Cathy Cade collection

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2023

Descriptive Summary

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

Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Cathy Cade collection. Collection Number: 2008-42. GLBT Historical Society

Acquisition Information

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

Indexing Terms

Photography

Lesbians