Mattachine Society

Object Details

Collection Collector: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection Donor: Becker, John M.; Gay Officers Action League. GOAL; Heritage of Pride (HOP)
Collection Creator: Hirsch, Leonard; Guest, Barbara; Barna, Joseph T.; Guest, Michael E.
Collection Donor: Rohrbaugh, Richard
Collection Creator: Cruse, Howard, 1944-2019
Collection Donor: Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA)

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Collection Citation: Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Collection Rights: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Contents: This series contains advertisements, posters, maps, and ephemera related to and produced by a variety of bars and discos.contains material generated or collected by the Mattachine Society. The Mattachine Society Foundation was founded in 1950 and the society was founded in 1953 as a chartered non-profit corporation in California. Chapters were established throughout the United States. These papers were predominately those owned by Harold L. Call (1917-2000), editor of the Mattachine Review and are incomplete but give a broad scope of the beginnings of Mattachine and its eventual demise.

Collection Restrictions: The collection is open for research use. Researchers must handle unprotected photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as needed" basis, as resources allow. Do not use original materials when available on reference video or audio tapes.