Don Lucas collection of Mattachine Society audio recordings, 1954 - 1965

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Summary

Creators:
Lucas, Donald Stewart and Call, Hal, -2000
Abstract:
1950s and 60s Audio recordings from the Mattachine Society and other gay rights organizations, including meetings, conferences, broadcasts, and other material.
Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet (3 boxes) and 45 7" audiotape reel(s)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Don Lucas collection of Mattachine Society audio recordings (MSS MEDIA 0029). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Donald Stewart Lucas (1926-1998) was involved with the Mattachine Society, a pre-Stonewall gay rights organization more or less headquartered in San Francisco, California in the 1950s and early 60s. These 45 open reel audio tapes originated from a collection of Lucas's papers housed at the GLBT Historical Society. Many were recorded by Lucas himself. Harold "Hal" Call, who was MS president through these years, participates in most recordings, which chronicle annual conferences and meetings of the Society from 1954 to 1965 as well as educational programs produced by the Mattachine Society in 1962. There are also recordings of related broadcasts of San Francisco and Los Angeles radio & television programs. Other organizations in the collection include various local chapters of the Society, as well as the Daughters of Bilitis, One, Incorporated, Society for Individual Rights, Council on Religion and Homosexuality, and the San Francisco Tavern Guild.

Acquisition information:
Transfer from the Archive of Recorded Sound, 2003. Accession 2003-250. Originally donated by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Arrangement:

Tapes have been grouped in related series, and arranged more or less chronologically there.

Many tapes have more than one track. One may access various tracks from a recording by clicking on the bar with three dots along the bottom of the media viewer/player (you can also see what the physical tapes look like here).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All tapes have been digitized.

Terms of access:

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Don Lucas collection of Mattachine Society audio recordings (MSS MEDIA 0029). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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