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Cora Latz and Etta Perkins photographs
2003-43
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Title: Cora Latz and Etta Perkins photographs
Dates: 1973-1998
Collection Number: 2003-43
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Extent: 1 box (0.4 linear feet)
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Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection consists of a three photo albums documenting the life Cora Latz and Etta Perkins, an interracial couple, shared
together. The two met in 1972 and were together 26 years.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by the Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR).
Copyright has not been transferred to the GLBT Historical Society.
[Identification of item]. Cora Latz and Etta Perkins photographs. Collection Number: 2003-43. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Gerald Hyman in 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of a three photo albums documenting the life Cora Latz and Etta Perkins shared together. The two
met in 1972 and were together 26 years. There is an album of their commitment ceremony, one of their twenty-fifth anniversary
recommitment ceremony, and one filled with miscellaneous family and travel photos. There is also a photograph of Latz and
one of Perkins. At the end of their lives, Latz and Perkins lived openly together at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco.
Perkins, who converted to Judaism, was the only Black person at the home. She died in November 1998 and Latz died shortly
thereafter.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007675; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000823;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007701; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_006371
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