Christy Amschler Collection
Christy Amschler (1970-2017) was a feminist lesbian and dedicated artist, astrologer, and photographer. She received formal training in painting and drawing, before going on to continue her education in women’s spirituality, religion, and philosophy. These materials include many of her drawings, photography, 35mm photo slides of her finished paintings, and papers from her academic pursuits of painting and spirituality; as well as personal photographs of her family and friends, journals, and notes.
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Janice Baker Photographs
Janice Baker is a feminist lesbian mixed media artist living and working in California, Oregon and Washington. The collection contains Baker’s photography, mostly from the early 1980s, capturing the women’s movement at public events and intimate gatherings.
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Ester F. Bentley Collection
The Ester Bentley Collection contains materials relating to the personal and professional life of Ester F. Bentley, a lesbian activist, community organizer, and social worker. It documents Bentley’s career in social work and community organizing in Kentucky and California, often working with disabled children. In particular, the collection includes hundreds of photographs of Bentley and her friends and family throughout her life, as well as a photo screen Bentley kept in her living room.
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Gay Block Collection
Gay Block is a celebrated photographer whose portrait photography is recognized all over the world. The collection includes DVDs of her published works, and an unpublished draft edition as well as a signed published edition of her photography book Bertha Alyce: Mother exPosed.
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Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer Collection
Margarethe (Grethe) Cammermeyer had a career as military nurse that included distinguished service in Vietnam, work for the Veterans Administration, and a position as Chief Nurse of the Washington National Guard. As a result of her statement in an interview for top security clearance that she was a lesbian, she was separated from the military in 1992. She successfully challenged her discharge and the military’s regulations that mandated that lesbians and gay men be separated from the service. The collection contains her personal, professional, and activist materials including correspondence, legal documents, photographs, videotapes, ephemera and other materials related to her her discharge and challenging the military’s anti-gay regulations.
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Dr. Marie Cartier Collection
The Dr. Marie Cartier collection contains student submissions of oral history interviews, final papers, artworks, and photographs, and Dr. Cartier's personal newspaper and magazine clippings. The CSUN Undergraduate Student Oral History Interview Projects contain oral histories, art, written essays, and photos. The Dr. Marie Cartier collection also contains Dr Cartier’s Personal Clippings + Ephemera which contain newspaper and magazine clippings and resource lists about sexual abuse and incest, a subject which was a large part of Dr. Cartier’s activism and writing.
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Margaret Cruikshank Collection
Margaret (Peg) Cruikshank (b. 1940) is a lesbian historian, gerontologist, and activist known for her work in the lesbian feminist movement and advocating for older lesbians. She’s published three major anthologies on lesbians: The Lesbian Path (1980, Angel Press; 1982, self-published; 1985, Grey Fox Press); Lesbian Studies (1982, The Feminist Press) and New Lesbian Writing (Grey Fox Press, 1984). Her other books are The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (1992, Routledge); Learning to be Old: Gender, Culture and Aging (2003, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers); and Fierce with Reality: an Anthology of Literature about Aging (1995, St. Cloud: North Star Press; 2007). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and materials related to her literary and academic works.
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Judy Custer Collection
Judy Custer (1947-2008) was a physical therapist in Cañon City, living in Guffey, Colorado where there was a growing lesbian community. The bulk of the collection is letters Judy received from friends and family. Other materials in the collection are personal photographs, buttons and patches from Judy’s time in the Girl Scouts, and clippings featuring Judy.
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Christy Modita Engels and Safire Rose Collection
Christy Modita Engels and Safire Rose Collection consists of LA Women’s Community Chorus materials, newsprint featuring articles about Christy and Safire, a famous poem by Safire Rose, programs from the National Conference on Women and the Law, and feminist periodicals and materials.
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