Scope and content 257 male physique photographs by Bruce Bellas, known as Bruce of L.A., of which 42 are duplicates; plus 7 vintage photographs from Don Whitman's Western Photography Guild and 1 from Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild. There are 171 8x10", 66 5x7", and 28 4x5" prints. Models include Joe d'Allessandro, Ed Fury, Mark Nixon, Don Peters, Keith Stephen, and others. The collection includes an extended series of Los Angeles' Muscle Beach competition photographs, and sets from particular shootings...

Abstract Photographs ranging from formal 19th-century portraits to candid 20th-century snapshots and Hollywood stars' studio portraits that provide a wide view of men's bodies and gay men's lives, styles, and activities from the 1850s to 2010, plus associated scrapbooks, greeting cards, programs from events, sound recordings, magazines, comic books, calendars, and ephemera. Exceeding 10,000 items in total, the collection richly documents gay male culture from many angles, featuring 1950s physique and...

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The Loren Rex Cameron Papers consist of photographic portraits created by Loren Cameron, correspondence and other manuscript material specifically documenting the Female to Male transsexual community.

Abstract Blank note cards and one greeting card from eight different publishers reproducing photographs of muscular black male physiques, some nude, by several American photographers. Nineteen of the cards feature tipped-on real-photo analog prints. With the exception of three cards, all include the envelope and are sealed in the original clear mylar sleeve; 11 have a sticker on the verso of the sleeve from Wild Card, a gay gift shop in San Francisco’s Castro District open from 1996 to 2018. Also,...