ONE Archives matchbook collection
Scope and Content
Matchbooks documenting bars, bathhouses, beauty shops (hair salons), books, discos, events, hotels, motion pictures, nightclubs, organizations, political candidates, resorts, restaurants, retail stores, safer sex campaigns, taverns, and theaters primarily from California. The collections also contains matchbooks from 24 other states and 8 other countries and Puerto Rico.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1960-2000
Language of Materials
English, French, and German
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Administrative History
The matchbooks were garnered from collections and donations to the archives.
Extent
1.4 Linear Feet (6 binder boxes)
Abstract
Matchbooks documenting bars, bathhouses, beauty shops (hair salons), books, discos, events, hotels, motion pictures, nightclubs, organizations, political candidates, resorts, restaurants, retail stores, safer sex campaigns, taverns, and theaters primarily in California. The collections also contains matchbooks from 24 other states, Puerto Rico, and 8 other countries.
Arrangement
The matchbooks are organized geographically into five series. Within each series the matchbooks are arranged alphabetically.
Series 1: Southern California
Series 2: Northern California
Series 3: United States and Puerto Rico
Series 4: National and novelty
Series 5: International
Other Finding Aids
Morris Kight Papers (Collection 354). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
San Francisco LGBT General Subjects Ephemera Collection, SUB EPH, The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Aquisition
The matchbooks were garnered from collections and donations to the archives, including the Jay Johnson matchbook collection.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Provvidenza Catalano, Steve Fritch and Michael C. Oliveira, August 2014.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the ONE Archives Matchbook Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michael C. Oliveira
- Date
- (c) 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Repository Details
Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles California 90007 United States
(213) 821-2771
askone@usc.edu