Cathy Cade Photographs Collection, 1972-2002

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Summary

Creators:
Cade, Cathy, 1942-
Abstract:
Cathy Cade is an Oakland, California-based photographer. The collection contains images of lesbian mothering, GLBT demonstrations and Freedom Day parades, lesbians at work, and various age groups.
Extent:
1 oversized box (25 photographic prints, black & white and color, 16 x 20 in. matted, some hand colored)
Language:
Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Cathy Cade Photographs Collection (GLC 41), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains 25 photographic prints (some hand-colored), chosen and arranged by the artist. The images cover lesbian mothering, demonstrations and freedom days, lesbian culture, lesbians at work, and generations of the lesbian community.

Biographical / historical:

Cathy Cade is an Oakland, California-based photographer who has been documenting the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since the 1970s. She is the author, publisher and photographer of A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists (Oakland, Ca: Waterwomen Books, 1987).

Cade grew up during the advent of integration and participated in the Southern Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. She moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1970 and was a part of the Women's Liberation Movement. During this time she came out as a lesbian and began to document the people and the movements around her. In the late 1970s she had her first child and in 1985 her second. During this time Cade worked on her book of photographs and interviews, A Lesbian Photo Album.

In the 1990s Cade taught photography in high school and learned to hand-color photos. Her "next day job was with a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities living in developing countries design and build wheelchairs. [She] attended the international women's conference in Beijing out of which has grown an international women's wheelchair building program. In the late 1990s [Cade] started leading a support group for artists." Biographical information above excerpted and quoted from www.CathyCade.com.

Acquisition information:
Donated by the Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, 2002.
Arrangement:

The photographs are grouped by subject and are in the order preferred by the photographer.

Physical location:
The collection is stored onsite.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

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:

Retained by Cathy Cade.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Cathy Cade Photographs Collection (GLC 41), LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Location of this collection:
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102, US
Contact:
(415) 557-4567
sfhistory@sfpl.org
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