History & landmarks / Ann Arbor
Joseph A. Labadie Collection
One of the oldest and largest US archives of radical and social-movement history, with LGBTQ movement periodicals, posters and ephemera.
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The Joseph A. Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library is one of the oldest and largest collections of radical and social-movement history in the United States. Alongside civil rights, feminism and labor, it documents LGBTQ movements. Its holdings include books, periodicals, posters, photographs, buttons and other ephemera. It is a research archive rather than an exhibition space.
- LGBTQ movement periodicals and ephemera
- Posters, photographs and buttons
- Free research access
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An independently written bilingual guide. This collection is not an attendance-based ranking.
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