page_title: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies / Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
context_page_description: The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies is a collection of LGBT historical materials housed in the Special Collections and Rare Books section of the University of Minnesota Libraries. It is located underground in the Elmer L. Andersen special collections facilities on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. The Tretter Collection houses over 40,000 items, making it one of the largest GLBT history collections in the United States. The collection is international in scope and is varied in media.
context_section_description: Although books are the core of the collection (including a large holding of gay pulp fiction), substantial sections include textiles, glassware, film, music, art works, and three-dimensional objects such as statuary, event buttons, and furniture.  The collection includes unpublished manuscripts, vertical files, and periodicals in approximately 56 languages.  Much of the material is from people and organizations in  the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.
  Among the significant archival holdings are:
  items from the Magnus Hirschfeld estate
  archives of the national Log Cabin Republicans
  records of the Daughters of Bilitis
  Mattachine Society records
  page proofs and layouts for six works by Andy Warhol
  archives of the National Education Association GLBT Caucus
  the personal papers of:
  Tobias Schneebaum
  Charles Nolte
  Stuart Ferguson
  The collection was started by Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, a Minnesota-born archivist in the 1950s, and later donated to the University of Minnesota Libraries.
  Selected items from the collection and timelines are frequently assembled and displayed worldwide. Recent displays have been at the Motor City Pride in Michigan in 2007 and 2009, and the first Moscow, Russia Pride Festival in May, 2006.
  In 2005, the collection started its official newsletter, "The Tretter Letter."
  In 2006, The Tretter Collection, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the Quatrefoil Library presented the first GLBT ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections) Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
  It is the home of the groundbreaking Transgender Oral History Project, which has gathered 200 video interviews of transgender individuals primarily in the Upper Midwest, and which has received funding for a second phase.
caption: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
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