Research Catalog

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Summary

1. The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing photographs of Frank Thompson and various friends in New York City, Vermont, and during Thompson's service in the United States Army in Germany and Sicily during World War Two. The photographs document the lives and culture of gay men in the 1940s and 1950s.

Subject

1. United States > Army > Military life
2. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Italy > Sicily
3. Homosexuality > United States
4. Photograph albums
5. Photographs
6. Soldiers
7. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
8. Gay military personnel > United States
9. Gay men > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Photograph albums.
2. Photographs.

Call number

1. MssCol 4797

Access (note)

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Cite as (note)

1. Frank Thompson photograph albums, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Source (note)

1. Gift, 2001;

Author

1. Thompson, Frank.

Title

1. Frank Thompson photograph albums, 1940-1953 1944-1945.

Restricted access

1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Cite as:

1. Frank Thompson photograph albums, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Source

1. Gift, 2001; MSS 2003M29.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Occupation

1. Soldiers

Research call number

1. MssCol 4797