordan Arobateau pictorial collection (containing 1 box (PIC), 1 oversize folder (B), 1 oversize folder
(D) and ca. 75 negatives (NEG and NEG (Strip))).
In addition, several copies of his poetry collections are held in several libraries (listings available on worldcat.org).
Since the poetry collections are self published, many of the holdings are unique.
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
The New Jerusalem. June, 1970.
Box 1, Folder 2
Theme from Killer Joe (Train from Overbrook). June, 1970.
Physical Description: photocopies of typewritten paper
Scope and Content Note
Poetry collection with photographs by Suzanne deYoung and drawings by Red Arobateau.
Additional Note
This collection is additionally housed at Simon Fuller University, Emory, Brown, University of Virginia, Duke, Ball State,
University of Arizona and Northwestern. Written on the cover is "Betsey 2."
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 1, Folder 4
Box 1, Folder 5