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Title: Orrin Nestos photograph albums
Dates: 1937-1955
Collection Number: 1996-26
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 oversize box (1 linear foot)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Two photograph albums documenting the life of Orrin Nestos who lived in Hawaii and California.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by a grant from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Managing
Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society. Permission to publish is given on behalf of the Historical Society as the owner
of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner.
[Identification of item]. Orrin Nestos photograph albums. Collection Number: 1996-26. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Musuem in July 1996.
Biography/Administrative History
Orrin R. Nestos was born in Washington on December 21, 1909 and died in San Francisco on July 3, 1970.
Scope and Content of Collection
Two photograph albums documenting the life of Orrin Nestos who lived in Hawaii and California. Little is known of Nestos
other than his birth and death dates and his place of residence in the 1940 Census. The first album includes photos of Nestos
with friends and family in Honolulu around 1940. The other album is from the late 1940s and early 1950s when he was living
in California. There is also one folder of loose photos with several images of female impersonators including a photo of
Francis Renault. Nestos died July 3, 1970. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001443
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Photograph albums.