Finding Aid to the John Quitman Lynch and Hal Rebarich Papers, circa 1900-2012
Coll2014-017
Kyle Morgan
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 821-2771
askone@usc.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: John Quitman Lynch and Hal Rebarich papers
creator:
Lynch, John Quitman
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014-017
Physical Description:
29 Linear Feet
5 archive boxes + 15 archive cartons + 3 archive flat boxes + 5 flat files
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-2012
Abstract: Photographs, artwork, correspondence, family history records, and personal papers of John Quitman Lynch and Hal Rebarich,
circa 1900-2012. Residents of New York; Long Beach, California; and Portland, Oregon, John Quitman Lynch, a painter, and Hal
Rebarich, a United States postal worker, were partners for over fifty years.
Container: 1-7
Container: 8-22
Container: 23-24
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in the following series:
Series 1. Personal papers, circa 1919-2012
Series 2. Photographs, circa 1900-2008
Biographical / Historical
John Quitman Lynch was born on October 9, 1931, and raised in Long Beach, California. He demonstrated an early proficiency
in drawing and spent years studying art. Harold William Rebarich was born on May 4, 1927, and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He
served in the United States Army, received an honorable discharge in 1947, and settled in Southern California where he met
Lynch.
In the early 1950s, Lynch worked at the Long Beach Public Library and fought a Selective Service draft notice as a conscientious
objector. In the 1950s, Lynch and Rebarich moved to Greenwich Village, New York, where Lynch pursued his painting and was
even offered tutelage by painter Paul Cadmus. By the early 1960s, they were back in Long Beach, where they remained for the
next 25-plus years. In 1962, Lynch got a job with the art department at California State University, Long Beach, where he
worked for the next thirteen years. In 1963, Rebarich joined the United States Postal Service, where he worked for the next
26 years. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Lynch moved to Portland to care for his elderly aunt. After her death, he inherited the
home and lived there the rest of his life. Although Lynch and Rebarich visited one another, Rebarich remained in their Rose
Avenue house in Long Beach.
Lynch had numerous gallery showings from the 1960s to the 1990s, both in Southern California and in the Portland area. Lynch
signed most of his paintings and drawings with the moniker "Quitman." Lynch and Rebarich had a side business selling antiques
and collectibles both in Long Beach and in Portland. Rebarich died in November 2006 and Lynch in December 2009.
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Acquisition
Collection donated by the John Quitman Lynch trust, 2009-2010.
Scope and Contents
Photographs, drawings, sketches, correspondence, clippings, fliers, programs, school records, posters, manuscripts, notes,
wills, trusts, deeds, estate records, financial records, and receipts documenting the family, friends, home life, artwork,
antiques business, travels, properties, activities, and interests of John Quitman Lynch and, to a lesser extent, Hal Rebarich.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder #, or item name] John Quitman Lynch and Hal Rebarich Papers, Coll2014-017, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Kyle Morgan and volunteers, 2014.
Separated Materials
Separated to ONE library
Becker, Howard S. (ed.). The Other Side: Perspectives on Deviance. London: The Free Press of Glencoe, Collier-MacMillan Limited,
1964.
Berman, Ed (ed.). Homosexual Acts: A Volume of Gay Plays. Wembley, England: Hill and Garwood Printing Limited, 1975.
Blakely, Roy. He. New York: Blaze Enterprises Inc., 1972.
Fone, Byrne R. S. (ed.). Hidden Heritage: History and the Gay Imagination. New York: Avocation Publishers Inc., 1980.
The Greyhuff Review, second edition. Minneapolis: Directory Services Inc., 1965.
Gustafson, R. Eric. Cinderella Is a Man. Peapack, NJ: W A M Press, 1998.
Kirstein, Lincoln. Mosic: Memoirs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Lester, H. Erick. Anal Eroticism. Washington, D.C.: Guild Press Ltd., 1970.
McNamee, Lawrence and Brian. AIDS: The Nation's First Politically Protected Disease. La Habra, CA: National Medical Legal
Publishing House, 1988.
Miller, Merle. On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual. New York: Random House, 1971.
Phelps, Robert (ed.). Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott, 1937-1955. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
Rinder, Walter. The World I Used to Know; A Promise of Change; Where Will I Be Tomorrow?; Love Is my Reason; Will You Share
with Me; Aura of Love; Friends and Lovers; Love Is an Attitude; This Time Called Life; and Forever Us (10 books). Berkeley,
CA: Celestial Arts, 1970-1990.
Roy, Claude. Hans Erni. Geneva, Switzerland: Editions ierre Caliller, 1955.
Stein, Jean. Edie: An American Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.
Symonds, John Addington. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. New York: The Modern Library, 1928.
Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. POPism: The Warhol Sixties. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
Wescott, Glenway. Apartment in Athens. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1945.
Woodlawn, Holly, with Jeff Copeland. A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.
Separated to ONE calendar collection
Colt Man, Carl Hardwick, 1998.
Naked Men New York Two, by Hans Fahrmeyer, 1997.
Separated to ONE subject files collection
Clark, Gerald. "Cary Grant and Randolph Scott." Architectural Digest, April 1996.
Recente Gay and Lesbian Fiction, Multnomah County Library (bookmark).
Polyester, movie flier with 10 "odorama" scratch and sniffs on the back.
Separated to ONE pamphlet and catalog collections
"Photo Studies of the Male Figure," Sample Book, Travis Collection.
"Superstars," Brentwood Collectors' Edition, Part II.
Shocking Gray Catalog, Pride 1994.
Separated to the ONE ephemera collection
GayBar, official candy bar of Gay Games IV. (candy bar wrapper)
Foldaway fan with text "Keep Cool and Be Gay."
Gay Bob: The World's First Gay Doll for Everyone. Gay Bob Trading Company Inc., Harvey Rosenberg Inc., 1977.
Separated to ONE periodicals collection
Fuse Magazine, v.14, no.4-6, 1991; v.15, no.3-5, 1992.
In Touch, no.23, May/June 1976.
International Male, Winter 1993.
Just Out, v.11, no.24, October 21, 1994.
Lavender Reader, Summer 1995.
Separated to the ONE audiovisual collection
Interviews with Maria George, Norma Pavlatos, Ken Barker, and Jeff Stookey about John Quitman Lynch. Portland, Oregon, May
24, 2009. (2 audiocassettes, 1 CD)
Interviews with Lee (Leland) Bard, Will McElhinny, and Jeff Stookey about John Quitman Lynch. Portland, Oregon, September
6, 2009. (1 CD)
Portland musical theater recording. Side 1: Boy Meets Boy, 1975. Side 2: The Faggot, 1973 (audiocassette).
Front Runner. Staghorn. S-4, 46 meters. (5-inch open reel)
Gay Cowboys in Bondage. Live Seriousness (includes the song "Are We Trite Enough Yet?"). T.P.O.S., 1986. (audiocassette)
Star Suck. Bull: for men who like big men. #809. [5-inch open reel]
The World of Walter Rinder with introduction read by John Lynch. (VHS)
Camp Records production. Side one: "Mixed Nuts" by Byrd E. Bath and the Nutcrackers. Side two: "London Derrierre" by Byrd
E. Bath. (45 rpm record)
Camp Records production. Side one and two: "I'd Rather Swish than Fight" by B. Bubba. (45 rpm record)
Separated to the T-shirt collection
Gray shirt with purple text. Front: "National Coming Out Day / Take Your Next Step." Between the two lines of text are four
purple symbols and a pink triangle.
White shirt with a Keith Harring design on the front (small, black-and-white) and on the back (large, color). Front: "National
Coming Out Day / October 11." Back "National Coming Out Day / October 11."
Separated to the ONE buttons collection
Buttons (4) from the Oregon "No on 9" and "No on 13" campaigns.
Deaccessed
2 reproductions of Lynd Ward artwork (7 x 5 inches) circa 1930, one of a standing man with a mustache, one of a sitting woman
with a headband.
7 wood plates (7 x 4 inches) with religious-themed round (3.5 inch diameter) or square (3 x 3.5 inches) stained glass in the
middle.
10 hand-colored figures by [C. Asppenfiel?], circa 1840-1850.
Flachs drawing by A.H. Payne.
The New Testament. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, undated.
Opera News. v.29, no.14, February 13, 1965.
Perine, Robert. Chouinard: An Art Vision Betrayed. Encinitas, CA: Artra Publishing Inc., 1985.
Long Beach: A Retrospective, 1993 memo calendar. (blank)
Antiques sales guides, catalogs, and fliers.
Programs of events and performances (without reference to Quitman).
"Back to the Garden," chapter 7, pages 177-205.
Postcards, blank.
"USN" black wallet with an anchor on the front. Inside it reads "Gary's of California."
United States Railroad Administration, Union Pacific Railroad, Rules and Instructions of the Transportation Department, October
1919.
Om Shanti restaurant menu, 7910 West Third Street [Los Angeles?].
Related Materials
ONE Archives art collection, John Quitman Lynch drawings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gays -- Correspondence
Gay artists
Photographs
Lynch, John Quitman
Rebarich, Harold William
Personal papers
1919-2012
Scope and Contents
Drawings, sketches, correspondence, clippings, fliers, programs, school records, posters, manuscripts, notes, wills, trusts,
deeds, estate records, financial records, and receipts documenting the family, friends, home life, artwork, antiques business,
travels, properties, and interests of John Quitman Lynch and, to a lesser extent, Hal Rebarich.
Arrangement
Series is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 1, Folder 1
Antique Alley sales records
2000-2004
Box 1, Folder 2
Antiques inventory
undated
Box 1, Folder 4-6
Whitney's Decorative Arts Auction materials
1991-1992
Box 5, Folder 1
Art sales and inventory
1993-1999
Box 23, Folder 2
Artwork, John Quitman Lynch
1953-1991, undated
Physical Description: [Oversized]
Scope and Contents
Includes artwork for the Long Beach Library.
Box 5, Folder 3
Childhood artwork, John Quitman Lynch
circa 1934-1948
Box 5, Folder 4
Childhood artwork portfolio, John Quitman Lynch
1943-1945
Box 5, Folder 5
Sketches, John Quitman Lynch
undated
Box 1, Folder 9-10
Bell, Faye, guest book and papers
1925-1985
Box 1, Folder 11
Beloved losses: clippings and memorial materials
1986-2010, undated
Box 1, Folder 12
California State University, Long Beach, employment records
1969-1975
Box 1, Folder 13
Burgess, E. Clayton: To Ring Like a Bell that Has No Flaw (signed book)
2007
Box 1, Folder 14
Clippings: California State Long Beach nudity
1968-1974
Box 1, Folder 15
Clippings: general topic
1966-2007, undated
Box 1, Folder 16
Clippings: John Quitman Lynch
1946-1971
Box 5, Folder 6-7
Coil Drawings drafts, notes, and signs
undated
Box 1, Folder 17
Colbert Gallery records
1978-1979
Box 1, Folder 18
Contacts and calendars
1990-2006, undated
Box 4, Folder 1-5
General
2008-2010, undated
Box 4, Folder 6-7
Bell, Faye, family
1911-1971, undated
Box 4, Folder 8-11
John Quitman Lynch to Aunt Faye Bell
circa 1935-1971
Box 4, Folder 12-16
Family
1944-1983, undated
Box 4, Folder 17
Family, collated by John Quitman Lynch
1927-1963
Box 4, Folder 18
Johnson, Barbara
1994-1995
Box 4, Folder 20-21
Rebarich, Hal, and Greta (the dog) to John Quitman Lynch
1980-1998
Box 5, Folder 10
Schmidjell, R. Ingo
1969-1981
Box 4, Folder 22-30
Stookey, Jeff, and Ken Barker
1996-2007
Box 4, Folder 31
Wescott, Glenway
1955-1959
Box 5, Folder 8
Recollections of John Quitman Lynch
2009-2012
Box 1, Folder 19
Devare, Ulric, signed books and other materials
1954-1961
Scope and Contents
Includes two unidentified photographs (both portraits, one photographic, one drawn), a signed photograph, and one letter.
Box 1, Folder 20
Elementary, middle, and Sunday school records
1935-1945
Box 1, Folder 21
Franklin Junior High yearbooks
1944-1946
Box 1, Folder 22-24
Long Beach Polytechnic High School
1946-1949, 1989
Scope and Contents
Includes yearbooks and 1989 reunion materials.
Box 5, Folder 9
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records on John Quitman Lynch
1952-1954
Box 2, Folder 1
Financial records
1996-2006
Scope and Contents
Includes some medical records.
Box 2, Folder 2-5
Genealogy and family history records
1859-2009
Box 23, Folder 7
Goff, Earl, drawing of Quitman's neice and nephew
undated
Physical Description: [Oversized]
Box 23, Folder 1
Greetings and signs
1978-2002, undated
Physical Description: [Oversized]
Box 2, Folder 6-7
Hirsch, Rifka, manuscripts
1995-2001
Box 2, Folder 8-9
Hodges, Joanna, programs and papers
1958-2004
Box 2, Folder 10
Home maintenance and insurance
1971-2000
Box 22
Insights
undated
Scope and Contents
Insightful notes typed on notecards and stored in a metal box.
Box 2, Folder 11-14
Insights and notes
1955-1977, undated
Box 2, Folder 15
Journal entries
1955-1956
Box 2, Folder 16-18
Long Beach Public Library artwork and employment records
1952-1954
Box 2, Folder 19
Lynch, John Quitman, biographical information
1931-2009
Scope and Contents
Includes identification cards, domestic partnership papers, a will, a power of attorney, and a resume.
Box 22
Lynch, John Quitman, family history recordings
circa 1970-2000
Scope and Contents
Three audiocassette recordings of Lynch's family history.
Box 2, Folder 20-22
Mendez, Edith, poetry
1979-2005
Box 2, Folder 23
Open-reel audio recordings
undated
Scope and Contents
One is titled "Ingo," the other "Krishna Murti."
Box 23, Folder 6
"The Peppermint Playhouse" stories by Kay Carroll and Cynthia Galles
undated
Physical Description: [Oversized]
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 photographs.
Box 5, Folder 11
Promotional and informational material regarding artwork
circa 1951-1991
Box 5, Folder 12-21
Property, estate, and family records
1919-2000
Box 2, Folder 24
Rebarich, Harold, biographical information
1927-2007
Scope and Contents
Includes identification cards, military service records, diplomas, a will, and his father's journal.
Box 17, Folder 5-7
Schmidjell, Reinhold Ingomar, manuscripts
1968-1978
Box 5, Folder 22-23
Selective Service records
1950-1957
Box 1, Folder 7
Subject files, art
1950-2005
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, research materials, fliers, programs, and direct mailings.
Box 1, Folder 25
Travel documents
1967-2006
Scope and Contents
Includes John Quitman Lynch's passport.
Box 18, Folder 6
Voice-O-Gram
undated
Physical Description: [45 rpm record]
Box 24
World War I United States military uniform and helmet
circa 1917-1918
Photographs
circa 1900-2008
Physical Description: [Listings comprise photographic prints unless otherwise identified.]
Scope and Contents
Photographic prints, negatives, and 35mm slides documenting the family, friends, homelife, artwork, properties, antiques business,
travels, interests, and activities of John Quitman Lynch and Hal Rebarich, circa 1900-2008.
Arrangement
Series is arranged into three setions: (1) John Quitman Lynch, Hal Rebarich, family, and friends; (2) Artwork; and (3) Miscellaneous
John Quitman Lynch, Hal Rebarich, friends, and family photographs
circa 1900-2008
Quitman Lynch (John) and Hal Rebarich photographs, sample
Arrangement
Family photographs are listed first; followed by photographs of John Quitman Lynch, Hal Rebarich, and friends; followed by
miscellaneous images.
Box 21, Folder 3
Family photograph album
circa 1900-1920
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs with descriptions]
Box 6, Folder 1-5
Family photograph albums
circa 1900-1960
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Box 23, Folder 5
Family
circa 1900-1950
Physical Description: [Oversized, black-and-white photographs]
Box 7, Folder 1
Family
circa 1900-1950
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Box 7, Folder 2-3
Lynch's family and friends
circa 1930-1960
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Scope and Contents
Includes a signed image of John Reed.
Box 7, Folder 4
Lynch's family and friends
1949-1977
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 7, Folder 5
Rebarich's family and friends
circa 1900-1960
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Box 7, Folder 6
Rebarich's family and friends
1965-1980
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 6, Folder 6
Lynch and Rebarich photograph album
circa 1950-1970
Physical Description: [Color and black-and-white photographs]
Box 21, Folder 2
Framed photograph of Lynch
circa 1980s
Physical Description: [Black-and-white]
Box 8, Folder 1-3
Lynch and Rebarich
1940-1970
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Scope and Contents
Includes 4 images of John Quitman Lynch with Glenway Wescott.
Box 8, Folder 4
Lynch and Rebarich
1950-1980
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 8, Folder 5-6
Lynch and Rebarich portraits
1940-1980
Physical Description: [Black-and-white photographs]
Box 8, Folder 7
Lynch and Rebarich portraits
circa 1990-2008
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 23, Folder 3
Lynch, Rebarich, and Gretta the dachshund
circa 1950-2000
Physical Description: [Oversized black-and-white and color photographs]
Box 9, Folder 5-7
Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and family
circa 1960-1990
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 10, Folder 1-7
Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and family
circa 1970-2000
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 11, Folder 1-6
Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and family
1996-2005
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 12, Folder 1-6
Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and family
circa 1990-2008
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 13, Folder 1-7
Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and family
circa 1990-2008
Physical Description: [Color photographs]
Box 9, Folder 1
Nick Cornwell
circa 1960-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, memorial texts, color images of Cornwell, and black-and-white images of erotic nudes.
Box 9, Folder 3
Karl Seethaler
1955-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes color and black-and-white images of Seethaler, his classes, and artwork, as well as correspondence, course work from
his classes, clippings, and promotional material from his exhibitions.
Box 9, Folder 2
Joanna Hodges
circa 1960-2000
Scope and Contents
Includes color and black-and-white images of Hodges with Lynch, Rebarich, and her partner Charla; Hodges' Halloween parties;
and Hodges' publicity portraits, including one signed from 1960.
Box 9, Folder 4
Unidentified family and friends
undated
Physical Description: [Color and black-and-white photographs]
Box 21, Folder 1
Film rolls, unidentified
1953, undated
Physical Description: [3 photograph film rolls wrapped around cardboard and 2 photograph film rolls in cylindrical metal containers]
Box 19, Folder 7
Negatives, unidentified
undated
Box 19, Folder 8
Photocopies and computer printouts
undated
Box 22
View Master 3-D
circa 1990-2008
Scope and Contents
Comprises images of Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and Greta the dachshund.
Artwork photographs
circa 1952-2000
Box 16, Folder 1
Artwork, photocopies
undated
Box 16, Folder 2-5
Artwork, photographic prints
undated
Box 16, Folder 6
Artwork, 35mm slides
undated
Box 17, Folder 1-4
Artwork, negatives
undated
Box 23, Folder 4
Bust of John Quitman Lynch
undated
Physical Description: [Oversized, matted, color photographs]
Box 14, Folder 5
Female full bodies
undated
Box 15, Folder 1
Long Beach Public Library
circa 1952-1954
Box 15, Folder 4
Outline for art book
undated
Box 15, Folder 8
Stain glass window
undated
Miscellaneous photographs
circa 1950-2008
Box 18, Folder 1-5
Collectibles
1991-1992, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes images of collections from Whitney's Decorative Arts.
Box 6, Folder 7
Framed photographs and artwork
circa 1950-2002
Physical Description: [Color and black-and-white]
Scope and Contents
Framed photographs of Lynch, Rebarich, friends, and artistic creations.
Box 19, Folder 1-4
Home and property
undated
Box 19, Folder 5
Home: Rose Avenue, Long Beach
1968-2009
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Lynch and his mother.
Box 19, Folder 6
Home: 37th Avenue, Portland
circa 1950-2008
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Lynch and his aunt Faye Bell.
Box 20, Folder 6-9
Nude models, 35mm slides and photographic prints
undated
Physical Description: [Color and black-and-white]
Box 20, Folder 1-5
Travel, 35mm slides
1968-1970, undated
