[Biker Subculture][Harley Davidson] Photograph archive of the Southern Eagles Motorcycle Club and its association with Cable’s Harley-Davidson dealership in Winston-Salem, North Carolina between 1958 and 1968. The images show members, public events, and recreational activities of a regional motorcycle club during a period when organized riding groups expanded across the.....
Quentin Tarantino. PULP FICTION original script. May 1993. Completed in 1993 prior to the film’s 1994 release, this working script documents the screenplay that propelled Tarantino to international prominence and redefined independent American cinema. Pulp Fiction introduced a non-linear narrative structure, interwoven character arcs, and stylized dialogue that reshaped contemporary.....
[Fashion][Art Deco] Art–Goût–Beauté. 1920s illustrated fashion periodicals emblematic of Parisian haute couture during the interwar decade when French designers were reaching international dominance in luxury fashion. Published in Paris from 1920 to 1933, the magazine disseminated the seasonal creations of leading couture houses to an elite readership. Art–Goût–Beauté integrated Art.....
[Harley Davidson Motorcycle] Southern Eagles Motorcycle Club photographic archive documenting Harley Davidson riders and dealership culture in Winston Salem, North Carolina during the 1960s. The photographs record club gatherings, races, dealership events, and recreational rides during a decade when motorcycle clubs expanded rapidly across the United States and became visible.....
[Harley Davidson Motorcycle] Southern Eagles Motorcycle Club photograph archive documenting Harley Davidson riders connected with the Cable dealership in Winston Salem, North Carolina between 1958 and 1968. The photographs illustrate the growth of organized motorcycle clubs, dealership sponsorship, and competitive racing culture during the expansion of recreational motorcycling in postwar.....
Unidentified photographer, Marlon Brando portrait from On the Waterfront, 1954, documents a defining moment in American film history through the visual construction of one of the most influential performances in 20th-century cinema. Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, the film addressed labor corruption and moral conflict within working-class.....
Independent trans interest zine "TV Clip Sheet No. 4" produced by Chevalier Publications ca. 1959, gathering articles on transgender celebrity, cross dressing, and gender nonconformity in the years following new international trans visibility achieved by Christine Jorgensen. The issue, produced in Los Angeles, gathers headlines, human interest archives, and newspaper.....
[Biker Subculture] Southern California biker community photo albums documenting motorcycle culture during the 1970s and 1980s, a period when custom chopper building, club rides, and regional motorcycle gatherings characterized a flourishing biker subculture in the post Vietnam era. The photographs record a network of riders with heavily customized motorcycles participating.....
[Fashion] [Photography] Fashion runway and editorial photography of major European couture labels during the postwar expansion of high fashion culture. Produced between the 1950s and 1980s, the photographs preserve the work of such fashion giants as Hubert de Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, and Pierre Balmain as.....
[LGBTQ] Nine issues of The Ladder, widely recognized as the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, documenting the evolution of American lesbian print culture during the homophile movement. Across these issues, The Ladder documents the evolution of lesbian self-understanding and community formation from the early 1960s through.....
[Comics][Political Activism][Latin America] Archive of five issues of Argentine anti-authoritarian sci-fi comic El Eternauta by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, printed in Hora Cero anthologies, 1957-59. El Eternauta is widely regarded as one of the most important works in Latin American comics, combining speculative science fiction with social commentary and a distinctly.....
[Japanese American] [World War II] [Comics] “Nisei Hero.” Published in True Comics, 1946. Original disbound comic section, complete in six pages (three leaves). Color-printed on newsprint. A remarkable wartime comic documenting the story of Ben Kuroki (1917–2015), the first Japanese American gunner in the U.S. Army Air Forces and among.....
El Eternauta featured in three Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal issues, placing them within the original weekly Frontera run that first introduced Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López’s landmark Argentine science fiction narrative. Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal. Buenos Aires: Editorial Frontera, 1958 to 1959. Three oblong octavo weekly comics in.....
[Subculture][Motorcycles] Two Mighty Carson Alley Bikers photo albums chronicling the Southern California motorcycle subculture in the 1980s. The albums record custom motorcycle craftsmanship, organized rides including the 1985 Yuma Prison Run, and the social networks of biker subculture. The images show community among working class motorcycle enthusiasts in Southern California.....
Gelatin silver photograph taken by Andy Warhol at a birthday celebration for model Jerry Hall held at Studio 54, the legendary Manhattan nightclub that functioned as a nexus of LGBTQ+ nightlife, celebrity culture, and late–twentieth-century art world exchange. Warhol, a central figure in the Pop Art movement, regularly documented the.....
[Biker Subculture] Photo archive of a Harley Davidson motorcycle club active in Winston-Salem, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s, a formative period of postwar American motorcycle club culture. The images capture young riders in social gatherings, club events, and motorcycle displays as organized biker groups expanded across the United.....
[Comics][Political Activism][Latin America] Archive of four issues of Argentine anti-authoritarian sci-fi comic El Eternauta by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, printed in Hora Cero anthologies, 1957-58. El Eternauta is a foundational work of Latin American science fiction created by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano López. The story begins in.....
[Biker Subculture] Carson California biker community photo albums documenting motorcycle culture, social gatherings, and everyday life of a working class Southern California riding club, 1985-1986. The albums record the social world of The Backyard Bikers, a group centered around custom motorcycles and community rides, with captions identifying some dates and.....
[Fashion] Women’s fashion design sketches dated 1951 document the rapid transformation of female dress following the end of wartime rationing and the international adoption of Christian Dior’s “New Look” silhouette. These drawings show designers experimenting with narrow waists, structured bustlines, wide skirts, and dramatic outerwear styles that defined postwar femininity.....
[Sci-Fi][Feminism][Literature] [LGBTQ] Le Guin, Ursula K. The Language of the Night, 1979, collects essays in which the author articulates the intellectual foundations of modern science fiction and fantasy while examining how speculative literature can interrogate gender, sexuality, and social hierarchy. Written during a period when feminist scholarship and LGBTQ discourse.....
[African American][Music][Harlem Renaissance] Holiday, Billie. Printed music and jazz periodicals dating from the 1930s through the 1960s documenting the career and cultural reception of one of the most influential African American vocalists of the twentieth century. Emerging from Harlem’s nightclub scene during the late Harlem Renaissance and early Swing Era.....
Women’s civilian shooting sports photo archive, 1919 to 1955, recording female participation in trap, skeet, rifle marksmanship, and gun club competition within a sport publicly coded as masculine. The photographs place women on firing lines, prize lines, club grounds, and rural shooting fields, showing female marksmanship as leisure, competition, and.....
De Montigny, Alfred. Les Stratagèmes des Échecs, ou collection des coups d’échecs les plus brillants et les plus curieux, tant dans la partie ordinaire que dans les différentes parties composées ; tirée des meilleurs Auteurs, et dont plusieurs n'ont point encore été publiés. Avec des planches où l'on trouve notée.....
[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....
[Latino Comics] Oesterheld, Héctor Germán, Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal. Buenos Aires: Editorial Frontera, 3 consecutive issues from November 12 to November 26, 1958. Oblong 8vo. Original color pictorial wrappers. Text in Spanish. A consecutive three-issue run of Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal, These 3 consecutive issues are part of the original.....
