Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection
Tretter Collection
Jean-Nickolaus Tretter (seated) and Jim Kepner at the One Archives in Los Angeles. Courtesy of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection.
Phootgraph of Jean-Nickolaus Tretter in his apartment as his collection moved to Elmer Anderson Library, 1999. Courtesy of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection.
The Tretter Collection at Elmer Andersen Library. From "The Tretter Collection: A Look inside one of the Largest GLBT Collections of Art, News and Literature in the World," by David J. Rust. From LivingOut Magazine, 11/17/2004. Courtesy of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, University of Minnesota Libraries.
The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, in the library of the University of Minnesota, Special Collections & Rare Books, houses over 30,000 items in a wide variety of media.
The collection is international in scope and has materials in approximately 58 languages. It covers all time periods, from a 4,000-year-old phallic statuette from Egypt, up to current editions of GLBT periodicals. Although books are the core of the collection, substantial sections include textiles, glassware, film, music, art works, and three-dimensional objects such as event buttons and furniture. The collection includes unpublished manuscripts, vertical files, and periodicals from all over the world. Among the significant archival holdings are the Jim Chalgren Collection, the personal papers of Professor Toni McNaron, Patrick Scully, Dallas S. Drake, Stuart Ferguson, and Tobias Schneebaum. The archives of the National Education Association GLBT Caucus, the Lesbian Review of Books Archive, Gay/Lesbian Postal Employees Network (PEN) Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Paper Eagles--the employee group of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Ramsey County GLBT Employees Network, and the archives of the Twin Cities-GLBT Pride Committee. Here is a sampling of items found in this collection:
- Books
- Manuscripts
- Magazines
- Erotica
- Community newspapers
- Political flyers
- Postcards
- Posters
- Original artwork
- Sculpture
- Campaign buttons/pins
- Movies
- Videos
- Photos
- Digital Images
- News clippings
- E-mails
- Audio recordings
- Memoirs
- Letters
- T-shirts
- Ancient artifacts
- Signs
- Autographs
- Business cards
- Records
- CDs
- Reel to reel tapes
- Lamps
- Clocks
- Lunch pails
- Swizzle sticks
- Postage stamps
- Comics
- Fairy stones
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