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Historical note
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Title: Deaf
AIDS
Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Collection
Date (inclusive): 1987-2011
Date (bulk): 1987-1996
Identifier/Call Number: SFH 71
Creator:
Deaf
AIDS
Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
Physical Description:
2 boxes
(5 scrapbooks + 1 DVD)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Abstract: The Deaf
AIDS
Center Collection documents the educational and social activities of the Center through photographs, flyers, and ephemera.
Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Access
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Deaf
AIDS
Center Collection (SFH 71), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Provenance
Scrapbooks donated by Frank Lester, December 2011. DVD recording of the 16th annual Deaf
AIDS
Memorial (December 3, 2005) donated by Daniel Sonnenfeld in 2012.
Historical note
The Deaf
AIDS
Center was founded in 1986 by Darol Nance. The original team members included St. Benedict's Church, Deaf Service Network–-North,
Interpreting Service at St. Benedict's, Father Ken Canedo, Father Tom Coughlin, Garet Stark, and other staff and volunteers.
In the 1990s, the Deaf
AIDS
Center become part of the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Deafness.
Scope and Content
The collection documents the activities of the Deaf
AIDS
Center through scrapbooks of photographs and ephemera. The Center organized educational workshops and conferences, retreats,
an annual memorial for those who died of
AIDS
, and quilt panel sewing bees for the NAMES Project. There is a videorecording of the 16th annual Deaf
AIDS
memorial service from 2005.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series: Series 1. Scrapbooks; and Series 2. Audiovisual Materials. The scrapbooks are
arranged in chronological order with some loose materials in folders.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AIDS
(Disease) -- Prevention.
Deaf -- Health and hygiene -- Congresses.
Deaf
AIDS
Center (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Archives
Deaf
AIDS
Memorial (16th : 2005 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Nance, Darol Frank
Safe sex in
AIDS
prevention.