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Title: Everett Boucre scrapbooks
Dates: 1941-1978
Collection Number: 2014-18
Creator/Collector:
Boucre, Everett
Extent: 1 oversize box (2 linear feet)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: This collection includes two scrapbooks compiled by Everett Boucre, a dance instructor and performer who lived in Oakland,
California. One dates from World War II and contains cut-out pictures of war scenes and soldiers; the other includes pictures
of men’s clothed crotches, compiled as part of Boucre's participation in a tongue-in-cheek club of gay men called the Basket
Makers of America. The latter book dates from the 1950s-1970s.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Funding for processing this collection was provided by a grant from the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Managing
Archivist at the GLBT Historical Society. Permission to publish is given on behalf of the Historical Society as the owner
of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be
obtained from the copyright owner.
[Identification of item]. Everett Boucre scrapbooks. Collection Number: 2014-18. GLBT Historical Society
Provenance is unkown.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes two scrapbooks compiled by Everett Boucre, a dance instructor and performer who lived in Oakland,
California. One dates from World War II and contains cut-out pictures of war scenes and soldiers; the other includes pictures
of men’s clothed crotches, compiled as part of Boucre's participation in a tongue-in-cheek club of gay men called the Basket
Makers of America. There is a mimeograph page at the beginning of this scrapbook giving more information about the club. The
latter scrapbook dates from the 1950s-1970s. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003450;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008536
Gay men
Erotica
World War, 1939-1945