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Finding Aid to the Ron Emler Photographs and Greeting Cards
Coll2013.079
Coll2013.079
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Title: Ron Emler photographs and greeting cards
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013.079
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 linear foot.
3 archive binder boxes.
Date (inclusive): 1970s-2000
Abstract: Photographic prints and greetings cards documenting the travels, personal life, extended family, friends, and civic activities
of Ron Emler during the 1990s . He was a long-time partner of Joseph Carrier and a Redondo Beach School District teacher and
counselor.
creator:
Emler, Ron, 1940-2005
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1. Travel
Series 2. Personal
Ron Emler was born in West Virginia in 1940. He met Joseph Carrier in Pacific Palisades in the summer of 1963. They became
life-long friends and partners for over 40 years, but they never lived together. Emler worked as a teacher and counselor in
the Redondo Beach School District. In his Los Angeles neighborhood, Elmer was civically active founding the Echo Park Security
Association and the Echo Park Improvement Association. The Echo Park Historical Society created the Ron Emler Memorial Book
Program in his memory. Emler died in March 2005 from Hepatitis C.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Deed of gift dated September 25, 2010.
[Box/folder #, or item name] Ron Elmer Photographs and Greeting Cards, Coll2013-079, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
The collection was processed by Mario Macias, September 2013.
The bulk of the photographs of Ron Emler document his liasons and travel. He traveled in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe,
the majority of the photographs document his experiences in Southeast Asia. The collection also includes about 30 greetings
cards and photographs of his extended family and friends, as well as documenting Elmer's civic involvement in the Echo Park
neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Carrier, Joseph M., 1927-
Gays--Travel
Photographs
Sex tourism