Graphic Albums Collection

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Graphic Albums Collection

Coll2008.046

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Erotic photocollage albums, unidentified artist 1 circa 1977-1984

Physical Description: [fourteen 9 x 10.75-inch scrapbooks]

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook collages from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The majority of collages consist of one or more erotic images superimposed on a fine-art print, advertisement, or photographic spread from art, architectural, and decorating magazines such as Art in America, Architectural Digest, and Home and Garden.

Box 1

1-3 circa 1977-1984

Box 2

4-6 circa 1977-1984

Box 3

7-9 circa 1977-1984

Box 4

10-12 circa 1977-1984

Box 5

13-14 circa 1977-1984

Erotic photocollage albums, unidentified artist 2 undated

Physical Description: [five 8.5 x 11-inch three-ring scrapbooks]

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook collages with clippings of text and images, primarily from advertisements in non-LGBT periodicals, superimposed on erotic images. Includes photographs, clippings, comics, and original drawings and writings. The collages feature gay male erotic imagery, but also portray bisexual and heterosexual erotica.

Box 6

1 undated

Box 7

2-3 undated

Box 8

4-6 undated

Graphic albums, miscellaneous circa 1950s-1980s

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous scrapbook albums of gay male erotic images, 1950s-1980s. Includes altered books and periodicals as well as collages.

Box 9, item 1

Homosexuals Today 1956 1950s

Scope and Contents

Black and white erotic male images, circa 1950s, taped inside an edition of Marvin Cutler's Homosexuals Today 1956.

Box 9, item 2

Phallus add-on album 1950s-1960s

Physical Description: [12 x 9-inch spiral-bound album]

Scope and Contents

Black-and-white erotic male images, circa 1950s-1960s, with phalluses sketched in pen or pencil.

Box 9, item 3

Phallus add-on publications 1962-1964

Scope and Contents

Publications Demi-Gods (v.2, no.3, July 1962), Manual (no.59, December 1964), and Man-ifique! (v.8, no.1, Fall 1964) with phalluses sketched in pen.

Box 9, item 4

Greyhuff 1960s

Scope and Contents

Black and white erotic male photographs, circa late 1960s, taped inside Greyhuff, no.4, DSI Sales, 1967.

Collection Contents

Erotic photocollage albums, unidentified artist 1

Erotic photocollage albums, unidentified artist 2

Graphic albums, miscellaneous