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Title: Linda Welcome papers
Dates: 1946-2001
Collection Number: 2008-12
Creator/Collector:
Welcome, Linda
Extent: 5 linear feet (two cartons, one oversize box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Linda Welcome was a lesbian who grew up in New England, lived in the Bay Area, and recorded her life in scrapbooks that span
the time from her childhood in the 1940s to the late 1990s. The collection contains scrapbooks, extensive photographs, correspondence,
journals, and schoolwork.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Linda Welcome papers. Collection Number: 2008-12. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Ruth Mahaney, October 2007.
Biography/Administrative History
Linda Welcome was a lesbian who grew up in New England, lived in the Bay Area, and recorded her life in scrapbooks that span
the time from her childhood in the 1940s to the late 1990s. The scrapbooks provide documentation of Welcome’s family, friends,
and lesbian community.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains scrapbooks, extensive photographs, correspondence, journals, and schoolwork. GSSO Linked Terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000381; http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/MESH/D019497
Lesbians
Photography
Diaries