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Title: Cathy Cade collection
Dates: circa 1960-1970
Collection Number: 2008-42
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 manuscript box
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Cathy Cade is an Oakland, California-based photographer. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and has
been documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since the 1970s. She is the author, publisher and
photographer of A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists. The collection includes photographs, artifacts,
including a miniature Volkswagen car, belt buckle and silver ring with female symbols, a lesbian button, a Rise Up Sisters
T-shirt, and a SNCC button, and publications including Sisterhood is Powerful, Personal Politics, The Movement, and the American
Country Woman.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Cathy Cade collection. Collection Number: 2008-42. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Cathy Cade on March 18, 2008. Additions gift of Cathy Cade, via the Oakland Museum of California, November 2018.
Scope and Content of Collection
Cathy Cade is an Oakland, California-based photographer. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and has
been documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since the 1970s. She is the author, publisher and
photographer of A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists. The collection includes photographs, artifacts,
including a miniature Volkswagen car, belt buckle and silver ring with female symbols, a lesbian button, a Rise Up Sisters
T-shirt, and a SNCC button, and publications including Sisterhood is Powerful, Personal Politics, The Movement, and the American
Country Woman.
GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381
Photography
Lesbians