Box 12

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection offers an intimate window into Barbara Gittings's personal life. It documents some of Gittings's experience of going to university, learning of homosexuality, eventually failing out of university, and moving from her parents' home in Wilmington, Delaware to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It reveals personal interests outside of her activism such as bears, nature conservation, nudism, and rare books. It paints a picture of her family's temperament, background, and financial...