Papers, 1867-1998.

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Papers, 1867-1998.

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Papers, mainly 1925-1998, of Pierce, an African-American resident of Madison, Wisconsin who served as messenger to several governors. The papers primarily document his family and relationships within the homosexual community. Pierce's own correspondence contains details about the arts community in New York City in the early 1940s through correspondence with David Zellmer, as well as a few items from Merce Cunningham and Eric Hawkins, all members of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Other significant correspondents include Gordon Boardman, Donald Pryse Jones, and Harold Lindemann. The photographs include images of one of Madison's early middle-class Black families primarily during the 1920s and candid photographs of friends, primarily from the 1960s through the 1980s. Among the photographs are Boardman, Walter S. Goodland, the actor Canada Lee, Ruth Page, and Ted Shawn. The processed portion of the collection is summarized above, dates 1867-1998, and is described in the register; additional accessions date 1930-1998 and are described below.

1.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes)201 photographs, and.49 negatives; plus.additions of 0.2 c.f. and.0.2 c.f. of photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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