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Creator
Michel, Martin, 1919-1993
Call number
MssCol 1987
Physical description
.4 linear feet (1 box)
Language
Materials in English
Preferred Citation

Martin Michel collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Collection consists of gay ephemera collected by Martin Michel of New York City. Items include marketing mail for clothes, photographs, art, and sex toys; catalogs from booksellers; booklets and gay guidebooks; privately published stories; and artifacts.

Scope and arrangement

Gay ephemera collected by Martin Phillip Michel (1919-1993) of New York. (Michel used the pseudonyms "Phil Michaels" as author of the homoerotic paperback Whip Song, and "Mike Phillips" for receiving some mail-order items.) The collection includes marketing mail for clothes, photographs, art, and sex toys; booksellers' catalogues from Elysian Fields, A Different Light and Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore; booklets and gay guidebooks; privately published stories; and one button. Twenty-three books received with the collection have been transferred to the IGIC book collection (also in the Manuscripts and Archives Section).

An itemized list of the collection prepared by the donor is attached.

The Martin Michel collection is arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

June 22, 1993, Received From Bert Hansen (gift)

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Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328