Night of a thousand gowns

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Text continues: "A charity drag ball for AIDS, Saturday, March 28th, 1987, Grand Ballroom, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; the coronation of the emperor and empress of New York City; dancing all night to the Bill Harrington Orchestra; white tie, cocktails, midnight supper, dress your wildest fantasy."Black and white text on gray and white background. The center of the poster contains a drawing of a man in a tuxedo (left) and a drag queen in a ball gown (right) .

Asset Metadata

Title Night of a thousand gowns

Subject AIDS (Disease) (subject), Fundraising (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place New York (city or populated place), New York (states), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : lithograph, black and white (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 56 x 44 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Date Created 1987

Creator Corso, R. (creator)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights This work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright This work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-46115

Identifier box 22 (box), P02162 (call number), one-2018001-p02162~01.tif (filename), one-c4-46115 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 46115

Unique identifier UC12335426

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p02162~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 21.6 in at 300dpi
42.8 cm × 55.0 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

Content

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White Fue Cocklals Midnight Supper

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Inherited Values

Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

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