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Finding Aid to the ONE Archives Matchbook Collection Coll2014.049
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: ONE Archives matchbook collection
creator:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.049
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear Feet
6 binder boxes
Date (inclusive): circa 1960-2000
Abstract: Matchbooks documenting bars, bathhouses, beauty shops (hair salons), books, discos, events, hotels, motion pictures, nightclubs,
organizations, political candidates, resorts, restaurants, retail stores, safer sex campaigns, taverns, and theaters primarily
in California. The collections also contains matchbooks from 24 other states, Puerto Rico, and 8 other countries.
Language of Material: English, French, and German
The matchbooks are organized geographically into five series. Within each series the matchbooks are arranged alphabetically.
Series 1: Southern California
Series 2: Northern California
Series 3: United States and Puerto Rico
Series 4: National and novelty
Series 5: International
The matchbooks were garnered from collections and donations to the archives.
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.
Immediate Source of Aquisition
The matchbooks were garnered from collections and donations to the archives, including the Jay Johnson matchbook collection.
Robert F. Craig Papers and Photographs, Coll2012-177, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
Brian Edwards Matchbook Scrapbooks, Coll2014-022, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
Eric Scott Evans and Jerome Maxwell Strum Papers, Coll2008-061, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Box 26, Folder 7. Michael A. Lombardi and Paul J. Nash papers, Coll2008-011, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
Morris Kight Papers (Collection 354). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of
California, Los Angeles.
San Francisco LGBT General Subjects Ephemera Collection, SUB EPH, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
[Box #, Folder#] ONE Archives Matchbook Collection, Coll2014-049, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Collection processed by Provvidenza Catalano, Steve Fritch and Michael C. Oliveira, August 2014.
Matchbooks documenting bars, bathhouses, beauty shops (hair salons), books, discos, events, hotels, motion pictures, nightclubs,
organizations, political candidates, resorts, restaurants, retail stores, safer sex campaigns, taverns, and theaters primarily
from California. The collections also contains matchbooks from 24 other states and 8 other countries and Puerto Rico.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay bars
Matchbooks
Promotional materials
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives