Lowrider culture during a period of rapid national expansion, 1995 to 1996, documented through six issues of Lowrider Magazine extending Chicano culture to beyond the car scene. Founded in San Jose in 1977 within the political and cultural environment of the Chicano movement, Lowrider had by the late 1990s become.....
Lowrider culture during its national commercial expansion, 1996 to 1998, documented through seven issues of Lowrider Magazine extending Chicano culture to beyond the car scene. Founded in San Jose in 1977 within the political and cultural environment of the Chicano movement, Lowrider had by the late 1990s become a large.....
Eleven zines and related mail-order sheets, 1997 to 2003, produced for circulation within feminist, queer, punk, skate, and youth subcultures across the Midwest, Texas, California, and Olympia. The group brings together perzines, regional punk writing, queer autobiography, underground music catalogs, review sheets, and independent poetry, preserving the small-run print and.....
Three works of transvestite and gender transformation fiction by Jan O’Sullivan, Susan Peerless, and Michelle Lange, published 1991 to 1992 for a readership developing literary and social networks outside mainstream publishing. Issued by Empathy Press and Reluctant Press, the novels center on forced feminization, domestic service, supernatural transformation, and cross-gender.....
Chicano lowrider and popular culture magazine archive from 1981 to 1983, comprising five issues of Lowrider Magazine and two issues of Firme: Chicano Life during the period when custom car culture provided a publishing framework for Chicano music, fashion, visual art, politics, neighborhood reporting, and regional community life across California.....
Chicano lowrider culture in 1980, documented through six issues of Lowrider Magazine during the publication’s early expansion from San Jose into a regional forum connecting customized automobiles with Chicano history, art, music, neighborhood life, and cultural politics. Founded in 1977 by Sonny Madrid, Larry Gonzalez, and David Nunez, Lowrider developed.....
Nine works of trans and cross-dressing erotic fiction, circa 1980s to 1990, documenting a specialized adult market for fiction centered on feminization, gender-role reversal, and fantasies of sexual and social roles outside conventional heterosexual gender roles. The narratives range from cross dressing to l transformation. Several titles were issued by.....
Chicano lowrider culture in 1981, documented through eight issues of Lowrider Magazine during the San Jose publication’s expansion from customized automobile coverage into a wider forum for Chicano history, music, art, fashion, neighborhood life, and regional community reporting. Founded in 1977 under editor and publisher Sonny Madrid, Lowrider used the.....
Supreme Court materials from Shelley v. Kraemer and Bowsher v. Synar, 1948 and 1986, tracing two distinct constitutional problems of governmental power across four decades of American law and policy. In Shelley, the Court barred state courts from enforcing racially restrictive private covenants, establishing judicial enforcement of racial exclusion as.....
Early 20th century child welfare publications from 1914 to 1937, from the formative decades when federal and state governments were extending their authority into matters once largely managed within the household. The six items show how that intervention worked in practice, documenting the prescribed diets of infants, how states removed.....
Bertram Fitzgerald’s Golden Legacy, 1966 to 1976, complete in sixteen issues, documenting an effort to create an illustrated Black history curriculum for young readers during and after the civil rights movement. Fitzgerald, born in Harlem and trained as an accountant, developed the series in response to the omission and distortion.....
Jolie Núñez’s complete six issue run of Veronica Lodge, 1997 to 1999, documenting a young Midwestern zinester’s engagement with feminist punk, autobiographical writing, independent music, and the small label and distro economy surrounding late 1990s DIY culture. Produced in Union City, Indiana, while Núñez operated Ego Records, the zine combines.....
Postwar American mineral research archive from 1947 to 1957, comprising twenty six United States Bureau of Mines *Reports of Investigations* on how the federal government tried to make more of the nation's mineral wealth economically usable, from low grade manganese ores and precious metal recovery to drilling, blasting, and large.....
Bill Foster Black Goliath comic archive, 1976, comprising the complete five issue Marvel series centered on an African American biochemist whose scientific expertise is inseparable from his superhero identity. Foster had entered the Marvel universe in The Avengers No. 32 in 1966 as a scientist assisting Hank Pym and later.....
Black lesbian community and cultural organizing in the Bay Area, 1982, documented through three consecutive issues of Black Lesbian Newsletter published during its first year. Founded by Laverne Gagehabib, A. C. Barber, and Vivienne Walker-Crawford, the newsletter created a forum in which Black lesbians could publish poetry and artwork, advertise.....
Diahann Carroll Julia paper doll archive, 1968 to 1971, documenting the translation of one of American network television’s earliest Black female starring roles into children’s mass market play. NBC’s Julia, which premiered September 17, 1968, cast Carroll as Julia Baker, a widowed nurse raising her son Corey and placed a......
Fantasy Newsletter near consecutive nine issue run, May 1981 to February 1982, documenting the publication’s transfer from Paul and Susan Allen’s independently produced news magazine to Robert A. Collins and Florida Atlantic University during the early institutional development of fantasy and science fiction studies. Paul C. Allen had founded Fantasy.....
Carl and Gerty Cori scientific and family correspondence archive, 1920–1954, documenting the formation of their American laboratory partnership at Buffalo, its development into the work for which they shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Gerty becoming the first American woman to win the Prize, and only the.....
Post Rius Los Supermachos comic archive, 1971 to 1973, documenting Editorial Meridiano’s use of the commercially established series to interpret political violence, university conflict, political imprisonment, censorship, religion, sexuality, mental health, nationalism, and crime during the opening years of Luis Echeverría’s presidency. Rius had left Los Supermachos after No. 100.....
Post Rius Los Supermachos comic archive, circa 1968 to 1971, documenting Editorial Meridiano’s continuation of Eduardo del Río “Rius”’s political comic after the creator separated from the publisher amid disputes over censorship and government pressure. Rius left Los Supermachos after No. 100 and transferred his didactic satirical method to Los.....
Tsuto Kawakami immigration and incarceration ephemera archive, 1918 to circa 1960s, documenting the administrative record of a Japanese Issei immigrant across transpacific travel, alien registration, wartime removal and incarceration, and postwar civilian life. Born near Kumamoto, Japan, on March 26, 1902, Kawakami first entered the United States in 1919 and.....
French Algeria real photo postcard archive documenting Bastille Day celebrations in Blida during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, recording the ceremonial display through which the French colonial state projected military authority in Algeria. The photographs center upon the annual 14 July review attended by General Marie Charles "Bruno".....
United States Marine Corps real photo postcard archive depicting the 52nd Company at Camp Santo Domingo during the American occupation of the Dominican Republic, circa 1916 to 1924, documenting the military infrastructure established to enforce U.S. political and financial control over the republic during the era of "gunboat diplomacy." Following.....
United States Marine photograph archive documenting Hato Mayor during the American occupation of the Dominican Republic, circa 1918 to 1922, recording the military infrastructure established to secure the eastern sugar region under U.S. rule. The photographs place Marines within one of the occupation's most contested districts, where military camps, transportation.....
British Ceylon photographic archive, circa 1934, documenting the labor systems that sustained one of the British Empire's most profitable plantation economies. Rather than emphasizing colonial administration or metropolitan life, the photographs concentrate on the people whose agricultural work produced tea, coconuts, rice, and other commodities that defined Ceylon's export economy.....
