Series VIII: Artwork
Scope and Contents note
For the purposes of description, each sign is identified by the first sentence of text on the front of each sign.
Subseries A: Queer Spaces
Scope and Contents note
All signs are pink triangles featuring the words Queer Spacesacross the top and the words Places of Struggle Places of Strengthrunning left to right on the other two edges of the triangle. On each sign the text ends with the REPOhistory logo and the sign number at the apex of the triangle.
Sign 1: The first gay rights demonstration in New York City occurred on September 19, 1964 in front of the Whitehall Street Induction Center., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 2: On March 24, 1987, The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) held its first demonstration at this corner., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 3: New York City's Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Bill was introduced in the City Council on January 6, 1971., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 4: The Gay Activists Alliance occupied the former Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street from May 1971 until October 1974, when it was destroyed by arson., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 5: The Daughters of Bilitis, one of the earliest lesbian political organizations, had offices at 30 Charlton Street for several years, beginning in 1963., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 6: Bonnie and Clyde's, a lesbian bar, stood at 82 West 3rd Street from the early seventies through the mid-eighties., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 7: Marsha P. Johnson 1945-1992 born Malcolm Michaels Stonewall Veteran, performer, panhandler, prostitute, Warhol Model, on July 6, 1992, the body of this legendary drag queen was found floating in the river near this site., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 8: In 1966, the State Liquor Authority imposed a 30-day suspension on Julius', the landmark bar located at 159 West Tenth St., after an undercover policeman had reported that the bar permitted gay men to "consort themselves in an offensive and indecent manner contrary to good morals.", undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign 9: In 1888, financier James Everard converted an old church at 28 W. 28th Street into a Turkish bathhouse., undated
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Lower Manhattan Sign Project
Scope and Contents note
All signs are printed on the front and back. In cases in which text appears on both sides it is noted in the transcription, otherwise the text appears only on the back. All signs end with one or two boxed questions in the lower left corner on the back with the sign number and the REPOhistory logo in the lower right corner. Note: For this project, the archive does not have a copy of sign number 35.
Introduction: The Lower Manhattan Sign Project, 1992
Folder: VIII, 1, object: MSS.113.cuid6230 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 1: What is all-inclusive history? (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 2, object: MSS.113.cuid6231a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 2: Spirits of America (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 3, object: MSS.113.cuid6232a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 3A: "They Died Very Stubbornly" wrote justice Daniel Horsmanden of those executed during the New York Conspiracy or "Great Negro Plot" of 1741, 1992
Folder: VIII, 4, object: MSS.113.cuid6233 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 3B: The New York Conspiracy of 1741, 1992
Item: MSS.113.cuid6267 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 3C: Rumors of revolt…fueled the inquest into the "Great Negro Plot" of 1741, 1992
Item: MSS.113,cuid6266 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 4: Leisler's Rebellion (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 5, object: MSS.113.cuid6234a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 5: These are the remains of the gilded King George III equestrian statue after patriots pulled it from its pedestal here on July 9, 1775. (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 6, object: MSS.113.cuid6235a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 6: On the fourth day of the month of March in the year nineteen ninety-one, three homeless Americans passed a very cold and bitter night on this spot in lower manhattan. (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 7, object: MSS.113.cuid6236a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 7: Then, accidentally, due to a mistake in the filing system, the married father of three children was drafted, he lived a long time, maybe three months and killed several guerrillas, two by strangulation, two by being a crack shot, and one in self-defense. (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 8, object: MSS.113.cuid6237a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 8: The shoreline of Nieuw Amsterdam began at Pearl Street. (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 9, object: MSS.113.cuid6238a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 9: Summer 1990-Nelson Mandela visits New York (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 10, object: MSS.113.cuid6239a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 10: "Esta gente viven endios" C.C. 1492 (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 11, object: MSS.113.cuid6240a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 11: Manhattan before the Dutch exchanged it to the English in 1667 for Surinam, South America, after having only leased it from the Delaware Indians. (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 12, object: MSS.113.cuid6241a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 12: Where is the fabulous wealth of India, the spices, silks and gems which Columbus sought? (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 13, object: MSS.113.cuid6242a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 13: Exchange Place (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 14, object: MSS.113.cuid6243a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 14: Advantages of an Unregulated Free Market Economy (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 15, object: MSS.113.cuid6244a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 15: False Democracy (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 16, object: MSS.113.cuid6245a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 16: How do things get explained away so easily (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 17, object: MSS.113.cuid6246a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 17: Who owns your life? (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 18, object: MSS.113.cuid6247a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 18: The Meal and Slave Market, 1992
Folder: VIII, 19, object: MSS.113.cuid6248 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 19: Women's Trade Union League (3 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 20, object: MSS.113.cuid6249a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 20: The Earliest Chinese Community in New York, 1992
Folder: VIII, 21, object: MSS.113.cuid6250 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 21: Our blankets for your beaver (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 22, object: MSS.113.cuid6251a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 22: You are standing on landfill (2 copies), 1992
Folder: VIII, 23, object: MSS.113.cuid6252a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 23A: "The evilest woman in New York!," screamed the headlines when Ann Lohman, alias Madame Restell, was arrested in 1878. (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 24, object: MSS.113.cuid6253a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 23B: Anthony J. Comstock (1844-1915), the nemesis of Madame Restell (see nearby sign), devoted most of his adult life to a crusade against obscenity which he defined to include birth control and abortion (2 copies), 1992
Item: MSS.113.cuid6268a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 24: Office workers eat their lunch (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 25, object: MSS.113.cuid6254a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 25: Sticks and stones may break her bones but names…? (2 copies), 1992
Folder: 26, object: MSS.113.cuid6255a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 26: Welcome to Gotham City (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 27, object: MSS.113.cuid6256a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 27: Public School Cholera Hospital (2 copies), 1992
Folder: 28, object: MSS.113.cuid6257a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 28: Frances Wright (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 29, object: MSS.113.cuid6258a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 29: Vito Marcantonio: The People's Congressman, 1992
Folder: 30, object: MSS.113.cuid6259 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 30: Nonviolent Protests Against Civil Defense Drills in NYC (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 31, object: MSS.113.cuid6260a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 31: Fight Tonight, 1992
Folder: 32, object: MSS.113.cuid6261 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 32: Forlorn house (3 copies), 1992
Folder: 33, object: MSS.113.cuid6262a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 33: No Where to Go, 1992
Folder: 34, object: MSS.113.cuid6263 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 34: "It was a desolate, unappropriated spot…" (2 copies), 1992
Folder: 35, object: MSS.113.cuid6264a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 36: United Tailoresses' Society of New York, 1992
Folder: 36, object: MSS.113.cuid6265 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Subseries C: Buttermilk Bottom
Scope and Contents note
All signs are printed on the front and back. In cases in which text appears on both sides it is noted in the transcription, otherwise the text appears only on the back. Each sign features the following text on the bottom of the back side with the REPOhistory logo and the Arts Festival of Atlanta logo on the left and right, respectively, of the first line: Entering Buttermilk Bottom. Despite harsh conditions imposed by segregation, Buttermilk Bottom was a vibrant community with African-American-run schools, churches and businesses. Its bulldozing under "urban renewal" during the 1960's damaged community structures throughout Atlanta.
Sign 1: Entering Buttermilk Bottom (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 37, object: MSS.113.cuid6207a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 2: Urban Renewal, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 38, object: MSS.113.cuid6208 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 3: Welcome to the Double Shotguns, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 39, object: MSS.113.cuid6209 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 4: What is the effect of urban renewal on crime? (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 40, object: MSS.113.cuid6210a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 5: Most hard-working men and women of that day usually sang... [Woodman / Coldman](2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 41, object: MSS.113.cuid6211a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 6: Wash Lady, Scrub Lady, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 42, object: MSS.113.cuid6212 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 7: House on Fire, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 43, object: MSS.113.cuid6213 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 8: Mrs. Sara Lena Echols Malone raised her family on 267 Pine Place Apt. #3 in the early thirties., 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 44, object: MSS.113.cuid6214 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 9: …I sing because I'm happy (3 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 45, object: MSS.113.cuid6215a-c (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
3 items
Physical Facet
three signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 10: War is Hell, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 46, object: MSS.113.cuid6216 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 11: Nearly every corner in Buttermilk Bottom boasted a beauty salon, shoe repair shop or restaurant, many owned by African-Americans, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 47, object: MSS.113.cuid6217 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 12: Renewal (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 48, object: MSS.113.cuid6218a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 13: "…we have caught the sunshine in the bricks and mortar of our homes and have builded therein not one ignoble prejudice or memory." (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 49, object: MSS.113.cuid6219a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 14: Do you know where your neighborhood is?, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 50, object: MSS.113.cuid6220 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 15: Alleyway on Felton, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 51, object: MSS.113.cuid6221 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 16: Remember in this valley there was a neighborhood torn down, 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 52, object: MSS.113.cuid6222 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign 17: Segregation on the map (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 53, object: MSS.113.cuid6223a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 18: Welcome to Buttermilk Bottom (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 54, object: MSS.113.cuid6224a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 19: Penny Candy (2 copies), 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 55, object: MSS.113.cuid6225a-b (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
2 items
Physical Facet
two signs
Subjects
Genres
Sign 20: [Untitled], 1995-1996, inclusive
Folder: 56, object: MSS.113.cuid6226 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Sign: Entering Buttermilk Bottom, large, Undated, inclusive
Folder: 75, object: MSS.113.cuid6227 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Subseries D: Civil Disturbances
[Bruno v. Codd - 1978 Legal victory for battered women] Civil Disturbances Sign #1, 1998-1999, inclusive
Folder: 57, object: MSS.113.cuid6269 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
Subjects
Genres
Subseries E: Circulations, Undated, inclusive
St. Cloud State University sign [Racism interrupts], Undated, inclusive
Folder: 73, object: MSS.113.cuid6228 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Extent
1 item
Physical Facet
one sign
