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Card packs
Includes materials from
AdamMale,
AdMale,
The Advocate,
Community Spirit,
Direct Male [Win Mark Concepts],
Meat Market Card Pack [MM], Our Tribe Marketing,
and Strubco Inc., distibutors of Community Card Pack and Sapphile.
The materials are arranged alphabetically by publisher.
Merchandise and event cards
Merchandise and event cards include direct-mail and free materials printed in a postcard format and often distributed as handouts
in community businesses as well as those displayed in racks in public spaces.
The materials are arranged alphabetically by subject including
AIDS,
art,
bars,
books and authors,
business,
events,
film,
invitations,
lectures,
literature,
magazine/periodicals,
miscellaneous,
music,
organizations,
politics,
pride,
sex,
sports,
television,
theater,
and oversize.
Greeting cards
Greeting card titles and series titles include:
A Robert Samuel Card;
Albert M. Bender Collection;
Art with Heart;
Back to Nature;
Backes Cards;
Barazoku Collection;
Cirby Collection;
Circle of Thomas Eakins;
Common Threads;
Contemporary American Photographers;
Cyote Run;
Erotica;
Famous Stars Collection 2;
Fineline;
Gallery Collection;
Jeff Palmer Originals;
M.P. Caviasca Collection;
Male Moods;
Miscellaneous Notecards;
Musical Notes;
Notecard Packets;
Pantheon Series;
Photogalerie the Compagnie;
Photographics;
Picture Frame;
Prnbroker Collection;
Rodeo Pantheon Series;
Series A;
Series SP;
The "Opus of Deorum" Collection;
The Calla Collection;
The Cameron Collection;
The Colt Collection;
The Compagnie;
The Gallery Collection;
The Leather File;
The Prestige Print Collection;
Third Western States Exhibition.
A Jock at Heart;
A Romantic…;
A Taxi Named Desire;
A Valentine Come on;
Adam;
After the Game;
After the Storm;
Alain;
An Army of Lovers;
Andrew;
Apache;
Aquarius;
Aries;
Army Wrestle;
Artemis;
At The Zoo;
Axel Rabiger 2;
B & W Lingerie;
Baby Please;
Banana Zeppelin;
Baths of Ancient Rome;
Bedtime Story;
Beefcake;
Behind the Chutes;
Big Basket in Boxer Shorts;
Bike Park;
Birth of a Hero II (The Holy Instant);
Birth of Apollo;
Birthmark;
Black and White;
Black Socks/Garter Fantasy;
Boaconstrictor Baby;
Boots;
Bound and Uniformed;
Boy with Crutches;
Boys on the Dock at Loeb Camp;
Brawny Birthday;
Buddy Jones;
Businessman Trashing on Lunch Hour;
Buster at the Beach;
Bust'n Out;
Butch Cocktails;
Cafe;
California Heroes;
Cancer;
Capricorn;
Carlos, Andres, Mike;
Cheap Hotel;
Checkerboard Buns;
Chris;
Ciao Amaral;
Closeted Cruisers;
C-Note;
Cowboy in Distress;
Cowgirls;
Cupids;
David;
Devlin;
Diana Bathing;
Dirty Music;
Discus;
Divine;
Dreams 1947;
Dude in Black Jock;
Dumbell Boy;
Dungeon Master;
Egyptian Wrestlers;
El patio de frida;
Eric with Hat;
Exposed;
Expressions from the Male Room;
Faint Harmony;
Fairy;
Field of Dreams;
Four Eyes;
Freaky Fists;
Frieda and Diego Rivera;
From a Cowboy's Love;
Gemini;
Get Fit;
Got Your Heart Broke;
GQ Type;
GQ Type Taking Shower;
Grant Show;
Greg Spaulding;
Handwriting;
Hang man;
Happy Birthday Baby;
Happy Birthday, My Love;
Heavy Construction;
Hell Hole;
High Noon;
Holding Just Right;
Homage to Goya;
Homage to Pier 46;
Hot Cop!;
Hot Tub;
In Case of Emergency Break Glass;
Informal Evening;
Ink Drawing of Larry and Mel In A Diner;
Invitation;
Jake Tanner-Studio 1990;
Jap 2;
Jap 3;
Jap 4;
Jap 6;
Jared;
Jennifer & The Twins #2;
Jeremy Jordan;
Jerry Anaconda;
Jimmy;
Joe Heiner;
John Stamos;
Jonathan;
Joshua;
Ken;
Kissing Booth;
Kyle Jessup;
L. A. Pink;
Laid Back;
Lance and Thor #1;
Legs;
Leo;
L'Homme de Cromagnon;
Libra;
Lifestyles;
Light Showers;
Lighthouse Court;
Lost on a Sea of Desire;
Low-Down Horny Heart;
Lunge;
Male Nude;
Male Nudes at the Site of "Swimming";
Male Nudes in a Seated Tug-of-War;
Male Students Posing in the Art Students' League of Philadelphia;
Man Taking Shower in Beverly Hills;
Man with Cat;
Manwatcher;
Marilyn;
Mark;
Mark 1;
Mark 2;
Masks;
Matt and Brian;
Matt Rhoades;
Men Alike;
Mike;
Mike and Jack;
MILLS COLLEGE STATION;
Mirror, Mirror;
Mother and Daughter;
Motion Study: "The History of a Jump";
MUSCLES;
My Dreams Have No Faces;
Nets of the Sun;
Nets of the Sun 47;
Nicole;
Night in the Desert;
Noise in the Night;
Offrande;
On A Clear Day;
On the Beach;
Owen Moore;
Palermo;
Paul en Benno;
Pele;
Pisces;
Pyramid Builders;
Quentin Crisp;
Rain;
Ratcliff's Fantacy;
Real Cowboys;
Reclining Nude;
Requiem;
Resort;
Retro Heart;
Revelations;
Reverie;
Rick Schroder;
Riding Together;
Rob and Rod;
Safford;
Sagittarius;
Save Sex;
Scorpio;
Scott Daly;
Shawn Wilson;
Shore Leave;
Siesta;
Sit on My Face;
Slave Market;
Solitaire;
Some Boys;
Somewhere Out There;
Stiff Competition;
Sts. Sergius and Bacchus;
Stud in Hot Tub;
Studs Toro;
Sunday;
Sunrise;
Surf Bored;
Tai;
Taken up;
Tank Tops;
Tatoo For you;
Tattoo;
Taurus;
Teddy Garr;
Teen Idle;
Thank You Very Much;
The Anchor Hotel;
The Art Critic;
The Basement;
The Bather;
The Boys on the Beach;
The Changing Room;
The Promises of Morning;
The Shed;
This Much…;
Three Young Women;
Threesome;
Tiger Tyson;
Tom;
Tony;
Tormina Sicily;
Torso;
Two Men;
Unmade Bed;
Untitled;
Untitled #1;
V-Day Sailor;
Virgo;
Walt Whitman;
Warm Feet, Warm Heart;
Water Boy;
Weihnachtsmanner 80;
Wil Wheaton;
Wish You Were Here;
Yummy.
Greeting cards have been organized into two sections:
artist/photographer and publisher.
Artist/photographers
Includes artist/photographers:
Andrade, Greogory;
Anthony, David;
Arimondi;
Atomicstudio.net;
Backes, Nick;
Bader, Denis;
Baker, Clifford;
Baratz, Steven;
Bartell, Amy E.;
Bastille;
Belin, Gilda;
Bell, Steve;
Benoit, Luc;
Bianchi, Tom;
Birch, Timothy;
Bjorn, Kristen;
Blair, D.;
Blanca, Paul;
Blevins, Steve;
Boucher;
Boulet, Susan Seddon;
Braden, D.;
Brennan, Brian;
Britenriker, Vance;
Buerkholtz;
Cahill, Bill;
Callahan, David;
Cervone, E.;
Chadwick, Michael;
Chester, Mark I.;
Chung, Chakki;
Clay;
Cole, Steve;
Colt, Rip;
Costner, Tom;
Coughenour, Jim;
Cox, George C.
Daley, Joann;
Day, Donna;
De La Pava, Augusto;
Debremme, Patrick;
Dehaan, Ralph;
Donelan, Gerard;
Eakins, Thomas;
Eff, Jay;
Eisenblatter, M. H.;
Emrich, Bill;
Eric;
Escalante, Antonio;
Evans, Jim;
F, J;
Ferreira, Carl;
Fisher, Maurice;
Flasche, Phil;
Fox, Ron;
Freeman, Ed;
French, Jim;
Gamar;
Gerhart, Klaus;
Good Times Coming;
Greene, Tolin;
Gutierez, P.;
Guttke, Robert John;
Hale, Barbara;
Hamon, Stephen F.;
Harper, Jute;
Harvey, Stephen;
Harwist, Davie;
Hauk;
Hechter, Conrad;
Heiner, Joe;
Higgins, Thom Archon
Hirano, Go;
Hockney, David;
Hood, Sam;
Howe, Delmas;
The Hun;
Jamal;
James, Patrick;
Jeffery, Tory;
Jenkins, Christie;
Johnson, Joe;
Johnson, Joseph;
Jones, Matson;
Juario, Rolf;
Ka;
Kahlo, Frida (Frieda);
Kaiser, Thomas;
Kal;
Keefer, Dean;
Kent, Nigel;
Lalo;
Langhorne, Harry;
LaSenna, Robert;
Latino Fan Club;
Leibovitz, Annie;
Lentz, Robert;
Lindley, Gerrard;
Ling, Ch'en;
Lloyd, Peter;
Loy, James;
Lynch, Mark V.;
Manasse, Geoff;
Mapplethorpe, Robert;
Marc, Julian;
March, Charlotte;
Marcus, Jewels Joyce;
Martin, David;
Massengill, Reed;
McCracken, Lynn;
McGinty, Mick;
McNamara, Tom;
Michi;
Miller, Maxine;
Mozert, Zoe;
Mukai, Dennis;
Muller, Dan;
Myers, Jim;
Myrick, Gary;
Natalie;
Neil, Tim;
Nelson, Laurence;
Nicoletta, Daniel;
Ockenga, Starr;
Odom, Mel;
Olaf;
Opal, Robert;
Orsen;
Ostier, Andre;
Palladino, Peter;
Palmer, Jeff;
Patten, Suzanne Urbani;
Payton, Lewis;
Pete;
Photo, Shimbukuro;
Piette, Georges;
Pittman, Daniel;
Postman, Stevee;
Pug, Herman;
Quaintance, George;
Quiroz, Carlos;
Rabinowitz, Ruth N.;
Rackerby, Don;
Raspaut, Eric;
Rausch, Robert;
Raymond, Lilo;
Rex;
Rinder;
Roberts, Mel;
Rocco, Pat;
Rock, Michael;
Roffman, Howard;
Roscoe;
Ruddell, Gary;
Rutherford, Roger;
S., D.;
Sable, Kas;
Scarisbrick, Ed;
Schorr, Todd;
Sean;
Sell, Michael;
Shotz, Ozie;
Silombria, Marco;
Silvercloud, David;
Smith, Andrea;
Smith, J. Frederick;
Smith, Steve;
Solari, Peter;
Sprigle, Dave;
Stanley, Naomi;
Stavrinos, George;
Stawser, Darryl;
Stellar, Stanley;
Stevens, Jon;
Stewart, Stephen;
Stine, Richard;
Strawser, Darryl;
T.J., Willmouse;
Thomas, Derek;
Tolin/Rock;
Tom of Finland;
Towle, Ken;
Tress, Arthur;
Underhill, Steven;
van Manen, Hans;
Vega;
von Gloeden, Baron Wilhelm;
Wade, Bob;
Walker, Steve;
Warffemius, Jan Carel;
Watson, Mal;
Webber, Bruce;
Welsh, William;
West, Muscle;
West, R;
Wigler, J.;
Wilkins, Mac;
Wilson, Scott;
Yates, Dirk;
Yetsas, J.;
York, Wendy Jill;
Za-Hazzanani;
Zick, Brian;
Zrkadas, Joanna.
Publishers
Includes publishers:
10% Productions [aka 10 Percent Productions];
A Gay Imperative Card;
A Hype Card;
Act One;
All Star Enterprises;
Ambassador Cards;
Ambush!;
American Greetings;
Aquavision;
Art Unlimited;
As We Are;
Athena;
Aunt Charley Original;
B.A.D. Studio;
Bay Bridge Images;
Belly Laffs;
Big Daddy;
Big Fun;
Black & Whites;
Bo-Tree Productions;
Boyfriends of the Sunset Strip Hollywood, The, Inc;
Brahma Studio;
Brazen Images;
Bret;
Brett;
Brothers, MPP Company;
California Dreamers;
Calla Productions;
Camp it up!!;
Card Flash Graphics;
Cartes Trapeze Cards;
Catalyst;
Catch Productions;
Catch;
Celestial Arts;
Charles Bragg;
Chippendales;
Colt Collection, The;
Colt Studio;
Comstock Cards, Inc.;
Dada Press;
Daimonix;
Dark Fire Images;
David's Print Shop;
De Parture;
De Winters Studios;
Dee Parture;
Designs by Judith;
DF Aperture Logo;
Di Sap Card Co.;
Diffusion French Art;
Drummond Design;
Dukefoto;
Editions Limited;
Elegant Exposure;
Elizabeth Graphics;
Emotion Graphics;
Emotional Rescue;
Erotica;
Explanations Incorporated;
Exposed Cards, Inc.;
Falcon Studios;
Fantacy Graphics;
Ferrari Puppy Ldt.;
Festa Enterprises Inc.;
First Class;
Fizz Concepts;
Focus photoarts;
Force 1;
Fotofactory.com;
Fotofolio;
Fresh Apple Cards;
Fun House;
Galerie Leon;
Gallant;
Gamar Studios;
Gas Line Cards;
Gayline Greetings;
G-Gallery;
Gibson Greetings, Inc.;
Girlie-Girl, Inc.;
Global Odyssey Design;
GMHC;
Graphics Etc;
Greeting Cards by Ron Fox;
Hallmark;
Hand Screened;
Harvey Hutter & Co. Inc.;
Heart Throbs;
Heart to Heart;
Homemade Chocolate;
Hysterical Greetingcards;
Ideas Photographic;
IEM;
Ink Drop Productions;
InnoVisions;
J J Studio;
Jazz;
Joe Johnson Studios;
Juvenile Delinquents;
Kaboom!;
Kahnay Cards;
Kalan;
Kipuka Press;
Kyle Studio;
LA DEN;
La Te Da Designs;
Laffs by Marcel;
Lambert Studios;
Leather Fraternity, The;
Leslie Lohman Gallery;
Lip Production, LTD.;
Lobo Studios;
Looking Out Productions;
Maine Attraction;
Maine Line Company;
Male America;
Marcel Schurman Company, Inc.;
Mark 1 Inc. ;
Max Imagaes;
Message Units;
Metagraphics Inc.;
Midnight Movies;
MikWright, Ltd.;
Miles Kimball;
Milky;
Myrick Artworks;
N&N Publishing;
New Heights;
NobleWorks;
Noteables;
Nu Vo West Graphics;
NuVo Photocards;
O Card Corp.;
Occasional Quips;
Old Queen Enterprises;
Olympix;
Pal Press;
Palm Press;
Pan-Graphic Press;
Paper Hearts;
Paper Moon Graphics, Inc.;
Paradise Cards;
Parisian Press;
PARSONS & SMITH INC.;
Peeking Duck Press;
PFLAG;
Phenomenon Factory;
Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Photogravure, Inc.;
Photomics;
Pier Avenue;
Pilot Light Productions;
Pit Bull Graphics;
Playgirl Cards;
Pomegranate Publications;
Portal Publications;
Portal;
Portfolio Gallery;
Positive Image;
Post Card;
PPB Designs;
Quest Art Inc;
R.F. Hooper;
Raging Stallion Studios;
Raw Graphics;
Recycled Paper Products, Inc.;
Red Hots;
Redi J-Kards;
Reyton;
Rinder's Photo Gallery;
Rob Amsterdam Cards;
Rockshots, Inc.;
Roger Cards;
Ross Cards;
Row House Philadelphia;
Rude Graphics;
Saga;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
Scenic Overlooks;
Shoebox Greetings;
Shooting Graphics;
Snapshot Cards;
SOHO Galleries;
South Beach Cards;
Spare Parts;
Stag Line, The;
State Library of New South Wales;
State Of Man;
Steven Baratz Photography;
Studio A;
Studio Bookshop, The;
Sure Shot;
Syracuse Cultural Workers;
T.N.T. Designs, Inc.;
Tate Gallery Publications;
Thanasi;
The Advocate;
The Art of Leon;
The Campagnei;
The Hirsute Club;
The Hun [aka Bill the Hun];
Thought Factory;
TNT Designs;
Tom Finland Foundation Members Only;
Tom of Finland Company;
Tom of Finland West Graphics;
Top Hole;
Trapeze, Inc.;
Truitt Design;
Trumf Kort;
Unknown ;
Upbeat Studio;
Vega Studios;
Verkerke Reprodukties;
Veronica Graphics;
Village Lighthouse, LLC;
Vissual Directions;
Vita Greeting Cards;
W.Q. Denatale Designs;
We Are Family;
Weiser Sales Corp.;
Wendy Jill York Productions;
West Graphics;
Western States Art Foundation;
Whispering Hearts;
Womyn Todaz;
Yesterday Cards.
Postcards
The collection includes both mailed and unmailed postcards as defined as a rectangular sheet of paper about 3-1/2 inches high
x 5 inches long x 0.007 inch thick with a photograph or illustration on one side. Most are commercially-produced without imprinted
postage and designed for mailing at a reduced rate without an envelope.
Postcards have been organized into six sections: artist/photographer;
geographical; miscellaneous blank, original art, and homemade; oversize; postcards and stationery including packs and sets;
and publisher.
Geographical
Includes the following places of origin and subjects:
Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
District of Columbia,
Florida,
Hawaii,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Massachusetts,
Nevada,
New Hampshire,
New Mexico,
New York,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania,
Texas,
Virginia,
Washington.
Australia,
Brazil,
Canada,
China,
Denmark,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Italy,
Jamaica,
Mexico,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Portugal,
Republic of South Africa,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Turkey,
United Kingdom.
Miscellaneous blank, original art, and homemade.
Postcards and stationery including packs and sets
Includes party invitations titled:
Come on Over,
We're Having a Party, and
Please Come.
Includes Love Notes: designed by Joe Johnson;
Postcard books:
Baly Hinter Wipflinger: 16 Postcards;
Bruno Gmunder Verlag postcardbooks:
Berlin;
Bel Ami, 1997;
Bel Ami, 1999;
Bel Ami, 2000;
Best of Fisky Memories;
Bruno Gmunder postcardbooks:
Falcon Studios;
Kristen Bjorn;
Jonathan Black;
Chronicle Books: Andy Warhol, Men 30 Postcards;
Chronicle Books:
Men! 31 Curious and Remarkable Postcards;
Falcon: Best of Legends, the Men of Falcon 17;
Men Magazine:
20 Years of Men, 4 of 7;
20 Years of Men, 7 of 7;
Pomegranite Artbooks: Gay Portraits: A Book of Postcards;
South Sea Island Men: Souvenir Photo Collection;
Taschen:
Beefcake 30 Postcards;
Some Mail Nudes 30 Postcards.
Publisher
Includes publishers
10 Percent,
Against Equality,
AIDES,
American Postcard Company,
Americard,
Art Unlimited Amsterdam,
Art-i-tech(s)-ture,
Astounding Graphics,
Athena,
Barangay-LA,
Big Gay Love,
Black Scorpion Video.com,
Body by Fisher,
Card on Cards,
Cartes d'Art,
Cartolina Postale Italiana,
Charm Kraft,
Chaotic Publishing [Link],
Cheap Thrills,
Chelsea Gym Associates,
Chutes at the Beach [Topsy's],
City Sights,
CLGA, CA,
The Closet Collection [Tri Flag Press],
Crossing Cards,
Dexter Press [Jebe's and Associates],
Do it your way, Do it safe [SAD-Schorerstichting],
Finocchio's [Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California (GLHSNC)],
Fire Island Pines,
First Run Print,
Flashcards,
Foto Roff [Black & Whites Gallery],
Fotocard [Ludlow Sales],
Fotofolio,
Friends Health Center,
Galas Exoticards,
Galerie Janssen,
Girlilla Grafacts,
Go Card,
Good Catch,
Hallmark,
HIV Stops with Me,
Hot Bods,
Hot Stamp,
Ideal Image,
Istanbul Archaeological Museums,
Jolly Cards,
Joyce Marcus a.k.a. Jewels,
Kaboom!,
Ken Brown Cards,
The Kimac Company LTD.,
Kipuka Press,
Long Overdue Inc.,
Luna Bay Productions,
M. Knoedler and Company Inc.,
Martin Von Wagner Museum,
Maxracks,
MCS [Matonti Salerno],
MGG [Michael G. Gutrath Verlag],
MGM,
Modern Postcard,
Museum of Modern Art New York [MOMA],
National Minority AIDS Council [Test Positive Aware Network TPAN],
New Image,
No Theatre San Francisco [Mike Kelley],
Noble Works,
Nova Lux [Gino Giusti],
Paper Moon,
PC Design,
PFS Inc.,
Picture this Publishing,
Pik Nik,
Poem Cards Brilliance Books,
Pomegranate Publications,
PopcornQ - PlanetOut,
Preziosi Postcards,
Qthink,
Rockshots,
Rockwell Designs,
Satyrik by Fokion,
Scan Décor,
Schwules Museum,
Sea Isle,
Sepia-Tones,
Shoreleave Alternative Books,
Snap-a-Shot,
SOHO Gallery,
Spartacus,
State of Man [Jim French],
Structure,
Tangibles [Douglas Kent Hall],
Taschen, Benedikt,
Territorial Enterprise,
TNT Designs,
Tom of Finland,
Tomatis-88,
Tushita,
Vintage Images.