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{"value"=>"1007752", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1940-1980", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1940/1980"}
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1940
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1980
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1940
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1940
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1980
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{"value"=>"Series 5: Photographs, Artifacts, and Sound Recordings"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Box 14 contains a family album, with pictures of Rodwell from infancy to young adulthood, as well as pictures of his parents. There are also loose snapshots, mostly of gay rights demonstrations and the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore; and a postcard album compiled by a relative. Box 15 contains slides from Rodwell's childhood and of the bookstore.</p> <p>The artifacts consist of political buttons (Box 16); the banner carried at demonstrations, \"Gays in Christian Science\" (Box 17); about two dozen T-shirts from gay pride marches and related events (Boxes 18-19); and a \"Gay Pride! \" jigsaw puzzle (Box 20).</p> <p>There are only two sound recordings: a reel-to-reel tape of the 1975 memorial service for Howard Brown, New York City's Commissioner of Health; and a cassette recording of a performance of the New York Gay Community Marching Band, 1980.</p> <p>Sixteen commercial sound recordings were transferred to the International Gay Information Center Archives. A list of these transferred items is on pages 11-12.</p>"}