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Photographic prints, slides, negatives, and short films; publications, brochures, books, and correspondence surrounding the work and personal life of a studio photographer who was active in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.

Scope and content The first group of 17 personal photos, one album and two loose prints, are a mix of full-length drag portraits taken at home and candid photos taken of Bobby and his friends in a gay lounge. The second group, one album containing 126 photos, is from his personal collection and features gay men from the World War II period. These are all roughly wallet-size photos, hand-colored. The photos include about an equal percentage of portrait and physique images of men ranging in age from teens to...

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Erotic self-portraits of a white man.

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Nine notebooks housing black and white photographs of men, both clothed and naked, in erotic scenes.

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The Patricia Morrisroe papers were created and assembled in the process of writing her biography of Robert Mapplethorpe. They include original interview tapes that she recorded, interview transcripts, correspondence, research files, notebooks, catalogues of most of Mapplethorpe’s exhibitions, publishing and movie contracts, communications, book reviews, and more.

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Collected journals and photographs of writer Ron Bluestein.

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Two issues of the Directory, undated; a brochure for the October 1963 Vagabond; Vagabond Gift Catalog no. 1, 1964; Vagabond Portfolio 1 (photographs and illustrations), 1964; the Vagabond Coloring Book, 1964; and five Vagabond periodical issues from December 1963-1965.