{"value"=>"<p>The family papers are divided into groups related to Barbara Gittings' family and Kay Tobin Lahusen's family. The vast majority of this series consists of materials related to the Gittings and Brooks families with few items belonging to Lahusen. This series contains correspondence, photographs, family histories, awards and honors, as well as information regarding Gittings family material in other archives.</p> <p>Correspondence between relatives and her parents, Elizabeth (Patsy) Brooks Gittings and John Sterett Gittings, concern Barbara Gittings as a child and young adult. Particularly notable is correspondence between Barbara and her parents, whom she called Mimi and Sterett, and a small file of correspondence between Barbara, Sterett, and a psychiatrist regarding Barbara's treatment for homosexuality.</p> <p>Among the Lahusen family papers are a few pages of a family member's diary expressing concern over Kay, circa 1954.</p>"}