[LGBTQ] [Lesbian] Archive of 29 photographs, ca. 1930s–1960s, documents intimate companionship, romantic affection, and gender nonconformity among women in mid-twentieth-century America during decades marked by censorship, employment discrimination, and criminalization of homosexual conduct. The images preserve visual evidence of lesbian self-fashioning and relational life prior to organized lesbian liberation, supporting.....
[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.....
[WWII] [Japanese American] Japanese American incarceration archive, circa 1940s, documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 persons of.....
[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.....
[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.....
[Women History] [World War II] WWII Women’s Army Corps photo archive, documenting women’s military service during World War II and the expansion of women’s logistical and technical roles within the United States Army. The photographs record daily activity surrounding Women’s Army Corps personnel, including ambulance operation, vehicle maintenance, military training.....
[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.....
[Japanese-American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, a mid-twentieth-century record of Japanese American community life in California before and after the wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066 during the Second World War. The photographs mostly date between 1937 and 1940 with a few dated 1952.....
[Japanese American[WWII] Japanese American military service and postwar life photograph archive documenting Nisei participation in the United States armed forces and the reintegration of Japanese American families into public life after World War II, 1940s-1960s. The photographs capture Japanese Americans in military uniform, as well as family gatherings and civilian.....
[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.....
[Native American][Western Americana] Native American photo archive centering Indigenous regalia and spectacle in the Upper Midwest or Plains region during the early twentieth century, a period marked by aggressive United States assimilation policies directed at Native communities. The images depict ceremonial dress, group gatherings, and parades, visual documentation of cultural.....
[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.....
[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.....
[African American][Music][WWII] African American nightclub photographs from early 1940s New York City documenting the intersection of Black military service and urban nightlife during World War II. Six images of African American servicemen in uniform socializing with elegantly dressed women and companions in prominent Manhattan and Harlem nightclubs. The photographs illuminate.....
Motorcycle racing and touring culture in the United States documented in photographs created during the 1930s, centered around riders and events connected to Cleveland, Ohio. The images record dirt track and hill climb motorcycle competitions along with long distance road travel undertaken by riders during a formative period in American.....
United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve service of an officer named "Lucille", documented in photographs created primarily during the Second World War. The images provide direct visual evidence of women’s integration into the United States Marine Corps through the Women’s Reserve program established in 1943, which expanded military labor by.....
[African American Education] [Women's Education] Howard University graduates, 1929, photo archive documenting African American higher education at one of the central institutions established to provide educate for African Americans after the Civil War, during a period when access to advanced schooling remained sharply restricted by segregation, unequal funding, and exclusion.....
[LGBTQ] [Lesbian] Mid-twentieth-century photographic archive documenting intimacy, affection, and companionship between women during an era when lesbian relationships were frequently concealed from public view. Dating from approximately the 1950s through the 1970s, the photographs capture women kissing, embracing, dancing, reclining together, and expressing physical affection in both private and public.....
Women’s same sex intimacy vernacular photo archive, circa 1925 to 1935, documenting social scenes in which women kiss, embrace, pose as couples, and move between conventionally feminine dress and masculine coded work and leisure clothing. The most direct photographs show women kissing while seated together outdoors, holding one another closely.....
[Japanese-American] [Hawaii] Japanese American military family photograph album, 1930s, documenting everyday life of a Nisei household in interwar Hawaii and tracing the transpacific connections linking Japanese American communities with Japan and Japanese occupied Manchuria. The photographs record family relationships, social gatherings, military friendships, and overseas travel at a time when.....
[Biker Subculture] Southern California biker community photo archive capturing everyday life, social gatherings, and riding culture among members of a regional motorcycle club identified in several images by jackets reading “Wheelers MC So. Cal.” 1981. The photographs record the developing American biker subculture in the post-Vietnam era. Motorcycle clubs in.....
Women motorcyclists photo archive, circa 1910 through 1969, documenting women riders across five decades when they remained a small minority in motorcycling and were largely excluded from the clubs, publicity, and historical narratives that defined the culture as a male domain. In 1915 Effie Hotchkiss and her mother Avis became.....
[Biker Subculture] American biker photo album, documenting motorcycle road travel, rally culture, custom bike display, and patriotic performance within motorcycle subculture, covering almost 3 decades ,1971-2002. Organized around named riders, companions, and repeated travel destinations, the album traces biker identity through ordinary participation: departure preparations, roadside stops, overlook portraits, bar.....
[Asian American][Chinese American][San Francisco Chinatown] Chinese American family photograph archive dating from approximately the 1930s through the 1960s, with images of everyday life, community celebration, and military service in the Chinese American community during the mid twentieth century. The photographs show multiple generations of Chinese American men, women, and children.....
