Title page from Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania, 1870 edition
Frontis portrait of John Addington Symonds from volume one (of a two volume set) of John Addington Symonds: A Biography: Compiled from His Papers and Correspondence by Horatio F. Brown; London: John C. Nimmo, 1895
Title page of Mathematical Tables Chiefly to Four Figures by James Mills Peirce, 1896
Portrait of William Rufus King: Frontis portrait from Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. William R. King. Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, Eight and Ninth…
Print of James Buchanan, circa 1860
Title page of Dr. Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s influential book, Psychopathia Sexualis, 1893 edition
Albumen photograph of Dr. Emily Blackwell, circa 1880’s
Title page from "Love’s Coming of Age," 1911
Frontis portrait of Edward Carpenter from "Towards Democracy: Complete Edition in Four Parts"; London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Limited / Manchester: S. Clarke, 1907
Print, circa 1845, of Charlotte Cushman as Romeo and her sister, Susan, as Juliet
Photograph of Charlotte Cushman, circa 1870
Carte de visite photograph of Ella Wesner, circa 1872
Carte de visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln, circa 1864
Containing unique items from the personal collection of Rich Wilson, this exhibit focuses on 19th-century queer experience in the United States.
A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, in a photo taken at the Lincoln Memorial.
This proud moment in civil rights activism is also a moment to reflect on how LGBT civil rights strategies have overlapped with, drawn strength from, and patterned themselves on a century and a half of anti-racist struggle in the United States.
John Addington Symonds, scholar and writer
Johanna Sigurdardottir, political leader
Willi Ninja
Willi Ninja