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Frank Kameny Papers, 1843-2006, (bulk 1957-1996)

Title: Frank Kameny Papers 1843-2006 (bulk 1957-1996)

Gay rights activist. Correspondence, case files, legal records, organization records, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating to Kameny's work in the gay rights movement.

ArchivalResource: 50,000 items; 142 containers plus 1 oversize; 56.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009068 View

Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records, 1926-1954

Title: Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation records

Albert Farwell Bemis, 1870-1936, SB in civil engineering, 1893, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was a businessman and authority on housing. He was a member of the MIT Corporation and was on several Institute visiting committees. Provisions in his will established the Albert Farwell Bemis Charity Trust in 1936 to fund research on housing. In 1938 the trust gave funds to establish the Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation at MIT. The foundation became a separate division within MIT, with its director reporting to the president. An advisory committee of architectural and building professionals and a member of the Bemis family guided the foundation, which remained a separate division of MIT until the dean of architecture assumed its direct administration in 1948. The Department of Civil Engineering and also the School of Architecture were the units of MIT most closely allied with the work of the foundation. The collection includes correspondence, reports, manuscripts of published works, notes, financial and personnel records, publicity material, course information, index cards, bibliographies, blueprints, plans, photographs, and printed material about housing, especially prefabricated housing. The foundation ceased in 1954; the bulk of the records span the period 1939 to 1953.

ArchivalResource: 27.3 cubic feet; (27 record cartons, 1 manuscript box)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/258 View

Gunnison, Foster. Foster Gunnison, Jr. papers, 1945-1994.

Title: Foster Gunnison, Jr. papers, 1945-1994.

The Foster Gunnison papers are comprised of personal correspondence, organizational records, conference proceedings, student organization records, serial publications and periodicals, posters and fliers, buttons, newspaper clippings and photographs. The homophile movement of the 1960s, gay and lesbian rights movements of the 1970s, smoker's rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s, and several barbershop quartet organizations, as well as some of Gunnison's activities in relation to the movements and organizations, are represented in the collection. Bulk of the material dates from 1962 to 1993.

ArchivalResource: 55 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236485081 View

Craig Rodwell papers, 1940-1993, 1962-1993

Title: Craig Rodwell papers 1940-1993 1962-1993

Craig Rodwell (1940-1993) was an American gay rights activist. He was active in the Mattachine Society in New York City and in 1967 founded the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first bookstore devoted to serious writing by gay authors. A participant in the Stonewall riots in 1969, Rodwell figured prominently in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, printed matter, artifacts, and other items documenting Rodwell's work as an activist and proprietor of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. Correspondence is mainly incoming letters from friends and colleagues, and writings, ca. early 1970s, are on gay-related topics. Rodwell's files contain clippings, flyers, correspondence and other materials all pertaining to aspects of gay and lesbian politics and culture. Other papers include printed matter, Martin Duberman's interview with Rodwell, and materials from Rodwell's childhood and youth. Also, photographs and slides; artifacts such as political buttons, banner, T-shirts, and puzzle; and two sound recordings. (Sixteen commercial sound recordings were transferred to the International Gay Information Center Archives.).

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2606 View