Lynda Koolish Photographs Collection, 1972-2001

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Creators:: Koolish, Lynda
Abstract:: Lynda Koolish is a photographer and a professor of English and comparative literature. The collection contains portraits of gay and lesbian writers. Many of these images appear in Koolish's book African-American Writers: Portraits and Visions (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2001).
Extent:: 2 oversized boxes (30 photographic prints, black & white; 16 x 20 in., matted.)
Language:: Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Lynda Koolish Photographs Collection (GLC 40), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Scope and content:: The collection contains portraits of gay and lesbian writers. Many of these images appear in African-American Writers: Portraits and Visions (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2001).
Biographical / historical:: Lynda Koolish is a photographer and a professor of English and comparative literature.
Acquisition information:: Donated by the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, 2001.
Arrangement:: Arranged alphabetically.
Physical location:: The collection is stored onsite.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects:: African American authors -- Portraits.
Lesbians -- United States -- Portraits.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Portraits.
Gay men -- United States -- Portraits.
Names:: Koolish, Lynda

Restrictions:: The collection is available for viewing during Photo Desk hours: Tuesday: 1-5; Thursday: 1-5; Saturday: 10-12, 1-5.
Terms of access:: Copyright retained by Lynda Koolish.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Lynda Koolish Photographs Collection (GLC 40), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Location of this collection:: San Francisco Public Library, James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin Street

San Francisco, CA 94102, US