Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3
Bill Goldberg photographs, playbills, and ephemera
Collection
Identifier: Ms-Coll-132
Abstract
William (Bill) Goldberg (1937-2019?) performed in drag, going under the stage name “Mame,” and performed as a supernumerary (non-singing or speaking role) in productions of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. He often attended and hosted parties with friends for anniversaries, birthdays, and other holidays; and attended plays, ballets, operas, and concerts. The collection contains a variety of material types that document Bill Goldberg’s interests, hobbies, profession, and social life. The...
Dates:
1972 - 2008
Jack Van Alstyne collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-Coll-28
Abstract
Jack Van Alstyne, born ca. 1938, known to his gay friends as "Cheezit," was the son of Howard C. Van Alstyne and Marion G. Fox Van Alstyne. He lived in Camden, NJ for much of his life. His collection includes a scrapbook of Philadelphia and New Jersey gay life of the 1960s through 1980s; grouping of ca. 75 photographs of Philadelphia and New Jersey drag queens and gay men, owned by John Brown, known as Marilyn; photographs taken by Alstyne of gay men in Rittenhouse Square, summer of 1953;...
Dates:
1950s-2016
Vincent P. Grimm XYZ Club photographs and memoir
Collection
Identifier: Ms-Coll-129
Abstract
Vincent P. Grimm (b. 1937) and his life partner Will Kratz (1939-2017), along with other club members, planned, operated, and performed in revue shows for two decades as part of the XYZ Club. The XYZ Club hosted performances and picnics at Epler’s Grove from 1963 to at least 1981. The collection is comprised of three types of material: photocopies of biographical material about Vincent Grimm; a printed typescript of the memoir written by Grimm on the history of “The XYZ Club”; and five...
Dates:
early 1960s-2022
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Drag shows 2
- Gay bars 2
- Gay men 2
- Newspaper clippings 2
- Parties 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 2
- Allentown (Pa.) 1
- Antique dealers 1
- Beaches -- New Jersey (State) 1
- Drag balls 1
- Ephemera 1
- Flyers, advertising 1
- Gay bathhouses 1
- Gay culture 1
- Gay pride celebrations 1
- Lancaster (Pa.) 1
- Membership cards 1
- Menus 1
- Musical theater 1
- New Jersey 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Picnics 1
- Playbills 1
- Pottstown (Pa.) 1
- Programs 1
- Reading (Pa.) 1
- Revues 1
- Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphial, Pa.) 1
- Rural gay men 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Theater 1
- Typescripts 1
- Vacations 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Brown, James 1
- Gillam, Ron 1
- Grimm, Vincent P. (1937) 1
- Kratz, Willard D. (1939-2017) 1
- Van Alstyne, Jack, b. circa 1938 1
∨ more