Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: “Harvey Milk Lives” graffiti
Dates: 1983
Collection Number: 2014-09
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 oversized box
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This is a section of concrete bearing the graffiti “Harvey Milk Lives,” from the sidewalk in front of 495 Castro St., the
location of Milk’s Castro Camera Store, in San Francisco. It dates from 1983.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. “Harvey Milk Lives” graffiti. Collection Number: 2014-09. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of John Dennis, on behalf of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, on July 8, 2014. At the request of the GLBTHS,
the fragment was preserved during demolition in mid-June 2014 , in connection with the sidewalk widening and streetscape improvement
project in the Castro.
Scope and Content of Collection
This is a section of concrete bearing the graffiti “Harvey Milk Lives,” from the sidewalk in front of 495 Castro St., the
location of Milk’s Castro Camera Store, in San Francisco. It dates from 1983.
Milk, Harvey