Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection
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Jean-Nickolaus Tretter has collected Pride Guides, community newspapers, activist buttons, and other items of GLBT interest since his return from serving as a linguist in the Vietnam War. Already involved with F.R.E.E., the Twin Cities Pride Festival, and other community organizations by 1972, Tretter’s interest in GLBT history and culture intensified at the University of Minnesota. As a student from 1973-76, Tretter unsuccessfully attempted to study Gay and Lesbian Anthropology. At the time, University staff assured him that no such thing existed. | Tretter's Collection at Elmer Andersen Library. Courtesy of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies.
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After lengthy negotiations—and with support of the new library’s namesake, former Governor Elmer L. Anderson—the Tretter Collection moved into Andersen Library’s climate-controlled caverns. These caverns were dug into the bluffs of the Mississippi River, and are some of the finest archival storage spaces in the world.
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Photograph of Jean-Nickolaus Tretter in his apartment as his collection moved to Elmer Anderson Library, 1999. Courtesy of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection. |
The information used in this page is available at the Tretter Collection's website: http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/tretter.phtml
Part of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN: 100 Queer Places in Minnesota History, (1860-1969), (1969-2010)