1958 journal
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Title: 1958 journal
Dates: 1958
Collection Number: 2018-66
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Typed, bound journal dated January 1, 1958-August 1, 1958. The provenance of the journal is unknown; it was found in a free
book box near Alcatraz Avenue and Regent Street in Berkeley, CA by the donor. The journal appears to be the diary of a gay
man in the San Francisco Bay Area. Entries reference bars and businesses he frequented, his work in a library, his relationships,
current events, bathhouses, sexual encounters, meals he cooked, etc.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Due to lack of provenance and 3rd party privacy concerns, journal is not open for duplication
(including personal digital photographs) or digitization. Use or copying of full names from the journal is restricted.
[Identification of item]. 1958 journal. Collection Number: 2018-66. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Rebecca Olson, October 2018. Journal was found in a free book box. Donor has no knowledge of or relationship to the
unknown writer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Typed, bound journal dated January 1, 1958-August 1, 1958. The provenance of the journal is unknown; it was found in a free
book box near Alcatraz Avenue and Regent Street in Berkeley, CA by the donor. The journal appears to be the diary of a gay
man in the San Francisco Bay Area. Entries reference bars and businesses he frequented, his work in a library, his relationships,
current events, bathhouses, sexual encounters, meals he cooked, etc. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194;
http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497
Gay men
Diaries