Artifacts
The Project has collected hundreds of rare artifacts that tell the stories of everday life of yesteryear's LGBT St. Louis. Please keep the donations coming. Pictured: Gateway MC denim vest donated by Ed Laxton. Photo by Philip Hitchcock.
Collection Highlights:
Buttons
Banners
Drag/Female Impersenator Costumes/Gowns
Board Games
Glassware
Ephemera (Paper items - flyers, posters, etc.)
Leather Club Vests
Match Books
T-Shirts
Most of the items are being conserved via the Project's many archival partners such as the Griot Musuem of Black History, the Missouri History Museum, the Missouri State Museum, the State Historical Society of Missouri, andWashington University in St. Louis.