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Title: Polk Street Project collection
Dates: 1990-2010
Collection Number: 2011-05
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 2 manuscript boxes and oral history recordings
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The 'Polk Street: Lives In Transition' project was an oral history project by Joey Plaster examining Polk Street's history
through the lens of current neighborhood change. It also was a traveling multimedia exhibit, an hour-long radio documentary
at transom.org, a historical narrative with OutHistory, a series of neighborhood dialogues and events. The collection contains
over 70 oral histories, press materials about the project, photographs, correspondence, research files and other project related
documents.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Polk Street Project collection. Collection Number: 2011-05. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Joey Plaster on July 12, 2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The 'Polk Street: Lives In Transition' project was an oral history project by Joey Plaster examining Polk Street's history
through the lens of current neighborhood change. It also was a traveling multimedia exhibit, an hour-long radio documentary
at transom.org, a historical narrative with OutHistory, a series of neighborhood dialogues and events. The collection contains
over 70 oral histories, press materials about the project, photographs, correspondence, research files and other project related
documents.