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Title: Women attending the first lesbian ball
Contributor: Sahl, Ted (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Ted Sahl Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.
Description: Photograph shows two women posing together at the first lesbian ball in 1981. The woman on the left is wearing a dress with a corsage and a hat. The woman on the right is dressed in a suit with a thin tie and a hat. The suit jacket also has a corsage pinned to it. There are snowflakes hanging from the ceiling behind them.
Written on verso of photograph: "1st lesbian ball, 1981".
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
6.3 x 4.4 in.
Identifier: islandora:80_1187
filename: sahl_portraits_062
islandora: 80_1187
Subject: Dresses
Lesbians
Parties
Suits (Clothing)
Gay culture
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: Ted Sahl Collection

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