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Finding aid to the Jill Mendelsohn photographs and collection on Elsa Gidlow, circa 1970-2011
Coll2013.078
Coll2013.078
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Title: Mendelsohn (Jill) photographs and collection on Elsa Gidlow
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013.078
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.2 linear feet.
1 archive carton.
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1973-1986
Date (inclusive): circa 1970-2011, bulk 1973-1986
Abstract: Photographs and Elsa Gidlow's correspondence and writings, bulk 1973-1986, collected by Jill Mendelsohn. Included are photographs
of Gidlow, as well as lesbian writer Rita Mae Brown, lesbian musicians Meg Christian and Margie Adams, and the San Diego Women's
Music Festival in 1974.
creator:
Mendelsohn, Jill
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.
Donated by Jill Mendelsohn, May 12, 2011.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Jill Mendelsohn Photographs and Collection on Elsa Gidlow, Coll2013-078, ONE National Gay & Lesbian
Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Danielle Perez-Granado, August 2013.
This collection contains photographs and personal correspondence of Jill Mendelsohn. Included are photographs of the 1974
San Diego Women's Music Festival, a 1975 Meg Christian performance, and a brief meeting with Rita Mae Brown. This collection
also contains photographs taken by Mendelsohn and her partner Karen documenting lesbian feminist poet Elsa Gidlow in her garden,
a newspaper article about Gidlow, and personal correspondence to Mendelsohn and Karen from Gidlow.
The following publications have been separated from the Jill Mendelsohn collection and entered into the ONE National Gay &
Lesbian Archives' library and periodicals database:
Brown, R. M. (1973).
Songs to a handsome woman. Baltimore: Diana Press.
Gidlow, E.
Moods of Eros and other poems.
Gidlow, E. (1973).
Makings for meditation. Mill Valley, CA: Druid Heights Books.
Gidlow, E. (1975).
Ask no man pardon: The philosophical significance of being lesbian. Mill Valley, CA: Druid Heights Books.
Gidlow, E. (1976).
Sapphic songs: Seventeen to seventy. Baltimore: Diana Press.
Gidlow, E. (1982).
Sapphic songs: Eighteen to eighty. Mill Valley, CA: Druid Heights Books.
Gidlow, E. (1986).
Elsa: I come with my songs. San Francisco: Bootlegger Press.
Grahn, J.
The common woman. Oakland: The Womens Press Collective.
Southern California Women for Understanding. 2nd annual lesbian rights award dinner. Event program. February 14, 1981.
Southern California Women for Understanding. SCWU (4:6). Bi-monthly newsletter. December 1980-January 1981.
Southern California Women for Understanding. SCWU (5:1). Bi-monthly newsletter. February-March 1981.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gidlow, Elsa, 1898-1986
Concerts
Lesbian writings
Letters
Photographs
Poets, American--20th century
Women's music festivals--United States