Monumental record of a thirty year drag career, challenging assumptions about nonbinary identities in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
1973-1978
Exceptional research archive of confidential membership files for a gay BDSM referral service with applications, photographs and correspondence.
Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis; American Federation for Sex Hygiene, 1911-1915
Rare early sex instruction / sex hygiene materials by the first social hygiene organization in the US.
ca. 1973-1976
Rare scenes from San Francisco's gay biker bars.
Manuel E. Pastrana, 1906
First Mexican cloud atlas, richly illustrated with 65 collotype plates, most color.
1963
Propagandistic anthology of Chinese photography, published by the Chinese Esperanto Association.
ca. 1943
Antisemitic fascist propaganda warning northern Italians against advancing Allied forces.
ca. 1912-1913
Italian anarchist broadside protesting the "swindle" of quasi-universal male suffrage granted by the Giolitti government in 1912.
1945-1946
ca. 1943-1945
Bulletins from Turin and Northern Italy report on the Brigate Garibaldi, partisan and labor actions, and the Corpo volontari della libertà.
1912
Promo for women's wrestling tournament, Rome.
Amalgamated Housing Corporation, 1958
George Manson, 1888
Uncommon 19th-century cover illustration of two men kissing.
California State Law Enforcement and Protective League; Committee for the Redlight Abatement Bill; Hichborn, Franklin, et al., 1914-1918
Socialist antiprostitution movement ephemera together with an otherwise unrecorded illus. antiprostitution pamphlet for soldiers.
G. Maindouce, ca. 1933-1935
Detourned fetish photography from Studio Biederer and Diana-Slip (Brassaï, Kertesz, and Schall, et al.).
Banco del Radium [Banque du Radium, Paris]. , [1915]
Unrecorded advertisement for the Parisian Banque du Radium, associated with Marie Curie's lab.
Robert Rauschenberg, [1968]
Experimental "collage" catalogue essay in an early and uncommon catalogue.
1937-1938
A highlight of Spanish Civil War print culture, rare complete.
ca. 1930-1940
Vintage photos of the founder of Chile's first modern dance program.
ca. 1941
40 photographs of the women's wing of the Spanish fascist movement, most taken by the Nazi propaganda service SS-PK