H. Lynn Womack papers, 1945-1994.

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H. Lynn Womack papers, 1945-1994.

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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. Additional Guild Press records from Womack's estate include correspondence between Womack and various photographers and publishers including Randolph Benson of Trim magazine, model releases and related publication papers, photographic negatives and proofs of pictures published in various Womack magazines, and transparencies of similar material. Also, seals for Potomac Associates (1958) and Howell Academy for Boys, Inc. (1945).

5 cubic ft.

Cornell University Library

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Potomac News Company.

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Guild Press.

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Schlegel, Richard, 1913-

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Physicist (theoretical physics and philosophy of science). Member of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, 1943-1945; Princeton University, 1945-1948; professor of physics, Michigan State University, 1948-1982. Died 1982. From the description of Papers, 1947-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81639516 ...

Grecian Guild

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Guild Book Service

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Village Books and Press.

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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...