[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.....
[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.....
[Drag][LGBTQ][Theater and Performance] Drag performance and female impersonation ephemera documenting mid twentieth century queer nightlife and theatrical entertainment in the United States. Materials span the 1950s through the early 1980s and include promotional pieces, programs, and magazines associated with prominent drag performers and venues including Charles Pierce, Jim Bailey, T......
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][Cross-dressing][Transgender] Five queer and trans themed pulp books and one periodical issue published between 1957 and 1977, tracking shifting American understandings of homosexuality, cross-dressing, and transgender identity during the decades between Cold War repression and the emergence of gay and trans liberation movements. Produced in the era of the Lavender.....
[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.....
Oesterheld, Héctor Germán, El Eternauta. Suplemento de Skorpio. Buenos Aires:1976-1977. Oblong 8vo. Complete set of all eleven issues comprising the full 1976–77 serialization of El Eternauta in Suplemento de Skorpio, published by Ediciones Record during the opening years of Argentina’s military dictatorship. Original color pictorial wrappers. Text in Spanish. Written.....
[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.....
[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.....
[LGBTQ] Nine issues of Homophile Studies, published by ONE Institute of Homophile Studies, Los Angeles, 1959–1964, document early academic inquiry into homosexuality during the homophile movement prior to Stonewall. ONE, Inc., founded in 1952, became one of the earliest sustained LGBTQ publishing institutions in the United States. The journal reflects.....
[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.....
[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.....
[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.....
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.....
Eustis, Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days, 1903, presents one of the earliest widely circulated printed accounts of Louisiana Creole cuisine and preserves culinary traditions shaped by African American cooks, French colonial influences, Caribbean foodways, and regional Southern ingredients. Written by New Orleans writer and philanthropist Celestine Eustis during a......
[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.....
[Film and Entertainment] Traven, B. “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” New York. 1935. This is the copy used by Warner Brothers Story Department for making the 1948 film adaptation of the story about the corrupting influence of greed. with “WB 1122” [Warner Bros] written in white ink near the.....
