Lisa Kanemoto photographs
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Title: Lisa Kanemoto photographs
Dates: 1981-1985
Collection Number: 1999-11
Creator/Collector:
Kanemoto, Lisa
Extent: 1 oversize box (1 linear foot)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Collection consists of black and white photographs of San Francisco LGBT individuals taken during the 1980s by Lisa Kanemoto
for her 1984 book We Are.
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).
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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]. Lisa Kanemoto photographs. Collection Number: 1999-11. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Lisa Kanemoto in June 2013. Originally deposited in March 1999.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists of more than sixty black and white photographs (mostly size 8” x 10” and 11” x 14”) taken of individuals
and prominent LGBT figures in San Francisco in the early 1980s, many of which are included in Kanemoto’s 1984 photography
book We Are. Collection also contains Kanemoto’s book We Are and two folders of periodical clippings in which Kanemoto’s work
is featured: San Francisco magazine, Bay Area Reporter, and Advocate magazine. GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008194;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_008488
Photographs
Asian Americans