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The series is arranged in four groups; audiocassettes, VHS videocassettes, photographs, and records. Audiocassettes primarily contain interviews with former members of the Jewel Box Revue. The interviews provide excellent documentation of this transgender and female impersonation show during the 1940s and 1950s, and complement documentation found in Series I. Photographs also include images of the Jewel Box Revuefrom approximately the same time period. Other photographs document gay pride events and an exhibition of the AIDS quilt. Videocassettes mainly depict events and parades, with some additional home video footage. Instances of poor audio or visual quality have been noted in bracket statements. The records that arrived with the collection are described, but have been transferred to Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) in the Yale University Library. Researchers need to contact HSR to make an appointment to listen to them.