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View of the Sisterspirit Bookstore at the Billy DeFrank Center. Written on verso: "Fig. 74 Sisterspirit Bookstore at the Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center, 175 Stockton Avenue, 1990." Sisterspirit sold new and used books about women and gay and lesbian history. They began operation first as a mail order book store in 1984 and eventually relocated to the Billy DeFrank Center. See Ted Sahl, "From Closet to Community," (2002), pp. 42-44. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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