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Title: William Bacon Blossom drawings
Dates: 1993
Collection Number: 1995-25
Creator/Collector:
Extent: .05 linear feet
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Three drawings by San Francisco-based landscape architect and ACT UP Golden Gate member William Bacon "Bill" Blossom, who
died of AIDS on February 14, 1995.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. William Bacon Blossom drawings. Collection Number: 1995-25. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Gerard Koskovich on December 3, 1995.
Scope and Content of Collection
Three drawings by San Francisco-based landscape architect and ACT UP Golden Gate member William Bacon "Bill" Blossom, who
died of AIDS on February 14, 1995. Two preliminary color sketches on tissue paper of landscape plans for the rear patio at
Red Dora's Café and Kiki Gallery. Site plan on vellum of the Castro and Market area as it appeared in 1989, prepared as an
exhibit for Bringardner v. Cairns, a lawsuit resulting from the October 6, 1989, Castro Sweep police riot. GSSO linked terms:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000521
Architecture
AIDS (disease)
Gay men