H. Lynn Womack papers 1945-1994

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H. Lynn Womack papers 1945-1994

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The H. Lynn Womack papers include business records of the Guild Press, the Guild Book Service, the Grecian Guild, the Potomac News Company, and Village Books and Press, all of an erotic and pornographic nature. Also, correspondence with Richard Schlegel and others, gay periodicals, manuscripts of erotic and pornographic stories, and an extensive collection of pornographic mail order catalogs.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Village Books and Press.

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Schlegel, Richard

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Guild Book Service.

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Grecian Guild.

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Guild Press.

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Potomac News Company.

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Womack, H. Lynn, 1923-1985

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H. Lynn Womack (1923-1985) was a headmaster of a boys' school in the 1940s and then a professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. In 1952, he bought the small company Guild Press, and as publisher, editor, and distributor, turned it into a profitable gay publishing company with numerous affilated enterprises. The United States Postal Service tried to stop the circulation of MANUAL, TRIM, and GRECIAN GUILD PICTORIAL, but he took them to court and won the case on appeal in the U.S. Su...